Authors: Mercedes Keyes
Shawn walked through the bar area into the main hall and immediately saw Sylvia up on the stage by the console, Jake there with her grabbing at her hands. Derrick and Paul were not far behind him. "Ah shit! Ah shit! Ah hell no!" Derrick blasted speeding up to catch up with Shawn. "Shawn..." He grabbed his brothers arm, Shawn snatched it away and kept moving forward.
Said I want you
Tell me, babe
Do you want me?
Sylvia snatched her arm from Jake who was trying to pull her from the player, she went to shove him away from her when she looked up and saw Shawn staring at them as he suddenly slowed his approach.
I gotta know, I gotta know
Do you want me?
Baby, baby, baby - Listen to me
I may not know where I'm going (babe)
Jake looked over at him too and let her go. Shawn's eyes went from him, to Sylvia... her hand was at her stomach, breathing hard.
"TURN THAT FUCKING MUSIC OFF!!" He suddenly shouted over the blaring hit.
"I CAN'T - I'M TRYING!" She screamed back, on the verge of tears.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING UP THERE WITH MY WIFE!! PUTTING YOUR FUCKING HANDS ON HER!!?"
Jake smiled, "Not the first time!" He smiled and turned to Sylvia, "Is it darlin'?"
"AI-I-IH!!!" She screamed and attacked him, aiming for his face, Jake had to move back and block her blows.
"YOU SONOFABITCH!!!" Shawn roared and charged up the last step going for him. Jake shoved Sylvia out of the way as his brother jumped him.
They were so loud that Mundo and his friends heard them from outside on the other side of the hall, were they snuck out to smoke a little illegal tobacco. Mundo passed the joint back and started making his way back to the door of the hall. Kathy Ann and Shanna were outside loading up her Jeep. Meribel in the kitchen wiping up some of the dishes she brought to add to the banquet. When they all heard screaming and shouting.
I said I may not know what I need
One thing, one thing's for certain baby
I know what I want, yeah
and if it please you baby please you, baby
I'm begging down on my knees
"DERRICK STOP'EM STOP'EM STOP'EM - HURREEE!!!" Sylvia screamed.
Sheila and friends rushed to the stage yelling at her, "SYLVIA GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE OUT OF THE WAY - NOW!!!"
"SYLVIA MOVE BEFORE YOU GET HURT!!!" Ellen yelled. Paul was up on the stage and grabbed her swinging her to the edge and off out of the way as the brothers struggled on the floor, Shawn on top trying to punch Jake, but Derrick was grabbing him back, so he couldn't land a punch.
I want you
Yes I do
Baby, baby, baby, baby
I want you
Yes I do
Having not a clue of what was going on or why, Mundo and his friends ran up on the stage, all trying to pull the scuffling men apart as Sylvia stood down stage screaming and crying.
"DERRICK!!! LET ME GO! I SAID FUCKING LET ME GO!!!" Shawn shouted, his nose bleeding from Jake getting a punch in when they'd snatched Shawn back. "I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU - YOU FUCKING BASTARD - I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU!!!" Shawn shouted at Jake as he struggled to free himself from Derrick and Paul. Jake jumped up from the floor wiping the blood from his mouth, his shirt was ripped. "FUCKING LET HIM GO! I'M NOT A LITTLE BOY ANYMORE SHAWN!! YOU WANNA FUCKING FIGHT ME??? HM?... BRING IT ON!! I'M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU!!!"
"JAAAKE - JAAAKE - JAAAKE - COME DOWN HERE NOW!!! STOP IT JAKE!!!" Kathy Ann screamed from below.
"SHAWN PLEASE!!! DON'T!! NO MORE PLEASE!!!" Sylvia wailed.
He turned and looked down at her, his eyes were blazing with heat.
"Let me go! Now!" Shawn bit out,
now
that he could be heard with the song finally ended. He snatched his arms from them and jumped off the stage and rushed up to Sylvia and grabbed her arm. "Shawn!" She cried out, his sudden rush to her scaring her.
"Shawn! HEY MAN!!! Let go of my mama man! Man... let go of my mother!" Mundo bit out shaking.
"STAY OUT OF IT! THIS IS BETWEEN YOUR MOTHER AND I!!!"
