* * * Starring * * *
Manuela "Manny" Lopez
"The Bad Girl"
Kody Kershaw
"Kody bear"
Anastacia "Stacy" Volkova
"Neighbor/New Friend"
Amanda Kershaw
"'Hillbilly' Best Friend"
Derrick Parks
"Amanda's 'Scumbag' Boyfriend"
Love of My Life
"Intervention"
Episode Three
Copyright © 2008
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Summary: In the ALL NEW 3rd episode of 'Love of My Life', Manny makes her latest rescue of Amanda with a plan in mind, an Intervention to be exact. One that involves trying to get through to her thick headed best friend that the man she loves is not the right person for her and that leaving him is best. This task though proves to be rage inducing for Manny as Amanda continues to defend the man she loves at every turn. Forcing Manny to break Amanda's heart once and for all...
Original Airdate: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 @ 8:30 p.m.
(following an ALL NEW 'Slash TV')
Story Codes: no sex
So I grabbed Kody's back pack with my 'secret weapon' and convinced my wonderful next door neighbor (Ms. Parker) to keep Kody safe for me (a move that would later cause me some grief) while I, and I quote "Alert the Georgia media, tell them the cavalry is on it's way."
"What happened this time?" I asked as I got out of the car and saw Amanda laying on the park bench crying her eyes out. Bruises on her cheeks and as I would later find out, on her back and arms too. Thick and brown and getting worse. This made my resolve even more fierce as I planned to scare the shit out of her tonight and then lower the boom on Derrick as soon as we got back.
My plan was simple. I wanted to tell her how I felt and maybe convince her to let me love her, which I've wanted to do for years. Leaving that child molesting piece of evil shit Derrick behind for good. And I didn't plan on revealing anything about my 'secret weapon' till I was sure she wouldn't let me love her and she was headed back to the slobbering drunk. Then, if all else failed, I was gonna be forced to break her heart into a million pieces. And knowing how thick headed Amanda is, oh lord I can just imagine how fun this is gonna be.
"What do you think?" She asked as I waited for her by the car. "Derrick saw red again when he got drunk. Someone stoled his movies and the bill money. We're screwed."
"Tonight's the night things change" I said in a somber tone of voice as she got ready to get in. "If you get in this car, say goodbye to your old life, cause this won't happen again."
"I hope you're right" She said as she got in and so did I.
"I mean it, you think I'm kidding?" I asked as she looked over at me. "Cause you're gonna make your decision right now? Me and Kody or Derrick and those sexy ass bruises you love so much."
"I'm not choosing between you guys" She said as I pushed the passenger's side door back open and said, "Then get out and don't call me again and you can expect Derrick to be dealt with."
"What did I do?" She asked. "I'm sorry if I did something to you, I need you."
"OK, then that's your decision" I said as I closed the door and turned the car on and turned towards I-65 and Brown County.
"Manny, wait, your apartment is that way" Amanda said as she looked back. "I was hoping to see Kody tonight."
"Funny, since you chose Derrick over her, she doesn't wanna see you" I said as I stomped on the gas as we got onto the highway and wound it up to a 100 ala 'Smokey and The Bandit'.
"What are you doing?" She asked as I weaved in and out of traffic and pushed my Mustang to it's limits as the clear highway lay ahead. "125? My god slow down, you're scaring the hell out of me."
"Fuck off" I said as I really stomped on it and let the ponies run as hard as they could.
"YOU'RE GONNA FUCKIN KILL US" She screamed as the speedometer reached 145 and I eased off of the gas finally and slowed as we came up on more traffic. "What is wrong with you?"
"Tonight you're gonna answer that about yourself" I said as she gave me a perplexed look as I turned off the highway a few minutes later and headed towards 'Grumpy Pa's' cabin, high in the mountains. She looked around at the scenery and kept remarking on how beautiful it was and ask a few times why I was bringing her here. I remained silent and after a bit she grew quiet too, my thoughts going to Kody and then to Stacy and I wondered in that moment if Amanda was still what I wanted in my life. Kody would have loved it before Derrick did his deed but now I'm not sure she would be happy if I ended up with Amanda.
Maybe though, just maybe I could help them bridge the gap between them and make up, because it truly is sad what happened between them. But that would have to be something Kody wanted to do and not from me pushing her. I'd also refuse to let Amanda bully her little sister into forgiving her. Which to be completely honest is something Amanda would try if she thought it would benefit her.
