Ok guys I'm soooo sorry I had serious writers block and then I wanted it to be perfected because this was my first fanfic so I'm sorry for making you guys wait and the next chapter wont be that long to be posted I say two weeks tops and if I haven't updated you guys can tell me to get on it. Without further delay
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Chapter 21- Ally
I feel like Xavier was lying but I can't talk that much because I lied to when he asked me if I was ok. I guess I just didn't want him to worry too much about it but I do want to find the women who dropped me off at the adoption center. Maybe she knows more then she wrote in the report. I get to the house and its about 5. I notice my brothers' cars on curb and in the driveway. I walk into the house and I can smell food coming from the kitchen I walk in and find my mom moving all around.
"Hey mom" she stops and looks over at me.
"Hey Ally, where did you go?" I shrug and grab at fruit snack from the pantry.
"Nothing just hanging out with Xavier" she smiles at me.
"You two are getting pretty close huh?" I smile at her.
"I don't know mom"
"Well I really like him, I think you two look cute together" I shake my head.
"Thanks mom, where's everybody?" I ask changing the subject.
"Living room dinner will be done in about 30 minutes" I nod as her phone rings and she answers it. I walk out of the kitchen to the living room.
"Hey guys" I say and they all look over at me.
"Hey Ally" Jesse and my dad say.
"Hey we were looking for you earlier?" Christian ask and I walk over and sit next to Paco.
"I went to hang out with Xavier for a while" Jesse nods and Christian and Paco look at me skeptical. My dad doesn't answer he get glances over at me.
"Why would you hang out with him?" Paco asks. I look over at him.
"Because he's my boyfriend I mean why do you hang out with Julie?"
"You don't want to hear the answer to that" he says and Christian and Jesse laughs with Paco and my dad just smiles and shakes his head.
"Eww that is not necessary I'm going go upstairs let me know when dinner is ready." I says getting up and walking upstairs to my room. I close my door and walk over to my laptop and log on to it. I pull up my internet and search people finder and type in Mila Castillo in Illinois.
30 different Mila Castillo. I sigh and bring my search down to Chicago, Illinois
15 different Mila Castillo. This is way better than 30 different people. I start to look through them. There were a few I could cross off. The first one I look at is only 5 years old.
"That's out" I say as I look at two others and one Mila is 23 and the other was 35.
"If the lady said she was an older woman when she dropped me off there she has to be in her 50's at least." So that left two more and one's 52 she lives in Illinois but outside of Chicago but she use to live in Chicago on the Southside and she's Cuban and her Husband Lorenzo Castillo.
"This might be her" I read the other one. She's 48 and she lives in downtown Chicago but she's a Caucasian the widow of a Mr. Hector Avila big time mogul. "Well I'm not Caucasian so I going to go with this one." I click her on her name and up her address in my phone and save it. "Maybe I should go there on Monday" I jump as I hear a knock on my door. I quickly minimize my screen as my dad opens up the door.
"Hey" I look over at him.
"Hey dad, Whats up?"
"Dinner's ready" I nod and turn back to my computer and pull my social network site. "What are you doing?" I turn and look back over at him.
"Nothing just seeing what my friends are up too" he nods.
"Well come on and eat before your brothers eat it all" I smile.
"Ok I'll be down" he nods and leaves my room closing my door back. I pull the window back up and exit it and close my computer before heading downstairs.
It's Monday morning and I'm getting ready for school or so my parents think. I have decided that I'm going to see Mrs. Castillo today. I know I should tell Xavier I'm going but I just think this is something I should do on my own. Even though I haven't seen Xavier since I dropped him off on Saturday. We texted each other a bit yesterday but that was all and it kinda hurt to not see him as much as I'm use too. I shake it off and look in the mirror at my outfit one more time. I'm keeping my hair in my natural curls. I'm wearing dark jeans and a pink shirt with a gray jacket with pink converse. I grab my bag and my phone and head downstairs I don't see my parents in the kitchen and I'm sure my brothers are asleep because they have late classes. I pick up my keys and head to my car. I toss my bag in the back and start my car up. I pull up my navigation and listen as Siri tells me where to go.
