Part 13B

Melissa couldn't believe what Kendall was doing to her. Melissa had woken up this morning thinking things would be great the guy that attacked Kendall would go away for attempted…. murder. Turned out whatever was in that needle could have killed Kendall and the baby in five minutes flat if it had been injected into any part of her body. That had started the day off with a bad case of 'what ifs' and then went to how Greenlee was fawning over her for saving Kendall and their child. Melissa wondered if Greenlee and Kendall was a couple. She could tell her sister loved Greenlee and Greenlee loved her but there was a chance they were just really close friends, but that brought on the question, 'who has their best friend's baby?' and so far it had gone unanswered because as of the moment Melissa was told they were going to Erica Kane's for brunch she wasn't talking to Kendall.

The fact that Melissa was being forced to go was one thing but being tricked into coming was what hit home. Kendall had said they were going to meet with a lawyer, who happened to be Greenlee's father, Kendall's stepfather (and her own but she decided not to recognize that), it just turned into one big lie. The only reason she hadn't left already was because Kathleen was having too much fun playing with Miranda, and Kelly couldn't come and pick them up and her money was back at Greenlee's house so she couldn't afford a cab and she had no idea where she was, so she was stuck and it was all Kendall's fault.

Melissa looked up when she heard Kathleen start calling her name.

"Lissa….Lissa…..look, look!" Kathleen yelled as she laughed. Melissa looked up from where she was sitting down with Anna and when she spotted Kathleen she abruptly stood up off the couch and was about to go over and get Kathleen when she heard, Bianca's voice. Kendall's sister, she sighed her sister as well but again she choose to not recognize that..

"Melissa…its okay…." Bianca said when she saw Melissa stand up, afraid for Kathleen's safety. Melissa looked down a little embarrassed. Bianca looked back at Maggie and touched her shoulder; she had Miranda and Kathleen hanging from their feet upside down as she held them just above the ground. "I think its time to put the children down, dear." Bianca said smiling.

Maggie looked up at Bianca and then over at the young woman in the room who she assumed was Melissa. Maggie looked at Melissa around the girls feet and gave her a smile, also giving the rest of the people in the living room it as well. Maggie caught that Melissa was holding the baby that Miranda had told her about and she looked at Bianca and smiled before she looked down at the two little girls she was holding, who were laughing uncontrollably.

"Okay you two, time to get down." Maggie said and the two girls braced their hands on the floor and once Bianca gave Maggie the okay she let go and Bianca helped both girls flip so they could do a flip, making it seem like they did it on their own.

Once Kathleen was on the floor and standing up straight she looked up at Melissa and smiled brightly before running over to her sister and coming to an abrupt halt right in front of Melissa when she saw her sister was holding Anna. Kathleen smiled and jumped in the air as she pointed at Maggie.

"Did you see that…I was upside down? You saw didn't you! Didn't you!?" Kathleen asked as she jumped up and down smiling. "That was so awesome! I got to be upside down and then I flipped!" Kathleen said and smiled as she sat down on the couch next to where Melissa was now sitting. Kathleen sighed and put her head on Melissa's shoulder as she tried to catch her breath, her eyes closed and a smile on her face.

Melissa smiled and placed her head on Kathleen's for a few seconds before sitting up straight and just letting Kathleen rest against her. "Yeah…I did see. We always knew you were going to be an acrobat, didn't we, Anna." Melissa asked her little girl and Anna just looked up at her mother and cooed something that sounded like a 'yes' even to Kathleen and laughed and wiggled in Melissa's arms smiling.

Kathleen looked up at Melissa in awe and then down at Anna and took hold of her niece's hand and held it softly and kissed it smiling, then Kathleen looked up at Melissa and had a sad face on and tears forming as she looked down at Anna and then the floor.

"I miss mommy." Kathleen said as her tears fell.

Melissa looked at her sister and stood up and put Anna down in the car seat Greenlee had let her bring inside. Once Anna was down in the car seat she kneeled in front of Kathleen and took her sister's hands, her own tears slowly falling. "I know you do, baby. I know." Melissa said and pulled Kathleen into a hug.

Kendall sat on the other side of the room and was trying her best not to cry as well. She hadn't told anyone here why Melissa, Kathleen, and Anna were here visiting and she never told them that they were her sisters. Sitting there she knew this wasn't her place. Her place was with Melissa helping comfort Kathleen. Kendall let go of Greenlee's hand and rushed to the other side of the living room and wrapped her arms around Melissa from behind and touched Kathleen's shoulders with her hands. The rest of the people in the room be damned, it wasn't fair to Melissa or Kathleen that Alice had died. It wasn't fair at all, it was just too soon and it wasn't fair for Kathleen or Melissa to go through losing another parent.

Melissa turned her head toward Kendall when she felt arms wrap around her and she sobbed as she turned in Kendall's arms. She pulled Kathleen with her so Kendall was holding both of them, all three of them crying.

Maggie looked at Bianca and they both took in the sight, they all heard what Kathleen had said and judging by the way Melissa had reacted Kathleen didn't just miss her mother because she wasn't here at the house with them. Though they all didn't expect Kendall to rush over to them, well Maggie and Bianca hoped she would but they really didn't think that Melissa and Kathleen would just except Kendall's comfort and they really didn't think Kendall would be crying just as hard as they were.

"I thought you said…." Maggie started but just stopped talking when she noticed there was a man in the room she didn't know. She assumed that was Josh, and she had to admit this Kane beauty was something given to both genders.

"….I don't know…." Bianca said as she shrugged her shoulders.

