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Letting Go
Chapter 2
Kaylee, Cruz and Sasha went down the stairs and were out in the freezing cold January air.
"Wow. It's cold." Kaylee complained. She was only in the long sleeve shirt. "Mom, I'm gonna run upstairs and get my sweat shirt."
"I'm coming with you. I need my jacket." Cruz ran after her daughter.
Sasha shook her head. "Those two deserve each other." She muttered, but couldn't help but smiling.
5 minutes later, they came back down.
"What took you so long?" Sasha was shivering and her lips were blue,
Cruz and Kaylee glanced at each other. "I had to look for my sweat shirt," Kaylee explained.
"Yeah right." Sasha knew both of them too well.
Kaylee burst out laughing. "Ok, but it was my idea. I wanted to make you wait and Mom went along with it."
"Kay!" Cruz exclaimed. "Your not supposed to tell! Didn't I teach you anything?"
Kaylee rolled her eyes and started walking. Cruz followed.
"Maritza." Sasha pulled her back.
"What?" Sasha looked serious and Cruz wasn't in the mood for a lecture.
"You shouldn't be teaching her these things."
"Live a little, Sasha." Cruz glanced at Kaylee who stopped at the corner and waited. "Besides, it was her idea."
"But you're the mom. You shouldn't go along with it."
"What's wrong with having fun?"
"Fun is making me get pneumonia?"
"Well...." Cruz trailed off and out of the corner of her eye, saw Kaylee get a snowball together. Kaylee brought a finger up to her lips. Cruz nodded so slightly Sasha couldn't see it. Kaylee walked quietly over behind Sasha on an angle. She aimed and released the snow ball.
"Ow!" Sasha yelped. She turned her head around and saw Kaylee standing there innocently. She turned her body around and raised her eyebrows.
"She made me do it!" Kaylee pointed at Cruz.
Sasha whirled around to Cruz.
Cruz threw her arms up in the air. "I give up. Kaylee! Have u learned nothing?" She demanded.
Kaylee looked down, ashamed. "Okay, Sasha, I did it on my own." She ran next to her mother. "It was a good idea though, right?" She whispered.
Cruz leaned down next to her. "Duh." She grinned.
Kaylee smiled. "I'm hungry!" She shouted.
"Dammit, Kay, I think Queens heard you." She paused.
Sasha smiled.
"Let's go to the diner."
"How far?"
"Kaylee, we practically live there. You know how far it is."
"That diner?" Kaylee made a face. "We always go there."
"It's closer, only 4 blocks. I ain't paying for a cab for only 4 blocks. Now if you want, we could go to the diner that's 15 blocks away..." Cruz trailed off.
Kaylee looked at Cruz. "You would walk 15 blocks?" She snorted.
Cruz and Sasha exchanged a look and started walking.
"Mom! Mom! Sasha!" Kaylee called, standing in the same spot. "Mom?" Aw, crap. I hate walking. I wish I was in school. No! No I don't. I'm with my mom and my, well I don't know what Sasha is, but we're having a girls day out, kinda. Not really, we're just going to breakfast. Maybe we'll go shopping! I need a new pair of sneakers. Kaylee shook her head and looked up the street. She saw the back of Cruz and Sasha. She started running.
"Mom!" She called. "We're going to the one that's 4 blocks away right?"
Cruz nodded. "You really think I wanna walk 15 blocks? and Sasha? She's frozen."
Kaylee glanced at Sasha. She was giving her mom a dirty look.
"Yeah thanks to you." She muttered under her breath.
"What time is it?" Kaylee asked.
Cruz took her cell phone out. "11:11."
"Make a wish!"
To be 13, Sasha thought wishfully.
They walked the 4 blocks to the diner with Kaylee talking a mile a minute.
They walked inside and shook themselves off from the cold.
"Hey Kaylee." The waitress greeted them.
"Hey Joey! Where you been?"
"Vacation, come with me." Joey led the trio to there usual booth.
Cruz sat on one side with Sasha and Kaylee sat by herself.
"Me and Mom missed you. We got the bitchy one."
Sasha coughed.
Kaylee rolled her eyes at Sasha. "C'mon Sasha. Mom didn't even freak out. We've known Joey for 1000 years."
"How would that work?" Sasha asked.
"Mom!" Kaylee whined.
"Sasha, it's okay. We know Joey, Joey knows us. Get over it."
"Which bitchy one?" Joey tried to change the subject.
"Umm..." Kaylee looked at her mother.
"Paula?" Cruz suggested.
"Penelope?" Joey corrected.
"Yeah!" Cruz and Kaylee shouted at the same time.
Sasha did everything she could not to smack herself on the head.
Joey smiled. "Yeah, she's a bitch." She looked down at Cruz and Kaylee. "You even need menus?"
Kaylee shook her head. "Grilled cheese and apple juice."
Cruz stared at Kaylee. "You've gotten that every time we've been here since the first night I met you."
"I know."
