Remember
When - The Baby J.T. Hellstrom Didn't Want
February 13, 2008
by Brent Kellogg
It was a
time of great need. It was a time of teeth-gritting and resigned fortitude
and latte-infused bouts of very heavy collective whining. The moment Colleen
Carlton got on a plane and left Genoa City - the smartest thing she ever did
during her stay here - word began spreading that overnight rock star and
noted hunkmonkey J.T. Hellstrom would fall in love with Mac Browning.
Nobody wanted to believe it at first because J.T. had always claimed Carlton
- a minor - was the girl of his dreams; the only babe he'd ever love. When
he began sneering and snarling (that sixteen-year-old Daniel Romalotti was
an "arrogant punk" who shouldn't so much as look at the older Mac) it was
thought J.T. was merely trying to dispel rumors surrounding his fondness for
boys like Raul Guittierez.
On July 2, 2004, just one day after Colleen had left Genoa City, it became
crystal clear J.T. was hot for Mac. He stewed about Daniel day and night. He
yelped like a kicked dog when Mac displayed an interest in Daniel and when
she ignored his whimpering J.T. festered like a dud firecracker wanting to
explode but incapable of going off. When Raul snickered, "Mac's got a
boyfriend" J.T got pissed. Like a frustrated terrorist without a target he
went off to the Newman Jitter Joint hoping to find Mac so he could tell her
Daniel was but sixteen and much too young as if this knowledge, this
hypocrisy, would scare Mac away and, J.T. hoped, into his arms. But alas,
what J.T. found instead was Mac swapping spit with the "punk".
Life for hunkmonkeys can be so unfair. It was okay for J.T. to suck around a
minor child, but when the situation was reversed he said oh, "That was
different." J.T. threw fits and stomped around like a gorilla on Meth and
called guys like Kevin Fisher scum when they seduced young girls, but when
J.T. did it, it was okay.
And who could forget February 27, 2004? All sneers and girlie-like thumping
his bare chest and blaming poor Brittany's blotch on Kevin, huffing and
puffing he couldn't wait to "take him down", J.T. listened as girlfriend
Raul - who at one time couldn't stand being in the same room with him -
cried his eyes out. If only Raul's baby girl would snap out of her funk he
wouldn't have to worry about settling for a genuine same-sex wedding
ceremony with J.T. He wouldn't have to watch as Bobby Marsino walked off
with the girl both he and J.T. had loved and lost.
J.T. had always secretly loved Brittany as he demonstrated by giving
Brittany a load of his finest spit. It was a delicious and heartwarming
historic spectacle indeed as J.T. lusted for the girl his best pal had been
putting the pork to for months. Raul and Brittany had persistently talked of
starting a family and setting up a home complete with a white picket fence
and dinner parties and regular shopping excursions to Fenmore's and the mall
before J.T. came along to strike a blow against the American way of life.
It wasn't like J.T. didn't know his best bud wanted nothing more than marry
the local stripper and beat himself up at night because he wasn't man enough
to tell Marsino to stay away from Brittany. J.T. knew better than anyone
that Raul was willing to go the distance, to commit and connect, and eager
to prove his love for Brittany was something true, something that could only
serve to enforce the 50 percent-divorce-rate. Still, J.T. had the appalling
nerve to kiss his buddies' girl.
At the time J.T.'s act was seen as a well-manicured middle finger to
pro-family believers. God forbid anyone might want to love and honor each
other till death do them part in this city. Billy Abbott, unable to marry
Mac because she turned out to be his cousin, correctly pegged J.T. from the
start when he said J.T. was so much trailer park trash.
How creepy, that for
someone so in love with Colleen, J.T. would now be having sex with Mac while
Brittany carries his baby in her belly. A baby she would later miscarry in a
puddle at the God Have Mercy Medical Center and walk away from as if nothing
had ever happened.
In our next report,
the loss of J.T.'s baby was no big deal.
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