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I had just got out of the shower and was getting dressed when I heard the door to my apartment open. I knew it was Joe and I knew what I had to do. It was time I couldn't do the rollercoaster relationship anymore. I hollered out to him "Let me go get dressed I'll be out in a minute" I walked into my bedroom and shut the door. I know he could probably figure out what was going on. I pulled on a pair of sweat pants and a t shirt and walked into the living room, flopping down on the couch. Joe followed my lead and flopped down next to me. I looked over at him and couldn't even force a smile.
"Joe, I can't do this anymore. This isn't working for me, I know you want to settle down, get married, and start having kids and honestly I don't, not now maybe not ever. I think it would be best if we were permanently off. Please understand that we both deserve to be happy and I'm not really happy. You hate my job and my friends but mostly you want me to change who I am. I can't do that and be happy." I looked him in the eyes the whole time while speaking to him. Hoping he would see in my eyes the honesty of what I was saying and know that this was hard for me too. He sat in silence for a few minutes after I finished just looking at me. He startled me when he finally spoke
"Cupcake, we can work this out" I put my hand up to stop him from speaking.
"Joe, no I'm not going to change my mind. This is for the best. I hope we can still be friends but I know that it won't be easy especially for a while." He nodded and stood up walking to the door.
"Be Happy Cupcake and maybe we can be friends eventually but not right now" I nodded as he walked out the apartment, shutting the door behind him. I started to cry. I had held in it while speaking to him but watching him leave was so hard. I knew I needed to dry my eyes since Connie and Lula would be showing up soon. We were planning on talking about exactly what are next move was going to be. Vinnie was setting up shop in a Mobile Home since the Bond's office was destroyed. I walked into my bathroom and splashed water on my face to help with the red puffy eyes. I had just walked out of the bathroom when I heard the knocking on my door. I walked over and looked out the peephole and sure enough Connie and Lula had arrived. I let them in and we all piled up in my living room. I smiled at the girls as we all flopped down on the couch.
"So white girl, what do you think we should do?" Lula asked
"I don't know. I'm not sure I want to continue working for Vinnie though."
"Girl, I thought about that and I know you two may not like my idea and if not we can throw out off the table" Connie asked looking back and forth at me and Lula. We both nodded for her to continue
"Okay, well what about if we move out of state. See, I talked to some of my family members and they are willing to help us get new identities and we could start our own business." She stopped talking and looked back and forth at us again. I was thinking about it, I had no reason to truly stay in Trenton. Joe and I were over, my mother always griped at me, and Ranger well we are just friends because his life doesn't lend itself to relationships. A fresh start would be nice. I finally looked up at Connie and smiled
"I like it Con, where and what kind of business?" I asked and Lula nodded excitedly
"Well, I was thinking New York City since it isn't too far away and maybe like Private Investigators to start out and then slowly build up and venture into skip tracing and body guarding. You two have experience with skip tracing so I thought we could easily venture into it. Here is the thing though, when I talked to my family they said they would loan us all the money we would need to get started until we could start making a profit and then they get fifty percent of everything we make until we pay them back completely but we all have to get trained. They want us trained in self defense and weapons." I thought about it and this time Lula spoke first
"I say let's do it. Girls, we could be total bad asses. Who is going to train us and when do we leave?"
"I thought we could leave immediately, my uncle has a house right outside the city he said we could use until we could find a place of our own that we could afford. He also has already set up our new identities. All we need to pack is our clothing and shoes. Just necessities. We'll have to find someone to train us" I nodded and got up and started to my bedroom. I looked back and noticed they were both still sitting on the couch.
"Are you two going to come help me pack or not?" I asked. They both hopped off the couch and we all went in my bedroom, I started pulling clothes our of my dresser while Connie and Lula started with the stuff in my closet. We made quick work of the bedroom and then I went in my bathroom and started throwing all my stuff in a duffle bag. The girls had put my bags by the door, I grabbed my cookie jar and handed it to Connie and grabbed Rex's cage. I was ready. I smiled at the girls
"Let's load this stuff up and then I need to talk to Dillon. I'll call my dad when we leave here so he's not worried." Lula looked at me skeptically
"What about Batman? You can't leave town and not tell him. He'll freak out!" Lula said
"I'm gonna leave a note with Dillon to give to Ranger" I said, it wasn't a big deal. He didn't want a relationship why would he care. A note should be enough for him. We started loading all my stuff up and I had a thought
"Um Connie, what about our cars, they are registered in our real names and we could be found." I questioned
"Taken care of, we will leave these cars at my house, my uncle got us new cars, its part of the loan and they are registered in our new names. If we didn't do this he was just going to sell them." I smiled excitedly and continued loading up my car. We finally had the rest of my stuff loaded and Lula looked at me
"White girl, we are going to head to my house to start packing up my stuff, just head over there when your done." I nodded and started to the front door of my building. I went down to Dillon's apartment and knocked. He opened the door wearing jeans and an old t shirt, he smiled when he noticed it was me.
