Dogged
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Beth whipped away my tear away and said, "Kimmy if you help me catch Leon, I promise you we will help you, your daughter and both of your brothers..."
"Wait hold on!" I almost yelled with eyes wide open while shooting up to my feet, "Why are you after Leon!"
Chapter 2
"Kimmy, we need to get Leon. He missed his court date," said Beth sadly.
"No, he didn't. It's tomorrow at 1:30pm! Leon and I were able to get the date changed. I had to work and Lilly was going into surgery that day. She had an infection in her leg and the surgery couldn't be put off much longer. Leon stayed with Lilly until I was done with work," I said, "I even have the paper work to show the date and time changed."
"Could we see it?" Beth asked.
"Sure, I have it somewhere here," I said looking in a pile of papers on the table by the kitchen.
Beth followed me and helped me look for it. Yet, I was the one to find the paper. "Ha, I found it! See, it says right here," I said showing Beth and pointing at the information.
"She's telling the true, Big Daddy. They were able to change the court date. I don't know how Derrick or Millie didn't get this information," said Beth in disappointment.
"Are Derrick and Millie listening of the same radio frequency?" I asked Beth curiously.
"Yeah, they are. . . Why?" asked Beth.
"Could I say something to them?" I asked.
"Sure here," Beth said handing over the walkie-talkie.
"Derrick, Millie gets your sorry tookies up here right now! Also Derrick grabs the mail under your driver seat before you head up here. Don't make me come get you two because I will!" I said into the walkie-talkie.
Dog and everyone just laughed. Everyone laughed even harder when Derrick said, "Dog why did you give us up?"
"Beth gave you up. Now get up here now you pieces of fish guts!" I said red in the face mad now.
"We're coming Kimmy. We're coming. What did Derrick and I do now," asked Millie.
"I'll tell you what Derrick did wrong once you two get up here," I said.
"Why do you always blame me?" asked Derrick.
"Because you're the forgetful one," I said back almost laughing; this is not the first time I've called him out on how forgetful he is.
"Ha ha, why did you tell Derrick to grab his mail," Dog asked.
"Because sometimes he forgets he puts some mail under his seat. So the letter saying the court date changed for Leon might be in that bunch," I said, "I literally went into his car everyday just to make sure he didn't forget get anything from under there."
"Oh boy, if that letter is in there, he'll be in a lot of trouble," said Beth.
"If it is like that, I'll show you all a good time but no striping or lap dancing. I draw the line there especially if my daughter is in the other room," I said laughing.
"Ooooh! I like that idea," said Dog while Leland, Duane Lee and Young Blood nodded in agreement.
"Of course, Beth would take care of Dog," I said laughing while Beth punched Dog in the stomach.
A knock came from the door and when I opened it. There stood Derrick and Millie. I held my hand out hand out to Derrick and he put the letters into my hands. I looked through it and I found the letter. I looked up at Derrick and walked up to him. He backed away and I said, "Derrick, man up or it's just going to hurt more the longer you make me wait to hit you upside the head."
Derrick walked right back to me and I hit him upside his head. "Ow, now that really hurt Kimmy," Derrick said whining.
"Good! Here's the letter telling you that the court date was changed!" I said while handing the letter to Millie.
"Derrick!" Millie yelled while smacking him upside the head.
"Mommy, what's going on out there?" asked a sleepy girl's voice.
"It's nothing sweety. Mommy is just trying to sort things out for Leon," I said while walking into my daughter's room but first glared at Millie.
"Can I meet them?" asked Lilly.
"Um. . . Sure but you can't stay up to long, okay?" I said to Lilly sternly.
She nodded her head and stretched out her arms. I picked her up and her arms wrapped around my neck. I carried her into the other room and sat down on the couch. "Is this your little girl, Kimmy?" asked Dog.
"Yes, this is my little Lilly," I said happily while hugging.
"She's adorable!" Beth said cooing over Lilly.
Lilly tucked her head into my neck all shy. This made everyone say aw and laugh. "Hey now, no one picks on my family when I'm around!" I said which only made everyone laugh more, except Beth.
"You all better stop that. No mama likes someone messing with her babies. So I would stop if I were you. I'll even help her," said Beth seriously.
"Okay, sorry big mama," said Dog while hugging and kissing Beth, "Sorry, Kimmy."
"It's okay, Dog," I said with a smile.