"Your destination is 4875 Ashland Ave" Siri says and I start to drive hoping I don't get disappointed today. It was an hour away I'm starting to get nervous as I got close and then when Siri says I have made it to my destination. I got out of my car and look at the house. It was small but really nice and kept up. I take a few deep breaths and walk up the porch steps I hesitate and ring the doorbell. The door opens and there's an elderly women she looks at me a little surprised.
"Elise?" she questions and I look at her a little confused I shake my head.
"Um no my name is Alessandra" she snaps out of her thoughts.
"I'm so sorry you just look like someone I know, but it's there something I can help you with?" she asks.
"Um yes um are you Mrs. Mila Castillo?" I ask.
"Yes I am"
"Oh well I don't know if you remember me or not but I just recently found out I was adopted and the adoption agency said you had found me on your steps and I just wanted to know if you saw me with my parents or anybody before you found me?" she sighs and opens up her door more.
"Please come in" I walk in and she closes the door and I follow her into her living. "Have a seat, Can I get you something to drink Alessandra?" I sit down and shake my head.
"No thank you I'm fine" she nods and sits across from me. "You have a very nice house"
"Thank you, So Alessandra how's your life?" I look at her a little hesitate. "I'll answer your questions I just wanted to hear how your life is and if I made the right choice." I nod at her.
"Um well my name is Alessandra Fuentes but my family and friends call me Ally, um I'm named after my adopted father. I have a good family; my parents are Alejandro and Brittany Fuentes. Um I have three older brothers a lot of cousins, aunts and uncles. Some great grandparents. I live on the North side of Chicago and I'm a senior at Fairfield High, and I'm captain of the soccer team." I say and she nods a little and smiles.
"That's good sounds like you have a very good life with a lot of good people" I smile and nod.
"Yeah they are" I says she was about to ask me something else but then my phone starts to ring. I look up at her with an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry"
"It's fine go ahead" I pull my phone out of my pocket and see it's a call from Xavier.
"Hey I'm going to be a little late today" I say into the phone.
"Why, where are you?" he asks.
"I had to make a stop but I should be back before school ends" I say trying to give him short answers and he wasn't buying it.
"What...What are you talking about?" I sigh and I hear a bell in the background.
"Look Xavier I'm fine I'll see you later now get to class before your late ok" I say in a rush.
"Ally-"
"I know I love you too X" I say and then I hang up my phone I know I'm going hear about this later. I turn my phone off and put it in my back pocket. I look over at Mrs. Mila.
"I'm sorry about that" she smiles back at me.
"It's ok I remember those days with myself and my husband" she gets up and goes to a shelves and pulls out a few photo albums. She walks over and puts them on the table she sits down and opens one of them up. She flips through a few pictures until she finds what she's looking for. She pats the seat next to her. "Here I want to show you something"
I'm confused but I get up and sit next to her. She turns the album my way and shows me the pictures. I look at the pictures and I see one with her and her husband and a lot of kids some look my age and few look younger.
"Are these your grandkids?" she nods
"Yes they are a pretty entertaining bunch of kids" I smile and flip through some more pictures then I see a few of Mrs. Mila and her husband when they were younger and I look at a few others and they all had these three girls. In different places and poses with Mrs. Mila and her husband or by themselves.
"Are these your daughters?" I ask and she smiles a little and nods.
"Yes, that's my oldest Lorena with the brown hair and the one with black hair is my middle daughter Mariah" she explains as she points out the older two in a picture together. I look at one with a girl who looks familiar. She has dark brown hair like mine and big brown eyes with a beautiful smile. She was standing next to Mrs. Mila they look like they were on a beach.
"Who is this with you?" I ask and she looks at the picture and gives me a small smile.
"That's my youngest daughter Leslie" I look at the girl she looks about my age in these pictures. I hear Mrs. Mila sigh. "Alessandra I didn't find you on my doorstep" I turn my head over to her.
"What do you mean? Where did you find me?"
