Twenty Four Weeks - Episode 17 - "Twenty Eight" (PG)

By James David Denisson

Twenty Four Weeks
Episode 17- "Twenty Eight"

A caller changes everything for the show... Judd and Wade face truths about their marriages... Judd contemplates his feelings over his lost boy and how Quinn feels about her eighth month rapidly approaching...
I’m holding my hands up to Wade, like I can’t see a problem. This is the same as any other kind of call. He’s shaking his head furiously at me.

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 17 – Twenty Eight

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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…

You okay, I ask her. She looks well. She looks wonderful. Gone is the faint look of self-loathing that I wanted to see when we were separated but I can’t stand to see now. I suppose we still are separated, but things are different now.

She nods, puts her left hand up against her chin with her elbow on the table. She smiles at me. I see a flash of light on her left hand.

How does it feel, I ask her. The ring, I clarify when she frowns.

Oh. She pulls her hand away and looks at the band I gave her nine years ago, studies it.

Strange, she says, and familiar.

…

We sit at the table, the four of us. Wade pours the wine and gives Quinn a glass of mineral water. He winks at her as he pours it out and I raise my brows at her half smile in response.

Chloe has prepared a rack of lamb. Wade’s favourite. Quinn takes in the smell of it and starts in. Her hunger has increased of late. She was always watching what she ate before, but now she is pregnant. Eating for two, she says now.

So, Chloe says to me casually, I hear we have you to thank for Wade’s meteoric improvement in the ratings.

Well, I think he’s got a lot to do about it. I just keep the show running.

You do a lot more than that, Wade adds.

I shrug.

You’ve been a good friend, Chloe tells me, and places a hand on my arm. You’re really looking out for him. Really, the change in him is because of you.

I’m not sure that’s true.

It is. He tells me what you’re doing for him. I’m so grateful he’s got a friend at work looking after him as hard as I am at home.

Maybe not as hard, Wade says slyly, meaning the sex, I suppose.

She slaps him. Shut up, she says playfully.

I glance at Quinn. She’s got both brows up but she’s quiet. She’s hardly said anything.

And Quinn, Chloe says, turning to my wife. Wonderful Quinn. Wade says you’re five months pregnant.

More or less, Quinn tells her.

That’s terrific. You’re going to be the best mother in the world.

Yes mam, Wade adds and lifts his glass. To Quinn and her baby, he says and we follow suit. Quinn sips her bubbly water in silence.

You two, Chloe keeps going, "you’re so brave after