The Call Girl - Season 1 - Episode 58

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The Call Girl - Season 1 - Episode 58

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”Jaime, son. Relax please” Gem tries to calm him down.

”Mama, I can’t..i can’t” he continuous to pace
She stops him and then pulls him to her, forcing him to seat down as she sinks to a chair, she touches his face and turns him to her , he makes to turn away , she holds his face still , his eyes are red, misty red.

”Oh Jaime!!” she touches his cheek
”it’s my fault Mama, I caused this, what if she dies, what if?’

She is shaking her head ”We pray for a miracle”

He shakes his head too ”I don’t want a miracle, I just want her to be okay, ” He turns away and puts his face in his hands, she watches him, reaching out and running a hand through his hair, she had always loved doing that when he was little, he usually always fell asleep on her lap. Staring at him now, it comes back to her as she realized something.

”The first time I had ever seen you care for something like this so much was years ago, when you had Toki”
He doesn’t turn.

”When we brought her home for the first time and gifted her to you, your eyes were filled with love for that little dog, you loved it. You were just ten, probably didn’t understand what love was but you loved it, took it everywhere you went, fed it, bathed it..for years you both grew together, like best friends, a boy and his loyal dog, and when you found her lying on the road, crushed to nothing…

He raises up his head and stares at her, remembering

”I felt my heart was closing, and cried all week till I feel sick”

She nods ”We never found who ran her off the road, but you never really healed from that. My son, for a ten year old you understood what it meant to love something unconditionally even when love was unknown to you, it didn’t matter if you didn’t understand, all you knew that you couldn’t live without that dog; you showed up when it needed you, you were always there to protect whether it asked or not…you loved that dog Jaime, even without realizing that what you felt was love..you loved it even though it was a pet..”

”What are you saying mother?”
She leans in closer, and touches his face ”You have that look in your eyes that says a thousand things than what you mouth would say. You have that same look you had for a pet years ago, that which you love without knowing, that which you cared without truly realizing, that which you want to protect, to cater to without realizing the dimension, that which you may want to give you all just because it is broken, or hurt..that same look”

”I don’t understand”

”Alexander, you love her don’t you?”
He frowns leaning away ”No mother. I do not, where that came from?” He is shocked, confused even.

”Love is a strange trickish little thing my son you never know when it creeps up on you, spreads evenly across your heart and then tickles your toes and then you begin to levitate”

He stretches his hands and then touches her forehead ”Are you well mother?”
She smiles taking his hands and placing kisses to them ”I am..” she smiles more touching him ”You love that girl who is fighting for her life in there, and maybe you don’t realize yet it but you will, the signs are there, obviously so”

”I do not”
”Explain why you are so hurt and an emotional wreck now?”

He opens his mouth to speak, and then closes it , then he frown deepens ”She was shot mother, while in my company, she was attacked mother, still in my company, I fell responsible for her”

”Is that the only thing you feel for her, responsibility? You don’t care about her?”
”’Well, I probably do care for her wellbeing Mama, it doesn’t spell love”
”Maybe, maybe so. There is nothing wrong to love her”

”I don’t even know her, it’s been a few weeks since we met and she…she is er..”
”A what?”

He stares at his hands ”A call girl. I had hired her services ..” he breathes.

She leans away frowning ”Not your handler?”

He shakes his head ”All that was a front..i don’t do drugs mother neither am I one who needs psychiatric help or whatever”

”Why?”
”I just needed a ..i needed to put up an act and–” he trails off.

She blinks ”Why?