Jimmy’s world is turned upside down when he discovers his daughter naked at his best friend’s house and discovers they are in love. He decides to take matters into his own hands in order to end her relationship, but things only get worse for the father-daughter pair. Jimmy pulled over at his best friend’s house and nearly slammed the car door as he got out. Henry hadn’t been himself in a while. He was devoting less and less time to work, acting strangely cold toward Jimmy, and avoiding work meetings at all costs.
“Morning, Jimmy!” Henry’s neighbor exclaimed as Jimmy approached his friend’s front yard. “Came to wake up your friend, huh? I bet you’d want to reconsider your decision!” “Ah, what’s with you early in the morning, Josh?” Jimmy paused. “Look, I’ve really got no time for this, OK?” “He came home around ten o’clock last night,” Josh winked as he paused his lawn mowing. “Saw him with a chick! Better not bother him now, yeah?” Jimmy laughed and shook his head. “Jesus, trust me, that’s what I was afraid of! He wasn’t taking my calls,” Jimmy laughed and shook his head. “Have a great day, Josh!
I’ll see you around!” Jimmy hurried up the steps to Henry’s front porch. He rang the doorbell but received no response. “Henry, it’s me, friend!” Jimmy exclaimed. There was no response. When Henry appeared at the front door, Jimmy was about to press the bell again. As he stared at Jimmy, his face turned pale. “Jimmy? Who—what’s up? How come you’re—I mean, what brings you here at this hour?” he stuttered, forcing a smile. “How about the other way around, mate? Where have you been lately?” Jimmy inquired, concerned. “You don’t respond to my messages, and you don’t show up to work very often; is everything all right?”
“Well, I’m just…” Henry was about to say something when he was interrupted by a female voice. “Babe, could you please double-check the shower cap? I was going to…” As he looked over his friend’s shoulder, Jimmy’s eyes widened in horror. Caroline screamed, “DAD?!” Jimmy couldn’t believe his daughter was standing in front of him, half-naked, at his best friend’s house. “Dad, wait!” Caroline pleaded, pulling her bathrobe closer to herself. “It’s not like what you think, alright? Henry and I—”But Jimmy snapped before Caroline could finish her sentence. He smacked Henry across the face with his collar.
“What the hell did you think you were doing, uh?!” he exclaimed. Jimmy pushed Henry to the ground and continued his assault. A fight broke out between the two friends as Henry defended himself. Caroline tried to talk her father out of hitting Henry, but Jimmy refused to listen. He shoved her back as she grabbed his arm to stop him, and a loud thud followed. “No, no! God no!” Jimmy exclaimed as he spun around in response to the loud noise. Caroline was unconscious on the floor behind him. “Caroline, honey, wake up!” Jimmy sobbed, kneeling beside her and holding her.
“Look what you did, Henry! If something happens to my daughter, I’ll kill you!” Henry dashed to the kitchen to get some water to splash on Caroline’s face, but Jimmy wouldn’t let him get too close. “Back off!” he yelled. “Don’t you dare touch my daughter!” Jimmy pulled out his phone and dialed 911 with shaky hands. “Honey, please stay with me, OK? Hello, yeah, I need an ambulance,” he sobbed to the operator on the other end of the phone. “Please hurry, my daughter’s life is at stake!” The paramedics arrived after what seemed like an eternity, and Caroline was rushed to the hospital.
Jimmy sat in the waiting area outside her hospital room, his face buried in his palms, while Henry paced anxiously outside the room. “Doctor! How is she doing?” Jimmy cried as a doctor entered Caroline’s room. “She’s conscious, but we’ll need to monitor her,” said the doctor. “Thankfully, she didn’t sustain any serious injuries; it was a concussion, and she was rushed here in time,” she said, shifting her gaze from Jimmy to Henry. “I need you to complete the formalities.” “Can I please go see her first?” Jimmy inquired. “Please, I’m her father.”
The doctor exhaled a sigh. “Of course, but please avoid anything that may stress the patient.” “Thank you, doctor,” Jimmy expressed gratitude. Jimmy’s eyes welled up as he walked into his daughter’s hospital room. Caroline lay in a hospital bed, surrounded by machines, her skin pale, an IV drip attached to her arm, and bandages covering her head. “Honey,” Jimmy said quietly. “How are you doing?” “I’m sorry, honey.” “Dad…” she wailed. “I’m fine. Where’s Henry?” “Oh, you shouldn’t be worried about him in the first place!” Jimmy said sternly, sitting beside her bed and holding her hands.
“Please, honey, get him out of your head! He’s the reason you’re here…in this state, and I’m sorry to see you like this.” Caroline made a shaky motion with her head. “Dad, you don’t understand,” she pointed out. “Henry and I have been together for five months! We love each other! He’s been the best person to me, Dad! I really, really love him. He’s sweet, caring, and all those things my ex-boyfriends were not!” “I don’t approve of it!” Jimmy said flatly, releasing her hands. “I promised your late mother I’d raise you well, Caroline, and she’d be so disappointed if she saw you like this!”
