Coffeerooms Passions

PART TWO

Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald sat in her room preparing herself for the interview that she was going to be going on the next day. She had finished college just a few weeks earlier and was now going to start her life as one of the working class.

Spending time around Ethan during her senior year had fired her passion for law. She had gone to college and majored in law and business, graduating near the top of her class. She had decided not continue on to law school and to become a paralegal.

She was looking through her desk drawer when she came across a magazine. She pulled it out and just looked at it. On the cover was a picture of Ethan Crane.

He's Ethan Bennett now, she said to herself. She was in her first year of college when the scandal broke. Her mom kept her informed on what transpired. All Theresa wanted to do was come home and comfort Ethan. Her mother assured her that she would do them both a tremendous favor by just staying in school. Besides at the time her brother Luis was having issues with the Cranes. And he still considered Ethan a Crane.

So much has changed in the last four years, she thought. Luis had fallen in love with Sheridan. Just a year ago, she had turned her back on her family (and was disinherited because of her actions) and married Luis. Theresa was a bridesmaid at the wedding. She had never seen her brother happier. Unfortunately, Ethan had not been able to attend due to business.

She remembered the last day she saw him. It took all her composure not to break down and cry and tell him how she felt about him. He told her he'd miss her and he thanked her for all her help. He even hugged her before she left. She ran from the mansion when the door closed behind her.

That seemed like an eternity ago. She had changed so much, but her feelings stayed constant. She dated while in school but she found herself comparing them all to Ethan. She didn't care whether or not he was a Crane. Her feelings were for Ethan alone.

She knew from her mother that he was still unattached. Theresa wanted to see Gwen Hotchkiss just one time to tell her that she was a horrible woman for leaving Ethan at what must have been his lowest point. "I'll get in touch with him now that I'm home," she said out loud.

She put the magazine back in her desk. She stood and walked over to her closet to get her power suit ready for tomorrow's interview at the State Attorney's Office.