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Photographer in the Park	By : NutsAboutHarry Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > Joshua Bell Views: 1770 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not know Joshua Bell (Do you think I'd be writing fan fic about him if I did?) the following story is TOTAL FICTION the prouct of my extraordinarily overactive imagination. No profit of any kind is made from the writing and publishing of this story!

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Two days later Lisa had a day off from teaching at Julliard and picked up her sons from school and kindergarten as soon as the bell rang. First Josef then Ben and Sam ran out to meet her.
‘Mommy!’ The twins shrilled racing out of their kindergarten classroom dragging their Wiggles bags.
‘Pick your bags up Daddy only just got them for you’ Lisa scolded her youngest crouching down to hug them ‘had a good day?’
‘Uh huh we made play doh an’ drawed and and did finger paintin’ and had storytellin’’ Sam said brightly.
‘Miss Melanie wread the hungrwy caterpillar’ Ben said ‘it’s my favourite’
‘You say that every week with whatever story Miss Melanie reads’ Lisa said with a laugh scooping her son up ‘c’mon let’s head home for a snack huh?’
‘Yeaaaaaaaah!’
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After dinner Josef approached his mother who was sitting in a rocking chair reading a book
‘Mommy?’
‘Yeah honey?’
‘Can you put the math and spellin’ game Loo Boo gave me on your pooter? I wanna play before I go to bed’
‘Okay you got get the flash drive and I’ll go get my laptop. But only one game, then its bedtime okay?’
‘Okay!’
Josef raced upstairs and Lisa walked down the hall to the third bedroom she utilised as an office/music room and retrieved her laptop. She set it up on the dining table then went into the kitchen to make herself a Bourbon on the rocks.
‘Mommy?’ Josef called.
‘In the kitchen honey, you stick the flash drive in that little hole by the CD tray alright? You know like I’ve showed you before?’
‘Uh huh’
Exhausted from an intensive gym session that afternoon then a separate run around Central Park. Lisa downed two Bourbons then poured herself another and began making her way back to the dining table.
‘Mommy?’ Josef’s called in a confused voice.
‘Yeah honey?’
‘Um why are there pictured of Loo Boo and Daddy on the compooter?’
‘Sorry honey?’
Josef turned around in his chair. Lisa’s laptop stood in front of him on the table and on the screen was an extremely racy photo of Louisa wearing nothing but one of Josh’s tuxedo dress shirts tied tightly around her torso so her generous bust was squeezed together and a lacy and very brief pair of black knickers her long red hair in a messy updo and Josh bind her obviously having just exited a shower the towel around his hips tied so low the very top of his carefully manicured pubic hair was visible. His arms were wrapped around her waist and he was winking at the camera.
Lisa was so shocked at the rampant sexuality of the photos she just stood staring open mouthed at the computer screen til Josef brought her out of her reverie.
‘Mommy? There’s no spellin’ and math game only pictures of Daddy and Loo boo with not many clothes on’
‘Josef go and play with your brothers in the lounge room let me try and find your game alright?’ Lisa said in a sudden firm no nonsense voice ‘understand me? Straight away’
‘Okay Mommy will I be able to have a game before bed time?’
‘I don’t know honey I’ll try and find it you be good and play with your brothers now’
Josef made his way back into the lounge room and Lisa sat in front of her computer wave after wave of jealous hatred coursing through her solid frame.
‘You fucking whore’ she hissed under her breath a monstrous molten pool of jealousy heating her face ‘how dare you do this presenting my son with porn? I’ll fucking have your fat ass bitch!’
Josh and Lisa had met at college well over twenty years previously and right from the start had enjoyed a somewhat tempestuous relationship. They had fallen in love hard, fought hard and in their late teens and early twenties drunk hard. Even the conception of their three sons had occurred after a night of ‘trying to tell the difference between Russian and Swedish vodka’ for Josef and ‘I bet I can drink more tequila without resorting to using my hands to lift the glass’ drinking game for the twins. They never once had the romanticism and intimacy between them that Josh and Louisa exuded in the pictures she was looking at. And the regret at dumping Josh the way she had without a second thought to how it would affect her life washed over her. Josh had been quite the playboy in the four years between when they had broken up and when Josef was conceived and he seemed to attend all sorts of industry functions with a different girl on his arm each time and save for the time they were together when their boys were young she consciously thought that would continue when she ended their relationship over twelve months previously. Her relationship with James was much the same and in the back of her mind Lisa always thought if they ever broke up (and that was getting more and more likely these past few weeks) she and Josh would always get back together and resume their tumultuous partnership. But that fantasy came crashing down around her a month ago when the pair informed her they were engaged. It was then that she knew she and Josh were no longer a possibility and the stark size of Louisa’s engagement ring was the final nail in the coffin to her.