All of these crazy thoughts bouncing off the inside of my head meant that we had a long silence and when I finally looked over at her she was giving me a look that spoke volumes. Like she wanted some answers and she wanted them now. She was about to get them as we finally pulled up in front of the cabin and she looked at me as I slid across the seat and looked her dead in the eye. Bruises on her cheeks and all, I smiled as I took her hand. "You need to know something..."
"Yeh I'd love to know a lot of things..."
"Me too" I said as I pushed her door open and motioned for her to get out. Grabbing her by the belt as she laughed and tried to get lose as I dragged her to the ground and wrestled with her and pinned her down. She looked up at me with a peaceful and loving stare as I released her hands and she gently touched my face and tucked my hair behind my ear, "You are so pretty."
"I'm in love with you" I said as she gave me a look of complete shock. That look would be nothing compared to the look she'd have on her face as I leaned down and kissed her softly on the lips. This was the thing that surprised me, she didn't resist or push me away as her lips, so soft and sweet, fell into a slow and steady rhythm with mine. I wanted to kiss her like that all night. But I knew this wasn't gonna get through to her like what I had planned next. I pulled away and looked at her as she smiled. "Well?"
"Good kiss" She sat with a smile. "Don't know why you did that for, but hell I liked it."
"Because I brought you up here to take you away from that low life sleaze I made the mistake of introducing you too" I said as her eyes went sorta of red with fire as I talked about the man she was in love with.
"He is not that bad" She said as I rolled off her and sat there letting my rage fill my veins and then let out a blood curdling scream that I know echoed through the mountains of Indiana.
"What?" She asked as she turned away and I turned my wrath on her and gave her the meanest look I could.
"HE IS A FUCKIN PIECE OF SHIT, CHILD MOLESTING, GIRLFRIEND BEATING LOWLIFE" I screamed. "AND YOU ARE JUST ABOUT THE STUPIDEST WHORE I'VE EVER MET. How do you like me now?"
"You just called me a whore" She said as anger came to her eyes and I got up and grabbed her hand and pulled her up. Noticing she completely over looked my 'child molester' accusation.
"YOU ARE A WHORE" I screamed in her face, "You like being called names huh? Feel good?"
"No, it doesn't" She said as the hurt came to her eyes.
"Then why does he get to?" I asked in a calm voice. "He don't love you, not like I do."
"If you loved me you wouldn't call me that" She said.
"If he loved you he wouldn't either" I said. "But every time you go back to him and he beats you again. YOU'D HAVE TO BE STUPID TO THINK IT'S GONNA FUCKIN CHANGE."
"Why are you screaming?"
"CAUSE I WANNA GET YOUR FUCKIN ATTENTION" I screamed as I grabbed her hair and pulled it, "AM I GETTING THROUGH STUPID? WANT ME TO BEAT YOU LIKE HE DOES?"
"Owwwwww you're hurting me" Amanda said in a whine as I pushed her to the ground roughly.
"You having fun yet?" I asked as she glared at me.
"Screw you, I thought you loved me" She said as I dropped to the ground and sitting in front of her I kissed her softly and felt her pull away.
"I do love you" I said, "But you can't see him the way I do, cause you're so lost in Derrick land."
"Cause I love him and I'm sorry I don't feel the way you do" She said, "I'm straight and I thought you were too."
"There's a shitload of things you don't know about me" I said, "One, I'm gay, two, you're the girl I adore and cherish with all my heart. You come second to only one person in my life."
"Who?" She asked in confusion.
"Kody" I said as she looked confused as to why she would be second on that list.
"But why is Kody more important?" She asked as I pushed her head back and pretended not to hear the question and then did it again as she smacked my hand and I did it again and again until the fire of anger was turning to rage in her eyes. I pulled her hair, jerking her head to the side as she smacked me, hard too. I fell to the ground and laughed. "What the hell is wrong with you? Take me home. You made me hit you."
"Yeh, I did" I said with a smile as I put my hands behind my head and relaxed on the grass, "You wanna go home? Start stomping Princess."
"I can't walk" She said as I laughed. "It's like a hundred miles."
"I knew that beautiful smile hid a big brain" I said with a smirk and saw her smile. "So beautiful you just don't know it. Sexy too, I'd give a year of my life to spend one night in those eyes making you feel good. I'll bet I could make you feel things Derrick, mister erectile dysfunction himself, could never. If he stopped getting slobbering drunk every day of the week, he'd have a hard-on once in a while. God how can anyone look in those eyes and hit you, he must be the biggest piece of dog shit on this earth. Wait, no scratch that, I know he is, sorry."
"You hate him" Amanda said in shock.
"You think so do you?" I asked, "You been working on that one for weeks?"
