Notes: Sorry about the disappearing act, but I've been so busy I could hardly function. So now that I'm on break from school and feeling better. Here is chapter 6. I hope you like it and I'll be updating the other soon as well. *Smiles*

Mystery Girl

Jenny's POV:

" Well here's the base color." I smiled and held the door open for Letty.

" Wow, it's really nice." She smiled and touched freshly dried blue walls.

" You picked a good theme." I pulled a sketch of the room plan out of my back pocket. " Sit, sit. Rosemary will kill me if I don't help enforce this rest thing."

Letty sighed and sat down in the chair in the middle of the room. She pulled a book out from under the chair and started flipping threw the pages.

" You need to figure out what else you want for detailing in this room, if you want anything."

" Not sure."

" Okay suit yourself. Which book are you looking at?"

" The name book."

" I see I see." I muttered and paced a circle around the room. " Got any ideas yet?"

" If it's a boy, it'll be easy: Anthony something, either Jonathan or Joseph, but I don't have any clues for girls."

" That could be a problem. Why Jonathan or Joseph, I remember you saying that Anthony was Dom's father."

" Jonathan was my dad and Joseph was Jesse's name."

" Ah. How do you get Jesse from Joseph?"

Letty laughed out loud. " Jesse was just a nickname that stuck."

" Okay." I popped the lid on the white paint and loaded it into my airbrush gun. "Did you want to stick to just the clouds or did you want to do the swishes too?"

" I liked the swish marks in the fabric of the quilt you're making, could pull that off?"

" Oh ye of little faith." I looked at the paint cans, then at the fabric pieces I pulled out of my pocket. " Yeah, we should be able to do that. I need to get started, only got two weeks."

" I know." She fidgeted. " Do you think I can do this?"

" Hesitance does not become you." I laughed. " You're confident in everything else, and you'll figure this out too."

" What if I screw the kid up?"

" Every human being is screwed up." I touched her arm. " Don't worry if I can do it, so can you and Dom."

" I guess." She actually smiled. " Step one: get through the birth."

" Exactly. Now, I'll get working on this nursery, you start talking me through possible names if it's a girl."

" What about Elania?"

I put down my paint gun and moved a tray over to where I was working. "Doesn't sound bad at all. Maybe Elania Marie?"

" Kinda cute." She scratched her bottom lip.

" I'll be right back. I need another color." I left Letty in the nursery and hopped down the stairs and walked into the studio. I looked over the can's lids until I found the color I needed then grabbed a pouch of glitter and roller. I was half way back when the phone rang I sighed and lifted the receiver. " Hello Shayne's visions how may I help you?" I was about to repeat my spiel in Spanish when a friendly voice came back at me.

" Oh hello Shayne! How is my most darling little artist? This is Miss Poche from Boston."

" Yes, Miss Poche, I recognized your voice. What can I do for you?"

" Oh dear, I just received your last painting. I adore it. Now about the fifth one…"

" Miss Poche I haven't even thought about creating a fifth one."

" Such a shame. I love those pictures. I wanted one with the girl and her lover for over my mantle."

" Well but as I said…"

" I would love one like that. In fact I'm willing to commission it."

I bit my lip, commissioned painted were always a touch a go situation and I really didn't like doing them. The reality was that I had to do them occasionally to support my lifestyle. I ground my teeth together and made a face. " I suppose I could think…"

" My dear I will pay you $50,000 for a full-size mantle-hang of that series."

I could feel my eyes bugging out of my head and I managed to shallow my gasp. I cleared my throat and told her. " I will have to figure out if I have available time and can find a suitable model, but I will let you know by the end of the week."

" Thank you so much my dear. I look forward to hearing from you. Chow!"

" Chow." I muttered and dropped the phone back down on hook. I did a little victory dance and strutted back into the nursery.

" Who was on the phone?" Letty asked me.

" Miss Poche from Boston. A very rich woman who loves my work and has just called me to commission the fifth in your series."

" I thought you were done with those."

" For $50,000 I can change my mind. Now how would that lover of yours feel about posing?"

" $50,000! For a painting! Is this woman nuts?!?"

I arched my eyebrow, " I hope that isn't an indirect assault on my art."

" You know me better than that. I just can't believe someone would pay that much for one painting."

" Letty, a Van Gough can easily go for a couple of million."

" When are yours gonna be worth that much?"

" When I'm dead." I put my hands on my hips. " Although now that I think about it. The ones I did before I murdered Tom are probably getting there."

" All about the back-story, huh?"

" Something like that. So where were we? Ah, yes Elania Marie."

" I decided against it."

" Okay fair enough. Any others in mind?"

" Yeah, but can I ask you something?"

" I still guarantee no answers."

" Fair enough. Why no sex during pregnancy? I've heard it's okay and I've heard it's not okay; which is it?" She reached under the chair and retrieved another book.

" It's fine during the first two tri's it's the last one, where it's a no-no."

" Why only the third?"

" Can cause premature labor?" I looked at the walls, then at my plan again. 'stars how was I going to do those stars?' I thought as Letty said something I didn't catch. I narrowed my eyebrows, as I weighed my options: I didn't feel like making a stamp or using stencils, so I was gonna have to come up with an alternative plan.