In the month since Josh and Louisa had announced their engagement Lisa’s feeling and demeanour had started to change toward the father of her babies and she has started to accept that the woman younger than her youngest sister Antonia was going to be part of her life and her sons life as much as she didn’t like it. But all the old feelings toward Louisa resurfaced and seeing her ex and his fiancée in barely more than was considered decent made her see a rancid shade of red.
‘It’s on bitch it’s on’ she whispered under her breath
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After putting her sons to bed Lisa poured herself another bourbon on the rocks and resumed looking through the dozens and dozens of photos on the flash drive. She smiled at each one that involved her sons inwardly admiring Louisa’s skill with the camera to capture that moment then scowling at the next intimate shot of her and Josh. The more she drank the drunker she got and the more skewed her perception of reality became. She transferred every photo onto her laptop then categorized them into two folders she labelled ‘Normal’ and ‘Porno Pics’. Due to the volume of pictures it took well over three hours to do this and shortly before midnight pissed as a newt Lisa sat back in her chair her backside a little numb from sitting down so long.
It was during this moment of rest when a fantastic idea hit her.
‘That’ll show them’
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The following evening while her boys were at her parents her partner James Masterson a fellow violinist from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra came over for a ‘visit’
‘Hey sexy legs’ he said greeting her with a heated kiss and a cheeky smack on the backside ‘what’s doing?’
Lisa grinned.
‘I’ve had the best twenty four hours’ she said every one of her pearly white teeth showing ‘come and have a look at this. I’ve stumbled upon a goldmine!’
James followed her through to the dining area where her laptop was set up.
‘Oh yeah and what defines a goldmine?’ he asked in interest as Lisa turned her laptop on.
‘You’ll see’
When her computer was fully turned on Lisa opened up the ‘My Pictures’ folder in the start menu and clicked on the ‘Porn Pics’
‘Porn pics?’ James said in amusement ‘I didn’t think you were the porn pics type you always prefer-‘
‘Yeah we can discuss that later’ Lisa said cutting him off ‘watch this’
Lisa double clicked on ‘View in a slideshow’ and sat back. James looked at the screen and immediately his jaw fell open as pictures of the most gorgeous red headed woman wearing nothing more than a pair of lacy black knickers and a tuxedo shirt tied creatively around her lithe body popped up.
‘You’re into women? Wow have I been barking up the wrong tree’
‘Shut up and watch and no I am not into women’
James turned his attention back to the laptop screen at the exactly moment a black and white photograph of Joshua Bell Lisa’s ex and the father of her sons wearing nothing but a towel tied very low around his hips emerge out of what appeared to be a pool area. The older man was in perfect physical shape. His biceps bulged and he had a set of abs he was sure the percussionist of the New Jersey Symphony could play a tune on The light hit his body at the right moment and a barely discernable outline of the violinists ‘package’ was visible though the saturated material of the towel.
‘Jesus Christ is that your ex?’ he asked incredulously as the next photo of Josh and this mystery woman ‘how did you get these pics? Are they photoshopped?’
‘Nope they’re not photoshopped and I got them from the photographer herself’ Lisa said gleefully ‘well not directly she gave Josef this flash drive thinking it had a spelling and math game on it for him. He stuck it in the port last night and these pictures came up. I can use these’
James’s eyes widened as a photo of the mystery woman facing back to the camera with nothing but a pair of black lace knickers on flashed up on the screen.
‘Jesus she’s gorgeous’ he said without thinking ‘who is she?’
Lisa shot him a murderous look.
‘That’ she spat ‘is Louisa Riminton Josh’s finance’
‘Bell pulled that? Holy shit’
‘Stupid cow, you know these pictures were taken while the boys were in their house? This is porn Jamie! I can get full custody of the kids with this sort of ammunition. I’m not having them exposed to this sort of shit’
‘Li I hardly think they took the photos in front of the boys’ James said as the slideshow ended.
