--Ten--

I woke up the next day, still tired and I was a bit cranky. I could not sleep last night for the life of me, only because all I could hear was Angel and Sofi going at it all hours of the night. But, Bobby on the other hand, slept thru it all. I bet that boy could sleep thru a tornado or some kind of natural disaster. All I know is… I need a coffee. STAT!

Trying to get out of Bobby's grasp while he was asleep, was not an easy task. But, I tried my best without trying to wake him up. When I finally did, I grabbed my cell phone to see what time it was. I looked and it was frickin' seven fifteen in the frickin' morning. I am so not a morning person, at all.

I grabbed my laptop and started looking at pictures of Haley. Damn, I miss my little girl so much. Then I was looking at other random pictures. I came across one, that got me thinking. It was a picture of my mom, where she looked so happy. That's when life was good, when I was about five years old.

I wonder how she is doing or what she was up to. I thought about going to go see her for a few hours. I went in the bathroom to take a fifteen minute shower. After I felt clean, I wrapped myself in a towel, then I quietly went into Bobby's room trying not to make noise and wake him up.

Wait a miniute, Bobby could sleep thru anything. What was I thinking? I shut the door then headed over to my suitcase to pick out something to wear. I got a pair of jeans and a long sleeved grey shirt with a hoodie in the back.

As I was sitting on the edge of the bed getting my white Nike's, I felt arms wrap around my waist.

"What are you getting all dressed up for?" Bobby mumbled.

"I'm not dressed up." Bobby rested his head on my lap, he still had his eyes closed. I thought he looked adorable.

"Okay... so,where you going?"

"There is something... I need to do." I was looking down at his face, he still had his eyes closed.

"Like what, babe?"

"Like... visit my mom."

He's eyes opened wide, his body shot up, and asked "Why?"

"I just want to see how she's doing, if she's okay."

"Are you sure you want to do that?"

"Yeah… I need to do this before it's too late and I won't be able to see her."

"How bout we go see her after all this shit is over with."

"All right… I want her to at least know that she has a granddaughter, she has no clue, because I have not talked to her since we went to court to get me emancipated from her. " I sighed.

"Okay… We'll both go and tell her, but for now… come back to bed." I laughed.

"Bobby, I'm dressed and I think it's time for you to get up too."

"Yeah, yeah… in a minute."

I kissed him on the cheek and said "I'll see you downstairs." he nodded and I went downstairs into the living room to watch a little TV. After a while, my eyes started to droop for lack of sleep. Thanks to Angel and Sofi making all that damn noise.

I immediately snapped out of it, when I heard Bobby yelling from upstairs. A few hours later, Angel left with Sofi while Bobby and Jack got ready to go somewhere.

"Where ya'll headed?" I asked as both of them walked down the stairs.

"We need to meet Angel at the bowling ally, so get your shoes and let go." said Bobby. I could tell by the sound of his voice that something was wrong. So, I nodded then went to go get my shoes on.

Bobby drove to the bowling ally, as we got out, Jack said "Bobby, what do you think he found?"

"I don't know, but it's something big."

I looked over at Bobby and said "How can you tell?"

"By the sound of his voice. I know my brother." I nodded as we walking into the building. I looked around then I finally spotted Angel.

"He's over there by the bar." Bobby and Jack looked in the direction I was pointing to then we walked over there and I sat down in a stool next to Angel, while Jack too the other side.

Bobby ordered a beer for all of us, then said "What's going on Angel?" was the first thing that came out of his mouth.

"Was that councilman helpful?"

Bobby grabbed his beer and said "oh yeah. A real public servant." Bobby took a gulp. "Angel, do you remember a punk named Victor Sweet?"

"I remember a Malcolm Sweet."

"Victor was his nephew. Use to deliver things for his uncle like firebombs and beatings. You remember Malcolm use to love to humiliate him all the time."

"Yeah, I remember that dude." Angel nodded. Even I remembered that guy.