"Why..."
"And how come I just said you were beautiful, sexy, smart and had amazing eyes" I said, cutting her off, "But the one thing you pick up is me calling that dead beat, who can't find a job or the hole, a piece of shit. HE IS. YOU FUCKIN KNOW IT. HE'S ALSO A CHILD MOLESTING PIECE OF SHIT. GO ON WALK HOME, go back to that shit for brains scum bag, let him beat the living the hell out of you."
"Manny, calm down..."
"FUCK YOU" I screamed from the ground. "WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID? TELL MEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Which is it stupid or smart?" She asked pointedly as I practically jumped to my feet and confronted her in front of the car.
"So smart and so beautiful" I said softly, "And about him and only him, you're a stupid, eastern Kentucky whore with no brains in your head. SHUT UP. I'm so fuckin sick of running to your rescue when I beg you with all of my heart to leave him and find a good man. My feelings for you don't matter, I can deal with the fact that you're not into me. Broken heart, so what? If you found love with a good man I'd still be as happy for you as if you were my girl. And I want you to be my girl so...damn bad. And this is not about sex, I'm in love with your spirit and your heart, the way you never run me off no matter how many times I played stupid jokes on you. Cause you saw the good in me. I've always had your back, SHUT UP. You're gonna listen for a change instead of defending that son of a bitch. I wanna look in your eyes and see happiness, not hurt and longing for someone to love you. What do you think I would do, hurt you? I am trying to get through that thick skull of yours that he hates you. HE HATES YOU AMANDA. He molested YOUR FUCKIN SISTER..."
"He said he didn't do it" Amanda said as tears came down my face in frustration.
"HOW THE HELL CAN YOU BELIEVE HIM OVER KODY?" I asked as I grabbed her hair and shook her head and said in a sinister tone, "She told me, he did you stupid bitch. She wouldn't lie to me...I love her with all my heart. More than you."
"She's just lying" Amanda spat as I picked up a rock and wanted to cave her skull in with it. But instead, I smashed it into the porch as I knew I had no other choice but to show her my 'secret weapon'.
"I'll never forgive you for those words" I said as she looked at me with a seriously hurt look in her eyes. "I'm gonna break your heart and you so deserve it."
"What?" She asked as I pushed her hand away as she tried to touch me as I walked around to the back of my car and opened the trunk. I knew now I might as well show her since she's never gonna believe me unless I prove it. I unzipped Kody's pack and pulled out the manila folder.
"Come here?" I asked as she shook her head no. "Please? This is the most important thing I've ever had to show you."
"OK, fine" She said in a stunned voice as I waited for to move beside of me at the back of the car as I dumped the pictures out of the folder on to the trunk. She looked at them in shock as I thought to myself, finally it was over with Derrick. She turned a pale white after just a few moments and got a case of the dry leaves for a moment before she ran for the barrel a few feet away and puked.
"I'LL KILL HIM" She said in a rage. "Please take me home. Please?"
"NOW YOU WANNA KILL HIM?" I screamed as I slammed the trunk.
"I'm sorry" She said as she cried.
"She's your little sister and she has the biggest heart of anyone I know" I said, "And you...I should kick your ass right now for this."
"I said I was sorry" She said in a pleading voice. "But you said, you were in love with me?"
"So?"
"You said you loved her more than me" She said as she gave me a hurt look.
"She'll never forgive you for this" I said, "She loves me because I'm good to here, I listen and I hold her when she's scared. I don't bring my child molesting boyfriend just to make her runaway crying."
"Is that why..." She asked and obviously now remembering all of those times Kody would run away crying, and hide from Derrick in her bedroom, and call me and beg me to come and pick her up for a few hours. I always did no matter what.
"Yeh that is why" I said coldly.
"I don't know anything anymore" She said.
"I'll answer that, no, until she realized she was safe from the world in my arms" I said as I beat my fists on my trunk, "THAT'S WHY SHE'S FIRST IN MY HEART."
"OK, so I was wrong..." She said in a pleading voice. "...how can I fix this? OK, so maybe we can...I mean...me and you, maybe I do love you in that way? I wanna be first in your heart."
"No" I said softly. "You just don't know how bad it hurt me to hear you say she lied about something that horrible."
"Huh?" She asked.
"I told you, I love her" I said, "You're parents see that, they let her stay with me during the week because she's happy and feels safe with me."
"I don't get why she wants to spend all of her time with you" Amanda said as I fought against my rage to smack her.