"Alessandra, I'm your grandmother and my daughter Leslie was your mother" I'm in shock I stop and stare at her totally floored and very confused.
"What, How…why?" I ask.
"It's a long story." She says thinking I'm going to leave this conversation alone but that isn't about to happen.
"That's fine I have nothing but time" she nods a little.
"Ok fine I'll answer any questions you have"
"Ok how about where's my mom and why did she give me up for adoption or why did you?" I ask and she sighs.
"Leslie died a week before I took you to the adoption agency." I can't believe this my mother is dead. I feel a little pain in my heart knowing that I will never get a chance to meet. "Now Alessandra I want you to know that Leslie loved you very much and she would do anything for you and I know she would be proud of the woman you've become." I nod
"How did she die?" I ask in a whisper.
"She was murder she was 20 when she died, I was going to keep you Alessandra I was going to send you with your Aunt Lorena and her husband their son Tyler." I look over at her.
"Then why didn't you and where was my father during all of this?"
"Your father is still alive I don't know where he is but your mother knew she didn't want you with your father." I just can't get over these surprises that keep popping up.
"Why wouldn't she?" Mrs. Mila sighs.
"I guess I should start from the beginning" I nod.
~~~~~~~~~~~Flash Back~~~~~~~~~~
On the Southside of Chicago
"So you really love this guy then huh?" Lorena says to her baby sister. Leslie rolls her eyes at her older sister.
"Yes I do love him Lorena"
"I still can't believe you moved in with him" Mariah commented.
"Mariah not everyone can get into Yale to be a lawyer"
"You could I mean hell even Lorena and Nick are moving to Florida with Tyler maybe you should go too and get into some sports or something"
"I'm not going to leave him and defiantly not now I can't raise a child by my-"Leslie cut herself off realizing what she was saying. Both her sisters look at her in shock.
"Leslie your pregnant!" Lorena yells.
"Shut up Lori! Damnit keep your voice down!" she yells whispers at them.
"How didn't this happen!" Lorena asks but this time in a quieter voice. Mariah laughs a bit and looks at Lorena and answers.
"Come on Lori, I think we all know how it happened" Leslie laughs a bit with Mariah but Lorena doesn't find it funny.
"Oh Ha Ha that's so funny, Does he know Leslie" she sighs.
"Yes Lorena he knows and he's very happy about it" Lorena rolls her eyes.
"Yeah right he probably just said that to keep you around"
"What is wrong with you I swear ever since he and I first started dating you hated him why?"
"Because he's not good for you Leslie you can do so much better than him" Leslie just shook her head.
"No Lorena it's just because he doesn't meet up to your standards but you know what Lorena I'm happy with him and I love him and he loves me and this baby so you can get off your high horse" She says to her. Mila walks into the room hearing her girls arguing.
"What's going on girls what's with all the yelling?" she asks and they didn't say anything at first. But then Lorena looks over at her mother.
"Mom, Leslie's pregnant by that thug!" her mom looks over at her youngest shocked.
"Lorena why can't you shut your damn mouth and stay out of my business!" Leslie snaps at her.
"Leslie is this true?" she sighs and nods her head.
"Yes mom its true I am pregnant" her mom just looked at her.
"Lorena, Mariah can you let me talk to Leslie alone please" they nod their heads and get up to leave as Leslie shoots daggers into Lorena's back. They leave and Mila sits down next to her. The two sat in silence for a while.
"Mom will you say something…. are you mad?" she shakes her head and looks at her youngest.
"No Leslie I'm not mad at you a little disappointed that you didn't wait but mija I could never be mad at you or any of your sisters." She smiles and hugs her mom.
"Does he know?" she asks and Leslie nods.
"Yes he does and he's happy about it"
"That's good Leslie" Mila kisses her forehead and gets up and walks to the door.
"Mom can you do me a big favor?" her mom looks over at her.
"What Les?"
"Can you tell dad….I don't want him to kill me" Mila laughs a little knowing that her husband won't be the happiest man on earth when he finds out his baby girl is pregnant.
