Abandoned Baby
Chapter 95
"Nasaan ang batang yan?" (Where is that child?) Meera thought to herself looking out the house window looking for Bless worried out of her mind since it was getting dark out and Bless was still nowhere to be seen or heard from.
"Ma, anything yet?" Carla asked her mom coming down the stairs seeing her mom looking out the window.
"Wala pa anak." (None yet child.) Meera turned to her youngest daughter when she heard her voice from behind her.
"Honey, do you think she doesn't want to be found?" Jonathan guessed asking his wife about Bless' whereabouts.
"I don't know honey, do you think that could be the cause?" Meera asked her husband about that.
"It could be the only possibility or she could've run of somewhere with the babies is my only guess and she doesn't want to be found or searched." Her hubby guessed maybe that's the reason Bless ran away from the house.
"Maybe nasa bahay niya. (Maybe she's at the house.) Ma, I love Bless like a sister. Alam ko late na (I know it's late) but I can't sit around and do nothing, I'm gonna look out for her at her house." Carla told her mom.
"Alam yung address ng bahay niya?" (Do you know the address of the house?) Her mom wondered if she knew where Bless lived.
"Alam ko tira dito isa or dalawa blocks from here. I've seen her around this area before so pretty familiar ako dito sa place niya." (I know where she lives either one or two blocks from here. I've seen her around this area before so I'm pretty familiar with her place.) Carla told her mom knowing where Bless lived since she seen Bless around plenty of times even when she drove around the block.
"Be careful out there anak." Meera said watching her daughter grab her jacket and purse before descending the stairs to look for her pregnant friend hopefully she'd turn up at the apartment at least.
"I will." The youngest reassured her mom with a warm smile.
"Be careful out there sweetums."Jonathan gave his step daughter a hug.
"I will dad. Don't worry, I'll find her." The 19 year old hopefully said she was right that Bless would be find as she stepped into her 2010 red corvette to find Bless and the babies.
Once the 19 ear old revved up the engine, she put her windows down as she turned up her beams in her car looking around the neighborhood looking up and down the streets hoping to see Bless around.
"Come on Ate, where are you?" The young teenager mumbled to herself as she found the apartment complex where Bless and the guys lived but didn't see her silver BMW parked anywhere. She then saw a black GT Speed 2010 convertible parked up on the right side of the street and wondered who's car that was. It certainly wasn't Bless' but seen the familiar face stick out to see John and seemed like Randy was at the driver's wheel.
She killed the engine of her car and got out carefully to check for no traffic until she walked up to the guys.
"Hey guys. Looking for Bless too?" Carla greeted John and Randy who smiled in relief happy to see the young woman.
Randy killed the engine when he seen the young girl he met along with Bless at the mall.
"Um...yeah we were looking for her too. You live around here as well?" John asked when he saw Carla come up to them as the men got out of the car.
"About a few blocks up here and wanted to see if Bless was around here near the apartment." The young teenager told them where she lived and wanted to see if she could find Bless here at the apartment complex.
"We've been here since this afternoon hoping she'd turn up. The lights are on by the garage but all the doors are locked and closed and can't get in without a key. Stu and the guys will be home in 2 days to help us find Bless according to him since they have spare keys to get in the house." John told her as he looked up at the house hoping to see movement or anything but all the lights were turned off.
"We haven't seen her BMW either parked out here out front so I guess she and the babies aren't home." Randy said sighing wondering where his best friend and the babies were.
"I hope they turn up soon. Mom and I are worried sick about her. I didn't know she'd really run away like this." Carla said honestly not knowing her friend would not turn up or come back home.
"We hope so too kiddo. We hope she and the babies turn out safe and sound. I guess we'll have to call the cops sooner or later to find out where they're hiding." Randy guessed on his own.
"Carla, why don't you stay with us since my wife and Randy's wife Sam are the the house. The better we have you around, the better our group search would be if Bless and the kids return by morning we can come back here and keep checking." John suggested to her hoping she'd say yes and maybe they'd find her if she'd come with them that way it would be easy to find Bless by the time dawn approached.
"I guess that would be best. I don't have anything planned for classes this week any way. Do you mind having me over though?" She hoped they didn't mind.
"Not at all plus you can stay in the guest bedroom till we figure what to do till morning." John didn't mind at all plus their group efforts would really help if Bless and the kids would come home soon.
That evening Bless and the kids landed in Myrtle Beach after being able to get a flight out out of Tampa.
She planned to book a hotel at least for the night just until she got herself settled in finding a house by mid afternoon.
"We're here sweetie. Home away from home." Bless said carrying her things along with her daughter snuggled in her arms.
"Mama..." Catherine mumbled sleepily around her binky while she had her head laying on her mom's shoulder.
"I know you're tired baby, so is mama. We're gonna find ourselves a new home soon and get settled in." Bless told her daughter kissing her head softly.
She signed in her name under her "new" name "Bianca Maria Trinidad" that way no one could trace her or her whereabouts now that she was officially under that name instead of "Bless Mendoza" knowing anyone could look for her under that name. She even wore a light gray hoodie tucking in her long hair in a ponytail along with sun glasses being incognito that way no one recognized her. She even had the baby matching in the same gray hoodie except her bottoms were jeans pants.
Once signed in and getting her hotel room key, she made her way upstairs to her room peacefully and settled the baby on the bed.
"Mama...baba." Catherine told her she wanted her bottle.
"Hold on baby. Let mommy put her stuff away before she gives you a bottle." Bless told her daughter putting all her stuff down before passing Catherine's bottle and stuffed puppy to her.
Once Bless finished unpacking some stuff, she passed on Catherine's bottle and stuffed puppy to her.
After making sure Catherine was asleep, Bless worked on some stuff on her laptop looking for new cars to trade in her BMW that way Drew or none of her friends had no chances of tracing her and looked up some new jobs that she could get herself into in able to take care of herself and the kids while she was at it.
She even started some house hunting to find a new home for her and the kids to live at and fixed all her papers to get herself a new doctor to check on her unborn baby. Bless made sure she even had everything transferred under her "new" name that way Drew couldn't even find out where she was nor did she want to be found.
This was definitely going to be a new fresh start for her and the kids but was she really doing the right thing?