Lilly peek from my neck and was looking at Leland. "I like your tattoos," Lilly said to Leland.
I smiled but everyone laughed. Leland crouched down to look into Lilly's eyes and said, "Why thank you. I like your night gown (it was green and had Tinker Bell on the front)."
Lilly blushed and hid in my neck again. "Lilly what do you say when someone gives you a complement?" I asked her while trying not to laugh.
"Thank you," Lilly said while still hidden.
Leland laughed while patting Lilly's head and said, "Your welcome."
Lilly then turned around and looked at everyone. When she spotted Derrick and Millie she stretched out her arms to them. Derrick came over and picked her up. Then walked and sat down on a chair that was near Millie. Lilly hugged Derrick and Millie and then said, "Why haven't you come and visited us?"
"That's because they have been very busy, Lilly," I said.
"Oh! Well I'm glad I got to see you now," Lilly said happily while Derrick and Millie looked guilty.
"Hun, I think it's about time you go back to bed," I said while walking up to her.
I picked her up while she said, "Okay mommy."
I walked back to the bedroom and tucked her into bed. "Good night sweety! Have sweet dreams and I'll see you in the morning. Okay, hun?" I said to her.
"Okay mommy, see you in the morning," she said as she was drifting off to sleep.
I walked out of the room quietly and shut the door. I looked around and everyone is still sitting around the living room. "Why is everyone still here?" I asked, "It's like almost eleven at night."
"Oh, sorry we'll head out," said Beth and everyone got to their feet.
"No, it's fine. I have to get up early to help Lilly get ready for school. It's not easy to get my daughter and her wheel chair down those few steps," I said.
"Well you probable get some help, right?" asked Lyssa.
"No she doesn't. I have it on tape of her caring the wheelchair, her purse, and Lilly's backpack in her left arm, and then have Lilly over her right shoulder," Amber said excited, "It's really cool to watch!"
"Ha ha, Amber calm down! I had no choice but to do that for like three months by myself. Yeah, it killed my back every now and then but I had to do it to get crap done," I said.
"I can't believe you can do all this by yourself! Doesn't anyone help you!" asked Young Blood.
"No one really helps me. Leon helps me to a point along with some friends. I don't have any other living relatives. Gary, my late husband's, family doesn't want to have anything to do with me or Lilly," I said truthfully.
"My god, that's not right. How could they do that to someone who's a part of their family?" Dog said in disbelief.
"Gary's parents never forgave my mother after what she did to Gary and me. They blamed it on me somewhat but more so my mom on what happened," I said almost in tear just thinking what happened back then.
"What did your mom do that was so bad?" asked Beth.
"Well before Lilly was born, Gary and I had a son. I only held him for five minutes and Gary never saw him, because he was on a business trip. I had just given birth to him and I was drugged up because of the medication they gave me. My mom had me sign some paper and to make madders worse the nurses there in my room didn't even try to stop her. . . . . . The papers were for putting up my son for adoption. After that night I never saw my baby boy again. My mom told me that he had passed away while I was sleeping. Gary and I didn't know the truth until Gary saw a form out on my mom's kitchen table. It said everything about our baby boy being adopted. Gary yelled at me at first until he realized I had no clue about what was going on. We sued my mom and the hospital for doing this to us. With that money we are looking for our son. So far nothing is working until that is my husband past away. In his will he asked that Lilly and I at least be able to see him. Right now they are trying to talk to the parents of my son to see if Lilly and I could at least see him every now and then. From what my lawyer says my little boy may be living in Hawaii or in Canada," I said with tear running down my face.
"Oh my god, Lilly why didn't you tell us this," asked Millie.
"Because I know you don't want to mix personal lives with work so I never said anything," I said crying harder now.
Beth and Lyssa came up and hugged me tight. Dog, Young Blood, Duane Lee, Leland and Derrick were crying quietly while Beth, Lyssa, Millie and Amber were crying a little louder. "Okay enough with the crying. What happened then can't be undone because it was in the past but I'm working hard to get to my goal on seeing my son and helping my daughter get ready for the world. I'm sorry but you all have to leave now. I have to get my daughter ready for school and then go to work. After work I have to bring Leon to court and then run of to pick up my little girl. So if you all would be so kind as leave so that I can get a good night sleep. Thank you and hopefully I'll see you all around some time," said to everyone.
Everyone nodded their heads and headed out of my apartment, except Amber of course. Once everyone was gone Amber and I went to bed.