Episode 760
 
Trying to Keep it Together
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: November 28, 2021

Episode Theme song: "Smiling" Alanis Morissette

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Jeff & Meggan reunited which left Leah feeling uncomfortable
- Dawn and Cheresa found Shelley stabbed to death
- Vinny planted a device on Victoria's phone that released a high pitched ringing noise. She was then late for a family gathering
- Max was crushed by Cassie's death. He told Robin that Adam was having memory flashes
- Natasha learned that Robbie and Kim were sleeping together
- Eva confronted Dominick about kissing Felicia


The Pampa Grill

Jeff takes a sip of his beer as he listens to Meggan gush about how cute baby Olly is; he knows that she is genuinely happy for Lukas and Donovan to finally have their adopted baby boy. Since Lukas and Donovan only just got their son, the couple decided to have dinner out so they could have some family time alone at the Richardson estate.


"I'm so happy that your family has this moment for celebration," Jeff tells her, finally getting a word in edge wise. "We don't seem to get enough of these moments."


"Isn't that the truth?" Meggan chuckles back to him before she takes a sip of her sparkling water. "Anyways, it was really nice of you to be at the family breakfast earlier. It was nice to do something as a couple."


"It still feels weird in some ways," Jeff admits to her. "You know, that we are here in this place again, after everything that happened."


"Like you said, it's a fresh start where we can put the entire past behind us and just focus on the future," Meggan smiles back to him. "I'm really glad we came to this understanding."


"Me too," Jeff looks back at her.


Suddenly, Leah and Cory appear behind Jeff as they are moving to their table. They stop and look at the couple for a moment, surprised that they are all running into one another. The last people they thought they would see tonight is Leah's ex-husband and his lover.


"Jeff, Meggan, hi," Cory smiles to them, trying to be polite. "Looks like we had the same idea for dinner tonight."


Jeff turns around and sees his ex-wife and her new lover. "That we did," he tells them. "Why don't you two join us?"


"Oh no," Leah quickly says waving her hand in the air. "We don't want to intrude."


"You wouldn't be," Meggan replies quickly. "We all have to get used to the Jeff and I being together again."


Leah uneasily looks at Cory, who subtly nods back to her. "Okay, sure," Leah forces a smile on her face as Cory sits next to Jeff. Leah moves around to sit next to Meggan. "It looks like you guys were celebrating when we were walking by?"

"We were," Jeff looks back at his ex-wife. "Donovan and Lukas just adopted a baby boy. We met him for the first time earlier today."


"Wow, that's great news," Cory smiles as Leah moves some hair behind her ear, clearing feeling uncomfortable. "What is his name?"


"Oliver," Meggan gushes about her nephew. "Olly, for short."


"That's very sweet," Leah manages to say before she takes a sip of her water.


"Leah?" Cory asks back to her. "What's wrong? What is it?"


"It's nothing," Leah waves her hand in the air. "It's something to discuss later."


"Whatever it is, I'm sure it's fine," Cory tells her. "You look like you've seen a ghost."


"I had a pregnancy scare," Leah reveals to everyone as Jeff, Cory and Meggan look at one another in absolute shock.


BarCode

The bar has been transformed into a small memorial service for Shelley. On the bar there is a picture of Shelley laughing as she made a drink for one of her regular customers. In the bar, Andy, Nicholas, Dawn and Cheresa are among the attendees of the service.


"It was nice of you to help put this together for Shelley," Dawn tells Cheresa as they stand with Andy and Nicholas. "I don't know how you found the time with everything going with Abby."


Cheresa bites her lower lip as she thinks about how her sister's baby was born not breathing and died shortly after. She still can't believe that Abby's son died so shortly after Shelley was murdered; she feels like death is surrounding her right now and she doesn't like it one bit.


"To be fair," she finally replies to her friends. "Most of this was planned before Abby went into labour. I am just trying to wrap my head around why all this death is surrounding me right now."


"I know it's easier said than done," Andy looks over at her. "But just try to remember the good times, especially with Shelley. That's what she would have wanted."

"It is true," Nicholas chimes in. "She always so full of life, she would have wanted us to remember her that way."


"You're both right," Dawn tries to smile back to them. "I am going to remember Shelley for how much love she had to offer this world. It's an inspiration that we should all."


The four of them grab hands and look at the picture of Shelley, as they start to remember their friend whose life was taken too soon.