‘That’s beside the point’
‘And why would you want to take Bell’s kids away from him anyway?’ My brother’s ex did that with his three girls and he hasn’t seen them for five years and it’s fucked him up in the head. No man deserves that’
‘Yeah but that wasn’t because of three gig of hard porn was it?’
‘Oh come on Lisa this is not hard porn. It’s not even soft porn. Hugh Hefner wouldn’t even consider looking at these. Hard porn is something you get in a dodgy sex shop in Harlem this is rather artistic when you overlook the boob and junk illusion’
‘I didn’t show you these pictures to have you admire them a little support here would be nice!’ Lisa snapped ‘you’re supposed to be on my side’
‘The side of what Li? What war are you fighting? I thought you and Bell got on for the sake of your kids’
‘We have until these pictures’
‘Does he know you have these?’
Lisa snorted derisively.
‘No’ she said with a mirthless laugh ‘he will soon though’
‘Oh and why’s that?’
‘I sold that picture of him and that bitch kneeling on the bed to TMZ for fifty thousand bucks’
James’s eyes fell out of his head.
‘You did what?’ he yelped.
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Two days later during a day off from their respective workplaces both Josh and Louisa were awoken from a post coital sleep by the gate intercom buzzing the alarm.
‘H-hello?’ Louisa mumbled pressing the ‘talk’ button as Josh snuggled into her side.
‘Ma’am my name is Sergeant Tim Reagan from the Long Island Police department I need to speak to a Mr Joshua Bell and Miss Louisa Riminton’ came a stern voice ‘are they there?’
‘Yeah the-we are’ Louisa said sleepily ‘god is it urgent? We were asleep’
‘It is ma’am’
‘Alright give us a few minutes to wake up and get decent and I’ll buzz you in’ Louisa said with a yawn ‘won’t be long’
‘Thank you ma’am’
Louisa sat up and shoved Josh in the side.
‘J wake up’ she said elbowing him.
‘Mmmph go away I can’t go again’ Josh mumbled his face partly obscured by the pillow.
‘Josh I don’t want to fuck, you need to get up there’s a cop from the Long Island Police Department at the front gate and he wants to talk to us’ Louisa said kicking Josh under the covers ‘both of us’
‘What for?’ Josh mumbled opening an eye.
‘I dunno just get up will ya? He sounded pissed off’
Louisa put on a pair of satin pyjamas and Josh pulled on a pair of shorts and t-shirt and they padded their way downstairs where Louisa buzzed the intercom cop in.
‘Thankyou ma’am’ he said upon accepting their wordless invitation to enter the house ‘as I said before I’m Sergeant Tim Reagan this is my colleague Officer Jack Pollock we’re from the Long Island police department, hope we haven’t interrupted anything’
‘No just a much needed slumber’ Josh said mildly but with a definite edge to his voice ‘what can we do for you?’
Sergeant Reagan opened the folder he was carrying and pulled out two documents of three A4 pieces of paper each.
‘I’m here under the solemn duty to serve you with these restraining orders. Mr Bell this one is for you, Miss Riminton this one is for you’
‘A restraining order?’ Josh yelped incredulously the level of his consciousness increasing rapidly ‘who from against who why?’
Louisa had remained silent as she started to read her order.
‘As it says there in the document Sir you and Miss Riminton have the same papers. You are requited to stay at least five hundred yards away from a Miss Lisa Matr-‘
‘She included the kids in this?’ Louisa exclaimed incredulously ‘why?’
‘She’s done what?’ Josh bellowed ruffling through the document to where the names of Josef, Ben and Sam were listed along with Lisa’s as ‘applicants’ ‘Why? I’m their father!’
‘Sir I am only here to deliver the document and explain to you and Miss Riminton the terms of the order’ Sgt Reagan said ‘may I continue?’
This question was met by a stony silence.
‘As I was saying you Joshua David Bell and Louisa Anne Riminton are to stay a minimum distance of five hundred yards away from Lisa Matricardi, Josef Matricardi Bell, Benjamin Matricardi Bell and Samuel Matricardi Bell. This includes their place of residence, employment, educational institutions, places of worship and venues of amusement. No contact also means by email, fax, text or hardcopy letter. Should you violate the terms of this order you shall be arrested and brought in front of a judge to answer the charges. Do you understand these terms?’
‘This is bullshit’ Josh swore.
‘Sir do you understand these terms?’
