Deep Divide

During the last few years, they had went bowling, several sport games and

Jeffrey became infuriated after what she said leading a argument between them and screaming at each other. Jeffrey retreated to the bathroom, opening the mirror door and taking two pills from his own bottle. Then he strike at the mirror glass, shattering it.

Velma was not surprised as she in her younger days saw her mother with a man other than her father who was fighting in Italy by the time she was three. She had seen her with five different men before her father came back.

She heard the both of her parents arguing, just like how she and Jeffrey did. Their parents both divorced in different points of their lives.

Jacqueline had always felt a tad uncomfortable with Jeffrey living with the both of them. He and Velma separated a month after Jacqueline turned seven, later reuniting when she gets into a accident at a playground with Jeffrey watching her. He watched a man next to a helicopter carrying several people from the top of a building on T.V. as they climbed on a ladder. That was when he noticed Saigon had fell. Velma had known Jeffrey was not at peace when he came home and had recurring sleep terrors.

Jacqueline heard her parents arguing in the kitchen during her birthday party with her friends listening. She goes in, knowing that they had been fighting for a long time.

“I'm sorry you had to hear that.” Jeffrey told the little children.

“How come you and mommy don't get along?” Jacqueline asked him in the kitchen.

“I don't know. We just don't.” He said to her.

The following month, Velma would leaving taking Frances, Richard and Jacqueline with her. Realizing she wanted to fix her relationship with Jeffrey, she returns home, only to find him lying on the kitchen floor unconscious. She then calls an ambulance to the house, taking Jeffrey to the hospital for his first treatment.

A doctor approached Velma to discuss Jeffrey’s condition. She looked distraught about what happened. He had developed a heart attack after smashing a bottle of bourbon against a wall. The couple sought help from Caroline, agreeing to help her brother and sister in law. One day, Edward calls Jeffrey to finally talk to him and asked to see his grandchildren.

"They're not ready to see you." Jeffrey said over the phone. Trembling while holding the phone, he realized Edward was still on the other end.

"I guess you can come over this weekend." Jeffrey then said. On that Saturday, Edward drove to the house, meeting the children and Velma. He noticed that Jacqueline looks similar to Jeffrey but mostly resembles Velma.

Despite seeing Jeffery as a stranger, Jacqueline realized she no longer held cold feelings towards him as he saw her as something special in his eyes, as a little angel he was not aware of. A sixteen year old Jacqueline found herself drifting away from Jeffrey, becoming more distant to him than before until she got married.

Jacqueline met Clyde Browning in her homeroom during her sophomore year. The two butt heads after meeting each other for the first time. Jeffrey and Velma met him and considered him to be cocky. Without a date to the school dance, Clyde asked Jacqueline.

“Someone had already asked me to the dance.” That disappointed him until she had changed her mind and showed up at his house, wearing her dress. A couple of years after graduating from high school, the two got married with their families watching and Jeffrey walking her down the aisle as he did when Frances a couple of years prior.