Cruz kept staring at Kaylee. "Bacon sandwich and coffee." Without taking her eyes off Kaylee she handed Joey the menu.
"Are we having a staring contest?" Kaylee asked.
Sasha was looking at the two of them. She looked up at Joey and gave her an apologetic smile.
"Don't worry. I'm used to them." Joey whispered.
Sasha cleared her throat. "Um, same as Maritza." She handed over the menu.
Joey nodded and walked away.
Sasha started tapping her fingers on the table, loudly. After 5 minutes, they were still staring at each other.
"Maritza! Kaylee!" She said, impatiently.
Cruz blinked.
"Ha! I win!" Kaylee said gleefully. "Thanks Sasha."
Cruz gave Sasha an evil look. "I can't believe I lost to you." She groaned.
Joey came back with the food and placed it down.
"Joey, sit with us." Kaylee moved over.
She looked around the diner. It was empty except for 2 other customers. "Sure."
Cruz, Kaylee and Sasha began to eat.
"So Kaylee, how come you ain't in school?"
"Math test." She answered with her mouth full. She swallowed. "Mom decided to be cool and let me stay home to study. We're just out to breakfast then me and Mom are going home and I'm gonna study. Then, I'm gonna go in with Mom to work to see everyone again and then I'm gonna go home and study some more."
"You have the whole day planned?" Joey asked, amazed. On my days off from school, I slept all day and had no plans.
"Yup." Kaylee ate happily.
Cruz looked at her daughter and then at Joey. "How's the kids?" She asked.
"Good." Joey smiled and stood. "Well, I'm gonna get back to work, come back later you two." She called to them.
Cruz finished her bacon sandwich and looked at Sasha's plate. "You're barely half done?"
Sasha nodded. "I eat slow."
"Hurry up, Kay needs to study."
Kaylee stuck her tongue out at her mother.
Sasha sped up and was done within 5 minutes.
"Joey! Check." Cruz called. She saw Joey nod. "I want you to really study, Kay."
Kaylee rolled her eyes. "Have you just met me? I wanna pass school."
Sasha smiled. "Good girl."
Cruz glanced at Sasha. That's my job.
Joey walked over to them with the check. It was 13.24. Sasha paid the check and Cruz left a tip.
They got up and Cruz put her arm around her daughter to show Sasha she was her mother.
They walked back to Cruz's apartment quickly because it was freezing. They went in the lobby and Sasha said good bye. "I'll see you both later." She reminded them.
Oh yay. Cruz thought.
Sasha hugged Kaylee and left.
Cruz and Kaylee exchanged a look. They ran up the stairs as quickly as possible.
They waited at the door for awhile, waiting for each other to open the door.
"Don't you have keys?" Kaylee asked.
"Yeah. Don't you?"
"Yeah." Kaylee tapped her foot. Clearly she wasn't going to open the door anytime soon.
Cruz went into her purse and got them out. She unlocked the door and Kaylee ran in, grabbing Burnt Offerings and ran to her room. She closed the door.
Cruz walked in slowly, looking around. I wonder how a stranger would see this place. It was a happy room, light blue for Kaylee. A comfy couch was in the middle of the room, the TV across from it. The book shelves were behind the couch, with all of there books. Scattered everywhere were pictures. She went over to the couch and sat down. She turned on the TV. Since it was 11:45, nothing good was on. She flipped through the channels and sighed. She turned the TV off. Aww crap. I have reports to do.
Cruz got off the couch and went into her bedroom. On the way she passed Kaylee's room. She put her ear against the door. She heard nothing except Kaylee mumbling to herself. She opened the door slightly.
Kaylee looked up. "Hi Mom."
"Hi, baby." They looked at each other for awhile. "I'm gonna be in my room doing reports okay?"
"Sure."
Cruz started to close the door.
"Hey ma."
"Yeah?" Cruz opened the door and came into the room.
"I'm sorry bout before. Ya know, with saying that's why you're a cop."
Cruz waved her hand. "Don't worry. It's over." She smiled and walked over to Kaylee.
Kaylee moved over on her bed and gave Cruz room to sit.
Cruz sat and wrapped her arms around Kaylee.
Kaylee leaned back against her mother. "What do you think woulda happened to me if we never met?"
"I was wondering the same thing this morning."
"And?"
Cruz hesitated.
"Be honest."
"Honestly, I think Theresa would've beaten you to death eventually."
Kaylee looked up at her mother. "Thank you for saving me." She had a serious look in her eyes, something rare.
"I don't think I just saved you. I think I saved myself."
Kaylee looked confused.
"Did I ever told you the story about after Lettie died?"
"Lettie your sister?"
Cruz nodded.
"No."
"Arite, I'm gonna tell it to you now. After Lettie died, the only reason I lived was to find the asshole that sold her the drugs." She paused. "I told you the story with the house in Rockaway and the explosion?"
Kaylee rolled her eyes. "Only about 1000 times."