Josh shot the Sergeant a murderous look.
‘Yes’ he hissed.
‘And Ma’am do you understand the terms of your order’
Louisa put an arm around Josh’s shoulders.
‘I do’ she said ‘although I do think a restraining order is over the top I mean what the hell are we supposed to have done?’
‘Ma’am as I said I am only here to serve the papers. I would advise you to obtain the services of an attorney to guide you through this time. I’m sure you can find an appropriate one through the Law Society’
‘Is that all?’ Josh spat going to the door and yanking it open.
‘Yes sir’
‘Well then get the hell out of my house’
As soon as the officers left Josh aimed a kick at a rack of CD’s. The rack fell over and the two dozen CD’s in it fell over the floor scaring Cookie who took off down the hall his thin tail held aloft in alarm.
‘FUCK!’ he bellowed.
‘Josh calm down’ Louisa said.
‘Jesus Christ Louie Lisa’s stopped me from seeing my kids!’ Josh swore ‘I wanna know why!’
‘Do not ring her phone contact is part of the order’ Louisa said yanking his hand away from the house phone ‘you ring her now and she will get the cops onto you. Do you want to spend the night in the slammer?’
‘But Louie she’s saying I can’t see the boys!’
‘Do you want to spend the night in the slammer?’
‘Of course not don’t be stupid’
‘Then ring your lawyer, you need a lawyer Josh don’t go and do anything stupid you might regret’
‘He’s in fucking London’ Josh swore ‘remember last week I said he’s got some Oxford University old scholars reunion?’
‘I don’t recall but anyway that’s by the bye I’m sure there’s another lawyer at his firm that can deal with this sort of case’
‘How about Charlotte?’ Josh said suddenly.
‘Charlotte who?’ Louisa asked distractedly reading the terms of her restraining order.
‘Josh rolled his eyed with barely contained sarcasm.
‘Preston’ he snapped ‘Groban’s girl she’s a lawyer isn’t she? She’s one of the best in the business. These days she’s more in the news for being a hot shot lawyer than Groban’s fiancée she got that guy that had been on death row for fifteen years released from jail because he was convicted wrongly’
‘Yeah but J Charlie’s a criminal law attorney she hasn’t done a family law case since just after she came to the states’
‘Would she do it if I paid her a handsome retainer?’
‘I’m sure she would J but-‘
‘No buts’ Josh said a worried expression drifting across his face ‘Louie please do this for me can you ring her and tell her I will pay double her hourly fee and all associated costs if she comes up here’
‘Are you really sure J?’ Louisa asked softly laying a hand on his arm ‘it could get expensive’
‘I know that and I don’t care those boys mean the world to me Sweetheart and I will pay what I have to, to stop this horse shit. Ring Charlotte and tell her what she wants to charge I’ll pay her no limits it’s open season. I am not letting Lisa do this to me. You ring Charlotte and I’m going to ring Mom and TJ. TJ is a child rights lawyer she’ll be able to give me some advice’
Louisa dropped a kiss on his lips.
‘I’ll go upstairs to the office’ she said ‘give me your papers and I’ll file them for you. And don’t go ringing Lisa, Maria, Angelo or anyone promise me?’
‘Don’t worry babe I’m not doing anything to get my ass in trouble any time soon’
‘Good’
Josh headed to the kitchen and picked up the house phone then Louisa headed upstairs to the the office she and Josh shared. She sat down at her enormous redwood desk turned on her computer than rang Charlotte’s work number on her iPhone it rang several times before the line picked up.
‘Good morning Pillson and George attorneys at law this is Margaret how may I help you?’
‘Hi may I please speak to Charlotte Preston?’ Louisa asked ‘it’s of extreme importance’
‘Of course ma’am can I take your name?’
‘Louisa Riminton we’re old university friends’
‘Well if you’ll just hold Louisa I’ll put you right through’ Margaret said cheerfully ‘won’t be a moment’
‘Thanks’
Margaret put Louisa on hold and a feed of the local radio station ‘KLFM The greatest hits all day every day’ was piped down the line. Louisa leant back in her chair kicked off her slippers and put her feet up on the desk as she listened to the Dixie Chicks hit ‘Not Ready to Make Nice’
‘You’re not kidding I’m not ready to make nice’ Louisa mumbled.
