BEHIND THESE HAZEL EYES.

You have reached the page of Jennifer Marie St. James Clarington. Twenty-Nine years old. Former Miss Teen USA. Proud mother of two.

[kingclarington]

@redstjames

I bought this for you a couple weeks ago. I took the first picture we took with Cece and Connor and put them in the locket. I didn’t have time to make them remove me like I’m sure you would prefer. Happy Mother’s Day. 

[redstjames]

TEXT || ST. CLARINGTON

HUNTER: That's not true.

JENNY: Let me know when you want to see the kids. I need to plan their new schedules.

[redstjames]

TEXT || ST. CLARINGTON

HUNTER: I'm not doing this with you, Jenny. I'm not just giving up like this. I won't.

JENNY: You gave up a long time ago. These past couple of months was just us deluding ourselves.

[redstjames]

TEXT || ST. CLARINGTON

HUNTER: Please don't do this.

JENNY: I didn't do anything. You did.

JENNY: My lawyer will send you the rest of the papers. I want us to have joint custody. I don't want the kids to stop having a relationship with you just because we don't have one anymore.

[redstjames]

TEXT || ST. CLARINGTON

HUNTER: You can't take my kids away from me.

JENNY: Oh so now you care? [DELETED]

JENNY: I'm not taking them away. I'm simply relocating. You're free to see them whenever you want.

JENNY: I just can't be in a house with so many memories. Or constantly wondering if you ever took someone there. [DELETED]

[redstjames]

TEXT || ST. CLARINGTON

HUNTER: Yes. Because it means I've changed. I'm changing. I'm fixing it.

HUNTER: Don't say that.

HUNTER: Jenny, please.

JENNY: I'm sorry if I don't believe it.

JENNY: I found an apartment for me and the kids. A cardboard box like you always said I wanted.

JENNY: You have your house all to yourself.

[redstjames]

TEXT || ST. CLARINGTON

HUNTER: I did have a business trip. I did go to work too. It was usually while working.

HUNTER: You're angry right now, and you have every right to be, but divorce papers? We can fix this.

JENNY: Is that supposed to make it better?

JENNY: There's nothing to fix. I already made up my mind.

JENNY: I'm leaving my keys on the dining room table.

[redstjames]

TEXT || ST. CLARINGTON

HUNTER: You can't do this.

HUNTER: We can work this out. You don't just get pissed and serve me with divorce papers. We haven't even tried to work through this yet. I haven't even talked to her since you found out.

JENNY: You cheated on me. You made up business trips to spend time with your mistress and then you'd come home to me and act like everything was normal.

JENNY: Is this why you've been so absent all these years? The late nights at work? All the excuses? Five years we've been married, Hunter. Were you with her all this time?

[redstjames]

TEXT || ST. CLARINGTON

HUNTER: Pick up.

[TRIES CALLING AGAIN]

HUNTER: Jenny, answer your phone.

[THREE MORE CALLS]

HUNTER: Divorce papers? In the middle of my meeting? Talk to me. Answer your phone.

JENNY: Stop calling me.

JENNY: I have nothing to say to you.

JENNY: I'm sorry they interrupted your meeting, I didn't know. But my decision still stands.

[redstjames]

@kingclarington

[redstjames]

TEXT | Frankie

FRANKIE: Yes absolutely. Anything you need. Let me get Lucas his dinner. Alex will be home in a few minutes and then I'll be there okay?

JENNY: Okay. Don't worry about me. Just do whatever you need to do.

[redstjames]

TEXT | Frankie

FRANKIE: Oh God Jenny.. I'm so sorry.

FRANKIE: What can I do?

FRANKIE: That's a dumb question.

FRANKIE: How about you get a sitter and we'll go out, get a couple drinks? Or we could stay in and just drink at home?

JENNY: The kids are with my mom. I didn't want them to notice what's going on.

JENNY: Can we just stay here? I don't want to go anywhere.

JENNY: But I'd really like some company.

[redstjames]

TEXT | Frankie

FRANKIE: What?! I thought things were better! What happened?

JENNY: He's been cheating on me. I found a pair of panties in his jacket pocket.

JENNY: I feel so stupid right now. I had a feeling about this before and I chose to ignore it.

[redstjames]

The fucktoy your husband has doesn't mind that he's married. Do you care at all that you're not good enough to keep him satisfied?

Shut up! 

[redstjames]

TEXT | Frankie

JENNY: I threw him out.

JENNY: I can't keep doing this anymore. It's too much.

[kingclarington]

Almost Home

[redstjames]

kingclarington:

Hunter was heated though he doubted he had the right to be. About to respond to her words, venom dripping from his tongue, he was pushed back as she screamed at him to get out. “Jenny. Je-” but she wasn’t listening to him. She couldn’t hear anything he said, and he wasn’t sure he had anything to say worth saying. Holding his hands up, he backed up with another push and then turned. “Jesus,” he growled, grabbing his suitcase. She just needed space, he told himself. So he would give her a little space. Then she’d talk.. she had to, he thought as he walked out of the house. 

Jenny didn’t stop until Hunter was backing out and leaving the room. She couldn’t stop. How could she stay with a man that treated her like she didn’t mean anything? If he wanted some other woman so badly, then he could go stay with her and leave her be. But despite that mindset, the second he was out of her sight, Jenny crumbled to the ground, sobbing as she pressed her forehead to the carpet as if it would muffle her cries. This was what she was always afraid of. If her marriage were to ever end, it would be over something like this. And while she could be like many women in her life--just forgive and forget--she couldn’t. She deserved better and so did her children. She deserved better than Hunter.

[kingclarington]

Almost Home

[redstjames]

kingclarington:

“Me treating you like crap?” He shouldn’t argue. He was in the wrong here but that didn’t mean he knew how to shut up when he was being yelled at. “You never gave a damn everything I went through for you, for us, for this family. You just wanted me to give it all up and go live in a cardboard box with you because all you need is love, right? Well I have kids to take care of too. I have a family to take care of and this is what I needed to do. And you’ve hated me for it ever since I got your pregnant.” His jaw clenched when she yelled at him to get out. “You are not kicking me out of our house. This is our house. They are my children.”

“Are you kidding me? All you care about is work. All I ever asked was for your love and attention and you just ignored us because work was more important. But now I know better. It wasn’t about work. It was about whatever woman you’ve been sleeping with. I’m not even going to ask how long it’s been going because I can already guess.” All of a sudden, it was as if Hunter cheating was her fault. He was pretty much blaming her for cheating. He was kidding, right? It was like everything he said stuck her across the chest, bringing forth the anger she was trying to push down. And instead to breath through it, she all but launched herself at him, pushing at his chest toward the door. “Get out! I don’t want you here! How could you do this to me?! I can’t even look at you right now, you disgust me! Just get out!”