Cruz smiled. "So anyway after Lettie died, the only reason I lived was to find the asshole that sold her the drugs. I did everything I could and I hurt alotta people. I hurt the few people that were nice to me."
"What about your mom and dad?"
"They weren't there." Cruz said shortly. "Anyways, I was working with the FBI on this case with a writer. He was my informant and I gave him drugs. This is when I was working with Bosco a lot." I never told her that me and Bosco slept together. I don't think she needs to know. "I stole a notebook the writer had on me and Lettie. Bosco found it and thought I was a dirty cop. I didn't tell him I was working with the FBI for a couple weeks."
Kaylee sat there mesmerized at this story. How could Mom never have told me this? It sounds important. Kaylee snuggled against Cruz.
"So I found myself in a hotel room with Bosco and Faith pointing guns at me, then Faith shot me, so I shot her."
Kaylee gasped. "You shot Emily's mom?"
Cruz nodded. "She shot me first." Like that makes it better. " Bosco tried to tell me he shot me, but I knew it was Faith. She shot me in the head and I was bleeding but I shot Faith and she wounded up being temporarily paralyzed. I think that I trusted Bosco to some point and when he pointed that gun at me, I felt so..."
"Pissed?"
"Well yeah. But also stupid. I never trusted or loved anyone but Lettie and the one person I trusted screwed me over. After that, I kept myself closed to everyone and never let anyone in. Although Sasha tried to manipulate her way in there." Cruz paused. "Then I met you and everything changed." She finished. Dammit, I didn't tell her about the rape. I wonder if she remembers what happened to her. Cruz sighed.
"Wow." Was all Kaylee could say.
"After I met you, I learned to love and trust. You were so innocent and naive that it was impossible not to."
Kaylee smiled and leaned against her mom again.
Cruz wrapped her arms over her daughter and hugged her. "Arite, start studying."
"I know, I know."
Cruz kissed her daughter on the cheek.
"Is it okay for me to ask one more question?"
"Yeah."
"How come you never had a boyfriend? or got married?"
Cruz shrugged. "I never met anyone I liked. I don't need anyone else in my life right now. I have you and Sasha, 'cause she ain't going anywhere, and Emily and Alex, and people at work."
"Okay. Just wondering." Kaylee groaned and went back to her studying.
Cruz watched her for a minute and closed the door, going down the hall to her room. She sat down at her desk and started doing reports.
Finally she was done. She looked at the digital clock. 1:15. Cruz yawned and stretched. She stood.
She walked down to Kaylee's room and knocked.
"Yeah?"
Cruz opened the door. Kaylee's notebook was closed and she was leaning against her pillow reading Burnt Offerings. Cruz opened her mouth.
"I just spent the last hour studying. I'm taking a break."
Cruz closed her mouth. "Okay." She said simply. "So I was thinking we should leave at 2."
"Why?"
"It takes about 20 minutes to get there and everyone'll be there already, then you can go home and I can start my shift."
Kaylee nodded.
"If you wanna see Bosco, he won't get in til about 2:59."
Kaylee laughed. "Yeah, that's Bosco." Kaylee yawned. "I'm gonna take a nap, just for a half hour. Get me up 10 minutes before we leave?" Off the look on her mother's face she added, "I'll study all night after I get home. Oh, is Emily coming tonight?"
"Uh-huh." How the hell am I supposed to remember to get her up? Oh yeah, the apartment'll be quiet. She turned off the light, not that it did much good since the sun was shining and closed the door. She walked down the hall to the kitchen and made herself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. She went over to the bookshelf and grabbed a book, the went to the couch and put her plate down. She took the sandwich, curled up on the couch and opened the book.
"Get offa me! No!!!!!" Kaylee screamed.
Cruz jumped off the couch and ran down the hall. She opened Kaylee's door and saw she was still sleeping. Cruz ran over to her and tried to wake her up.
"Kay. Kay, baby, wake up!" Cruz yelled.
Kaylee opened one eye, saw that it was Cruz and opened the other eye. She sat up and started crying hysterically.
Cruz sat down on the bed and pulled Kaylee into her arms.
"Shh. It's okay. You're home, in your own bed." She soothed.
"It was so scarey Mama." Kaylee whimpered.
"You wanna tell me about it?"
Kaylee shook her head. "No." She said hoarsely.
Cruz looked at her and nodded. It must be too soon, but that sounded very familiar....
"That's the last time I'm taking a nap during the day." Kaylee shuddered and buried her head in her mother's lap.
Cruz stroked her hair and felt Kaylee relax. I gotta talk to her. I can't do it now. Cruz sighed in her brain. Tonight, I'll do it tonight. No. I'm not getting home til 11:30. Tomorrow, tomorrow, she promised herself and took a deep breath and hoped Kaylee didn't have anymore nightmares.
TBC
Hope ya liked it, and I hope it's getting interesting. Next chapter Kaylee and Cruz go to the precinct. If you have any ideas, tell me. Review please, no flames, but constructive criticism.