"One of these days I'm going to kill that girl! She's out of control." Dave growls coming into the bullpen one day to himself.
Emily, JJ, Spencer and Derek all look up at this and wonder what was wrong that time. The girls were now fourteen turning fifteen in less than three months and in high school. He had gotten them enrolled in a prestigious academy. The school was Archford Academy. It was a pain in the ass to get them in but he got them in and now Christi was on the verge of being thrown out. She was skipping classes, school, disrespecting teachers, lying, cheating, stealing, and not to mention she was in a gang. He was not a happy man at the moment. He had just come from a meeting with the schools headmaster. Christi was on academic probation, detention for a week and suspended from school for two weeks. She was currently with his mother at the house and she was not a happy about that.
Veronica on the other hand was a better student than Christi but faltered from time to time. She's a dancer, contortionist. She took Spanish classes while Christi took Italian so that Veronica could be secretive, whatever that meant. Veronica was deeply embracing the Hispanic side of her from Carmen's side of the family while Christi was ignoring it completely.
Christi just wanted to be Italian and that was it. That was what she had told him.
"What's up Dave?" Hotch asks as he comes down from his office.
"That girl is getting on my last nerve. Her ass is about to be sent to an all girls boarding school in either London or Rome. I haven't made up my fucking mind yet."
"Why somewhere nice? Why not Arizona or Tennessee? Somewhere out in the middle of nowhere?"
"Out in the middle of nowhere sounds good. I'll look into that." The extremely upset Italian grunts.
Garcia comes up and looks at Rossi.
"What has my niece done this time my Italian Stallion?" she asks.
"Defaced school property, caused a fight, took one of the golf carts the security guards use for a joy ride oh and the icing on the cake she brought a switch blade to school! How the hell did she get a fucking switch blade!"
"She got it through the gang she's in. She's dating the leader and he gave it to her just in case she got into a fight at school she could just whip it out shank the person she's fighting and run." Veronica said walking up.
She had been doing a student foreign exchange program for a semester and was in Spain and was just getting home.
"Yea, she is definitely going to an all girls school in the middle of nowhere in Tennessee." Rossi says.
"Tennessee's beautiful. You should know that. Send her to the boring city."
"Alright she's going to Antarctica to live with the fucking penguins!"
"Don't have to freakin' snap at me. Sabas que, I'm getting out of here before I get more crap from you."
"I'm sorry baby girl. Your sister is just pissing me off."
"I'll talk to her and see what I can do. Oh and by the way she doesn't want a quinceanera. She says its stupid. She wants a sweet sixteen."
"Isn't a quinceanera and a sweet sixteen the same thing as each other."
"Not really." Veronica says, "For a quince, you gotta go through confirmation and do a lot of schooling at the church for it. You have to have your Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. There's a bunch of special, and traditional, ceremonies involved, and a bunch of things to have to do. In a sixteen, it's just like, willy-nilly. You spend a bunch of money for a party that holds like, little significance but a few nice ceremonies. Yeah, they are both coming of age, but a fifteen is more religious. That's what I think." she finished, "Anyways, I don't think Christi will have enough time for a quince anyway. She stopped going to the confirmation church a long time ago, back in the seventh grade."
"Like, a year and a half ago?"
"Yeah! Then we were supposed to get ours like, right after she quit. And I did. She didn't."
"I know."
"And she didn't come to mine…" Veronica's voice failed for a moment, "Well anyways, I'll talk to her. I will, but I have no guarantees that she'll listen."
"Okay." Rossi said.
Veronica starts heading out just as JJ comes up and looks at Rossi.
"Is everything okay sweetheart?" she asks him catching Veronica off guard and making her stop dead in her tracks and look over at her father and the blonde in utter and complete shock.
JJ had received a text from Garcia saying get up there quickly as Dave was furious and she was the only one who could really calm him down.
"Okay how much has changed in these last two months that I've been gone!" she asks horrified.
"Jen and I have been going out for four months. We were going to tell you two girls as soon as you came home."
"What happened to that guy she was dating! From Louisiana!" she asks.
JJ just gets really quiet and upset.
"I'll umm go and talk to you later." JJ says quietly and heads up to her office.
"What just happened?" Veronica asks.
"Will died a few days after Henry was born."
"That was like six months ago!"
"How come I didn't know about this!" she asks as Christi comes in.
"Because he didn't want us knowing. I figured it out after about a month." Christi said.
"Hello! Your own twin standing right here!" Veronica said.
"Hey. Welcome home." Christi said coldly.
"How could you be so stupid Christina Jocelyn Rossi! Bringing a switchblade to school! You could have been arrested if I didn't talk your head mistress out of it!"
"If I'm such a problem then you should've let me get arrested then I'd be outta your hair!"
"Maybe I should."
