Chapter 3 Attwood at your service
Ryan Atwood sat at his desk looking at a photo of two little girls. His little girls Kelly 12 and Jamie 9. They ment so much to him they were all he had left now, their mother had died of cancer when Jamie was only a year old, his thoughts turned to Natalie his beloved wife he lost 8 years ago they had tried every thing but nothing seemed to work the cancer was to strong for her to fight. The chemo had given her long enough to see her daughters first birthday. Just then the phone rang bringing Ryan out of his thoughts. "hello Ryan Atwood speaking" he answered. The person on the other end was the school nurse calling to tell him that Kelly had come up to the office complaining of stomach pains. He knew what it was about but was not about to tell the school nurse Kelly had asked him not to.
" I'll be in, in about half and hour to pick her and Jamie up." He told the nurse on the phone. He hung up and packed up his things. Being head of the Sandford Corporation New York branch he could leave work when he needed to without being pulled up by his boss the following day. The Sandford Corporation was the law firm Sandy Cohen built up from his small practise in Newport. Ryan was the head of it all his boss was Sandy who knew that if Ryan was needed by his girls he would choose them over anything. Sandy also knew that there was no one else who could run the business like he would. The New York office was the big one, the one that controlled every office world wide and Ryan was at the top of it all. There where lawyers way under Ryan that had more experience then he did and had been lawyers long before Ryan had been, but not one of them was trusted enough by Sandy to keep his business running.
Ryan walked over to his car that was situated in the staff car park. He climbed into his top of the range BMW and backed out. He drove down the road and turned right coming up at the end of the road was the school his daughters attended. Summerville house was a school for the elite they only accepted the best of the best. Ryan's girls did not have to worry about that seeing he had gone to school with the head master Luke Ward. He parked his car in the visitors car park of the school he walked into the middle school building and into the office sitting there with tears in her eyes was Kelly. She looked up and saw her father "daddy" she cried she ran to hug him. " he sweet pea grab your things I'll sign you out then we'll go and get your sister. " ok" she whispered. Ryan walked over to the secretary and asked for the parent sign out book. She handed it to him and he signed her out of school for the rest of the day. Then they walked over to the elementary school building to pick up Jamie.
They lived in a house similar to the Cohen house back in Newport. the area they lived in was just as exclusive. When he first moved there he could have sworn that his neighbour was just like Julie Cooper but in time he got to know all who lived in this area and knew they where nothing like the people back home.
Each girl had her own room big enough for every their hearts desired. The only thing they could not keep at home where their horses Chrismukkah and Yogalates they were kept at the local horse stables.
There was one room none of them could go in though although Kelly and Jamie never understood why. that room had every thing of Natalie's in there Ryan did not have the heart to throw it away but he could not stand to look at any of it so he set it all up in that room and told the girl that it was the only out of bounds area in the house. even the cleaners were not aloud in there. Ryan had not been in there since the day he closed the door from putting all the things in there.
"daddy what's for lunch?" asked Jamie " haven't you had lunch yet?" " no we were lining up to go have it when you came." She replied " ok well we'll see what we have when we get home".