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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karin" data-source="post: 83477" data-attributes="member: 57167">Thank you everyone for the feedback. I've really enjoyed reading all of your comments and discussion.:thank:[USER=24]@Presea[/USER] I love how you refer to him as Don Dorkwood. :lolo:I think Sue Ellen is confused about JR. She doesn't want to love him and she doesn't want to get back together with him because it ended so badly the last time and she's afraid it will just be the same damn thing all over again and yet she still loves him. She has loved him since she was about 20 years old which is more than half her life. I think their first marriage lasted 10 years and the second one 6 years. So all together she has been married to JR for 16 years. So considering how many years she was a part of the Ewing family and that her son is a Ewing, it's not so strange that she still thinks of herself as part of their family even though she and JR has been divorced for 7 years now. I agree that Pam should tell Bobby the truth about Richard!Yeah the photos are from "Lovejoy", hilarious about the knitting comment! :rlol:[USER=36]@Miss Texas 1967[/USER] thank you for explaining the plots in the "Lovejoy" episodes. I have actually not watched this yet so it makes a bit more sense to me now. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />[USER=312]@Ms Southworth[/USER] I'm really glad that you've begun re-reading the story now. I hope you will enjoy it as much the second time around. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />It's great that you are picking up on new things. However you've got yourself confused, as it wasn't Roy Ralston who interviewed Cliff and Don. It was a young female reporter named Emma. It was however Roy Ralston who called Southfork at the end of the last episode asking for a new interview with JR and being told off by Miss Ellie. So maybe that's why you got it mixed up? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Yeah the doctor's appointment is a bit weird. But Pam has been going to regular check ups while in LA. So maybe that makes her question it less. I totally agree with you about Sue Ellen's feelings for JR and how she has an inner conflict about him due to their history. Also yeah Sue Ellen enjoys belonging to the Ewing family. In some ways they are the only family she's got. Except for Patricia that is. Of course there was Kristin but she's been dead for years and Sue Ellen's dad has been dead for many years too. [USER=6]@Sarah[/USER] I'm delighted to hear that you're hooked on this story. I hope you'll enjoy reading it from the beginning. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Anyway it's time for an update: Sue Ellen was tossing and turning in her bed as she tried to escape the nightmare she was having. Then she finally woke up in a cold sweat. Her body ached and she felt exhausted after a restless night. She sat up and looked at the white wallpaper with pink flowers to the window with the pink curtains, where the sunlight already streamed in. She finally took a look at the alarm clock which showed at 9.35. Oh no I’ve overslept. Sue Ellen pulled the hair away from her face as she tried to make sense of it all. Then the memories from last night washed over her and she finally realized that it wasn’t just a bad dream. A part of it was true. Oh no I really asked Don for a divorce and I kissed JR. Why the hell did I do that for? Sue Ellen sighed, as she remembered crying herself to sleep last night. Thinking about how her marriage was really coming to an end after only four years Sue Ellen could feel the tears burn behind her eyelids. Feeling tired, hurt, bitter and confused Sue Ellen couldn’t hold back the tears. So she cried silently. She wasn’t sure how long she’d been crying when a knock on the door suddenly brought her out of her misery.“Yes?” Sue Ellen asked, as a small smile graced her lips. She just knew that this proved Don wrong. When he’d told her last night that the Ewings were never on her side he didn’t know what he was talking about. Because someone obviously cared about her, she was not alone. “Sue Ellen, it’s me. Can I come in?”Hearing his voice Sue Ellen froze, since out of all of the Ewings she couldn’t help but wishing that it would have been someone else instead. Yet a part of her always knew that in his own way JR had always loved her. It was that part of her that really didn’t feel strong enough to face him. She knew that she needed to keep her distance from him and that the smart thing to do would be to ask him to go away and leave her alone. But still she couldn’t find it in her heart to do so. “Sure just give me a moment!” Sue Ellen called back. She then hurried to wipe the tears away from her cheeks and pulled on a robe over her nightgown. She tied the robe tightly around her waist before she turned around just in time to see JR enter the room carrying a breakfast tray.JR almost had to catch his breath when he first saw her. Sue Ellen was wearing a green nightgown and robe, one which was always one of his favorites on her. Her blonde hair was an uncombed mess and she was not wearing any make up. Yet he couldn’t remember a time when she’d looked more beautiful to him. “Good morning,” he greeted her.                      “Good morning JR,” Sue Ellen smiled.                      “I thought you’d want some breakfast,” JR said.                      “Thanks, you thought right,” Sue Ellen replied. JR then put down the breakfast tray on her bed. Sue Ellen sat down as he went to close the door. For a moment she wondered if he was about to leave her alone. Not wanting to eat alone she called out to him. “You’re welcome to join me, if you have time!”                      “Thanks I think I’ll do that,” JR closed the door, before he walked up to her bed and sat down on the other side of it, so that the breakfast tray was standing between them. Sue Ellen then started eating her breakfast and an uncomfortable silence lingered between them for a moment before JR was the first to break the ice. “Sue Ellen, we need to talk.”“I know,” Sue Ellen sighed. “JR I…”“No before you say another word, I just want to apologize to you.”Sue Ellen raised her eyebrows in surprise, “Apologize?”“Yeah I know breakfast in bed is not a lot but I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me?”“Forgive you for what?”“For last night, I never should have kissed you like that. It was wrong of me and I really hope it didn’t cause any trouble between you and Don,” JR said in a way that made Sue Ellen smirk. Because she knew him well enough to know that he wasn’t sorry at all. Yet two could play this game.“Apology accepted and no I was able to straighten things out with Don. So no worries…”“You worked things out with Don?” JR asked surprised.“Oh yeah he asked me to go with him to New York for a second honeymoon,” Sue Ellen replied sweetly, as she enjoyed seeing JR squirm. It was obvious from the look of his face that he didn’t like that idea at all.  “Oh, he did, did he?”“Yes, does it bother you?”“No why should it?”“Oh I don’t know. I was just under the impression that you’re jealous of my marriage with Don!”“Me jealous of that clown?” JR snorted. “Don’t be ridiculous!”“I’m not ridiculous, but you were last night, the way you fought with Don over me…”“I didn’t. He hit me, not the other way around. I never laid a hand on that Englishman.”“No but that doesn’t mean that you didn’t want to.”“Well I can’t exactly say that I like the guy,” JR sighed. “Still he is your husband and I respect that.”“Really is that why you kissed me?”“Sue Ellen, I thought we’d decided not to talk any more about that. I mean it was nice and all, but we both know it was a mistake,” JR said in a way that made Sue Ellen confused. Since last night she could have sworn that JR wanted her back, yet he didn’t push the issue at all this morning.“I guess,” Sue Ellen shrugged her shoulders, not sure what else to say, since this just wasn’t how she’d imagined their talk last night, because in her head she’d been the one rejecting him while he’d tried to pursue her until she gave in. So now when he was backing down she wasn’t sure whether to feel relieved or disappointed. “So when are you leaving?” JR kept surprising her. “Excuse me?”     “You said Don wanted you to go to New York with him…” JR reminded her.“Oh that, I’ve decided not to go…” Sue Ellen said as casually as she could.“Really?” JR couldn’t help but smile, before he snatched a sausage from her plate and started chewing on it. “Any particular reason why?”“Oh no reason, I just thought I’d spend some more time with John Ross, that’s all…”“Okay so your decision has nothing to do with Don then?”“What are you getting at?”“Nothing really, it’s just that I was under the impression that you and Don had a fight last night…”“We did,” Sue Ellen finally admitted.“How bad was it?”“Really bad, I asked him for a divorce!” Sue Ellen confessed. She didn’t particularly want him to know that, yet now when her decision had been made it was only a matter of time until he’d find out anyway. So she might just as well be the one to tell him.   “I’m sorry to hear that!”“No you’re not,” Sue Ellen replied. “I know you JR and I know that this news pleases you…”“Alright you’re right, I’m glad that you are divorcing him. But you’re wrong about something…”                      “What’s that?”“I really am sorry for you. I know we’ve had our differences you and I. But you are John Ross mama and I really don’t wanna see you get hurt.”“Thanks, I think you really mean that…”“I do…” JR said sincerely. “Oh and one more thing, I want you to know that you are welcome to stay here at Southfork as long as you’d like to. I think I speak for all of us when I say that we’re happy to have you around.”“Thanks JR, I appreciate that,” Sue Ellen said.“So you’ll stay with us?”“Yes I’ll stay for now!” Sue Ellen smiled, as she reached over and squeezed his hand. After all the shit that had gone down last night, she was feeling grateful to him. He could have caused a scene this morning, or tried to pick up where they had left off. But he had done neither of those things. Instead he had shown genuine concern for her and offered her a place to stay when she needed it the most and she really appreciated that.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?