A/N: Here is the sequel to Fighting Gravity. Hope you like it Please comment and tell me what you think even if you just say I liked it or it was good. :) Anyways enjoy
Disclaimer: I hate these things. I do not own the characters from anything Disney but I do own all the other random people.
I'm woken up by the dogs barking, I roll over groaning. I wait to see if they leave but they don't of course not. I stand up walking down the stairs, to the door. Pushing the dogs out of the way, I smile when I see Jamie and Abby.
"Alex!!" Abby jumped out her moms arms and started running to me."Look what I made you, its a horsey." She enthusatically shoves the picture in my hand.
Smiling at her "Why thank you . I think I'm going to have to but this on the fridge, what do you think?" I ask setting her down as she takes off for the kitchen.
"I didnt want to bother you but she really wanted to give you the picture. She said she couldn't wait till tomorrow." She smiles "Its fine I needed to get up anyways." I relpy dismissing her apology.
"Abby! Lets go Daddys waiting for us." Abbys feet echo through the nearly empty house as she comes running screaming 'the park' over and over. We laugh at her saying a quick goodbye to eachother, before they leave.
I've known Jamie and her family for two years now, when I first moved to California. I met her when I started my daycare, and later found a house near them. After Mitchie left I threw myself into anything to would distract me, mainly school. Her parents cut of any contact that was possible between us, and some point I gave up.
Then one day they came over to our house they said they we're moving. They weren't taking Alex the dog, and I could take him or he was going to the pound. I took him of course my last connection to Mitchie. They didn't say where they we're moving or anything, they just left. By senior year I was like a hermit, but it didn't bother me. It bothered everyone else though they didn't say anything.
I graduated high school and was accepted to UC Berkeley, I left New York in a heartbeat. I majored in Business, and started my own daycare. Sometime along the way I lost contact with everyone but Justin, though I talk to mom occasionally. Justin keeps me in the loop about everyone, and he even found some information on Mitchie. Turns out she opened her own recording label, she had the biggest name in the music industry and lives somewhere here in L.A. But that was all he knew.
It's been almost ten years since I last saw her, I still think about her all the time. The what ifs, where is she, how is she does she she still think of me. I try not to think of the past.
Letting the dogs out back, I have three now. I still have Echo and Trouble as Mitchie called him, but they're on their last leg now. Then theres Teddie my little four year pomeranian.
Making sure their out back I sit down on the couch, turning to music channel, absent mindly watching. "For the news you all have been waiting for Mitchies Torres and Shane Grey are offically divorced. It is said that Shane wants nothing to do with his daughter Casey, though it is not confirmed..."
She has a daughter? She was married? She's married a guy? Maybe I should watch more t.v. or something. Standing up I let the dogs in to before going to make dinner.
I hate monday mornings, its always hard to get up and then your tired all day. Walking into the building, the colorful sign reading 'Tiny Toes DayCare Center' I didn't come up with the name it was Justins idea and I just went with it. I felt I owed him that much with everything he's done for me.
As I finish pulling everything out, Jessica arrives coming in the kid prove gate."Hey Alex how was you weekend?" Walking toward the backroom also seen as a kitchen. Grabbing cookies out of the jar.
"Hey those cookies are for the kids.." She shrugs "It was ok how was yours?" She follows me out of the kitchen and into the large playroom.
"It was good, Did you hear about Shane Grey? I cant believe he would say that." She looks at me as she jumps up on front counter. I stare at her as I sit in a chair waiting for the kids to arrive.
I'm not sure what she's talking about. "What did he say?" She looks shocked that I asked. "Oh my gosh do you like live under a rock?"
Shaking my head I smile at her "No but I dont listen to gossip like you." She stares at me for a moment. "True I do like gossip, but it was also all over the t.v. Anyway he said that he wanted nothing to do with Mitchie or Casey, and he's already with some other chick, they've only been divorced for like three days."
I stared at for moment "How and why do you know all of this?" She shrugs "T.v and the internet" Jumping off the counter she greets the kids as they start arriving.
