IF...103: AND LIFE GOES ON
The next year flew by. The family settled into a comfortable routine. She knew Kyle was trying. He was being mostly attentive but he still had moments when he would be irritable for no apparent reason.
Carolyn let it slide.
"You make your bed, you lie in it," she told herself.
The kids were growing fast, and had less and less time for their parents.
Maya and Marco were in almost daily contact and they got together a couple of times a month. At Maya's request, she had met his parents and grandmother and Vinnie. They loved her!
Our Vinnie is looking well, don't ya think? *drool*
It was difficult for Marco to go out in public without being swarmed by fans, so they usually hung out at his place or at his parents with a bunch of his nieces and nephews and Joel and Caitlin too. That's his hunky dad sitting on the far left in the blue trunks.
Gratuitous shot of Marco, just 'cause! :D
Once in a while he took them all out to see a classic movie at the sleepy retro cinema in the old part of the city, complete with a video arcade. The kids thought hanging with Uncle Marco was a blast!
He and Carolyn communicated fairly regularly though not nearly as often as before, mostly connecting via email and text and once in a while chatting for a few minutes on the phone...and as before they spoke about the kids and work.
Later that year, Carolyn accepted an offer to do a movie with renowned director Ivan Stovic (Andre and Ophelia's dad) starring opposite Clayton Benoit (Cassie and Maxine's dad).
It was a tragic love story of a May-December romance. She was thrilled to get the call to do a screen test with Clayton, and was ecstatic when her agent rang to say that they wanted her for the role! Her heart was doing somersaults when she hung up, and she immediately dialed Marco's number to tell him. Before it rang she clicked off.
"What am I doing?" she thought to herself.
She looked at the phone and dialed Kyle's mobile number. "First you tell your husband, then your mother," she told herself sternly.
Carolyn let it slide.
"You make your bed, you lie in it," she told herself.
The kids were growing fast, and had less and less time for their parents.
Maya and Marco were in almost daily contact and they got together a couple of times a month. At Maya's request, she had met his parents and grandmother and Vinnie. They loved her!
Our Vinnie is looking well, don't ya think? *drool*
It was difficult for Marco to go out in public without being swarmed by fans, so they usually hung out at his place or at his parents with a bunch of his nieces and nephews and Joel and Caitlin too. That's his hunky dad sitting on the far left in the blue trunks.
Gratuitous shot of Marco, just 'cause! :D
Once in a while he took them all out to see a classic movie at the sleepy retro cinema in the old part of the city, complete with a video arcade. The kids thought hanging with Uncle Marco was a blast!
He and Carolyn communicated fairly regularly though not nearly as often as before, mostly connecting via email and text and once in a while chatting for a few minutes on the phone...and as before they spoke about the kids and work.
Later that year, Carolyn accepted an offer to do a movie with renowned director Ivan Stovic (Andre and Ophelia's dad) starring opposite Clayton Benoit (Cassie and Maxine's dad).
It was a tragic love story of a May-December romance. She was thrilled to get the call to do a screen test with Clayton, and was ecstatic when her agent rang to say that they wanted her for the role! Her heart was doing somersaults when she hung up, and she immediately dialed Marco's number to tell him. Before it rang she clicked off.
"What am I doing?" she thought to herself.
She looked at the phone and dialed Kyle's mobile number. "First you tell your husband, then your mother," she told herself sternly.