"Apparently, Victor got sick if all the ass whuppings and sunk his uncle into the river. He owns the whole neighboorhood now."

"No shit?" I said, since I had no idea what was going on.

"Mm-hmm." Bobby said while taking another drink.

"Bobby, the um… word around town is that Jerry owed a lot of people some money." Angel said as he took a sip.

"What are you talking about?" Angel nodded his head over to the bowling lanes behind Bobby, we all looked over.

"Recognize that dude over there with the fat head?"

Bobby nodded and said "Yeah, that's Evander Pearson. He use to be alright, that guy. Jerry and him use to hang during the union days."

"He goes by Evan now and he's working for a guy named Victor."

"You guys are coming up with this pretty quick." said Jack.

"We should have been cops." I giggled a little, because if Bobby would ever be a cop, he wouldn't be following the rules, he'd get kicked out his first day for his bad temper. "What are we doing here, Angel."

I looked over and saw Jerry walking up to Evan. Before I could say anything, Jack took the words right out of my mouth.

"Holy shit."

Bobby and Angel looked back over to the bowling lanes. What was Jerry doing here? Were we supposed to meet him? We got up from the bar to look a little closer. Evan and Jerry looked like they were talking, then we saw Jerry give Evan an envelope from his jacket pocket.

"I found out that Jerry got a big insurance check for moms death." said Angel.

"Forget Jerry. We're gonna find him later. Come on." Bobby looked at me. "Babe, stay here."

"Um… sure." I said pulling out my cell phone as the guys walked over to Evan.

I looked at my phone and saw that I got a picture message from my Aunt Diane. I opened it up and it was a picture of Haley, holding up a drawing she drew of me and her daddy with her. That is so cute, I sent her a message back.

"That's a beautiful drawing, Hales. Daddy is going to love it. I love you, baby girl."

A few minutes later, the guys came back and we left over to Jerry's house. We were sitting there, in the car, out front for who knows how long. But, I was freezing my ass off and it was getting dark outside.

"I ain't playing no more. I am going in there and bust that melon and find out what he's thinking." Bobby said trying to get out of the car. I grabbed his arm then gave him that look.

"Hey, his family is in there… you don't want to cause a scene."

"Bobby, you're gonna have to calm down." said Jack.

"I don't give a shit, man."

"Yeah Bobby, calm down."

He glared at me and said "Oh, I'm calm." I know Bobby and clearly, he wasn't.

"Let me just call him." Angel said pushing buttons on his phone.

"He thinks I'm an idiot." Bobby started. "He thinks I don't know what is going on."

Angel started talking on the phone "Jerry… it's Angel…Look, man, we need to meet first thing tomorrow morning at moms house… we still family right?…Yeah, man… okay." then Angel shut his phone.

"I am going to kill him." said Bobby. "Is he coming?"

"Yeah." Angel nodded.

"Good." after that we went back to the house.

I decided to get ready for bed, when I laid down, Bobby came in and pounced on me like a cat.

"What on earth are you doing, Bobby?"

"I don't know… I saw you there so I wanted to jump on you." he smirked.

"Uh-huh." I rolled my eyes.

"So, what did you want to talk to me about?" he asked.

"Oh yeah… Well, I called my x-boss and told me I'll be getting a lot of money from my 401K, enough to live on for a while at least. Plus, my four weeks of vacation is cashed in, so that is going to add to it."

"That's good." he smiled.

"Yeah… it would be okay for me, you, and Haley."

"I know you told me this like yesterday, but I still cant believe I have a daughter."

"I know." I sighed upon hearing the hurt in his voice. "We'll go see her soon enough."

Then before I knew it, Bobby's lips were planted on mine. We were playfully playing around with each other, before making love. I've always enjoyed doing this with him, except for my first time. We went at it for a few hours, then when we were done giving each other the long over-due pleasure, we held each other for the rest of the night then went to sleep. Damn, I love Bobby so much.