Logan
turned suddenly at the voice behind him. She stood there staring at
him, outside the door to McKenzie's room.
"Original Cindy,
what are you doing here?"
"Max sent me. To return this."
She tossed the picture to Logan, who caught it and looked at it.
"You know where Max is?"
"Yeah. The same place
she has been for the last three days. And she don't want you to
know."
"Then why is she here. Do you know why she
left?"
"Yeah. She told me not to tell you. But she did
say she wants to talk to you, 'bout the little boo. Said she'll meet
you hare in two days, and don't bring the boo." Cindy walked
over to Logan and gave him a slip of paper with an address on it. He
looked at it and recognized the address.
"Our old safe house.
I haven't used it in years. Is she sure it's still safe?"
"You
think she'd tell you to go there if she didn't think so?"
"Yeah,
I guess."
"Gotta go. The little boo, turned out
aiight."
"Thanks. Tell Max I miss her. And McKenzie
really wants to see her."
"Don't bring her to the
meeting place. Leave her with someone. Goodbye."
"Bye."
Logan looked at the picture and piece of paper. He felt ready to
explode. Why did Max do this to him? He took the picture into
McKenzie's room and set it on her nightstand, so she would see it as
soon as she woke up. The only thing Logan could think of doing was
work, so he went to his computer room, but he ended up just sitting
there, thinking. How could he get through two days until seeing Max?
How would he be able to keep it a secret from McKenzie? It would be
very hard, especially now that she had seen Max in that
ally.
"Daddy?" Logan turned and saw McKenzie standing at
the door to his office, leaning on the doorframe. 'The same way Max
did.' He thought.
"What's wrong, baby?"
"I had a
bad dream."
"Come here. Tell me about it." He
pulled McKenzie onto his lap, hugging her.
"I dreamed that
you and my mommy were being taken away from me. I couldn't reach you;
you were always to far away. I was all alone."
"I know
baby. Dreams like that can be scary."
"I thought I heard
you talking to someone. Was someone here?"
"An old
friend. I haven't seen her in a long time, since you were a
baby."
"Why not?"
"Well, just after your
mommy went away, we fought about it. Your mommy was her best friend,
and she thought it was my fault that your mommy had to go away. I've
only seen her once since we fought, and that was to help me with you,
because I couldn't figure out why you were crying."
"Why
was I crying?"
"You were hungry! I didn't know anything
about babies, but Original Cindy figured that you wanted some milk,
and she showed me how to feed you."
"Original Cindy?
That's a funny name."
"I think it's a nickname, like
when Rory Sung calls you 'Mac'."
"Oh. Guess what."
McKenzie said, giggling.
"What?"
"I'm hungry!
We didn't have lunch!"
"No, we didn't! Let's go get some
lunch!" Although Logan was happy outside, preparing lunch and
laughing in the kitchen with McKenzie, he was falling apart inside.
How was he going to get through the two days until he could see
Max?"
To be continued...