"She's a city girl, she likes the shopping downtown, she likes watching the traffic go by the window in my apartment, she loves that cranky old bat Miss Parker next door and her horny old husband" I said smiling. "She likes feeling safe, and loved and knowing someone is totally devoted to be there for her. Me, not you."
"Mom and Dad have basically let you adopt her" She said as I smiled.
"Your parents have triplets on the way" I said as her jaw dropped. "I'm serious, they want me to take her full time."
"God, it's like the world has passed me by" She said.
"Yeh it has" I said softly as I moved beside of her. "You're mom is going through some complications right now and they're having to spend a lot of time at the hospital. So with me right down the street your dad can come crash at my place if he needs to during the day."
"You're not ready to raise a kid" She said with jealousy in her voice.
"You have no damn idea how important she is to me" I said in a menacing voice. "I will make the commitment to her as long as she needs me. I already re-arranged my classes at the University so I can spend more time with her."
"What about living expenses? How do you plan to support my sister huh?" She asked as I grabbed her shirt collar and wanted to choke her right there but backed away.
"Old money bags Grandpa Dexter is taking care of it, he's paying my rent and my way through college" I said with a smile crossing my face. "He's crazy about Kody too."
"What?" Amanda said, "I don't think so, that old man is mean as hell..."
"No he's not" I said, "Kody's already met him and he's chilled out a lot since that old bat Annie kicked the bucket. He's like a kid in a candy store with Kody."
"I am so gonna tell Mom and Dad about this shit" She said as I grabbed her hair and pulled it as she whimpered.
"You hurt her, I'll kill you" I said in a sinister tone as I released her hair and walked off before I did do something more. Finally turning, a safe distance away, I let my rage completely explode, "SHE'S HAPPY, CAN'T YOU GET THAT YOU JEALOUS BITCH? It's bad enough you didn't believe her about being RAPED BY THAT PIECE OF SHIT, now you're gonna try and ruin the one thing she's got in her life that makes her feel safe?"
"I just don't think..."
"YOU NEVER DO" I screamed as I picked up a rock and smashed it into the oil drum in rage and turning to her I spat. "You take her away from and I'LL BEAT YOU WORSE THAN DERRICK EVER DID, I'LL SEND YOU TO THE MORGUE. And I am not FUCKIN kidding Amanda. DON'T SCREW WITH ME ON THIS."
"Holy shit" She said as she backed away to the front of the car in fear as I shook with rage over her threats. Tears streaming down my face, trying my best not to turn to go after her right here. I've never in my life been that mad. "I won't, just calm down."
"I hate you" I said as she looked at me in shock. "All she wants is to feel safe and god forbid someone other than you might love her."
"You can't hate me" She said and showing no fear as she came over to me and to my own shock hugged me. "I love you Manny. How? I don't know and I'm sorry for being so stupid for so long."
"Finally you said something smart" I said as she laughed and hugged me tighter.
"Help me with Derrick?" She asked. "I wanna ruin his life and make sure he can't hurt anyone else."
"Now that's the girl I love" I said as I kissed her and she smiled and to my surprise kissed me back and gave me this dreamy look. "What?"
"So I thought about you a lot" She said softly as I played with her hair. "Being with Derrick made me do that, and I was scared if I let myself feel these things that I'd fall in love with you for real."
"Yeh?"
"We been friends for so long and..." She said as she took a deep breath. "...I wanna get to know you like this, and find some way to get my sister back in my life. And apparently I'm gonna have to convince you first."
"You don't have to pretend to be in love with me for that" I said as I pulled away, "Kody will forgive you and you can see her anytime you want. So this, doesn't have anything to do with her."
"But what if I wanna see where this leads?" She asked as she moved back against me and playfully raised my shirt. "I'm thinking with an open mind for once."
"Let's get you home and take care of shit for brains, I got a plan" I said and purposely changed the topic. Mostly because I didn't wanna do anything that I felt she was doing on emotion and not because she really felt that way.
"Hey!" She said as she stopped me from getting in the car, I turned to see her smiling as she kissed me softly. "After this is over, I'm gonna give you a chance, if you want it."
I felt my heart race and some of the wounds began to heal as I saw her smiling face. I knew I was in love with her again (well for those few moments I certainly was) and wanted to spend the rest of the night in this girls eyes. But one thing kept me from that, Kody, I wanted to pay Derrick back for what he did to her, and that came first, because she does. I'll tell you about that next time...
Written by
TVM
Wednesday Night on...
(SPRING 2009)
* * 8:00 * *
Slash TV
* * 8:30 * *
Love of My Life
* * 9:00 * *
My First Time
* * 9:30 * *
Unsung