Ice and Fire

"Jackson, why don't you look deep inside yourself for your answers instead of asking them from me? Everything was your fault! Why do you need to blame others?" cried Cherry.

"It wasn't my fault, it wasn't!" yelled Jackson. He then looked into Cherry's eyes, and said, "Cherry, you chose to leave me, and you chose to keep my son away from me! You were happy, weren't you?"

Cherry's couldn't help but cry when the past five years instantly flashed in her mind. She looked at Jackson, and while she shook her head, she said, "Do you really think I was happy? When I gave birth to Joe nobody was there for me! I refused my family's help and I brought up Joe alone. Do you really think that I could have possibly been happy?"

"Then why did you leave me? Wasn't I capable of providing anything that you ever wanted?" Jackson almost shouted with his face twisted with anger. He stared at Cherry, and thought that she deserved every bit of her sufferings.

Cherry didn't lose her train of thought. She calmed herself down, and carefully said, "Jackson, you still don't understand, not even now... I wanted a family!"

After she paused for a moment, Cherry continued, "I couldn't bear a third person getting between us! I just wanted a simple life, but then, what did you do? You got tangled up with Sally, and after she killed Emily, the only friend that I ever had, and walked away unpunished...did you think that I could also afford to leave my son to you?"

Jackson's heart was punched badly by her words. He knew very well how Cherry had been when Emily had passed away.

Cherry turned her head away from him, and didn't want to look at him anymore.

After some time, she broke the silence between them, and said, "You should go now, I don't want to see you anymore."

"Are you just going to let me go like this? Do you really think that I can leave like this?" asked Jackson intensely.

had a bad feeling about it, Cherry suddenly turned around to face Jackson again, and

that I'll still allow you to keep my son away from me any longer?" asked Jackson with fury echoing in

hands, she fiercely started to shake her head, and said in a tearful tone, "Jackson, please don't! Joe is

pleas, stared into her eyes and stonily replied, "He's my

her grip on Jackson's hand, and continued to beg, "Please, don't take Joe away from

Jackson got everything he

the thought of his son

and turned around

to leave, Cherry again caught his hand and hastily said, "Jackson, I'm

a moment about Cherry's pleas, and instead just shook off her hand off of his

going to do, she wondered. How was he going to treat her from now on?

doctor and told him that

been worried sick about him. When Cherry and Joe had arrived back home, Elsa immediately took Joe in her arms for she always wanted to protect her grandson with

his Grandpa and Grandma had worried about him so much, little Joe manly said, "Grandpa, Grandma, really, I'm okay. Joe's a big boy now, and this little scratch doesn't mean a thing to

over here to Grandma, but be careful

Joe would ever be taken away from them. All of them loved him very much, and she couldn't allow Jackson to take him away from them; she had to protect her son at all costs,