i'm on a role today! here's chapter five, now notepad is being stupid or maybe it's ff, but whatever it is i noticed that some punctuation marks are disappearing when i upload the chapters, so sorry if there's some missing! i don't have time to write something long because i have to leave for school in a few minutes, but i'll try to update when i get home! also, i changed it to movie world because i mentioned the engagement party.

OH YEA, YOU GUYS GET TO MEET ALEXA IN THIS CHAPTER! YAY! (sorry, i had a lot of coffee this morning)

oh yea, i don't own anyone in this chapter except for cynthia and alexa.


When I opened the door the door to our apartment on Monday I almost had a heart attack when I saw that Maureen wasn't on the couch watching TV and that there was inothing/i anywhere on the floor. I heard Maureen singing in the kitchen, so I decided to go see what she was up to.

"Pookie!"

I had barely made it into the kitchen before I was holding her with her legs wrapped around my waist, as she kissed me the way she welcomed me home from work everyday for as long as I could remember.

"Ohmigod Pookie, I missed you so much today," she said, breaking the kiss. "I got so bored that I cleaned the entire apartment and even made you dinner."

I laughed at the thought that she had managed to survive those two tasks, and even more at the fact that she hadn't burned down the whole building with her cooking. Maureen and cooking were two words that you never ever used in the same sentence, especially if the word cleaning was added to them. She struggled to get down, and as I placed her back on the floor she said, "Come on, Pookie. Let's eat before it gets cold."

After dinner we snuggled up on the couch to watch a movie. She had picked out Gone With the Wind, my favorite movie that I knew she only watched because I loved it so much. She asked me about my day and I told her about the case I had just wrapped up and how my friends at the office were excited to hear about the baby. A couple of them had kids already and all the dads in my office were more than happy to tell me what I was going to be going through in the next nine months.

About halfway through the movie I was playing with her hair when I told her how much I hope our baby had her curls. She giggled and looked up to kiss me.

"What do you think we shouldname her?"

It was pretty much a given that she was going to be a girl, seeing as how neither Maureen or I had any Y chromosomes. She rolled over so that she was facing me with her head propped up on her hand before answering. "Well, I've always liked the name Madison. It's pretty"

"Just like you," I said as I kissed her nose. "But we have nine months to figure that out. Right now I think that both of us need to be getting to bed. You need your rest and I have to work tomorrow"

She stuck her lip out at me which caused me to start laughing as I climbed over her to get off of the couch. I picked her up and carried her back to bed, thinking about how in a few months she'd be too heavy for me to carry.


The next morning I was sitting ath my desk about to call Maureen and tell her I was going to take the rest of the day off when my phone rang. It was my boss, Clark, asking if I wanted to take on an emancipation case because nobody else in the office wanted to take it, and they needed someone for it ASAP. Apparently there was a woman with her 15-year old neice in his office and they needed to meet with someone today. I had nothing else to work on, so I told him I'd take it. Less than five minutes later there was a knock on my door.

"It's open," I said. I was too comfortable and lazy to get up from my desk. I looked up from my computer as the door opened and watched a woman who looked to be about 40 walk in, followed by a girl who looked about 18.

"I'm Joanne Jefferson. You must be Cynthia." I extended my hand as I stood up behind my desk.

"Nice to meet you, Joanne. I'm Cynthia Burg, and this is my neice, Alexa Pierce"

I took one look at Alexa andthought abouthow much she resembled Maureen. She had wavy dark brown hair that was partially pulled back, with the rest reaching a little below her shoulders. She had dark brown eyes that were very prominent compared to her pale skin. She was wearing a cut up t-shirt jersey with some jeans, and if I didn't already know that she was 15 I would have guessed she was 18.

"Hi Alexa. Why don't you and your aunt have a seat?" I shook her hand before she sat down, and as I did she displayed a smile that after being married to Maureen for two years I was immediately able to tell was fake.

I took notes as Cynthia told me Alexa's story and what they needed my help with. This seemed like a typical emancipation case; the teenager doesn't get along with her parents, another family member thinks that they would do better on their own and would be capable of living by themselves, so I couldn't figure out why everyone else in the firm had turned it down. I glanced over at Alexa again and this time I found her fidgeting. There was something about the way she had suddenly started to act that was familiar to me, but I couldn't figure out what it was. I noticed that she was looking at something on my desk and when I looked down to see what it was I wanted to kick myself. Shit. It was a picture of Maureen and I from the engagement party that my parents had thrown for us a few years ago. I always put it away before meeting with a new client and I never mentioned Maureen unless someone asked. I was pretty sure that Cynthia hadn't noticed it yet, so I didn't worry too much. I read over the notes that I had been taking and saw that I had everything I needed for the moment. I thanked Cynthia for coming and and told her to set up another appointment with my secretary for sometime early next week. As they walked out of my office Alexa looked back at me and attempted a smile and even managed to mumble something that sounded to me like a weak good-bye. As I watched her walk down the hall behind her aunt I couldn't get rid of the feeling that there was something about her that no one was telling me.


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