‘Louie what’s up?’ Charlotte’s concerned voice a moment later breaking Louisa out of her reverie that currently involved her thinking up ways of injuring Lisa.
‘I have a job for you’ Louisa said ‘on behalf of Josh’
‘Oh tell me more’ Charlotte said in interest.
‘Ten minutes ago Josh and I had restraining orders served on us by the Long Island Police Department’
‘Excuse me?’ Charlotte yelped ‘why? Who’s the applicant?’
‘Lisa and Josef, Sam and Ben’
‘Why would Lisa take an AVO (This stands for Apprehended Violence Order what restraining orders are called in Australia) against Josh?’ Charlotte asked ‘And against you? Jesus you nursed her kids through chicken pox!’
‘Yeah well according to this order we have to stay five hundred yards away from her and the kids. This includes a place of employment, school wherever they go to amuse themselves etcetera.
‘I want to see this order for myself’ Charlotte said ‘do you have my private office fax number?’
‘Yeah’
‘Fax it through me’ Charlotte said immediately ‘I want to read this document. Was it served on you by a uniformed police officer?’
‘Yeah a Sergeant Tim Reagan and Officer Jack Pollock’ Louisa said taking apart the document and feeding the pages into her fax machine ‘they showed us their badges and photo I.D as well’
‘Well at least they did it by the book’ Charlotte said begrudgingly ‘what do you want me to do?’
‘Josh wants to go to court to get access to his kids’ Louisa said punching in Charlotte’s fax number and hitting ‘send’
‘Jeez Louie I’m not a family law practitioner’ Charlotte said ‘I haven’t done a custody case for five years’
‘Would you do it for me and Josh?’ Louisa pleaded ‘you should’ve seen the look on his face when the cops left Charlie he’s devastated. He specifically asked for you you know’
‘He did?’
‘Yeah he reckons if you can get a convicted murderer off death row you can get his kids back'
‘Did you tell him I haven’t done a child custody case in five years?’
‘Yeah but he doesn’t care’ Louisa said as the last page of her AVO went through ‘he said to me ‘tell Charlotte I’ll pay her and whoever she wants to bring in on the case twice their normal fee’
‘He could spend a hundred thousand bucks a week’ Charlotte said ‘my normal fee is two and a half grand and hour as is George and Jules'. BJ who I would bring into this charges four and a half’
‘Please Charlie we’d rather someone we know well take this case than someone we don’t Louisa pleaded ‘please take it on’
‘Aw alright but only because you’re two of my fastest friends’ Charlotte said ‘I might have to dig out my family law journals again I so rarely touch the moths fly out the pages when I open them. I’ll try my damndest to win this one for you but you know as with any case can’t guarantee a good outcome don’t you?’
‘I know that but I know you’re one of the best’ Louisa said ‘will you be able to find out why Lisa has served the restraining orders on us?’
‘Oh yeah sure not problem that I can find out by the end of the day’ Charlotte said confidently ‘Ah the order has come through’
‘Mine is exactly the same as Josh’s Louisa said ‘word for word’
‘Do you have any idea why Lisa would slap this order on you?’ Charlotte asked.
‘I haven’t a clue’ Louisa said ‘as I said to you when I was down in L.A for the World Records show I thought she was starting to be okay with me and Josh. She actually congratulated me. This is totally out of the blue. On Sunday I gave her two dozen portrait pictures. I had a camera at hand for the whole week. I sent several pictures off to Josh’s family too’
‘Hmm’ Charlotte said in a tone that indicated she was reading the document ‘did you take any of Josh?’
‘Yeah several most with his boys but a lot in a more....adult setting’
‘Naked ones?’
‘Not totally naked but leaving very little to the imagination’ Louisa said ‘why?’
‘Could Lisa have gotten hold of these pictures?’
‘No, not that I’m aware of anyway’ Louisa said.
‘Are you totally sure?’
‘Course I am I put the naughty pictures on my laptop. And some of the more lascivious ones on my iPhone’
‘Hmm alright you’ve given me a couple of avenues to explore’ Charlotte said ‘I’ll bring BJ my colleague in on this and consult with George and Jules those three are family Law experts. I’ll do a bit of preliminary investigating and ring you back by the close of business in L.A alright?’