“And I don’t care about it, Dad,” she hissed, turning away from him. “You can’t order me around! My love for Henry is genuine, and we were planning to tell you about it soon; we were just waiting for the right time.” Jimmy shook his head in frustration as he asked, “Why don’t you get it, honey?” “He’s a lot older than you!” “Whatever you two are up to! I can’t believe Henry would do something like that behind my back!” Jimmy exclaimed, “Break up with him!” “I don’t want to see you two together ever again!” Caroline exclaimed as she closed her eyes. “Leave me alone, Dad! I don’t think I can talk to you any longer!”
“You can kick me out now, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stand by and watch you throw your life away for a man twice your age, Caroline!” As Jimmy walked out of Caroline’s room, he noticed Henry outside. Jimmy snarled as he approached Henry, “You are the root cause of it all!” “Get the hell out of my daughter’s life before I do something wrong, Henry!” “Listen, Jimmy, you’re taking this too far, okay? Caroline and I…” he sighed. “We adore each other, and I will do everything in my power to keep her happy.”
“$50,000,” Jimmy estimated. “More if you like, but leave her alone!” In disbelief, Henry scoffed. “You’re crazy!” he exclaimed. “Just shut up, Henry! Shut the hell up! You sleep with a girl half your age and call me crazy? Have you forgotten she’s my daughter?” Jimmy snapped. “She’s not a child, Jimmy! Calm down!” Henry screamed. “She’s 22, for God’s sake, Jimmy!” Henry exclaimed as he took a look around. “And she can decide for herself! I’m not leaving her for any amount you offer me! And who the hell are you to make decisions for her?”
Caroline’s room door clicked open at that precise moment. When Jimmy and Henry came to a halt in their argument, they noticed Caroline standing nearby. She had heard it all. “I hate you, Dad!” she exclaimed, tears streaming down her cheeks. “I hate you! Get out of here! I don’t want to see you again!” she slammed the door shut. “I won’t let you take my daughter away, Henry!” Jimmy snarled as he walked away. When Jimmy got home that afternoon, he couldn’t get the sight at Henry’s house out of his head. Caroline was completely naked in Henry’s bedroom!
Jimmy had no idea his best friend would do something like that. It grossed him out to the point where he wanted to puke. He needed to take action to get Henry out of Caroline’s life. And he had to do it right away. Jimmy pondered it, and then he remembered the woman Henry had broken up with years before—Stacey, Henry’s clingy ex. Henry had crossed the line by sleeping with Caroline, so Jimmy resolved to retaliate in the same way. He looked up Stacey’s phone number and invited her to meet him at a cafe that evening.
“$10,000, and you sleep with him,” Jimmy proposed. “And I’ll need pictures of you two for proof.” She smirked. “I thought you guys were best friends,” she raised an eyebrow. “I guess they’re right about blood being thicker than water.” “Just do as you’re told, and the rest is none of your business,” Jimmy said. “OK, OK! Don’t get too worked up, Jimmy, but $10,000 is too little. If I’m taking the risk, you need to offer me something better. How about $20,000? I’m saving your daughter, after all!” she bargained.
“Done!” exclaimed Jimmy. “But I need the pictures by tomorrow.” “Relax, darling,” she said with a smile. “Consider it done!” Jimmy stood on the street corner the next day, just a few meters away from Henry’s house. He noticed Stacey knocking on the front door and Henry emerging. Jimmy recorded them so he could have evidence as well. Jimmy checked his watch as Stacey went inside. He wasn’t sure how long Stacey would take, so he sat in his car, waiting for her. An hour had passed. Stacey was leaving Henry’s house when Jimmy looked out his car window. Jimmy drove down Henry’s street to the cafe where he planned to meet Stacey.
“So, how did it go?” Jimmy inquired, hopingly, as Stacey joined him. “Bad,” she replied, setting her belongings aside and drinking the water in front of Jimmy. “Look, we had sex, but he was so clingy all the time! He wouldn’t leave me alone for even a second, and I couldn’t get any pictures of us.” “Darn it!” Jimmy punched the handrest of his chair. “So you’ve got absolutely nothing?” “I wouldn’t say that,” she said as she took out her phone. “I managed to take a nude photo in his bathroom,” she said, pushing her phone toward him.
“Send it to me,” Jimmy said as he pulled out his phone. He scoffed in disgust as he saw the image. “So he’s banging other women while trying to convince my daughter how great of a man he is?! Frikin’ bastard! It’ll be fun watching his butt get ripped off!” Jimmy paid Caroline a visit at the hospital two days later. He thought the sooner he showed her Henry’s true face, the better. “So, do you believe me now?” Jimmy asked her as she watched the video he had taken of Stacey entering Henry’s house.
