Twenty Four Weeks - Episode 16 Part 2 - "Twenty Seven" (PG)

By James David Denisson

Twenty Four Weeks
Episode 16 Part 2- "Twenty Seven"

Wade gives some unusual advice... Judd and Quinn talk about her confusing time... Judd learns the meaning of friendship...
“Okay.” She steels herself. “I was having sex with two men. With you it was kind of an obligation. I mean I loved you, don’t ever doubt that. But the sex with Wade was the sex I was having without obligation and that was kind of better. This makes me sound like a horrible person!”

Still reeling from the shock of discovering his wife's infidelity, Judd Altman learns that he has lost his father and will be one himself. His soon to be ex-wife, Quinn, is pregnant with his child.
After almost losing the baby, Wade (Judd's old boss and Quinn's lover) realizes the truth about himself and his relationship with Quinn and leaves her. Judd, in the face of Quinn's situation, forgives her, but cannot reconcile their marriage.
With nothing but a stolen Porsche, Judd drives to Maine with limitless possibilities. A man with nothing has nothing to lose, and a man with nothing to lose can do anything.
Twenty Four Weeks begins with Judd's time of reflection in Maine and his eventual decision to return to New York City, to take back the life that has been so cruelly taken from him. Sometimes humorous, this bitter-sweet tale is full of hope, love and forgiveness.
With characters and back story based on the novel "This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper, Twenty Four Weeks is set after the events of the movie of the same name.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James David Denisson
• Release date: Jul 27, 2016

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Twenty Four Weeks – Episode 16 Part 2 – Twenty Seven

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Written by J.D.Denisson.

A sequel to the movie This is Where I Leave You.

Characters and back story based on the novel This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper.

Copyright 2016 J.D.Denisson.

Previously…

We sit in my car. Both of us are exhausted and exhilarated all at once.

Did that just happen? she asks me.

It did.

God I love you, she says. She doesn’t move. She doesn’t kiss me. All she does is say it. The sheer simplicity astounds me. How those four words could convey everything she feels right at that moment.

I love you too, I say to her, and every cell of my being is saying it too.

Take me home, Judd. Take me home and make love to me.

I don’t need to be told twice.

Twenty seven – Part Two

Thursday

We can hardly wait for the elevator to stop at our floor. But somehow we do. We’ve been waiting for this for months. Maybe we’ve been waiting for this for years. The doors open with their familiar ding. The apartment is quiet and dark. I take her by the hand, down the hall, past the room that I have inhabited, living like a monk, to our old bedroom. But it is new as well. Gone are the memories that have plagued me. I don’t see what has been done here, between her and me, between her and him. I mean, I’m aware that something did happen here, but it is like it happened to someone else.

Our window is open. Light intrudes in light and dark stripes upon the wall above our bed. I can see her in the gloom, standing there, waiting. She is beautiful in her dress. I can see sparkles here and there, stitched into the fabric, glittering in the half-light. She kicks off