‘Thanks loads Charlie I owe you big time seriously anytime you need services of an Equine orthopaedic surgeon give me a call and I’ll swing you a freebie’ Louisa said ‘this means the world to me and it will to Josh I’m sure’
‘No worries chicky now get off so I start working for ya’ Charlotte said ‘BJ and I will do our stuff and see if we can organise a court date within a fortnight or at the very least a mediation session. Don’t worry we’ve got this’
‘Thanks Charlie you’re the shit’
‘Thanks Louie’
Louisa hung up filed her and Josh’s restraining order papers then returned downstairs to find Josh tears streaming down his devastated face.
‘I don’t know why she’s doing this Mom I have no idea!’ he cried his shoulders shuddering with every breath ‘I’ve tried ringing her parents but they’re not picking up’
Louisa slung her arms around Josh’s and gave him a squeeze.
‘Yeah Louie’s here do you want to talk to her? Alright Mom I promise I love you too bye’
Josh swiped at his eyes and gave the phone handset to Louisa.
‘I’m going to lay down’ he said dropping a half hearted kiss on her lips ‘see you soon’
‘Hey....’ Louisa said as he began walking off.
‘Hmm?’
‘I love you J’
‘Love you too babe’
Josh disappeared upstairs and Louisa made her way into the lounge where she flopped down onto the lounge.
‘Shirley?’ she said with a long drawn out sigh.
‘I’m here honey with TJ on the other line’ Shirley said softly.
‘Hey Louie how you holding up chick?’ TJ asked.
‘Excuse the French but fucking awful’ Louisa said curling up in a ball as Cookie leapt up on the couch and padded along til he came to her bust and snuggled himself up against her ‘this has really hit us for six. Have either of you tried to ring Lisa?’
‘Yeah and none of us can get through to her’ TJ said ‘it’s going through to voicemail or she’s hanging up on us’
‘She’s hiding something’ Shirley said angrily ‘she has to be’
‘Or she could be just a total and utter bitch’ TJ said acidly ‘don’t sugar coat things Mom this is bullshit. She dumps Josh like she did in the middle of his tour cheats on him then now takes his kids away from him with absolutely so freaking explanation she’s lucky I’ve got a case on at the moment or I’d come up there and belt the shit out of her’
‘Please don’t do that’ Louisa said ‘it’d only upset Josh and you’d get disbarred don’t worry I’ve recruited two of the best attorneys in California to help and they’re of this minute building a case’
‘You didn’t go with a local attorney?’ TJ asked with professional interest.
‘No the lawyers Josh deals with are corporate business practitioners and Josh’s personal attorney is in the UK at a university reunion’ Louisa said ‘he asked me to ring my best friend Charlotte Preston who works out of Pillson and George in Culver City and she’s going to bring Bianca James in along too’
‘Oh I’ve heard of those two’ TJ said with an admiring tone.
‘Good are they?’ Shirley asked.
‘Mom they’re courtroom tigers’ TJ said ‘Charlotte is mainly known for practicing corporate law but recently has been doing criminal law. She recently got a first degree merger conviction lifted for a guy that had been on death row for fifteen years. And now on his behalf is leading the case to sue the Los Angeles district attorneys office and the LAPD you must’ve heard about it it’s been all over the papers. Jerry Castleton a street bum and heroin addict was put away for rape and kidnap of those three San Diego hookers seventeen years ago’
‘It rings a bell’
‘And Bianca James is a renowned divorce and family law practitioner’ TJ went on ‘she hasn’t lost a case in eight years. And she’s been known to drop a client if they turn out to be insufferable idiots or greedy. If anyone is going to screw Lisa around it’s Charlotte Preston and Bianca James J is in good hands’
‘Well that’s re-assuring’
‘Trust me Shirl even though Charlotte hasn’t practiced family law in several years she will get Josh a result’ Louisa said ‘She’s bringing BJ in to bring her up to speed on actually going to court if it gets that far. She’s aiming to go for a mediation session first. If that doesn’t work it’ll be court time’
‘God that’s going to kill Josh’ TJ said with a sigh ‘I wish I could come up but I have a really big case on at the moment’
‘We’ll be alright Teige we’ll let you know if we need someone up here’ Louisa said ‘thanks for the support thought but I think for the time being this is something Josh and I have to deal with on our own’
‘Alright darling but don’t let by little brother turn into a moping depressed mess he doesn’t need it’ TJ said ‘I haven’t heard him cry like that since he came home from the tour three months after Lisa left him and moved out of the loft with only a text notice. That time he got home and drank three pints of vodka in twelve hours. He needs company when something hard hits him. Don’t mollycoddle him just be there for a shoulder to cry on he’s going to need it’
‘Of course I’ll be there’ Louisa said absentmindedly scratching Cookie’s head.
