Conspiracy part 10
Nora returned home after speaking with Asa and Renee. She felt much better on that aspect of it. She was anxious to sit with Rachel and talk and to spend some time with Matthew. She was however still questioning her future with Bo. Bo had called from the station to let her know he would stay there until she had Matthew asleep, so as not to startle him. Matthew sat on the floor near Nora’s feet, playing his Gameboy while she and Rachel spoke in hushed tones, many times using code words and cryptic messages.
Nora: Rikki, I am just feeling so unsure of things.
Rachel: But Mom, he said he loved you…he wants to be with you, its pretty obvious…
Nora: That was while he was still forced to hide here…
Matthew: Who hides here, Mommy?
Nora: A kitty cat was hiding under the porch…
Matthew: Oh…can we keep it?
Rachel: (looking at Nora while answering her brother) that depends if the kitty wants to stay with us…
Matthew: (excitedly) He does!! He does!!! He wants to stay with us!!!!
Nora: (frowning and under her breath) Please don’t encourage him…
Rachel: Hey Matthew! You know it’s almost time for our nightly challenge!
Matthew: Race you upstairs!
Rachel: Head start?
Matthew: Nah…ladies first. (he bows like a perfect gentleman)
Nora: (to Rachel) He looks like him…
Rachel: I know…ok slugger…I get the green controller!
Matthew: That’s cool, I like the blue one!
Nora: Give me a smooch before bed…(kisses Matthew good night)
Matthew and Rachel race up the stairs. The phone rings…
Nora: Hello?
Bo: Hey gorgeous…is my son asleep yet?
Nora: Rachel just took him up…give them about a half hour…I told him he could have one challenge of Motor Speed with Rachel before bed…
Bo: Uuuuhhhhh….
Nora: What?
Bo: I just miss you so very much…all I can imagine is holding you tonight…I can, right?
Nora: How soon till your home after the half hour? Bout 20 minutes?
Bo: Give or take…
Nora: We need to talk…
Bo: Uh-oh…
Nora: Nothing bad…just some basics…
Bo: I love you, you know that don’t you?
Nora: I love you too…
Bo: See you in a bit…
Nora hangs up the phone and stares into space, thinking to herself how she shouldn’t worry about Bo and her and them together. But still here last real memory before the crash was not the best. Why couldn’t those bad parts have stayed away? She wanted her memories back, but she didn’t want to remember the whole incident with Drew, and how Bo walked out on her. And if she was going to get her memories back then why the heck couldn’t it be all of them, so she would not have had to spend time trying to crack Colin? So many thoughts were breezing by so quickly, thank goodness Rachel interrupted.
Rachel: Mom? You OK?
Nora: Huh? Yeah…yeah baby (takes Rachel’s hand and pulls her on the couch next to her and starts to play with Rachel’s hair)
Rachel: Mom…you have to stop thinking so much. You’re making yourself crazy.
Nora: You’re right. I just have to let things run their course, and if Bo and I are not meant to be, then, well (pause) we’ll always have Matthew…
Rachel: You have to decide how we are going to explain all this to Matthew…
Nora: I know…you realize you are going to be an important part of it…Miss I-taught-my-brother-how-to-flip-Bo-off….
Rachel: Mom…it wasn’t Bo…
Nora: I know…but it is going to take all of us to help the poor baby through this…
Rachel: So how do you think we’ll accomplish this?
Nora: I don’t know, yet…. but we are going to have to start working on it soon, Bo may end up staying here indefinitely, if we do stay together…we can’t have him screaming and flipping off his father…
Rachel: If? Mom…there are no ifs…you guys are made to be together…
Nora: Rachel, Bo and I have to square things away between us…we have a lot to talk about.
Rachel: You guys just have to do what comes naturally.
They laugh as Nora hugs her daughter tightly. The front door opens and Bo walks in.
Bo: Luu-ceee, I’m home! (looks at Nora and Rachel on
the couch) Uh-oh…am I interrupting a mother-daughter moment
?
He walks over and kisses Rachel on the top of the head as she
reaches back and touches his arm. He then bends over and gives
Nora a deep kiss. They stare into each other’s eyes.
Rachel: Um..well, (fake yawning) I think I need to get to bed…(bending down near her mother’s ear and whispering) relax…he loves you…so do I…(full volume) Good night! (she kisses them goodnight and heads upstairs)
Bo is standing behind the couch. He watches Rachel go upstairs and turns his glance back at Nora. She catches him staring and quickly averts his attention.
Nora: So…I bet your hungry…probably didn’t eat much with all the excitement at the station and here…and…
Bo: I love you.( he walks around the couch and sits next to her)
Nora: I know.
Bo: (lightly touching her cheek) I’ve always loved you.
