Chapter 135 - You Scolded Mom

Jimmy and Megan came across a good restaurant on the way and decided to go there to have dinner.

After placing the order Megan excused herself as she needed to make a call.

Megan then called her boyfriend and informed him she would be late and asked him to have dinner by himself as she too is doing the same.

"Baby, what happened? I was so tense, I was planning to call you just now" Ronald sounded worried.

"Don't worry, I will tell you everything when I reach home." She informed him and she was not convinced if he was really worried about her and was planning to call her, helplessly sighing at her state she disconnected the call.

After she came back she saw Jimmy on a call, when she reached the table she could clearly hear the conversation.

"Yeah mom, I am having dinner outside, please don't wait for me, I'll be back home a bit late so please sleep."

Then after hearing the other side of the conversation, he smiled and disconnected the call.

"Mothers huh" 

"Yeah always nagging but yet so caring" Jimmy smiled at her.

"Hahaha true"

Their food was quickly delivered as the service at this restaurant was very fast.

While having their food they talked a lot and time passed away so fast that they did not realize it. 

When the waiter brought the bill Megan immediately paid it not giving Jimmy a chance to snatch it from her, Jimmy chuckled at her actions and told her he would never mind free food and had no intentions to pay, Megan too laughed at his frankness and then they headed outside.

She saw an ice cream parlor next to the restaurant and craved for it. She asked Jimmy if they can have some ice-cream, to which Jimmy readily agreed but insisted he will pay for it. She didn't argue and agreed with it. They had some ice-cream and again headed to her home.

Seeing the long distance she was intending to travel everyday, he couldn't help but ask, "Why do you live so far away from the main city? Your home seems to be in an isolated area."

"Yeah because the rents are cheap In this area so me and my boyfriend moved in together at this location."

"Megan I think your knowledge about this city is very bad and so is your boyfriend's"

"Why would you say that?"

"There are a lot of cheap houses in London, you just need to find the right place, the area where our theater is, there too some cheap good houses can be found, you need to search for it properly."

"Oh" she didn't say anything else as their current home too was found by her boyfriend and he said this is the only area they can afford a house in, after Thomas Motors incident now she doubted if he even searched for a good house or not, she initially used to live in the university dormitory before moving in with Ronald so she had no idea about the real estate market.

Jim observed her and saw she was lost thinking about something, "Megan if you ever need any help you can ask me, don't hesitate ever."

"Thank you Jim, I'll remember that"

"You can call me Jimmy, people close to me call me that."

"Sure, Jimmy"

The two smiled at each other and after some time they reached her home.

She wished him good night and thanked him before leaving, she asked him if he wanted to visit her house but he was already very late so he promised he would surely come some other time and left.

Megan entered the house and her boyfriend started taunting her "Why the hell are you so late? Where is your car and why the hell did you come with someone else? It seems you came in a luxury car, who is that person?" He saw Jimmy dropping her home from the balcony and threw these back to back questions at her.

She was too exhausted to answer him and was also pissed with him, because of him she couldn't buy a new car and he gave her all wrong recommendations, she knew if she would talk to him now she will definitely say something out of line, so ignoring him she went to her room, changed into comfortable clothing and slept.

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Jimmy went back home. It was a tiring day for him. First the meeting with his fellow actors, the table reads and discussion and then dropping Megan at her home which was literally at the other end of the city was way too exhausting.

He was worn out and when he came home he saw Catherine, Daniel, Harry and Anthony watching television.

"Hey all" He greeted them and slouched on the couch, too tired to sit properly

"Hi Jim, where did you go that it took you so long? Earlier when you called me you didn't answer my questions properly and just told me you will have dinner outside and will be late." Catherine questioned him with concern.

"Umm that" Jimmy was trying to remember what lie he told her so as to stick with it.

"Mom after shopping with me and Rachel, he went to meet some friends of his." Daniel understood his brother would commit a blunder if he would speak so before Jimmy could answer he lied to his mom. 

Earlier in the morning to cover up for Jimmy's lie of going for his play rehearsals, they all lied that he went shopping with Daniel and Rachel.

"Jim, you spent your entire Sunday with friends and on weekdays you are busy with office work, are you going to ignore this old woman and never spend any time with me?" Catherine was annoyed as these days Jimmy is always busy and doesn't spend enough time with her like he used to.

"Sorry mom but I promise you, after I am done with the Tanaka project, I'll dedicate all my time to you, till then please be understanding of my situation." Jimmy requested her, mostly his play would be done before this project and he knows he can't afford to have fun during his free time but right now he was not ready to share the news of his play with his family, he is not sure how they would react, his grandpa and dad were very happy with the Tanaka project and if they will know he would be doing two things at the same time they might freak out, so he decided to hide everything for the time being and just give excuse of the Tanaka project.

"But Jimmy…" Catherine wanted to convince him the other way round but was interrupted by her husband.

"For the first time in his life this idiot is being serious about something and you are always ready to ruin it, can't you see your son being a hard worker and bringing a positive change to his lifestyle, all this while you are the one who spoiled him the most and now too you are not letting him focus on work, you want him to shop and go out with you instead of working hard?" Harry scolded Catherine.

Jimmy, Daniel and Anthony looked at Harry with widened eyes and open mouth, never in their life they saw Harry scolding Catherine, this was the first time something like this happened.

Jimmy was the most shocked as he didn't expect his father would someday scold his mother for him and would come out as his saviour.

Catherine glared at Harry in anger, she didn't say anything, she just stood up and went to her room and closed the door with a loud bang.

Harry was surprised and didn't understand what he did wrong, he wondered why his father and sons were looking at him as if they were extremely shocked and why his wife walked away in anger.

"Did I just do something wrong?" He asked his sons and father.

"You scolded mom." Daniel replied.

"What nonsense, I didn't scold her, I just explained why she should not bother Jim."

"You taunted her and blamed her for spoiling Jimmy." Anthony added.

"No, I just told her what she did and what I said was true."

"Yeah but the way you said it was offensive, mom is going to give you a hard time, all the best dad." Jimmy made his point.

"Hey I took a stand for you and you are taunting me instead?" Harry glared at Jimmy who was grinning from one cheek to another.

"Thanks dad, you are the best." Jimmy went to hug his father.

"I know, so please focus well on this project and give your best, you are supposed to send some documents and a project plan, right?"

"Yes"

"Please work hard and do well to impress them, don't make them regret choosing us, I am putting my faith in you."

"Sure dad" Jimmy's stress level increased after hearing what Harry said