Hi... I've been gone a while... I know... Curse you who invented school!!! Ahum... anyways... Let's continue with the story shall we...
Althia sat asleep in a waiting chair near Ron. There was a door between them. Ron sat there and watched Althia sleep for what seemed like forever. Then through a door across the room, Althia's father walked in. Ron immediately got up and sat in the chair next to Althia. Her father sat next to Ron. Ron felt a little uncomfortable.
"So are you her boyfriend?" asked her father sharply.
"No. I'm her friend and she works with me!" replied Ron.
"I advise you leave my daughter alone and mind your own business... Mr..." he said.
"I refuse to tell you my name, and if one of my employers is in trouble... as in a matter of life or death... well that kind of makes it my business." said Ron.
"You better watch your back." he said as Kimberly walked out.
"Daddy!" she said running up to him and jumping in his lap. Althia's father looked.
"Mr. Gunter?" asked the cop from the desk. "We need you in here for questioning."
"Alright." said Althia's father.
"Officer?" said Ron.
"Yes..." said the officer.
"May we go?" he asked as Althia woke up. "We've been here all day."
"Yes. But Ms. Gunter must go on her own free will... well you know this being a kidnapping reporting and all." he said.
"Yes sir." said Ron. He turned to Althia. "Do you want to come with us?"
"Yes." she said getting up and they all walked out the door and headed home.
At the house.
"Daddy?" asked Kimberly.
"Yea?" he asked wiping the counter off from dinner.
"I'm tired." she told him.
"You ready to go to bed?" he asked.
"Mmm hmmm." she said yawning.
"Ok." he said. "I'll be back in a minute Althia. Kimberly's ready to go to bed."
"Ok." said Althia looking at all the pictures in the living room as she heard Ron and Kimberly going up the stairs. There was a picture with Ron and a red-headed girl she didn't know in Bueno Nacho. She looked like Kimberly. 'That must be his wife.' she thought. Then she looked around at the other pictures. There was Ron and the same red-headed girl in kindergarden, and another at graduation, and another at a birthday party, and it went on and on until she saw a wedding picture. From the looks of it they had been through a lot together. Then there was a picture of Ron and baby Kimberly. By thereselves. Alone. What happened to her?
"Goodnight!" she heard Ron coming down stairs. She walked over to the couch to sit down before he got there. "Hey."
"Hey." she said.
"It's been a long day." he said sitting next to her. "Wanna watch some TV?"
"Sure." she said. "Kimberly asleep?"
"Yea she was tired." he said turning the TV on.
"I saw her baby picture." she said. "She looks like her mother."
Ron looked at her.
"Yea." he said not wanting to say anything else.
"She was pretty." said Althia looking at Ron. "What happened to her?"
"I don't want to talk about it." he told her and that subject ended there. They continued to talk. Ron didn't know how it happened, but soon their faces were getting closer and closer, until their lips met. Ron didn't want to but he returned the kiss and so did Althia. It seemed like forever, until Ron pushed her away. He felt as if he were betraying Kim. "I can't..."
Althia stared at him. Not knowing what to say but wanting to break the silence. Ron stood up and rushed up the stairs.
"Ron!" she rushed to the bottom of the stairs but Ron continued up the stairs and into his room. Althia stood there. Eventually she walked back to the couch and cried herself to sleep.
Meanwhile upstairs.
Ron closed the door behind him as he came into his room. He leaned back against the door. He soon straightened himself up and walked towards the window. He opened it and crawled onto the roof. He sat on the roof and stared at the moon.
"Kim... I'm sorry." he said. He sat there and just stared.
Ok I kind of threw all of this together really quick, but REVIEW!