"Man look! You can talk all the shit you want! Don't hit my mother!"
"I have no intention, of hitting your mother!" Shawn growled, squeezing her wrist, he turned to her, "Outside - now!"
"Shawn! Leave it alone okay? Just leave it alone." Derrick pleaded.
"I'll be alright! Leave him! Please just leave it!" Sylvia cried as Shawn tugged her towards the door. He ignored everyone yelling at him to calm down, his only focus was in getting Sylvia outside away from the hall, but everyone followed.
Jake was stumbling a bit, clearly drunk as well and trying to get around everyone to get to Shawn and Sylvia.
"Get the hell out the way! Move it dammit!" He blasted David and Paul shoving them aside. Kathy Ann was trying to get a hold of him, but he only yanked himself free, ripping his shirt even more. "Derrick get him!!" Shanna cried out watching Jake barrel through them.
"Hang on now! What the fuck you doing!?" Sheila yelled getting upset as Mundo walked feeling uneasy and uncertain of what to do.
"I'LL BE OKAY!!! I'LL BE OKAY!!" Sylvia shouted again with Shawn pulling her further into the parking lot, to their SUV. Holding up her gown Sylvia tried to keep up with Shawn as he took her to the other side of it, snatching the door open for her to get in. She climbed in with her heart pumping in her chest, he slammed the door closed and jumped in the other side. She turned with her back to the door, knowing that if he was mad enough to hit her, she could open the handle and fall out and away from him.
He sat breathing deep and hard, trying to gain control of himself.
"You tell me - what - the hell - is going - on." He bit out low and careful.
"Shawn... let's just go home okay? I'll drive, we'll go home first."
"I wanna know right here... right now... what... is going ... on!" He growled with his jaw clenched.
She couldn't answer because suddenly the SUV shook and on her side the door opened and she almost fell out. Jake caught her, pulling her out of the SUV. She couldn't believe it, "JAKE GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!" She raged at him.
That was it for Shawn, he jumped out shouting, "YOU WANT ME TO FUCKING KILL YOU TONIGHT?!"
"I WANT YOU TO LEAVE HER ALONE! SHE HASN'T DONE SHIT! I'M THE ONE WHO FUCKING TOUCHED HER! KISSED HER!! DEAL WITH ME!!"
Shawn ran at him again, this time they hit the ground with a thud, Sylvia started crying so hard she felt faint. All the men converged on them.
Sheila ran up to her, "That's it, I don't wanna hear no shit from you Sylvia! Get the fuck in my van! We gettin' the hell out of here!"
"Nooo, I can't leave my husband like this!"
"GIRL! I don't wanna hear that shit!"
"Sylvia go! Just go with her!" Shanna cried out.
Sheila, Sylvia and the others rushed to her van with Sylvia sobbing as they piled into the van.
"I can't believe this shit! I cannot believe this! What the hell happened Sylvia?!" Sheila yelled, starting the van and backing up and then forward to drive quickly out of the lot.
Sylvia was too upset, sobbing and thinking about Shawn, back where they left them, fighting on the ground with Jake. She had her hand over her mouth sobbing, "What am I gonna do, oh my god oh my god oh my god! Please please please pleae... I can't take it... I can't take it!" She sobbed.
"Calm down girl! You pregnant ain't you?! You can't be going through this shit!" Ellen reached in the front rubbing her shoulders trying to calm her down.
"It's my fault! It's my fault! I should have told him! I should have told him!" She sobbed.
"Told him what?" Edwina asked.
"That Jake was coming on to me! Trying to - to - get me to - cheat on Shawn with him!"
"What?! Why?!" Vivian asked.
"Because he's - he's jealous of Shawn! Has always been! But - I love Shawn! I just want my husband! I - I just want my husband!" She cried on.
"So... is Jake in love with you or not?!" Sheila asked.
"No! He just wants to wreck SHAWN! And he's done it... and I - I helped him do it! I should have - have told him!!!"
Vivian set back and shook her head. What could she say. She thought about Jake... she had been guilty of doing the same trifling, petty crap as that with her own sisters from just pure jealousy. It had taken her a long time to grow out of it, but she finally had. Obviously Jake hadn't grown out of it.
"I can't believe they've been living in the same town all this time and fighting like that." Edwina said.
