MATT GRAY'S APARTMENT
"Listen to yourself," Matt says with
a raised eyebrow. "What is this, Melrose Place?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Sarah
asks, adding a touch of the defensive to her already sharp tone.
"You just sound a little ... psycho,
that's all."
"No, shockingly, I haven't yet been
driven to complete insanity."
Matt shrugs and holds up his palms.
"I'm not a fan of this vengeful thing. Besides, do you honestly believe
this is all Molly's fault?"
"Yes!" Sarah fires back, although
Matt notices the split-second hesitation before her rebuttal.
He responds with a skeptical look.
"She's the reason that everything
has gotten so complicated," Sarah insists. "If she hadn't kissed Brent
that night--"
"Then you wouldn't have married him."
"Not that night, no, but eventually.
And if she hadn't kissed him then he wouldn't have had her on the brain
and things could have been normal between the two of us. I never would
have had to get him to go to New York--"
"And you wouldn't have met me."
Sarah's eyelids lower and then reopen.
"And this whole mess wouldn't have happened. Brent and I would be happy
together."
Matt crosses his arms in front of
his chest. Sarah can't help noticing the slight flex of his muscles as
he does so.
"So you regret having Victoria?"
he asks.
"Of course not," she says quickly.
"But I would have liked to have her under different circumstances, you
know?"
"You mean with Brent as her father."
"Matt--" She reaches out and touches
his bare arm as he lowers his head. "You know that I think you're an excellent
father for Victoria. As complicated as it's going to make things with Brent
-- as complicated as it already has made things -- I think it's going to
be a really good experience raising this little girl with you."
She brushes dark blond hair out of
her face with her free hand. "And you know how much I value you as a friend.
But to raise a child with Brent, a child that's ours ... it would
just make everything so complete."
"A complete disaster, maybe."
"What?"
"Why are you acting like there isn't
really anything wrong between you and Brent? Having a kid with him now
wouldn't magically fix everything. Nothing will. Maybe it's time you accepted
that it may not be fixable -- and not just because of Molly."
Sarah is stunned into silence. Finally
she adjusts Victoria on her arm and says, "That's where you're wrong. If
Molly hadn't made herself a part of this -- if she hadn't made Brent be
so preoccupied with her -- then he would be completely devoted to me!"
"You can't live in a world of 'what
if,' Sarah--"
"I don't have to!" she exclaims.
"Because I'm going to make it reality. I'm going to bring back the marriage
that Brent and I should have had if Molly hadn't interfered. And I'm going
to remove her from the equation for good."
Matt just sighs.
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