Christi suddenly gets really worried.
"So your sister tells me you don't want a quinceanera." Rossi said as he and the twins walked out.
"Yea, a sweet sixteen is cooler and something I can do on my own and not share with her."
"You can't get one anyways." Veronica sighed, a hint of sadness in her voice, "You haven't gotten your confirmation..."
"You don't need a confirmation for a sweet sixteen. Sheesh even I know that and I don't have any AP or Honors classes like you! Sheesh!"
"I meant for a quince!" she says.
"They're the same thing except one is more religious and the other is about partying and having fun all night." Christi said as they reached the black SUV.
"And you don't have fun at a quince? You've never even been to one. I, on the other hand, have been to our cousin's, Bonetta's and Evita's. Are you even gonna come to mine?"
"I gotta go." She says rolling her eyes.
"Back to you Christina Jocelyn how could you have been so stupid to bring a switch blade to school! Tell me that." Rossi demands.
"Oh my God, Jessenia's here!" Veronica screeched, pointing out to where their aunt was leaning on her black Mercedes.
"what is she doing here?" Christi sneers.
"To help me with my quince and with the family and around the house." Veronica said.
"Oh goodie!" Christi sarcastically says.
"I'm going to hang with the guys." Christi says heading down the street to head down to where the gang hangs out.
"That girl is going to be the death of me! All she does now in days is get into trouble!" Rossi rants and raves as Jessenia and Veronica plan Veronica's quince. XXXX
Walking into the gang hang out Christi goes right over to her boyfriend who is also part of the gang.
"Alright well we're doing a deal tonight. On Constitution Ave at eight." The leader said.
Christi starts getting uncomfortable then a sharp pain shoots through her arm and she looks over and sees her boyfriend grabbing her arm.
"If you wanna be with me and in this gang rough up." He growls.
"Fine, now let me go."
"Take it easy on her Alex she's new!" the leader girlfriend, Amber, said taking Christi with the other girls into another room to talk, gossip and vent.
"I can't stand my family. They're trying to force me to have a quince and all this stupid shit. I can't stand it! Especially my dad!"
"What about your sister?"
"She's a freak! She's a contortionist." She said.
After a few hours she's alone in the house and she sighs. She goes over to the baby grand piano and starts playing. She had stopped playing when she was nine.
She smiled as it felt good to play piano. She missed playing but she wouldn't admit that to anyone.
Walking past the house Veronica looking into the window and sees Christi playing the piano again.
She smiles grateful that Christi kept something from her past in her life.
She heads home and finds Rossi having Scotch.
"Hey Papi, Christi is still playing piano."
"That's great, where is she?"
"Last I saw she was at the gang house."
Rossi sighs and nods.
A few hours later the door bell rang and Rossi got up and got it.
He opens the door to revel two cops with Christi standing in between them looking absolutely frightened.
"Officers?" Rossi asks.
"we caught your daughter her vandalizing a building with a group of other vandals. All much older than she. We're letting her off with a warning next time she'll be in a cell."
"Thank you." Rossi said as Christi walks in and sits on the couch.
"What the hell were you thinking!" Rossi asks.
"I wasn't doing anything. I was holding the bag of the spray paint."
"You were still in the wrong place at the wrong time and with the wrong people. You have to stop hanging out with them because they aren't good to hang around with."
"Absolutely not. I'm not leaving them. They accept me and I fit in there."
"You can get into serious trouble next time."
"Yea whatever." She said as Jessenia comes in.
"Your father is right." She said as she launched into a lecture.
"Shut up! You're not my mother and can't tell me what to do!" Christi yells at Jessenia.
Jessenia stand up for herself and she and Christi get into a fight yelling at each other.
"If my mother cared she'd be here now leave me the fuck alone!" Christi yells running up to her room and slamming the door and locking it.
Jessenia storms over there and kicks the door. The door breaks open, and Jessenia yells, "Christi, you don't seem to care about this family! If you don't care, go to hell!"
"You should know my sister cared a lot for you. She cared so damn much about you and your sister! She died trying to hold you guys! Why don't you ask someone about your mother before you start making idiot assumptions!" she hisses.
"Leave me the fuck alone! Just get out of my fucking room!" she yells in tears.
"I'm not in it! I'm in the doorway!" Jessenia taunts, a sickeningly sweet smile on her face.
"Just leave me alone! I just want to be alone! Just get out!" she begs in tears.
Jessenia slams the door and walks away.
Christi just curls up on her bed in tear cuddling the bunny she's had ever since she was a baby to her chest in tears.
"everything okay?" Rossi asks Jessenia as the doorbell rings.
"Yea and I'll get it." She said.
She opens the door to revile JJ standing there visibly shaken with Henry sound asleep in his carrier.
"Come on in Jen." She said.
