A/N:Glad you guys like it. I will try to make sure I keep up with it... and all the rest because I really should be finishing THOSE up. so What is everyone doing, and Who is Alyssa's some of it is answered here. Enjoy- S.K.
Career
I walked out of Jade's office with this seriously ill feeling in my stomach. She had a girlfriend, and a kid… I had found her and the guy swore she wasn't married. Well of course… she isn't allowed to get married. "Alright Kid, what do you want to do?" I asked Alyssa. Trina had stayed with me last night, and left to go to the store when I kind of got a lucky break when her daughter went out on the deck without permission and got that huge splinter.
Well I don't know how lucky that was, but at least I had an excuse to go Jade's office. Imagine my surprise when I learned what it was she did. IT was so… different from what we trained to do in school. But… Then again, Cadavers and blood seemed right for her. I thought she'd be a surgeon. I looked at her card… "Oh…" I said out loud, she is a pediatric surgeon. Of course.
"What?" Alyssa said looking up at me.
"Do you like your new doctor?" I asked.
She nodded. "She is better than the other one, he has stinky breath, and gives me shots."
Right, Jade didn't give her shots, well she probably never would. I got a phone call now. Trina finally figured out her daughter wasn't where she had left her. "Yo." I answered as I buckled the little girl on to her seat.
"Where are you?" Trina asked.
"Dr. Wests office." I answered.
"Why?" Trina's voice had an edge to it now. "I swear to god Tori, what did you do to my baby?"
"She ran outside on my deck and got a splinter, no big deal." I stated.
"Oh… aren't you lucky." She said and paused as I plugged in my bluetooth and started the car. "So, was the wound bad enough for a Pediatric Surgeon to look at it?"
"She didn't give her any stitches," I stated getting on the freeway toward home. "Did you know your daughter is a bleeder? She gave her a whole gauze and wrap treatment."
Trina laughed, "Lets cut the crap, what is she like?" She asked.
"Like Jade." I answered.
"Really?"
I sighed, "Can I borrow Alyssa on Fridays?"
"Why?" She asked.
"I told her I had her on Fridays, she has a little girl at home that needs a play mate." I answered.
"She has a kid?" She moaned sympathetically.
"Her girlfriend has a kid." I answered. "It doesn't matter, the goal was to reconnect right?"
"No, I thought the goal was for you to get the girl of your dreams… Reconnection is NOT worth my daughter every week." Trina stated.
"Come on Trina!" I begged.
She groaned. "Fine, only because it is free baby sitting."
I smiled. "Besides, this time it's bound to be better. I mean, she is probably not a bitch anymore."
"You would think… but surgeons are assholes." Trina stated.
"Why would you say that?" I asked as I parked in my driveway. Trina was standing there and she hung up the phone and came around to where Alyssa sat.
"Don't you watch shows like "Hopes Anatomy, and Emergency Room Doctor. All of those surgeons are cold and mean." She picked Alyssa up and kissed her bandaged hand. "My baby girl, I'm so sorry."
"Those shows are not real." I stated, but I had to admit that did seem like a character trait of someone that held people's lives on the balance. They didn't have time to be nice.
"They had to get that idea from somewhere." Trina said and I followed her to my house. Once inside she sat at the breakfast bar and sighed. "It's just too bad she is a relationship."
"Yeah…" I stated
"Aha! You did want something more than reconnection to happen."
I shrugged. "Well yeah, but I didn't hold out much hope cause I thought she was straight anyway."
"True." Trina said, "Not that you have never had a straight girl before."
"Only one…"
"Oh, Excuse me… Cynthia, Elaine, Maura—"
"OKAY!" I said, "My industry has a lot of straight girls that experiment… I'm getting a little old for all of that though."
"Knock, knock." Came from my back door. I shivered because no matter how long that man has been in my family I cannot shake the thought of him always watching me from my back yard.
"Hey Sinj." I said as he crossed the room to his wife and kissed her.
"Hi Daddy!" Alyssa stated running to her father.
"Hey there Jelly Bean!" He said picking her up. "What happened to your hand?"
"She got a splinter from the deck outside." I said. "Jade fixed it right up for her."
"Jade West?" He asked, his eyebrows shooting up. I nodded. "She's an awesome pediatric surgeon, they are thinking of making her chief in a few years.
"Ugh, Sinjin you married my sister, you shouldn't be that obsessed with Jade."
"You were the one that asked me to look into it—"
"Enough!" Trina interrupted leveling her husband with a glare. "Take Alyssa to mom's I have some bookings I have to discuss with Tori." Trina commanded.
Sinjin kissed Trina again and left with his daughter without another word. "So… what's on my schedule today?"
"You have a meeting with Sports Illustrated today, they want you for the swimsuit issue." She said excitedly. "And you know you are like the oldest swimsuit model that would be on that issue."
I bit my lower lip and sighed. "Trina, I'm thirty… and single. I have no children. My body hasn't changed, of course I look like I belong on that magazine."
"Are you having biological clock issues Tor?" Trina responded looking through my calendar.
"What else?"
"Go see for New York City Fashion week on Thursday."
"That won't do, I have a play date with Jade on Friday." I stated, and I couldn't believe I said it.
"Really?" Trina said dubiously.
"Okay, fine… I'll take the Red Eye back." I said, "When is the Sports Illustrated Meeting"
"Three." She said. I swore I'd be acting by now… I have been caught up in the modeling world by mistake. And haven't been able to break out. Not that I hate it, I get to see all these beautiful women and that worked for me.
"Andre and you are finally on the same page now, he is flying out at the same time you are tonight to New York. He thought you should record that single you guys worked on like five years ago."
"Sweet," I stated as I grabbed a yogurt from the fridge and thought about how I was going to make it back in time for the play date. You need to bring Alyssa to her play date if I don't make it back on time."
Trina's eyes bulged out. "Jade hates me."
"Well Alyssa and Chloe have nothing to do with that, and they really like each other." I answered.
"Fine." She stated.
"Right, time to get started." I said and headed to my room to get ready for the Sports Illustrated people.