"Yes Leslie I'll tell him but you're going to have to face him sooner or later?"
"Well I choose later" she gets up and kisses her mom's cheek. "Thanks mom you're the best"
"I know" she smiles as her daughter laughs and walks out the door. She told her husband that night that their youngest daughter was pregnant and he was not happy about it at all but he couldn't be mad at his youngest daughter for all everyone knew that. He wanted to meet this guy and Leslie had no choice but to bring him to a big dinner with her family.
"Did we really have to invite him over for dinner?" Lorena asks her parents as the got dinner ready.
"Lori, stop that your sister really likes this boy" Mila says to her.
"Yeah because she blind and doesn't see how bad he is for her"
"Chill out Lori, just lets meet the guy okay" Mariah says as she sets the table. Lorena doesn't say anything else when the door opens and they walk into the living room.
Leslie was there with her boyfriend, he was a tall Hispanic guy with brown hair and light brown eyes.
"This is my sister Mariah and my sister Lorena and her fiancé Nick their son Tyler" she says introducing them. "These are my Parents Lorenzo and Mila"
"Mom, dad, everyone this is my boyfriend Miguel Rodríguez"
"It's nice to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Castillo"
"You as well Miguel"
It was as usual meet the family type of night they asked him question and he answered like a gentleman and was sweet to Leslie and her family. They had to reason not to like him even her dad like him when he found out he was a business man and he was in college to get a degree in business. The only person who didn't believe Miguel was Lorena she knew something was off about him.
Month's later things in the Southside of Chicago where pretty good at the Castillo house Lorena and her Fiancé moved down to Florida with their son. Mariah went to Connecticut for college and Leslie was moving into an apartment with her boyfriend.
"I can't believe all my girls are gone" Mila says as she and Leslie drive to the doctors.
"I'm still here mom I just live downtown now that's all I'm literally 5mins away from you" Leslie says as she looks over at her mother.
"I know but not the same without you being at the house" she explains and her daughter nods in agreement it wasn't the same for her either but she loved her boyfriend and was ready to start a life with him and their baby.
"Are you excited to find out the sex of the baby?" she asks her daughter.
"Yes I am and I'm happy your coming with me mom"
"I'm glad you asked me, why couldn't Miguel come?"
"He's got a lot of stuff to do with school and some family things to deal with" Leslie says and she looks out the window.
"What kind of family things?" Leslie shrugs.
"His Aunt called him and was begging him to go see his cousin in prison, he didn't want to but she says he's been asking for him and won't see anyone until he talks to Miguel"
"Why doesn't he want to visit his family?" her mom asks curiously.
"He and his cousin where really close growing up even though the different ages but they just went apart after a while he says his cousin started hanging with bad guys and he didn't want to do that so they lost contact I guess"
"Well that's good he's going to go see him everyone needs family"
They get to the doctor's office and our called into the doctor's office.
"Well everything seems normal and your baby is very healthy" she says "Would you like to know the sex of your baby?" Leslie nods.
"Yes I would"
"You're having a….girl"
"That's great I have a grandson and I'm getting a granddaughter" Mila says with a big smile on her face. Leslie smiles over at her and she put her hand over her stomach.
"Mommy's little girl" she whispers to herself.
Miguel was very happy when he found out he and Leslie where having a girl. They both had decided to name her Elise because it was close to Leslie's name. As they got further in Leslie's pregnancy things with started to change between the two. Leslie couldn't say what but she knew after Miguel saw his cousin Chuy Soto. She knew he had changed and she was hoping he wouldn't be the guy his cousin was.
Mila didn't know much of went on in Leslie and Miguel's relationship but she knew it wasn't good. She could see her daughter wasn't herself. Everything she would ask Leslie about it she would just shrug it off and tell her mother it was nothing.
Finally on July 1 Leslie went to the hospital and had baby Elise Michelle Rodríguez was born the morning of July 2. Mila and Lorenzo were happy to have their second grandchild and even Leslie's sisters came and Lorena was nice to Miguel the whole visit.
