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RETURN TO PARADISE

BY TIMA

CHAPTER

14





RETURN TO PARADISE
chapter 14:

[Del shakes his head, not believing what he's about to do.]

Del: Tea...

Tea: I'm ready to leave.

Del: I think we should stay.

[Tea turns toward her brother, disbelief clearly evident on her face.]

Del: We should wait, at least until morning.

Tea: We don't need to stay any longer. I've said all I need to say to Todd. I'm ready to leave.

Del: This isn't about Manning. I would feel safer waiting until morning.

Todd: Tea, if the guy's scared...

Del: I'm thinking about what's best for Tea. You should try it sometime.

Todd: I have. That's why I invited her here.

Tea: You did not invite me here at all. You sent me on another pointless journey to nowhere.

Todd: You're not nowhere. You're on our island. I knew I didn't need to send you some stupid invitation full of useless words, because I knew you'd know what that plane ticket meant. I knew you'd know I wanted you to come back to our island to be with me. I knew you'd come.

Tea: I won't come the next time. You can be assured of that.

Todd: You always come for me and you always will. Now, send your brother away so I can show you where we'll be shacking up.

Tea: I'm not staying. I'm going back to Hawaii. I won't allow you to ruin my vacation this year the same way you ruined my vacation last year.

Todd: That wasn't my fault. You keep forgetting that.

Tea: You keep forgetting that I know everything. Lies don't survive when truth is present.

Todd: What the hell does that mean?

Tea: It means that I'm immune to your lies and manipulations.

Todd: I'm not lying this time.

Tea: So, you admit our entire past was a lie?

Todd: I never admit anything. My lawyer taught me that. Innocent until proven guilty, remember?

Tea: Todd Manning...innocent?

Todd: You used to always believe in me whenever someone was out to get me, like they are now.

Tea: I've had my fill of your paranoia.

Todd: It isn't paranoia if it's true. Everyone is always out to get me, except you.

Tea: I never was...until now.

Todd: Give it up, Delgado. You're no good at playing that game.

Tea: I never wanted to play games with you, but that's all you've ever done with me.

Todd: I did what I had to do to protect you.

Tea: You did what you did because you're a selfish bastard who never cared about me.

Todd: If you believed that, you would have been yelling every vulgar word you could think of in Spanish when I was leaving, not waving at me, not looking like you were happy you were finally getting rid of me so you could get into Jungle Boy's shorts.

Tea: My relationship with Ross, after you abandoned me on this island, is none of your business.

[Todd angrily enters her personal space.]

Todd: What kind of fucking relationship did the two of you have after you got rid of me?

Tea: That's exactly the kind of relationship we had after you abandoned me.

[Del, uncertain how Todd will respond to Tea's taunting, steps toward them and pushes Todd away from Tea.]

Todd: Get the fuck off me! Get the fuck off my island...both of you.

Del: Go somewhere and cool off, Manning, before you say something you'll regret.

Tea: Todd doesn't believe in regrets. Hurting everyone who ever cared about him has always been his intention, so why would he have any regrets?

[Todd struggles not to respond with more hurtful words. Instead, he turns and walks down the beach, toward the cave.]

Tea: What was that all about?

Del: I was going to ask you the same thing. Why were you trying to provoke him?

Tea: He used me and then abandoned me on a deserted island so he could risk his life trying to get back to a woman who has tried to murder me. I have every right to allow him to think I slept with whomever I damn well please.

Del: I never thought playing with a guy's emotions like that was your style.

Tea: Todd doesn't have any emotions for me to play with.

Del: I saw a man who was hurt and jealous.

Tea: He was possessive, just like he's always been.

Del: I thought you were a better judge of people.

Tea: I married Todd Manning...twice. How good could my judgment be?

Del: The guy's scum for what he did. And, he's stupid for picking someone else when he could have been with you.

Tea: You're just saying that because you're my big brother.

Del: He really did look hurt.

Tea: You men will always stick together, won't you?

Del: I wanted to kill the guy before we got here, but seeing how he looked at you...

Tea: I can't allow myself to fall for his wounded little boy tantrums anymore. There was a time I thought they masked his love for me. Now I know better. It's all just a game to him.

Del: I saw his face when you had your back to him. I don't think he's playing.

Tea: He knew you were watching him. He was performing for you.

Del: I don't think so. I think he really does care about you.

Tea: You're wrong.

Del: What if I'm not? What if you really could have another chance with him, like you were hoping for?

Tea: I wasn't hoping we'd get back together. I was hoping that I wouldn't find him this time so he wouldn't be able to put me through this again. My stomach is still sick from the last time I was on this ride.

Del: What's the worst that can happen if we spend one night here?

Tea: I could lose my heart to him again.

to be continued...

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2003 COPYRIGHT BY TIMA






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