Dave looks up and sees Jen and tear tracks on her face and her visibly shaking.
"Jen what happened?"
"Some guy broke in as we were sleeping. I heard a noise downstairs so I went to investigate and I saw him and screamed. He dropped everything and ran. I ran up to get Henry and our things and then I came here." She said shaking in tears a Henry starts fussing.
"Did you call the police?"
"Yea, they're at my place now investigating. We need a place to stay."
"You're staying here. Now I think the little guy is hungry. Why don't you go and feed him?"
She nods and heads upstairs to the master bedroom to go and feed the baby.
Christi sees and growls.
"What the hell is she doing here with the brat! He's gonna keep me up all freakin' night long!"
"Because babies don't sleep at all." Dave said, sarcasm dripping from his words.
"No duh! I need sleep but that brat I gonna keep me up all night!"
"You clearly are inept to sarcasm. Babies sleep. You realize this, no?"
"Of course but they're up every two fucking hours! I need a solid eight hours! Not being woken up every two hours!" She says her voice laced with venom.
"Well get ear plugs then, or get out! I try to take care of all my loved ones at once, but some need to do their part too."
"Fuck you." She growls going up to her room and slamming the door and locking it.
She packs her bag and toss her bag out the window then she jumps out and heads toward her boyfriends place. She refused to stay in a house with a screaming infant all night.
She gets there and smiles walking into the apartment.
"Alex where are you!" she calls.
She hears moaning coming from the bedroom and she frowns and she goes to investigate and sees Alex and some blonde girl in bed together.
"Alex how could you!" she yells in tears feeling her heart shatter at the site.
"I've been meaning to tell you for a while that we've been over. I just never wanted you to find out this way. I was going to tell you but right after I figured out how."
She runs out in tears and back home and right into the house past JJ, Jessenia, Veronica and Rossi.
"Twin vibe says major crisis." Veronica said.
She gets up and follows Christi.
"Hey everything okay sis?"
"No!"
"What's the matter?"
"You get all the attention it's all about you! I'm sick of it! Every guy at school throws himself at you and me no one notices me I'm just invisible. The only attention I can scrounge up is from rebelling. I can't even have a decent guy. Alex was cheating on me with some blonde chick." She says in tears clutching her old worn bunny that has patches in it from all the wear and tear.
"I am so... Like you say, because I try! All this, the dancing, the hyperextension, my musical abilities, it didn't come easy! I had to start contortionism as three years old so I can be the best now! You... You quit everything you tried! Piano, dance lessons, gymnastic, skiing. You quit it all because it was hard. You'd have as much attention as me if you had really, really tried."
"Dad got obsessed with me doing that! Signing me up for more classes of each! I was sick of it! That's why I stopped. But what about the guys throwing themselves at you! I don't get that!"
"It's not like I get it either. And they do throw themselves at you, but you're too daft and caught up in whatever trouble you're in to notice!"
"And then dad goes and doesn't tell us he's dating! I mean why hide it! I would actually be happy for him. I just don't know why he would hide it from us." She sighs sitting up still clutching her bunny.
"I'm not gonna comment on that."
"Why?"
"I don't think it'll last is all."
"I think it will. I mean the way he looks at her and she looks at dad, I'd say there's love there. I mean dad does deserve to be in love and have someone love him and maybe to get married…..again for the fourth time."
The girls start giggling. They clearly remember step-mom's two and three. They were horrible women and were just gold diggers after their dad's money. XXXX
Walking around giggling around the school together again like old times Christi and Ronnie were walking to class. Christi changed her schedule to have all the same classes she did earlier but the more advanced ones of course.
Rossi wasn't believing this turn around in her and he was on high alert with her.
Sitting down at one of the picnic tables with Veronica's friends they all look hesitant and they just ignore Christi.
"Hey, I'm gonna go get a water." Christi gets up, "Anyone want anything?"
They all shake their heads and Christi leaves. Veronica turns to them, "Okay listen you either hang out with my sister and I or you don't hang out with me at all."
"She's an ex gang member." One of them says.
"And Tiff tried to kill herself on LSD." Veronica began to list, "Becca's cheating on Marcus with Antonio. Jan burned down Victoria's house on purpose. How is that better?"
"It's not but being in a gang is worse than any of that!" Rebecca exclaimed.
"That might've been one of the dumbest things I've heard." Veronica rolled her eyes, "It's not better than being in a gang, but being in a gang is worse? Real nice job. Now, I love her, she's my sister, she's my friend, and you guys are too."
"Are you picking her over us?" Tiffany asked.
"I won't have to if you guys just accept her!"
They don't say anything, but stay at the table. "You realize we only do this because you're popular, right?"
"Yeah, I know I don't have real friends." Veronica said. Christi came back and sat down, not knowing everything was wrong in the first place.