After the holiday week was over Lorena and her family went back to Florida and Mariah stayed the summer since school was out. Mila was happy to have her daughter home and she wished Leslie and baby Elise would stay at the house as well but she knew Leslie and Miguel had to be parents not her.
It was late August and Leslie had brought Elise over to her parents' house to the day.
"So what do you have planned today Les?" Mila asks her daughter and plays with her granddaughter.
"Nothing I just thought I should bring Elise over to see you guys, I know your all sad since Mariah left earlier this week"
"Well good because I never get tired of seeing my baby" Mila says as she kisses Elise's cheek. Leslie smiles at her mother and daughter.
"So what's wrong Les?" Mila asks and that snaps Leslie from her thoughts.
"What? Oh nothing's wrong"
"Come on Leslie don't lie to me" Mila insist and Leslie sighs. She liked the fact that her mother knew her so well even when she was lying. She hopes she's like that with Elise.
"Miguel and I are having some problems"
"Like what?" Mila asks and Leslies shrugs.
"Over everything, Money, Elise, his job, me leaving him" her mother looks over at her confused.
"What do you mean Leslie?" Leslie sighs and looks over at her mother.
"Well Miguel cousin that he visited almost a year ago. Is Chuy Soto and I guess Chuy wants Miguel to basically take over where he left off and run the Latino Blood, and I didn't find out about it until I was about 6 or 7 months. When Elise was born we were fine everything was great but now a month later he's still trying to rebuild the gang and getting money from god knows where and I told him I didn't want Elise growing up around that and I would take her and we would leave" Mila looks over at her daughter shocked.
"Leslie you and Elise are staying here tonight"
"Mom stop its fine we just argued its nothing" Leslie says shrugging it off.
"Leslie that's not okay you're staying tonight that's final"
"Mom people in relationships have arguments" Mila was going to say something but Leslie stopped her "Look if he does something I swear I'll come straight here" Mila thought for a while and she nods.
"Fine Leslie but I swear he does anything you better come here"
"I promise" Mila nods and hands Elise to Leslie.
"She's getting fussy I think she's hungry" Leslie smiles and takes her daughter.
A few weeks later Leslie and Miguel don't have any problems as far as Mila knows. Since Leslie hasn't told her anything bad since that night. It was finally September and Mila was getting ready for Leslie to drop off Elise since she started night school. It was just like any other day for the past few weeks. Leslie would drop Elise off talk to her mother for a while then leave and come back before 9 and pick up Elise and talk with both her parents.
"Hey mom here's all her things and I should be back by my usual time" Leslie says as she puts the baby bag down. Which was filled with way more things than usual.
"Ok well we'll see you at 9" Mila says and Leslie gives a small nod. She kisses Elise and holds her a while long.
"I love you Elise…remember that please" she whispers and her mom doesn't catch it as Elise smiles at her mother. Leslie hands Elise to her mother and she hugs her.
"I love you so much mom" She says and Mila smiles and hugs her back.
"I love you too Les, we'll see you later" Leslie nods and hugs them one last time before she leaves.
Mila does her usual routine she would feed Elise then give her a bath then her husband would come home and he would play and hold Elise until she fell asleep in his arms. The night was going as it always did Lorenzo and Mila sitting on the couch in the living room watching TV. Lorenzo holding a sleeping Elise as they wait for Leslie to come back.
"Leslie is late" Lorenzo says as he turns to his wife. Mila looks at the clock it's almost midnight.
"Yeah Leslie's never this late, I'll call her again" she says as she dials her daughters number. It rings and then goes straight to voicemail.
"Hey this is Les, sorry I can't come to the phone right now but if you leave a message I'll get back to you" beep
"Leslie it's me I'm calling again to see where you are so please call me back when you get this message" Mila hangs up and turns to her husband.
"She's still not answering?" Lorenzo asks and Mila shakes her head.