Nora: Bo…
Bo: (nears her face and gently brushes his lip against hers) I’ve missed you so much
He moves his hand around the back of her neck and pulls her closely, making full contact. He kisses her deeply for what seems like eternity. He feels differently. This is the first time he feels able to bring all of his deep hidden feelings out in the open, no holds barred. They were finally able to be together, no obstructions.
Bo: I want to make love to you…(continues kissing her)
Nora: I want you too, (pulling back slightly) but we have to talk…
Bo: (kisses her again) talking can wait. I have waited so long to be with you. To show you how much I love you, I can’t talk now…please…let me show you how much I love you…
He lays her back on the couch and kisses her, caressing her shoulder as he kisses his way around her neck and begins to move down toward her chest.
Nora: Bo…wait…please…
Bo: (slowing moving away from her and looking deep into her eyes, he sees something is not right) Alright. I can tell something is bothering you (sitting up and helping her up) you were upset at the station, so tell me what’s wrong…
Nora: Bo…(she puts her hand on his chest, as if to hold him back) the last thing I remember about us, before the train wreck, is we didn’t like each other. At least, you didn’t like me. Almost on the verge of despising me…
Bo: Ssh. Nora, so much time has gone by since before the wreck. So much has changed. I spent a year of my life in a dank little apartment, in pain, wishing beyond all hope you’d be the next person to walk through the door and save me.
Nora: Lot of good I could have done, I was a prisoner in pain too!
Bo: (touching her cheek) Not just to save me from my captors…to
save me from myself.
Aw Red, (pausing and taking her hands in hers) in my mind, all
I could do was replay over and over our last moments on the train.
I know you don’t remember them. (pause) maybe it’s better
off…
Nora: Bo, all I want is my memories back!
Bo: Not these. You’re better with out remembering how stupid and selfish and arrogant I was. Nora, I said some terrible things to you. And when I was locked in that room, I wished to God that I’d have taken you in my arms and told you what a fool I was. All I could do was dream that a day like this would arrive. Since the day I walked away from you, I know it was the biggest mistake I ever made. I had a lot of time to figure out how I would find a way back to your heart. I swore I’d do anything to set things right, if I got the chance. And now, here I am, I don’t know what to say, except, Nora, give me one more chance, to prove how much I love you.
Nora: (tears in her eyes) Bo…
Bo: Wait. I owe this to you. No one on this earth can love you more than I do. No one. You complete everything I am, and if you would allow me back into your life, back into your heart...I will turn back time to make it right by you (he starts to get misty)…I am sorry for everything.
He puts his head down, waiting for her response. She leans in towards him and rests her head against his.
Nora: You know…for the longest time, after you left, I felt there was nothing in my life I did right. I mean, I failed at marriage with Hank, I was a half-assed mother to Rachel when she was little, then you came along, and I thought I finally did something right…I knew I could make you happy…
Bo: You always made me happy…
Nora: Not true…Not always…but at least you knew I was always there for you...I defended you to the best of them…
Bo: I know I never showed it, but I appreciated every crusade you took on, on my behalf…
Nora: It was my pleasure. After you left, and it finally registered that I failed again, I used to walk through Angel Square, and I used to imagine you walking out of the blue, you’d turn and look at me…(she starts to cry a little) Bo, even then I still believed, I still had faith in us…then I would come home, and yeah, Matthew was here, but it wasn’t the same. I’d lie in our bed, and the memories would just kill me.
Bo: Baby…its behind us…look what we have…we have us…we have Rachel…we have our little boy…you were right to still have faith…
Nora: What about us Bo? Are you sure this is what you want? To be with me? I mean, I know you’ve been here for the past month, but you’ve kind of had to be…til you figured out who did all of this...now you’re free to have your life back…
Bo: Nora, honey, after all we been through, I see it like this…this is what is meant to be. You and me, happily ever after…
Nora: We have to work with Matthew…
Bo: Work with him how?
Nora: Well, he hates you…imposter you…but he’s just a little boy, he doesn’t realize you’re not the same mean guy Rachel taught him to flip off…
Bo: What? Rachel taught him…
Nora: (covers her mouth giggling and looking down) yes…
Bo: I’m gonna talk to that girl!
Nora: We have to talk to Sam…
Bo: Ummm….
Nora: What…
Bo: I talked to him…he’s not thrilled, but he realizes that a father and son need to be together, and he agreed to help with the transitioning…
Nora: You’re to good to be true…I was dreading talking to him.
Bo: So was I. I can’t wait to see Asa and Renee and tell them…
Nora: Eewwww….
Bo: What
Nora: I stopped by their house before I got home…
Bo: Well?
Nora: Asa is ecstatic! He can’t wait to see you and to spoil Matthew…
Bo: Well, I can’t wait to start spoiling you…so…are we back?
Nora: You tell me (she grabs him by the shirt collar and pulls on top of her, kissing him the whole way down to the couch)
The End
But wait! What about Matthew and Bo being reunited? Well, don’t worry, I won’t cheat you out of that…sequel in the works: Dad’s Day Out!
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