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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karin" data-source="post: 70615" data-attributes="member: 57167">A little later, the Ewing family was sitting down having dinner together. John Ross looked from his parents to his half-eaten dinner plate as he tried to await the right moment to tell them about his date with Melissa. He was not quite sure how to bring it up with them, after all he was grounded and he didn’t want them to object to his date. Eventually he seized the moment to share his news, “Oh I almost forgot to tell you, Mama, Daddy, but I’ve invited a girl named Melissa to come out here to Southfork on Saturday.”“Melissa?” Sue Ellen asked.“Yes that’s her name. I met her at the roller blade court last week,” John Ross said.“Well that’s my son! I’m so proud that you’ve started to bring home dates,” JR said in a delighted voice that made John Ross beam. It seemed like he had worried about nothing. His parents were taking the news better than expected. Unfortunately his dad didn’t know when to stop though as he went on. “In fact son I hope you'll follow in my footsteps and have lots of ladies,” JR twinkled at John Ross.  Sue Ellen twitched from JR’s words as here she had thought he might have changed when he was still the same heart-breaker he’d always been. It angered her to hear him talk of ladies in such a casual manner, without thinking of her feelings at all. “Oh I certainly hope it won’t come to that my darling JR,” Sue Ellen said sarcastically. “I mean just because you’re an unfaithful bastard it doesn’t mean that John Ross has to become one too.”   “Oh come on Sue Ellen, I was just as faithful to our marital wows as you were,” JR said in a warning voice.However Sue Ellen didn’t know when to stop either, as she said bitterly, “Oh really? So I guess women like Kimberly Cryder, Holly Harwood and that Winger tramp just happened to fall into your bed huh?”“Sue Ellen please it’s ancient history,” JR pleaded with Sue Ellen to quit. As this was something he didn’t feel like discussing in front of his whole family. “Maybe to you it is, but for me it still hurts,” Sue Ellen tried to hold back tears. “I mean no matter how hard I’ve tried I don’t think I’ll ever be able to erase the image of you and Holly Harwood from my mind.”“I’ve said I’m sorry about that, which is more than you’ve ever done,” JR’s patience finally snapped and he lashed out at her. “I have feelings too Sue Ellen. Do you think I liked watching you carrying on with that cowboy?” Clayton raised an eyebrow and was just about to jump in to Dusty’s defense. But he didn’t get a chance to before JR went on. “Or how you used Cliff Barnes to try to make me jealous?” Sue Ellen shifted uncomfortably in her chair as she could feel Miss Ellie giving her a disapproving look. “Not to mention John Ross’ camp counselor. I mean the boy was still in college for crying out loud!” JR said provocatively.John Ross looked like he was about to get sick as it suddenly dawned on him that his mother might have slept with Peter Richards. “Mama…” John Ross tried to seek out his mother’s eyes in search for the truth.But his mother avoided his gaze and the subject as she simply said, “Oh I’d be glad to meet Melissa on Saturday.”However John Ross just couldn’t forget or cope with what he’d just heard. “Good, so now can I be excused?”“Sure,” Clayton replied.“But John Ross you’ve barely eaten a thing, aren’t you hungry?” Sue Ellen asked.“No, I’ve suddenly lost my appetite,” John Ross said, as he glared angrily at his parents.“John Ross are you ok?”  Miss Ellie asked in a concerned voice.“No, not anymore,” John Ross said, as he left the table and rushed upstairs, before anyone could see the tears threatening to fall from his eyes.“Thanks JR. Now you’ve managed to turn my son against me,” Sue Ellen said.“No darling, you did that all by yourself. You never should have gotten involved with that boy.”“No what I never should have done was coming back here. You haven’t changed one bit.  It’s at times like this I wish I would have stayed in England.”Her words finally had the desired effect as JR realized just how close he was to lose Sue Ellen again. Not wanting that to happen he hurried to apologize, “I’m sorry darling. I didn’t mean to tell John Ross about you and that boy, it just slipped out because you brought up those women…”“Well I guess I shouldn’t have mentioned them in front of everyone…” Sue Ellen suddenly realized just how much she and JR had embarrassed themselves this evening.“Damn right,” JR agreed and there was an uncomfortable silence for a moment before he continued. “Sue Ellen, please don’t go just yet. I want you to stay until the end of the summer, as planned,” JR pleaded with Sue Ellen.Although a part of her wanted nothing more than to get away from him immediately. A part of her knew that if she left now there was a huge risk she’d never be able to repair her relationship with her son. So knowing that she needed to patch things up with her son before she could leave Sue Ellen nodded in defeat. “Alright I’ll stay a little longer.”“Thanks you won’t regret it” JR said when Mitch came down the stairs, after taking a phone call on the room.“Hey what’s happened to John Ross?” Mitch asked. “I just met him in the stairs and he looked ill.” “Well I can tell you why John Ross is feeling ill. He’s got JR & Sue Ellen as parents, that’s why!” Lucy said, as Mitch sat down next to her.“LUCY!” Miss Ellie said in a scolding voice.“I’m sorry grandma. But I’m just stating the obvious here,” Lucy said.  “I think I’ll better go after him. May I?” Christopher asked.“Sure you just run along,” Clayton said. Christopher got up and left the table too. Once he’d left the room got silent. The tension was so thick that it could be cut with a knife.In an attempt to lighten up the mood Donna said, “Margaret, aren’t you forgetting about something today?”“Oh that’s right, my politic information! Thanks mom,” Margaret said and got up from her chair and started to talk. “Today I’m gonna talk a little about Martin Luther King who was fighting for equal rights already in the 1960s…” Margaret started to retell the facts. Mitch who couldn’t stand listening to Margaret’s lecture leaned over to his wife, “Lucy, how about taking a walk?”Unfortunately Lucy was not able to answer before Margaret objected, “No you can go walking later. Now I want you all to listen to me…because I will tell you all about Martin Luther King. He was a man of the people who…” Margaret continued to talk and Mitch sighed heavily as this so wasn’t the way he wanted to spend his evening.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?