"Shawn left home... a long time ago... he just - he just came back... last year... and - and we met." Sylvia cried. "Sheila go back! Please go back!"
"Girl I'm not going back there! I'm taking your ass home!"
"That's why Jake is still acting that way." Vivian said.
"What?!" Ellen asked.
"Because Shawn left... so its like, it never came to a head, never dealt with. He may have moved on, but any chance of Jake dealing with it was taken away from him, so naturally when Shawn returned, things picked up right where they left off." Vivian personally felt.
"Are you defending him! HE'S AN ASSHOLE AND I HATE HIS FUCKING GUTS!!!" Sylvia screamed sobbing.
"Maybe you do hate him girlfriend! But even assholes have their reasons! That's all I'm saying." Vivian fired back.
"I don't give a damn what his reasons are! My husband doesn't deserve this shit!!!" She cried.
"Look ya'll need to calm down, I'm trying to find my goddamn way out of here! Shit I think I done got lost!"
Conclusion Of Series Three
Bart and Gert had just finished unloading all of the gifts and taking them into Shawn and Sylvia's home with the keys they gave her. They were about to lock it up when Sylvia's phone rang. Gert went to it as Bart stood at the door.
"Hello?"
"GERT!!! Oh thank god you're there! We're - we're lost and Shawn and Jake have been fighting!" Sylvia cried into Sheila's cell phone.
"WHAT?! Bart... Shawn and Jake are fighting and Sylvia's lost!" She told him then spoke back into the phone, listening as Sylvia was crying. "Calm down sweetheart, calm down, where are you?!"
Suddenly there was silence and then, "Hello? Mama Micky! We lost! Sylvia upset and crying! Yo' sons gone kill each other... but first ... tell me how to get the heck out of here!" Sheila begged.
"Where are you?"
"We somewhere surrounded by trees! I ain't seen a street sign yet! I ain't never coming back here no more! Keep my ass in the city!"
"Okay okay calm down. Turn the van around, follow the road back to where you came from, and I will tell you how to get from the hall okay?"
"Yes ma'am! We on my cell phone, so I'll call you back when we reach the hall!"
"WHERE'S MY GAD'DAMN WIFE!!!" Shawn was shouting. His mouth bloody, his eye black, his knuckles bruised.
Derrick was trying to get him into the SUV but he wasn't cooperating for yelling and screaming for Sylvia. "SHAWN! SHE'S AT HOME! NOW GET IN THE SUV SO I CAN TAKE YOU THERE!"
"Come on Papah-Shawn... get in the SUV man! Let's get home please!" Mundo was standing at his other side trying to help Derrick get him in.
Kathy Ann was in her El camino, chasing after Jake who jumped in his truck and took off looking for Sylvia. Now, he was suddenly sorry. Needing to find her and apologize, somewhere in the fight with Shawn, he decided he had to make it up to her, so he could then make up with his brother. It was the worst night any of them there had experienced and no one wanted to ever go through it again. Kathy Ann was scared Jake was gonna kill himself because he could see out of only one eye, his knuckles were swollen, if not fractured from trying to hit Shawn, missing and hitting the ground instead.
Meribel was crying and upset because she thought her husband may have a broken nose from Shawn.
David and Jessica left when the second fight broke out.
Paul and Diane left a few moments after Jake finally ran to his truck jumped in and took off.
Shanna was being escorted by Mundo's friends to Shawn and Sylvia's, so she wouldn't have to be out alone.
Leaving Derrick, Meribel and Mundo. Mundo had loaded his gear up in the truck with his friends help, and now he just wanted to get Shawn in so they could pull out. Meribel would drive DJ's car and Derrick would drive the SUV if Shawn would stop yelling for Sylvia.
"SHAWN! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT!!! GE'YOUR GODDAMN ASS IN THAT SUV!!! SYLVIA IS AT HOME! NOW GET IN THERE!!!" Meribel screamed at him.
Shawn leaned back against the SUV, his head rocking back. "Open the fuckin' door." He slurred out.
She turned away cursing in rapid Spanish.
Just as they were all pulling out, with the SUV in the lead they encountered the van with Sylvia and friends returning to the lot. Meribel pulled up to it, rolling the window down in her son's car, as Sylvia put hers down.