"Hey Steph, what's up?" He asked
"I'm moving out, I've already packed up everything I'm taking with me. All that's left is my furniture. I will be unreachable so I wanted to know if you could give a note to someone who will surely come looking for me. Actually three notes. If you have some paper I'll write them and explain everything when I'm done writing." He nodded and walked over to a desk he had and pulled out paper and pen handing them to me. I was writing a note to Ranger, the merry men, and Joe. I sat down on Dillon's couch and started writing
Ranger,
I've decided to make some changes in my life and get a fresh start. I think I need a fresh start. Please understand. I will try to contact you when I am ready. I can only hope you will understand. I love you.
Love,
Babe
That one was easy to right, I can only hope the others will be to. I folded Ranger's note and wrote his name on the front. I grabbed another piece of paper to write the next one.
Guys,
I'm going to be leaving town for awhile, I'm going to get a fresh start. I think it would be good for me. I will miss you guys and I love you all. You have been great friends and brothers. Please understand. I hoped you know I have to do this.
Love,
Bombshell
That one was easy to. I folded it and wrote Merry Men on the front. I don't know if Joe will come but to be on the safe side, I figured I should leave him a note.
Joe,
I'm sorry things didn't or couldn't work for us. I couldn't be what you wanted and you couldn't love me for who I am. I hate that things had to be that way. I'm leaving town for awhile. I hope you find someone wonderful who can be what you want and deserve. Please know I do love you, I'm just not in love with you. I'm sorry
Love,
Stephanie
As I finished writing Joe's a few tears fell. I'm leaving behind everything that I know. I grabbed my purse off Dillon's floor and started pulling out all the trackers in it and anything that I couldn't honestly say where it came from. Once I finished that I handed Dillon the letters and trackers.
"Dillon, the guy that comes here that is always in black that's Ranger give him the letter with his name on it, the one that says Merry Men and all of these" I said handing him those letters and trackers.
"This one goes to Joe, the cop that was here a lot" I said handing him Joe's letter.
"Make sure they get them, I'm not sure how long I'll be gone before they figure it out, but make sure you keep those until they come by." Dillon nodded and hugged me,
"I'm going to miss you Steph, be careful" I smiled weakly at Dillon and walked to the door. Before I walked out without turning around I said
"Bye Dillon, thanks for being a great Super" I closed the door behind me. I walked out to my car and climbed in calling my dad. Knowing once we were at Connie's I would be turning my phone off. After three rings my dad answered the phone
"Hello" he said in his gravely voice
"Hey daddy, I need to talk to you but I don't want mom to know you are talking to me."
"It's okay pumpkin she is at Giovichini's." I felt the tears welling up behind my eyes.
"Daddy, I'm going to be leaving town. I will keep in touch with you but I will not be using this phone anymore. When I get a new number I will give it to you but you can't give it to anyone not even mom or grandma. I don't want any risks of anyone knowing where I am. I will also be under a new identity." I said as the tears began to fall
"Okay pumpkin, I understand. Stay safe and when are you leaving?"
"I'm leaving now. I'm sorry daddy. I love you"
"I love you to pumpkin, and don't be sorry, just let me know how you are and let me know your number when you get one."
"Thanks Daddy, Bye" And I hung up, I sat in my car for a little while longer crying and finally pulled away when the tears stopped. I pulled into Lula's and noticed they were already loading up her car. I got out to help
"Damn White girl, What the hell took you so long?" Lula asked hands on her hips
"Sorry, I called my dad and sat in the parking lot while I talked to him" They both nodded and we finished loading Lula's car and followed Connie to her house. When we pulled up to Connie's the first thing we noticed were three new cars. One was blood red, another was blue, and the third was silver. They were all Mercedes GL 550. I couldn't believe it, they were gorgeous. Connie smiled at me and Lula as we stared at the cars.
"The red is yours Lula, the blue is yours Steph, and the silver is of course mine. Keys as well as our new identities, credit cards, bank account information, and new cell phones are in the glove boxes of them. I've already packed up all my stuff and it is loaded in my car. So lets get all of your stuff moved to yours and we can leave. The address is programmed into the GPS so if we get split up while driving you'll still know where to go." Me and Lula both nodded and started moving stuff from our old cars to our new cars. I couldn't wait to drive my new car! We finished getting all of our things loaded and Lula and I both started really checking out our cars. Mine had tan leather interior and was fully loaded. It had everything I could ever want in a car, CD player, DVD player, GPS, sunroof, and third row seating. Lula's was the same with black interior and Connie's also had black interior. After we had thoroughly checked out our cars we pulled out our new ID's. My name is now Elizabeth Marie Russo, Lula is Rachelle Alana Masters, and Connie is Clara Lynn Ricci. We pulled out our new cell phones and we had each others numbers already programmed in. We were ready to go we all started to get in our cars when Connie hollered at us.
"Hey, we should all have a full tank of gas so we shouldn't have to stop. I put small ice chests in the back seats with drinks and snacks if you need them." We smiled and nodded and climbed into our cars. Time to start our new lives. I'm determined to be happy and maybe I'll meet someone new or maybe someone from Trenton will realize what its like to not have me in their life at all. I want someone who loves me for me and supports me, someone who cherishes me. That would be nice, very nice, maybe all of us would get our special someone. I really was going to miss Trenton, at least I wasn't leaving alone. I had two of my best friends with me on this new journey. It was going to be good I could feel it.
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