The Sugarbowl


"I have to admit to you," Eva looks over at her daughter before she takes a sip of her coffee as they sit together in the back booth of the coffee house. "I was rather worried about you when you showed up late this morning for Lukas and Donovan's gathering."


Victoria uneasily sighs back to her before she looks at her coffee. She knows that she was slightly late to the breakfast meeting of baby Oliver; she wishes that her mother wasn't upset with her, she just lost track of time. At the breakfast, she was a tad tardy and she had a headache, but she is feeling better now. She went home and took a nap, which was an hour longer than she thought it was going to be.


"I'm sorry," she finally replies to her mother. "I was showering and I just got a headache and it slowed me down."


"How are you feeling now?" Eva asks her out of concern.


"Much better," Victoria takes a sip of her coffee. "I took a nap and my headache went away. It was an hour longer than I thought it was going to be."

"What do you mean?"


"I only meant to lay down for an hour but it was two hours," Victoria tells her. "I guess my body was just exhausted."


"Darling, you have to take care of yourself, especially since you have taken your position back at the hospital," Eva replies to her. "Promise me that you will take care of yourself?"

Victoria smiles back to her mother, thinking that she is fine. She doesn't think that Eva has cause for concern. "I love you for being concerned; I will take care, I promise."

***

At the window bar, Adam and Max sit side by side as they catch up with one another. Max has been worried about Adam since he hyperventilated the other night after Max told him about the boutique accident a few years earlier. The last thing he wants is to have his father have a setback in his recovery from the car accident, but at the same time he doesn't want to keep the truth from Adam.


"Are you sure you're feeling better?" Max asks his father before he takes a bite of his donut. "You gave me a scare the other night."


"I am fine," Adam nods back to him. "Thanks for calming me down. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't been there."


"I just did what anyone would have done."


"I need to know how you're doing," Adam looks at his son. "Losing your mother can't be easy for you, I know how close you and Cassie were."


"It's been hard," Max admits to him. "The fact that Jacob and Paige were having a party to celebrate their homecoming while I'm mourning my mother is so rude. I can't believe that Natasha did that."


"She was thankful that her son was alive and well."


"It's his fault you know," Max grits his teeth back to his Dad. "Jacob is the reason my Mom is dead and I'm going to make sure that son of a bitch pays for this."


"I'm not sure I like the sound of that," Adam replies to him quickly. "Max, don't do anything that you will regret, like my accident a few years ago."


"Don't worry Dad," Max replies to him quickly. "Getting back at Jacob is not anything I would ever regret, it's just something that has to be done."


The Pampa Grill


Robin looks at her phone as she sits at a table by herself and wonders if she should send the text that she has written out to Adam. She is desperate for Adam to get his memory back but she doesn't want to pressure him and cause him to not regain his memories. She reads the message where she is telling him that she misses him. She deletes the message and puts her phone down on the table.


She takes a deep breath as she suddenly feels another one of her cramps coming on; she has been getting these cramps whenever she is too stressed out. She knows that Shane has told her to stay calm so she doesn't hurt the baby, but she is having a hard time staying calm when she knows that Adam doesn't have his memories yet and that Helen is taking advantage of the situation. She puts her hands on her belly as she starts to try to breathe. She picks up her glass of water and takes a sip.


"Robin?" Shane comes up to the table. He saw her sitting alone and then realized that she was in some kind of distress. "Are you okay? Do you need to go to the hospital?"


"No," Robin waves her hand back to him. "I'm fine," she says as she realizes that cramp has moved along.


"Was it another cramp?" Shane sits across from her. "Robin? Answer me, was it another cramp?"


"Yes!" She says back to him. "But, it wasn't as bad as the previous one. I'm fine, okay?"


Shane shakes his head back to her. "What were you just doing? I told you that you have to stay calm! Our baby's health…"


"You don't have to remind me about my child," Robin tells him. "I am fine, this wasn't that bad. I'm telling, I'm okay."


Shane looks back at her with worry written all over his face. "I hope so Robin," he looks into her eyes. "Because, nothing can happen to my child."


***

"You had a scare and you didn't tell me?" a stunned Cory asks Leah as they stand off to the side of the restaurant. After Leah announced her scare to Jeff and Meggan, Cory pulled her aside so they could talk about it in private. The last thing he wanted to do was have this type of conversation in front of Leah's ex-husband the father of her other children.

"I was going tonight," she quickly replies to him. "Then you agreed to sit with Meggan and Jeff, and you said to just spill it … and here we are."