‘I know doll well I have to go I have a client to see in ten minutes I’ll be back in touch alright? Let me know what’s happening I may not be your attorney but I can give you advice or explain certain aspects if you like’
‘Thanks TJ see ya’
TJ hung up and that just left Louisa and Shirley on the line.
‘I wish I could come up too honey but I have a week of essential lectures to give’ Shirley said in a strained voice ‘but know you or Josh can ring anytime alright? Josh is my only son and you are like a fourth daughter to me I want you to be able to come to me when you feel you need someone to talk to’
‘We’ll definitely do that Shirley most definitely. Can you after we’ve hung up ring Rachel and Terry and let them know what’s going on? I haven’t got the energy or inclination to ring anyone at the moment. I’ll ring through one Char or BJ have run through with the results of their preliminary investigations. Charlie said she’d ring back by the close of business in L.A’
Oh good that’s only a few hours away you should be able to find out what the hells going on by then’ Shirley said ‘I’ll let you go be with Josh ring as soon as you know anything okay?’
‘Will do Shirl thanks for the chat’ Louisa said ‘speak soon’ Bye’
‘Bye honey’
Louisa hung up then replacing the handset to it’s cradle in the kitchen before heading upstairs. Cookie streaked ahead of her and headed straight to the Master bedroom.. She arrived to find Josh curled up in the foetal position occasionally hiccupping tears wetting the pillow beneath his blotchy face. Cookie had leapt up on the bed and was not pressing his delicate paws into Josh’s chest.
‘Piss off cat’ he said with a watery murmur half heartedly pushing Cookie away.
Cookie ignored this.
‘You’re going to actually have to physically pick him up and drop him outside on the landing hallway floor if you want him to piss off you know’ Louisa said in amusement closing the door behind herself and making her way over to the bed where she climbed under the covers to join him.
‘Can’t be assed’ Josh mumbled despondently ‘what did you Mom and TJ chat about?’
‘Just stuff’ Louisa said and I told them all about the legal team that is now in L.A preparing a case for you’
‘Oh so Charlotte said yes to taking this case on?’ Josh asked with a momentary hopeful look upon his face.
‘Yeah and she’s going to bring Bianca James one of the top family law attorneys in California to help her since family law is not her first line of specialty’ Louisa relied brushing back his fringe ‘she said she’d word hard for us, for you’
‘Did you tell her I’m willing to pay double her retainer?’
‘Yeah and she says that’s not necessary’ Louisa said as Cookie curled himself up against Josh resting his head on his forearm and purring loudly ‘try and rest now I think you’re going to need it’
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Hours later after a not very restful sleep and a half arsed attempt at dinner Louisa’s iPhone rang and the caller I.D flashed ‘Charlotte’
‘Oh it’s Charlie’ Louisa said snatching her phone up ‘are you ready for this?’
‘Better do it I want to get whatever news she has out of the way’
Louisa pressed ‘answer’ and put the phone to her ear.
‘Charlie?’ she said ‘what’s up?’
‘Before I start get your laptop you’re going to need internet access’ Charlotte said.
‘I heard that I’ll go get yours’ Josh said ‘where is it?’
‘Office’
Josh took off and Louisa put her phone to her ear again.
‘Alright he’s left the room can you tell me anything?’ she asked.
‘I’d prefer to tell you what I’ve found out together’ Charlotte said ‘how’s your day been?’
‘Horribly inactive’ Louisa said ‘I took Mocha for a run a couple of hours ago but that’s all I’ve done to get out the house. J has been in bed all day’
‘I can empathise’ Charlotte said ‘Oh and BJ said she’s work with me on this case. We’ve been holed up in our offices all day working to get things moving. BJ reckons we can get a court date by the end of next week’
‘You’re aiming for a court date already?’ Louisa asked in surprise as Josh came belting down the stairs with Louisa’s laptop in his hands ‘I thought you were going to try for mediation first’
‘We were but after what you told me and what BJ and I have managed to find out since you rang we think it’s best to go straight to court’ Charlotte said.
