Chapter 4

Brittany's POV

I was running away from my mom so that I could see this Ranger guy and I turned to look at my mom to see if she noticed and I ran smack into a solid wall. At least I thought that it was a wall until I looked up. And when I did I almost screamed. Yeah, thats right. I screamed. I couldnt beleive what I was seeing. This man (more like god) was extremely hot but at the same time really scary. As in like a I'm a homicidal murderer type scary. I pulled myself together and stood up. I tried my best to be the burg girl that my mom so didnt want to be, so I stuck out my hand to shake his and said, " Hi my name is Brittany and I'm Steph's daughter." He he, I know that my mother didnt want him to know yet but I just had to see the look on his face when he found out. I know i'm a horrible daughter. He eyes widened just a little that most people wouldnt even notice but I was so used to it from dad that I did. It only took him a second to put his mask back into place.

"Where is she?"

"Where is who?" Im confused. Oh, wait. He must mean mom.

"Yes, where is your mom?"

"Mom told me about your ESP thing but I didnt think that she was being serious. She's in the car." I pointed towards the car.

He slowly walked over towards it. Maybe this is a good time to go and see Vinnie. I cast one last look at my mom before I went in. Ranger was at the car by now and I saw that they were having a heated discussion so I decided to head on in. I was gonna be in enough trouble as it is. I didnt want to make it worse.

I walked in and saw that there were two women in the main office.

" Where can I find Vinnie." I dont think that they knew who I was so I added, "Im related to him. His counsin."

I saw the releif pass over there face.

"Oh good. We thought that...oh nevermind. He's in his office. Vinnie, you got a visitor."

"Im in the middle of something."

" It's me Vinnie. Im with my mom. Get your nasty butt out here." I heard a moan come from the other room. Thats disgusting.

"Uh, Never mind. Don't come out. You go ahead and continue on with whatever it is that you are doing." I didnt want him to hug me after what I just heard.

"Good."

A voice came from behind me.

"Brittany, I am so gonna kill you." I spun around. It was mom. She had a murderous look in her eyes. Ranger was standing behind her with his hands on her shoulders. I don't know if he was restraining her or trying to calm her but I don't think that either was working because she slipped out of his grip and came marching towards me.

"You're grounded. I told you that you couldnt go in here and you deliberatly disobey me."

I laughed. I knew that that was her favorite quote form The Lion King. I couldnt stop myself. It was horrible.

"Guess what you just caused to happen."

"What?"

"We, as in both of us, have to move in with Ranger. He wants me to be supervised when im with you. As if I was a bad mom or somthing." She said it in something of a huff.

I was actually pretty happy about the arrangment. I could get the two together. Mom was always talking about him back home and I totally knew that she didnt love Morelli. He always tried to change her and from what I gathered, Ranger had always supported her no matter what situation that she had gotten into.

"Come on." I dragged my butt off of the couch and walked out the door. I made to go to mom's car but she stopped me and pointed in the direction of a shiny black car.It looked kind of small. Can we all fit in there.

Unfortunatley I had to sit in the middle. It was horribly uncomfortable.

After about a 15 minute drive we finally reached the tallest building that I had ever seen. We drove to a gate that led to a parking grarge. At least I thought that it did. He had to push a button to get in to I knew that this place was highly secured. Just like dad's place. We got out and went to the elevater. He again pushed a button on his little power pack as I liked to call them.

We ended up in a fancy apartment. It was even better then the house that dad had.

"So, Steph, you want to explain where you went and why, when you come back, you have a daughter?"