"I'm sorry," Cory shakes his head back to her. "I had no idea. Had I known, I never would have suggested we sit with them or press you to tell me what was going on."

"I know you didn't know," she purses her lips together. "How are you feeling about this? Are you okay?"

"I am fine," Cory nods back to her. "The thought of having another baby is actually really exciting to me, Leah. I just wish we could have spoken about this."

"We are now, Cory. So, I guess the question is, do you want to have a baby? Should we try to have a child together?"

***

"I can't believe that she had a pregnancy scare," Meggan whispers back to Jeff as they sit alone at the table now. Neither one expected Leah to drop the bombshell.

"You and me both," Jeff nods back to her. "I didn't realize that they would be so careless with protection."

"A woman of Leah's age might think she wouldn't need protection anymore," Meggan quips back to him.

"Very funny," Jeff replies to her, not finding Meggan's dig that humerous.

"I didn't mean it in a negative way, I was just saying…"

"I know. I wonder what they are talking about now," Jeff looks over at his ex-wife and Cory. "I wonder if this means they will have a baby together."

Meggan shrugs back to him. "We shouldn't care," she tells him. "Whatever they do, is their business."

"You're right," Jeff nods back to her, even though he is still curious to know what is going on between Leah and Cory.


The Calimo Mansion


"Well, well, well," Natasha says as she pours herself a glass of red wine at the bar in the living room of the Calimo mansion as she notices Kim and Robbie walking into the living room. She can't help but remember hearing the two of them the previous night at Jacob's welcome home party where they admitted they were having an affair together. She is still stunned that Robbie would sleep with Kim after everything that happened between the three of them after Bob passed away. "Look what the cat dragged in."


"Good evening to you too sis," Robbie replies to her as he looks over at Kim as he arches his eyebrow. "How was meeting Oliver?"


"He's a dream," Natasha tells him quickly. "It almost made me miss having a new born around."


"Almost being the key word," Kim chuckles back to her. "I still don't have any updates on Cassie, but now that she is dead, I'm not sure we will uncover anything further about the money she stole."


"That is the least of my concerns right now," Natasha takes a sip of her wine. "And, I think you both know why."


Robbie and Kim look at one another quickly uneasily and then look back at Natasha. "What is going on?" Kim asks her back.


"I heard you two last night," she reveals to them. "Talking about how you're involved now. How the hell could you sleep with her, Robbie?"


"Nat, calm down," Robbie looks back to her. "I'm sorry that you found out about us this way, but Kim and I are seeing each other. We never meant for any of this to happen, it just did."


"Calm down? Calm down?" Natasha replies to him. "You know damn well what we went through after Dad passed away and even leading up to his death! How could you do this?"


"It really did just happen," Kim tries to tell her. "We aren't trying to hurt anyone."


"You will never be happy with her," Natasha ignores Kim and looks at her brother. "You have to end this Robbie before you blow this family apart!"


Twin Peaks Executive Hotel


Eva slowly walks back to her hotel room door as she just got back from seeing Victoria. She hopes that her daughter is okay but she can't help but be worried about her, especially considering her history with mental health issues. As she gets closer to her door, she wishes that she could move home with Dominick; she knows that he is still livid with her for sleeping with Will, to the point where he has kissed Felicia. She hates that Felicia is using this to get closer to her husband but that is exactly what happened, to the point where Dominick told her that he doesn't know if the love they share is enough to save their marriage.


"This is all your fault Felicia," she whispers to herself. "You are probably with Dominick right now, kissing him again. And, because he's so upset with me, he's falling for you. Damn it, I have lost you, haven't I, Dominick?"


She fuddles for her key card as Will's hotel door opens and he emerges. "Eva?" he calls out. "Are you okay?"


She turns and looks at the younger man, who is shirtless. "Will," she replies to him. "I'm just trying to find my key card," she says as she drops her purse and the contents spill out on the carpet. "Damn it!"

"Hey, it's okay," he rushes up to her and helps her start to pick everything up. "You're shaking, you're not okay right now."


Their hands touch as Eva proclaims that she is fine. They lock eyes and he leans over and kisses her passionately. "Come back to my room," he whispers to her as they part lips for a moment.


Eva slowly nods her head back to him as they rush off to the hotel room, which closes quickly behind them.
Next on One Day at a Time
- Max tries to support Abby
- Nicholas finally catches up with the Reese lookalike
- Donovan makes a suggestion to Lukas

 
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