-1Disclaimer: Not my characters…cept for the one that I made up.
"I dunno Lil, this cant be a good idea" I said. "in fact I know this is a bad one".
"Would you just quit it. This was your idea in the first place, Second do you wanna go and live with mom some more?" My twin sister Lily snarled at me. "Charli you drive me nutso sometimes".
We were standing outside the Trenton Police station debating on going and saying hello to Joe Morelli. A.K.A. Daddy Dearest. Well that's not entirely true. He never knew about us and our mother married his cousin when she was pregnant with us and he was off in the Navy. So we were always raised with the Morelli genes and since most of the males look alike we could easily pass as someone else's kids but Mom dropped a bombshell on us on our 18th birthday. Out father, well the guy we always believed to be our father, Jack Morelli, wasn't really our dad. And since she had cancer and all she felt that she should be honest with us on her deathbed. Our 'father' had passed on early on in our lives from alcohol poisoning.
"Well you first", I nudged my sister into the building.
"Can I help you?' to his badge.
"uhh yes…we're looking for Joseph A. Morelli." Lily said in her most uppity tone.
"Lily" I stressed her name out to let her know she was doing her snob routine again.
"Uhh hang on girls..You know never mind. His office is upstairs , down the hall and it's the 4th door on the right. Enjoy." Constanza whistled when he walked away.
So we followed his directions and we found his office. We knocked…and we knocked.
"Charli he's not here. I knew he wouldn't be here. He hasn't been for any of the other times we needed him and he's not here now. What made you think he would change over night."
"well the whole family knows that mom has died. Maybe he's at Aunt Angie's."
So we went to Aunt Angie's and sure enough the better part of the Morelli clan was at Aunties. Angie met us at the door.
"Darlings, I am so sorry about your mother. She was a… a… good woman." Angie smiled at us.
"Boy did she swallow her tongue?" I whispered into Lily's ear.
We giggled when we walked in the door. Then we saw him. He was whispering to what's her name…uhh I think it was Stephanie and she was giggling. I was shell shocked. I must have stopped short cuz Lily slammed into my back.
"Jesus Charli… O my god… he's here!"
Joe came over to us. He wrapped us into a hug.
"How are you guys? I'm sorry about your mother." I snorted. O ill bet you are, I thought. "Where are you guys staying at? Do you need a place to crash for a little while? I have extra room if you need it." Joe seemed genuinely concerned about our well being, which was a switch for us because we were used to indifference and generally no one cared what became of us especially our mother and Jack.
" hmm that would be nice. We really don't want to stay at the house right now." Lily accepted. I on the other hand was a little skeptical. It wasn't that we weren't used to Joe be hospitable it was that I was worried about how he would react to the secret that we had to tell him