Dear diary,
Betrayal! It's such an ugly word, and an even worse feeling and action. Did you see what I saw? Jules flirting and kissing Cornelia! On the neck! In our upstairs family room! In front of the maid!
"I don't know what came over me" he said, "it just sort of happened, I never planned to cheat on you". Whatever, I just can't deal with this right now. I screamed at them to get out of my sight - and they ran like little frightened deer.
My body was in upheaval, was I ill, was I going to throw up? No, it was just the pregnancy spin coming in. I'm pregnant too? How will I deal with all this? I never should have let her in the house, I should have listened to Svea's dire warnings.
Who dare she come in here and try to steal my man? I confronted her and showed her that Jules was in a very committed relationship indeed - I was expecting one of his babies. And by the way, that man she is supposedly going steady with - that's Jules and my son! She acted all heartbroken and claimed to not have intended to do anything with Jules. She says he tricked her. But I am wise to her lying ways now, she's got to go. And she better keep her hands off my man!
I ran Jules down at the library where he'd gone to cool his head. He was so excited when he saw my belly. "Another baby! You'll be home with me more!" he cried and kissed me. I didn't know what to think. Was I OK with him kissing me or what? I was tired, cranky and I had to pee. I kissed him back and tried to forget what I had seen. We had a good life together, didn't we? We had a past and a future on the way, wasn't that worth fighting for?
The next few days proved to be very tense around the house. Jules and I tried to keep up appearances, but frankly no one payed any attention. Emil was as busy in the garden working on his magic skill as ever, Cornelia and Jules had long and loud rows about how betrayed she felt that he tricked her. He still claims it was a miss-firing love spell aimed at me that was the culprit. Now they don't speak at all, and I don't speak to either of them...Emil seems oblivious and Beatriz has her own set of problems because she just turned teenager and her hormones are all over the place, she's now a savvy sculptor.
And in the midst of all this drama Svea went into labor. Peanut freaked out bif time, and his scales all but fell off.
Emil was ready to embrace his destiny, and he raised all my dearly departed old friends from the dead. He immediately transformed them with the sunlight spell, and let them get back to their old lives. All save good old Chester, whom he invited to come live with him and Cornelia once they moved out.
Svea had a daughter in a spectacularly long delivery where the prospective father to be fainted twice. We finally had mercy on him and cured him from his mermaidism just before Tilda entered the world.
Just minutes later my third son Lo came to be. And with his arrival I finally had a breather to think over what I should do about Jules. I decided to do a little investigation into how he spent his time when I was away working. As it turns out, Jules had several romantic interests, and not just anyone - he was involved with 2 of our maids and Mara, Jonas wife as well! I had enough!
I told him I wanted a divorce on account of him being unable to keep it in his pants, or in his wand as it were (since he claims it is his rouge love spells that are at the root of this problem). He didn't want to accept this, but when I revealed that I knew all about his relationships with his sons wife and girlfriend, and how much this disgusted me - he relented.
I could probably have forgiven him the involvement with the maids, but to cheat not only on me but on his sons too? Impossible! The breakup was as amiable as possible and Jules left right away, as did Emil and his hussy of a wife and self obsessed daughter. Sadly it feels as if I won't ever be close with Emil again since he insists on sticking with Cornelia despite all she has done.(
Once they had moved out I realized that poor Lo had witnessed the whole breakup fight and he had a horrid -60 moodlet for 2 whole days. I was intending to age him up pre-maturely, but since I didn't know how to get the moodlet away, I waited so that he didn't have to be a miserable toddler. )