‘Alright I’m going to put you on speaker so Josh can hear you alright?’ Louisa said ‘you cool with that?’
‘Yeah go ahead’
Louisa put her iPhone on the table and pressed ‘speaker’
‘Okay we can both hear you go ahead’ She said taking her laptop from Josh and turning it on.
‘Hey Josh how you doing darl?’ Charlotte asked.
‘Shit’ Josh said brusquely ‘what have you found out?’
‘Lots’ Charlotte said as Louisa connected to the internet ‘okay Louie go to the TMZ homepage’
‘What the hell has TMZ got to do with anything?’ Josh asked as Louisa typed in the URL.
‘You’ll see’
Seconds later the TMZ web page came up and Louisa scrolled down. Immediately an extraordinarily racy photo of Josh and Louisa posed kneeling on their bed wearing nothing but underpants and a tuxedo dress shirt appeared under the headline ‘WHO KNEW VIOLINISTS COULD BE THIS HOT?’ with the by line ‘World renown violinist Joshua Bell strips it off with hot red head’
‘How the fuck did they get THAT?’ Josh bellowed.
‘Oh my god!’ Louisa exclaimed ‘who the hell leaked it? And how the hell did they get the pictures? Can we sue?’
‘I’ll be able to tell you more once I find out who gave them the picture’ Charlotte said ‘BJ is onto her brother who’s a journalist at the L.A Times and he has contacts at the New York Times. We’ll be able to find out who did this guys I promise you’
‘I know who did it!’ Josh seethed ‘look at the article! Second paragraph down ‘A New York source’ Who the hell else could it have been Rudolph the Red Nosed Fucking Reindeer?’
‘Josh calm down getting worked up is not going to achieve anything’ Louisa said.
‘I will not calm down Louie! This is pure unadulterated BULLSHIT!’ Josh bellowed jumping up and beginning to pace around the room.
‘Joshua David bell calm down!’ Charlotte said suddenly and loudly down the line ‘you need to remain calm. I know why you’re feeling angry and violated at the moment remember my Josh went through a similar case twelve months ago. Sit down and take a deep breath I am not going to deal with you if you start acting like a petulant little boy’
‘I have reason to act like a petulant little boy my kids have been taken away from me by my ex who leaked what was supposed to be a very private photo of Louie and I’ Josh muttered.
‘I know you have reason to Josh but please calm down’ Charlotte said wearily ‘I can’t get things to go your way unless you work with me’
‘Yeah alright I’m sorry’ Josh said sheepishly ‘sorry’
‘That’s alright’
‘So where to from here?’ Louisa asked lacing her fingers through Josh’s and mouthing the words ‘I love you’
‘Well BJ and I are booked on the red-eye out of L.A tomorrow up to New York we need to sit down face to face and work out some stuff with you’ Charlotte said ‘we need to petition for a court hearing and serve Lisa with a court order to appear yadda yadda yadda’
‘You must stay with us when you arrive’ Josh said ‘I insist we’ll be able to get more done’
‘Thanks we’ll take you up on your offer’ Charlotte said ‘Look I better go I need to get back to the farm and pack to come up tomorrow don’t worry about picking us up we’ll taxi it in’
‘Alright Charlie thanks so much for taking the job’ Louisa said ‘it means a lot to me’
‘And me’ Josh added quickly ‘keep in touch I don’t care how late it gets’
‘Will do Josh see you tomorrow’
Charlotte hung up and Josh and Louisa were left sitting in silence.
‘This is out of control’ Josh groaned dropping his head into his hands.
Louisa scooted closer to him and put an arm around his neck.
‘You’ll be fine’ she whispered kissing his temple ‘Charlie and TJ are the best’
Josh rubbed his face.
‘I know they are’ he said with a defeated sigh ‘I never wanted it to get to this Sweetheart, I never wanted to take Lisa to court and put the boys through a custody battle but now she’s forced me to. I’m not letting her take my boys away from me no way in hell’
‘Don’t worry you’ll get through this’ Louisa said.
‘I hope so I just want to know how Lisa got hold of those photos’
‘So do I I don’t see how she could have unless-‘ Louisa said cutting herself off mid-sentence.
‘Unless what?’ Josh asked getting up and heading over to the liquor cabinet.
A sudden horrible realisation hit Louisa and she swallowed hard as the horrible sensation of an ice cube slid down her throat.
‘I think I know how Lisa got the photos’
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