#3
Stepping off the plane I walked towards the terminal as I turned my phone back on. As I walked to the rental garage my phone started to ring.
"Hello," I answered as the attendant gave me my keys.
"Inmate, Jasper Jax, is calling. Do you accept this call?" an automated voice said.
"Yes."
I sat in the small car waiting for Jax's voice to come through.
"Sam?" he questioned.
"Hey baby," I said smiling when I heard his voice.
"Hey," he replied and I could hear him smile on the other line.
"What's up?" I asked him as I started the car.
"Not much. How's work?"
"It was good, Carly let me leave after the second set so I'm back in Vegas to get Victor for his spring break."
"He's going with you back to California?" Jax asked.
"Yeah, we are waiting till he finishes the rest of the school year to move him out with me. I get him on breaks though and Carly and Sonny try to give me days off so that I can fly out as much as possible."
"That's good, that's good. So is he going to be at your place tonight?" he asked.
"Yeah. Hey I'm almost to your Mom's house, so I'll let you go. Talk when you call Victor?" I asked him as I pulled over in front of the house.
"Yeah I'll talk to you later. Tell Vic I love him okay?" he asked.
"Of course, bye babe," I said hanging up.
Pulling up to the small house I looked down at my phone and saw the time. Grabbing my purse from the passenger seat I got out of the car and locked it. Walking up to the metal gate I opened it and was immediately greeted by a barking brown pittbul.
"Buzz chill," I said to him as I walked towards the front door.
Walking into the house I was greeted by the sounds of a soap opera and timers going off in the kitchen and laundry room.
"Hello?" I yelled into the house as I sat my purse on the couch and walked towards the noises.
"Sam?" a voice called back.
"Hey Mona," I said as I walked into the kitchen.
"Can you get the laundry out dear? It's all of Vic's clothes for the weekend and his blanket," she said taking a pan of something out the oven and setting it on the counter.
"Sure," I said grabbing a basket and walking to the little closet.
Opening the top dryer I pulled the warm clothes out and put them in the white basket before walking to the kitchen to see what the older woman was making.
"Little Pablito was so excited after your last visit mija that as soon as we got back from the airport he packed that little suitcase you got him from New York. He wouldn't let any of us touch it, not till his Mama came. I figured that it was okay to wash everything since he was at school," she said watching me as I folded the little clothes.
"I've been looking forward to this for a long time Mona. Can I ask you something?" I asked her as I pulled out a yellow and black striped shirt and folded it.
"Of course," she said as she moved the breads to a cooling rack.
"I know we talked about this. But are you sure you and Robert are okay with me taking Vic after he finishes school? I mean you guys are his grandparents and he's lived with you guys for a while now," I explained as I started to fold a pair of black shorts.
"You are his Mama mija. Besides Jax wanted you to take care of Little Pablito while he was away," she said putting down her spatula and looking at me.
"But I'm not his Mom, not biologically anyways. You guys are his family," I told her.
"You are the only Mother he knows baby. That little junkie my son knocked up left and died in a crack house all before he was a month old. You, you were there when he started walking and talking. You were the one that took him to his first day of school and has somehow made it back for every soccer game and school play. I love my son but his worst mistake was leaving you."
"I wasn't even twenty two when we got together Mona. There was a lot of mistakes we both made," I tried reasoning as I folded a light blue dinosaur covered pajama shirt.
"See even now you are trying to protect him while he's sitting in jail for his stupidity."
"So you are okay with him leaving at the end of the year?" I asked getting back to the original question.
"Yes, that was the original deal anyways. He stays with us till the end of the school year and you fly out when you can. You've done good the past six months, and soon you can take him home," she said smiling at me.
"I think this week I'll let him pick stuff out to decorate his new room with," I told her as I folded more tshirts.
"You don't want him to take any of his stuff from here?" she looking confused.
"Well not all of it I mean when I can't take him with me on jobs I was hoping he'd be able to come here. I just don't want him to be raised by a nanny and he's still early enough in school that it's okay if he's not there all the time."
"I'd really like mija."
Before I could say anything the door opened and we could hear a little laugh and the barking of Buzz come through the house.
"Pablito that animal better not be in this house!" Mona yelled out.
"He's not," he said laughing.
"Don't be lying to your Grandma little man," I said as he got closer.
"Mama!" he yelled and ran straight for me.
Smiling I picked him up and hugged him close to my body.
"Hey baby," I whispered to him.
"What you doing here?" he asked pulling away as I held him.
"I thought we had a vacation planned?" I asked in mock surprise.
"We do, we do. Are we going? Can we go now?" he asked rapidly.
Smiling I leant forward and kissed him on his cheek.
"Not yet baby, we will have some lunch and then we have to pack your suitcase and then we will leave okay?" I asked him as I sat him at the table.
"I made you a picture," he said smiling up at me.
"Really, well you can show me after lunch. It smells like your Grandma made something delicious," I said kissing the top of his head before putting his clothes back in the basket.
"Mama can we see Daddy before we leave?" he asked as I sat in the chair next to his.
"It's not visiting day baby but we can go when we come back okay? I'll make sure we are back for visiting day," I told him as I wrapped an arm around him.
"What if he calls grandma wanting to tell me good night and I'm not here?"
"Well I talked to your Daddy when I got off the plane and he knows that you are going to be with me tonight. So when he calls he will call me and he can tell you good night. He knows where you will be baby it's okay," I said hoping that I had reassured him.
"Have some soup Pablito," Mona came in to the dining room with a small bowl of soup.
"Thank you Grandma," he said as she sat it in front of him.