"No, Lorenzo I think something's wrong, Leslie always answers and if she does miss the first call she'll call right back immediately"
"Maybe she stopped at the store Mila clam down"
But Mila knew something wasn't right but she couldn't put her finger on it. Lorenzo and Mila put Elise in a crib they had put up for when she stayed over it was in Leslie old room. They were in their room getting ready for bed when there was a loud bagging at the door.
"What the hell is that?" Lorenzo questions as the jump and look over at eachother.
"Stay here Mila" he says as he goes down the hall and Mila follows him.
"No I'm going with you" Lorenzo sighs at how stubborn his wife was.
He gets to the door and opens it. He sees two police officers on his porch.
"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Castillo" One of the officers says.
"Yes how can we help you gentlemen?" Lorenzo asks. The officers look at eachother.
"Well I'm sorry to tell you this Mr. and Mrs. Castillo but there's been an accident"
"What do you mean accident?" Lorenzo asks.
"Your daughter Leslie Castillo got hurt this evening"
"Is she ok" Lorenzo asks the officer hoping for the best.
"I'm sorry sir your daughter didn't make it"
"No" Mila says as she holds a hand over her mouth and tears fill her eyes. Lorenzo looks at the officer shocked but pulls his wife into his arms as she cries on his shoulder. Tears fill his eyes as he looks back over at the officer.
"What Happened?"
"She was coming from store and someone attacked her" Mila and Lorenzo couldn't believe that their daughter was gone. Not until they had to ID her and they knew it was her. Lorenzo and Mila kept Elise because Mila didn't trust him. They called Lorena and Mariah and told them what happened and they both couldn't believe that their baby sister was gone. Both caught the next flight to Chicago.
They were getting ready for Leslie's funeral and Mariah was watching Elise. Mila was getting some of Elise clothes that Leslie packed in a bag when she found something. Two folded piece of papers. One said Elise and the other was to her mom. Mila unfolded the one with her name on it.
Dear Mom,
If you are reading this then that means something has happened and I didn't make. I'm sorry for putting you, dad, Lori, Mariah and especially Elise through any pain. I should've listen to Lori when she said Miguel wasn't a good guy but I guess I was just blinded by love or at least the guy he used to be. I know you guys won't be able to prove it. But he had something to do with the reason I'm dead. I'm sorry for not coming to you about this but he would've hurt you all and I couldn't let that happen. So tell everyone that I love them and I'll always be there. Mom can you please promise me something….I know he's going to want Elise and will do anything to get her and you won't be able to keep her with you. He'll find a way to take her from you so please whatever you have to do just make sure he doesn't get her. I also wrote a letter for her for when she's older and understands everything can you please give it to her when the time is right. I love you so much thank you for being a great mom to me and you and dad for being great parents.
Always and forever your daughter,
Leslie
Mila could fill the tears filling down her face and she knew she had to do her daughters request she would do anything to make sure Elise was safe.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I sat there shocked I couldn't believe my mom was murdered. I look over at Mila.
"So she thought my dad killed her?" I ask and Mila looks down sadly and nods her head.
"Yes she did but they could never prove it" I sat there shocked.
"So my dad is still here in Chicago?"
"To my knowledge yes he's still in this city, Ally I know I can't force you to not see him or meet him because just like a teenager you're going to do what you want. But I do want you to be careful" Mila says and I nod my head. Now I know his name now I just have to find him and ask him questions.
"Honey I'm back!" I hear someone yell from the front door. Mila looks at me and smiles.
"I'm in here and I have someone you should meet" she calls back to who I assume is my grandfather.
"Who?" He asks as his steps get close. He walks in the room and stops at the door he looks at Mila and then over at me and freezes.
"Leslie? It can't be?"
"No Lorenzo this is Elise" Mila says as she stands up and puts her arm around me.
"Elise?...oh my look at you…wow" he says as he walks closer.
"Well her name is Alessandra but her family calls her Ally" Mila tells him and he nods.
"Right I'm sorry Alessandra" I shake my head and smile.
"It's okay it's nice to meet you" I say as I hug him and he hugs me back.
"It's great to meet you again" he says with a small laugh.
Ok I hope you guys liked it please review and tell me what you think.