"But Ms. Alex I dont want to take a nap." Carson whines hiding on top of the indoor playground. He sticks his head out of the hole, "You'll never take me alive!" He screams sticking his head back into the playground.
"Carson get down here right now or you can sit in time out." I walk around standing right below him, hands on my hips I'm starting to feel like my mom.
"Nooo, you can't get me from up here so if I stay here 'til nap time is over then I wont have to sleep." He smiles like he has it all planned out.
I go to speak,"Alex!! someone wants to come by and look at the place. Do you want to talk to them?" She points to the phone, I look at the phone then at Carson.
"Set up an appointment, whenever they want is fine." Pointing at the little boy "I have to get trouble maker down for his nap." She nods walking away as I stare back Carson. "If you don't come down, then I will come up there don't test me." Wow I really do sound like my mother.
"Yeah right your to OLD to come up here, you'll break a hip or something." My mouth drops open, slightly amused and annoyed. I start climbing the blue tunnel, after him. He runs as I reach the top, "You will never catch me!!!!" He screams again as I stand up straight walking towards him. He runs in circles around me as I reach out for his arm. After a few minutes of running in circles he gets dizzy running in the padded walls of the playhouse jungle gym.
"Are you ok Carson?" I bend down as he nods, picking him up I find a way to get out of the playhouse. "I think I'm ready for a nap ." He mumbles in to my shirt with a yawn.
Walking in to nap room I lay him on his mat, standing up I hear him whisper. "I'm glad you didn't break a hip." Before rolling over and falling asleep. Shaking my head I walk out of the room.
"Do you think I'm old?" I ask jessica walking over cleaning the table next to her. She looks at me before nodding, "Totally I mean I'm suprised you don't walk with a cane." She goes back to cleaning the table.
"Seriously? I'm only twenty-five, and you seventeen so its like an eight year difference." I sit in the seat leaning on the table.
"I was kidding, you know I was." She smiles throwing her rag in the basket. "Oh I forgot tell you Brandon said he'll be back next week." I nod Brandon is her friend who helps with the kids for free.
"So did you set up an appointment with the possible client?" She nods sits across from me, eating a handful of cookies like she always does.
"Yeah she said she'll be by tomorrow around this time." She sticks another cookie in her mouth.
"Did you get her name or any information?" She stops chewing, "I'll take that as a no." She looks at me for a moment, then slaps the table.
"I got the daughters name." She looks proud that she got that much. "Her name is Casey." Its quiet for a minute, "Wouldn't it be cool if it was Mitchie Torres daughter." She smiles at the thought. "I've always wanted to meet her she seems cool, and shes hot so that a plus."
I raise and eyebrow "Really? It seems like you have an obession with her. And I doubt that she would come to this daycare of all the daycares here. " I feel the need to leave out the fact that I once knew her.
"Not an obession a fasincation." I stare at her, "Ok so it may be an obession, no big deal." I laugh as she stands up going into the kitchen. For more food I'm assuming. I hear a cry in the nap room, I get up to see whats wrong.
Locking the door I turn to Jessica offering a smile. "Thanks for the help, your great with the kids." I walk with her to our cars. She stands next to her car.
Smiling back she gets in, "Its no problem thats what you pay me for right." I roll my eyes laughing before walking over to my car watching her drive away. She's been working for me for about a month after the last chick just disappeared. So I hired her and her girlfriend Emily.
My mind drifts back to Mitchie. I've heard more about her today then I have in the ten years since she left. I don't see the point in telling everyone that I knew her if I'll never see her again. I have tried finding a way to contact her with the help of Justin but nothing worked. So at some point he sat me down saying that their was nothing else we could do and to just give up and if Mitchie cared enough she would find a way to find me.
I thought about and he was right. She never once tried to get ahold of me. Nothing changed I lived in the same house, same school, same church, had the same number. She just never tried. I finally I understood what Justin had meant about giving up the search. I think thats whats holding me from finding her now that I know she lives in the same city again. I'm afriad to find out that she didn't fight to find me. That she gave up the fight once she got on the plane.