Greenlee walked into the living room with Josh and Reggie with her, Erica and Jack were behind her smiling until they saw the three on the floor crying. They all looked at each other confused, but Greenlee didn't waste a second before she stalked over to the three and kneeled down next to them. Kathleen saw Greenlee and she rushed into Greenlee's arms crying, Greenlee wrapped her arm around Kathleen and the other around Kendall and both Kendall and Melissa moved into Greenlee's arms.

"Shh….its going to be okay…I know it hurts…I know it does but everything's going to be okay. She's…she's in a better place." Greenlee said as she kissed Kathleen's, Melissa's and then Kendall's head.

Kathleen looked up at Greenlee and wiped her tears, she looked down and then to the side. "Why'd God take her?" Kathleen asked.

Once this was said by a four year old the other adults in the roomed gasped, they understood somewhat now of what had happened. They all waited for Greenlee to reply. Miranda looked up at her mothers and walked over to them, both of them putting on arm on Miranda's shoulder as she stood in front of them all looking at the four now on the floor.

"I think he wanted her back with him." Greenlee said as she ran her hand through Kathleen's hair.

Kathleen nodded her head. "She was special." Kathleen said as another tear fell and she wiped her nose with a tissue Melissa handed her.

"Yes….she was so very special." Melissa said and took Kathleen into her arms and hugged her sister and closed her eyes as a few more tears fell.

The two of them had been like this for the past months. Kathleen had started asking so many questions about God and Melissa had tried to answer them as best she could but she was only 16, how was she supposed to know? The only thing she knew was the woman she called mother had died and she had to make sure she staid with Kathleen even though they weren't blood related. They were still sisters, no matter what their blood said.

Melissa looked at Kendall and saw her tears still falling and she hugged her sister and closed her eyes when Kendall sobbed and hugged her tighter.

"I'm so sorry…. I'm so sorry…" Kendall said as she cried. "I should have been there. I should have been there with her, with you." She said as she sobbed. "The things I said…. I didn't mean them. I didn't mean them…"

Melissa pulled back from Kendall and held her sisters head in her hands and leaned their foreheads against each other. "She loved you, you know that." Melissa said and Kendall nodded her head and closed her eyes as tears fell. "She loved you even though you weren't her daughter. She only wanted you to be happy and the last thing she would want now is you for you to think that she loved you any less because you wanted to find your real mother." Melissa said and wiped Kendall's tears away as they fell.

Erica heard this and covered her mouth and shook her head as she watched a teenage girl comforting her grown daughter. Erica closed her eyes and when she opened them tears were there, she knew what they were talking about. The woman that had raised Kendall, Alice Hart was dead, and the two girls sitting next to Kendall were her sisters. Jack saw Erica's state and he put an arm around her shoulder and pulled her close to her and they continued to just watch the scene-taking place in her living room.

Greenlee looked at Kendall and Melissa and held Kathleen in her lap as Melissa consoled Kendall about her doubts.

"She didn't…." Kendall was about to say as she opened her eyes. "…she didn't know how much…."

"…she knew." Melissa said giving Kendall a comforting smile. "She knew how much you loved her, even if you wouldn't say it." Melissa said as she wiped Kendall's tears away once again, and slowly pulled back. "We were planning a trip to come visit you, that day." Melissa said as she took a deep breath, calming her own jittery feelings. "….she wanted you to meet Anna and wanted you and Kathleen to spend time together. She wanted you to know you had another family that loved you just as much as this one does." Melissa said and leaned forward and kissed Kendall's forehead.

Kendall looked at Melissa and nodded her head as Melissa hugged her once again, two last tears falling. She had treated Alice horribly in the past, accusing her of so many things making Alice feel less loved but to hear Melissa tell her that Alice was planning a trip to see her, she knew Alice couldn't afford it but was willing to do it anyway. It some how set her heart easy to know that her adoptive mother knew she was loved and loved her in return.

Melissa was pulled away from Kendall when Anna's cries echoed through the living room. Melissa kissed Kendall's forehead once again before standing up and went to Anna and picked her little girl up out of her car seat, wiping her cheeks one last time as she held her little girl.

"Someone feeling left out?" Melissa cooed to her little girl and Anna just sniffled and hiccupped and put her head against Melissa's shoulder and closed her eyes.

Kendall stood up, with Greenlee's help and Kathleen stood by Greenlee and just looked around the room and saw everyone staring at them. Lily, Jonathan and Josh all looked at one another, seriously confused as to what was going on. Maggie and Bianca had caught on to what had happened, and who Melissa and Kathleen truly were to Kendall. They all watched as Erica stepped away from Jack and into the living room staring at her daughter and then looking at Melissa and Kathleen. Greenlee turned around toward Erica, as did Kendall, both of them slowly pushing Kathleen behind them and Kendall signaled for Melissa to stand behind her as well.

Melissa didn't argue, she had sworn she wouldn't even talk to Erica and since she'd come here she hadn't said a word to Erica so it had seemed like she was rude because she wouldn't address Erica. Melissa wasn't rude she was actually quit polite, just not to the woman who gave her up for adoption.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Erica asked as she looked at Kendall.

Bianca patted Miranda's shoulder and walked up behind Kendall and looked at her mother, staying close to make sure Erica didn't go over board on this.

"Mother…" Bianca warned.

"I just want to know why you wouldn't want me to know who they are to you…" Erica said turning to look at Kendall.

Melissa looked at Kendall and then at Erica and rolled her eyes. "I asked her not to tell you." Melissa said telling the truth.

Erica looked at Melissa for a second before turning to Kendall and noticed that Kendall wasn't trying to take back what Melissa had just said, and neither was Greenlee and the fact that Melissa didn't seem like the person to lie helped her realize that it was the truth.

"Why wouldn't you want me to know?" Erica asked looking at Melissa, not saying it in a harsh tone of voice but rather softly trying to understand where the teenager was coming from.

TBC…..