" Hello in there!" Letty called out.

" Yes love?"

" How does sex cause premature labor?"

" Orgasms and before you say anything I don't want to know if that would be a problem or not; I won't be able to look Dom in the face for a week." I rambled.

Letty laughed out loud before complaining. " Don't do that it hurts."

" It's good for you." I assured her. " I got it." I ran out of the room. I know Letty was as confused as Hell, but I finally solved my problem and I was excited. I got my supplies and came back into the room.

" What bit you in the ass?"

" An idea for how to make those stars that won't take me 16 hours."

" And that would be?"

" Clear paint and glitter. I'll do the swishes, then the glitter, and then I'll do those clouds. Hopefully by that time you'll know what else you want to put on these walls."

" Yes mother."

" Don't joke I feel old enough as is."

" You aren't that old."

" I'm old enough." I huffed and started mixing the glitter and the paint.

" I meant to ask you; did you have any luck finding Leon's mystery girl?"

" No and its driving me batty. I mean a white girl, with blond hair and green eyes, from Detroit who knows my work and my car, shouldn't be that hard to identify, but apparently she is. It's like she vanished or something."

" Where did he meet her again?"

" Outside St. Beto's, which is really strange because Morgan goes to school there. I would've remembered this Mary he keeps talking about, if I had already met her."

" He said that she was some kind of volunteer."

I shook my head. " That's not possible."

" Why not?"

" Because…"

Leon's POV:

The shop was un-air-conditioned and noisy, but the work was good and Rico and his crew were nice even if we had to point half the time to communicate. I was fixing the breaks on a 2000 Mustang for a bunch of college girls on spring break from law school. They had been thoroughly grateful that someone in our shop spoke English and I was thoroughly grateful for the work. It had been miserably slow that day, of course it usually was we closed at 8 at night and got most of our work at 7. I glanced over at Dom who was busy talking with Rico over something, probably business suggestions. I liked it in Mexico, besides the fact that it was too damn hot and I didn't speak the language. Jenny was helping me look for Mary, who I hadn't seen after our first meeting. I finished the car and hollered for the boys to lower the hoist. I saw a white van pull into the shop and smiled broadly, the side was marked "St. Beto's;" I'd let Dom walk over and talk to Mary and have her ask for me.

I could hear part of the conversation from where I stood doing the final checks. Since Dom was getting pretty good at Spanish he was speaking in that language.

" Hola Hermana! Como estas?" Dom greeted her, but I couldn't remember what hermana meant.

" Bein gracious. Et tu Senor?"

" Bein. Hable englis?"

" Yes I do." Her voice sounded familiar before, but now that I heard her speak in English it was really ringing a bell. " I'm looking for Leon? He said he might work here."

" Hey Leon come here!" Dom called out to me.

I rounded the corner grinning like a mad man, but almost feinted. The woman who brought in the van was dresses as a nun.

She smiled at me her green eyes sparkling. "Hi Leon."

Letty's POV:

" Why not?" I asked Jenny.

" Because…" She trailed off as a door slammed.

I looked down at my watch. " Noon, the boys are back for lunch."

" Jenny!" Leon yelled as pounded around downstairs.

" I'm up here." Jenny called out and asked me. " What did I do?"

I shrugged my shoulders as Dom and Leon came into the room. Leon's ears were red he was absolutely furious; I'd never seen him this mad.

" Did you think it'd be funny?!?" He demanded from Jenny.

" What are you talking about?" Jenny questioned planting her feet in case Leon got any ideas.

" He's talking about Mary. Now calm down Leon. Jen wouldn't do that to you." Dom tried to reason with him.

" Did you know she was a nun?!?" Leon growled in Jenny's direction.

I bit my lip trying to contain my laughter. I couldn't believe it, Leon's mystery girl was a nun. No wonder Jenny didn't recognized her from Leon's description.

" No." Jenny shook her head and swallowed her own laughter. " How would I have known from that description?"

Leon huffed and stormed out of the nursery; cussing up a royal storm.

After he left Jenny and I broke down laughing finally when I caught my breath I managed to ask. " So how was work so far?"

" Until Sister Mary Katherine came to visit everything was going fine."

" Poor Leon." Jenny lamented. " I feel terrible. Now that I know what she does; I know who she is. She's come in here twice this year."

" It's not your fault. Leon'll get over it." Dom assured her, and then kissed the top of my head. " And how is Ed?"

" Practicing for the World Cup." I complained before reminding him. " We need to talk about girl's names."

" Why?" He sighed heavily.

" Because if we don't pick one it will most assuredly be a girl and she'll be baby for the first few days of her life and develop a complex." I rambled as Jenny laughed and walked out of the room. " It isn't funny!" I yelled at her.

" Oh, yes it is!" She called back.

I furrowed my eyebrows and called to her. " Hey, Jen come here for a second."

She leaned around the doorway. " What?"

I smiled slyly. " It would most definitely be a problem!"

Jenny blinked than her face turned bright red. " Ahh." She covered her ears and fled Dom and the room.

" What was that all about?"

" Nothing, nothing." I reassured Dom.

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Next time the baby I promise!!!!!