DISCALIMER: I don't own CSI Miami and i don't make any money from it
Chapter 4.
"Mummy would ya hurry up or we'll never get there in time for the photo shoot, what are you doing?" Emma Melody yelled.
"Trying to look ok, I look like crap, I should never gone out last night," said Calleigh with a sigh.
"Mum, you look fine, now would you come on," said Emma excited.
"No I don't, I really look like crap and I feel like crap too," said Calleigh a tad frustrated.
"Would you stop it even on your worst day you look perfect, you got nothing to worry about," Emma answered and smiled at her.
"Remind me again why I never took another job when I got the education to do so?" Calleigh asked as they walked out to the car.
"Because you like to travel and you love it" Emma answered with a giggle.
"I suppose, so this is your first photo shoot, nervous?" Calleigh asked as she started the car.
"A little, but I'll be fine," said Emma and smiled at her.
"Thank God it will be coffee there," said Calleigh.
Emma giggled and said: "So which magazine is this for?"
"Vogue, mother daughter theme," said Calleigh.
"But I though you said you had a wedding thing today," said Emma surprised.
"Yes have that one after. That will be so much fun," said Calleigh thoughtfully.
"How come you never got married, I mean you did get me, so you had to have been with someone you loved at some point," said Emma.
"I was, but it was I dunno to soon and uhm complicated," said Calleigh thoughtfully as an image of a man appeared in her head.
"Mum red light," said Emma shocked.
"Oh sorry," said Calleigh and stopped just in time.
"Who were you thinking about?" asked Emma.
"No one," said Calleigh with a sigh as she wondered if he ever got married and what happened to him after they broke up.
"Oh come on, tell me," said Emma curiously.
"It's no one," she said and though about how she probably broke his heart when she broke it of.
"You loved him, didn't you?" said Emma.
"I already told ya I did, now stop bugging me about it," Calleigh snapped.
"Jeez relax," said Emma.
"Umf, we're here," said Calleigh as they parked and got out of the car.
A few days later Horatio was in a store when he happened to see Calleigh on the front of a bridal magazine, he smiled and took it with him in addition to the magazine he was going to buy in the first place and went to pay for it.
Once outside the store he opened it and looked at her, she hadn't changed a bit in the last eight-teen years if it was possible she was more beautiful than ever.
She was smiling in the pictures and her eyes sparkled, he wondered if she had found another man, but figured that she probably haden't or else she wouldn't have asked him to come to the wedding.
He looked of the pictures of her in the different dresses and thought "So that was what you could look like if we ever got married".
He let out a frustrated sigh as his partner Rick came into the car and said: "Since when did you start to look at bridal magazines."
"The girl on the cover I used to date her way back," said Horatio.
"No way you dated her, she's way outta you league," said Rick.
"I did, in fact she wrote me a letter and said that I had a daughter with her," he said.
"How old is she?" asked Rick curiously.
"She's thirty six and her daughter is eighteen," said Horatio.
"You have and eighteen year old daughter you never knew about with her, you must be joking," said Rick.
"No, I'm not," he answered with a sigh.
"Well we better leave since we have been called out," said Rick and started the car.
Eric had just come home from work, thankfully that Julia was not home he sat down on the coach when something caught his eye next to him, it was a bridal magazine, there wasn't really surprising since he and Julia were getting married, but the cover was, it was Calleigh in one of the most beautiful wedding dresses he had ever seen.
He looked at her, she had hardly changed at all and there was no sign of her having a baby, but then again she was eighteen she had time to get rid of any weight she may have gained.
He looked through the magazine to find more pictures of her when he heard the door open and Julia said: "Eric hon you home?"
"Yeah in here," he said.
Julia looked at him looking through the bridal magazine and said: "You know its bad luck to see the bride in the dress before the wedding."
"Well you're not wearing one are you," he said and smiled at her.
"Nah not yet, so see anything you like," she said and smiled back.
"No one of these are you, did you know that the ex that sent me the letter not long ago is this model," said Eric and showed her the picture of Calleigh.
"You dated Calleigh Duquesne," said Julia shocked.
"Uh huh, and she says I'm father to her daughter, that was what the letter was about and I'm going to the wedding it's in the end of July, but as I got it we're gonna stay in Miami for a moth," he said.
"You dated her when?" Julia asked still shocked.
"Bout eighteen or nineteen years ago," he answered.
"And she don't tell you bout this daughter before now," said Julia.
"Nah, but she probably had her reasons, besides she did tell me eventually didn't she," said Eric.
"I guess, so one month," said Julia.
"That's what she said," said Eric.
"How do you feel about her?" she asked so she would know what she was up against.
"To be honest I dunno, I know I love you and that what me and Calli had was over long ago, but a daughter it changes things a bit, yet I wanto marry you if you still wanto that is," he said.
"I need time to think a bit, I mean if the girl is yours, I dunno I didn't plan to raise a teenage daughter," she said with a sigh.
"I understand," he said.
"I'll be at my place for a while, but I'll call you," she said.
"Mhm," he said as he watched her leave wondering what to do about it all.
"Jake, didn't you say that name of the ex that sent you that letter was Calleigh Duquesne?" asked his friend Peter.
"Yeah why?" he said as he was looking at a car engine he was fixing.
"Cause she's the front cover at this magazine," said Peter.
"What?" said Jake, but raised a bit too quickly so he hit his head on the open hood and let out a groan of pain.
"Look," said Peter and showed him the bridal magazine with Calleigh on the cover. Jake took it and looked at her smiling. She hadn't changed at all she was still the same beautiful girl.
He found the rest of the pictures inside the magazine and his eyes stopped on her sitting on a stairs with a white cat in another dress, she was looking like an angel.
"So are you going to try to win her back?" asked Peter.
"Dunno yet, don't know what she feels," he said thoughtfully wondering how he could have let her go so easily.
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