Twenty Four Weeks - Episode 21 - "Thirty Two" (PG)

By James David Denisson

Twenty Four Weeks
Episode 21- "Thirty Two"

Judd and Quinn’s story is exposed and Judd has suspicions about the leak... Judd shares Christmas with Quinn’s family...
“What’s this,” I ask him.
“Page eight,” he says, his face pulled into a frown.
I turn over page after page and find what he’s directed me to. Wade’s face is plastered over the page with a headline that paints him in a very bad light.
“They’re calling me a liar, and you..."

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 21 – Thirty Two

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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 want to know? she asks me angrily.

I think I deserve to know.

All right... She takes a breath. When I went to the hospital you were on the bed. They’d stitched up your head and they were watching you. You had concussion, and you were talking and talking.

I don’t remember any of that, I tell her, but she puts up a hand to silence me.

And then you started to tell me what you think. What you really think. And now I know.

"Know what?"

"What you really think of me. And then you made me tell you about the first time I... when I told him I loved him."

And it’s all become clear to me. The picture has been assembled. The moment I lost her. They’d been sleeping together for a few months by then, but it was only sex. Right then, at that moment, it all changed. It became a relationship. Her bonds with him started to grow strong and hers with me started to fade – slowly, so slow that I failed to see it.

The New Years party at Wade’s, I say, On the balcony. I interrupted you two. God... I was an idiot not to see it.

…

I’m walking back over to Quinn with a coffee in hand. Once again, instant. Once again, tolerated for the purposes of something to hold while we mingle after the class. She is talking to another couple. The woman looks to be as advanced as my wife. They appear harmless enough, professional, happy. Like us, I guess, but without the baggage.

Judd, Quinn says, come meet Ted and Sarah.

I shake the husband’s hand. Ted Wentworth, he says. My wife, Sarah. I shake hers too.

Quinn leans in. Bathroom, she says, and retreats, leaving me with the strangers she’s introduced me to. They weren’t at classes last week.

So, Judd is it?

I nod.

What work do you do, Judd?

I think quickly. Advertising mostly.

…

Have you seen Wade, I ask Kenny. He looks to the