“So?” she asked, shrugging. “It’s not like he can’t have female friends, Dad!” she exclaimed as she stuffed her hospital bag. “Well, of course he can, but…” He showed her the naked body. “What do you think?” “How did you get this?” she was enraged. “It doesn’t matter how I got it, honey! What matters is that Henry isn’t the right guy! He’s keeping you in the dark and sleeping with other women behind your back!” Jimmy emphasized. “I’m calling him right now! I’m sure he can explain this!” Caroline was certain Henry would not cheat on her, so she dialed his number. He arrived at the hospital in a matter of minutes and was taken aback by the video and images.
“Bollocks!” he exclaimed. “Really? You guys trust this?” “Well, then, why don’t you go ahead and prove us wrong?” Jimmy confidently challenged. Henry then pulled out his phone. He showed them footage from his house’s internal CCTV, which clearly showed him and Stacey sitting in the kitchen and talking, by opening an app. “As you can see, she’s trying to seduce me, but nothing happened,” he explained. “You know, I had a strange feeling when she showed up at my house after all these years; don’t you think it’s strange, Jimmy?”
Caroline demanded angrily, her arms crossed across her chest, “What’s going on, guys?” As he looked at Caroline, Jimmy’s face turned pale. “Nonsense!” he exclaimed, shifting his gaze from her to Henry. “Why would she come to see you if you don’t see each other very often? I’m tired of your lies, Henry! And Caroline…You need to stop trusting this man!” Henry followed Jimmy outside as he stormed out of the room.
“Enough is enough, mate!” he exclaimed, grabbing Jimmy’s arm. “Stacey told me everything as she was leaving; I thought she’d tell you since her plan failed, but it appears she didn’t.” “Look, I’m not going to tell Caroline anything, but you need to stop your cheap tricks, Jimmy!” I adore Caroline, and no matter what you do, you will never be able to separate us!”
Jimmy yanked Henry’s arm away and walked away without saying anything. Henry shook his head as he watched his friend walk away. “I hope you can understand us for once, Jimmy,” he muttered under his breath. “I really do.” Days passed, but Jimmy couldn’t bring himself to call Caroline and check on her, despite the fact that the last time he saw her was during their haughty argument in the hospital. Caroline used to work at Henry and Jimmy’s store in the city, but she wouldn’t show up for work since their fight, and Henry and Jimmy rarely talked.
Jimmy was desperate to see his daughter, and he would do anything to get her back. One day, an idea struck him. Jimmy was confident that nothing would go wrong this time, and his plan was flawless. Unfortunately, neither Caroline nor Henry could have predicted what was going on in Jimmy’s head. Jimmy walked out of the store and dialed Caroline while Henry was serving customers “I don’t want to talk, Dad,” she snapped, and hung up. “Wait a minute!”I…I want to apologize to you,” he cried. “Stop joking, Dad. “I know you’re not serious,” she said.
“No, no,” he pleaded, “please.” Please accept my apologies. I know I was mistaken. I’m missing you. I had forgotten that nothing is more important to a father than the happiness of his children. Could you please forgive your father and forget what happened? Please?” “Dad,” she explained, “see, if you truly mean it…Well, I forgive you.” OK, I still love you. “Will I see you at the store soon?”” he inquired, laughing. “Sure, Dad! I’ll return tomorrow. We’re leaving today!”You can cut my pay if you want,” she said. And, by the way, Dad. Thanks.’
“Oh, it’s OK! I’m glad you finally accepted Henry and my relationship.” As long as you’re content. “And yes, honey,” he said. I should also apologize to Henry. “I really missed you.” “I missed you as well, Dad.” See ya!” chirped she. Jimmy got off the phone and went back to the store. “I apologize, mate. “Please forgive me,” he apologized to Henry, who was perplexed. “Are you okay, Jimmy?”” he inquired. “I should never have done what I did.” I’m confident you’ll make my daughter happy. “Thank you,” Jimmy sobbed. “Hey, hey, what happened to you today?”” Henry inquired.
“Would you kindly forgive me?””Henry hugged Jimmy, forgave him, and they talked like old friends after a long time,” Jimmy said . Jimmy, we’ve known each other for years!””And please, no more apologizing!” Henry said. I understand that things went wrong, and I should’ve told you about Caroline and my situation sooner. “You know, I was afraid of exactly what happened; I was afraid you wouldn’t take it correctly; but…now that everything’s back to normal, I’m just really glad about everything, you know. Should we go out and celebrate, yeah?”
“Oh, yes, this definitely calls for a celebration,” Jimmy declared. “I’ve missed having a mate like you, Henry.” “It’s all cool, pal!” Henry laughed. “By the way, I heard a cool restaurant opened down the street; wanna check it out?” Jimmy smiled and nodded. In fact, he was happy on the inside. It had taken Jimmy days to devise the perfect plan.
Jimmy imagined how Henry would feel very soon as he thought about the small poison bottle in his drawer. Jimmy planned to poison Henry, hoping that his best friend writhed in agony as the toxin mingled with his blood. Jimmy noticed the sipper Henry had brought as he was leaving for his gym session that day. “Hey, Jim,” Henry said as he walked away. “Trust me; I’ve missed us catching up like this and having normal conversations.”