"Hey mom."
"Hey sweetie. How was school today?"
"It was the first day so pretty boring. Hopefully tomorrow it will pick up and I'll have some work to do."
"Yah I just can't wait to get home and start physical therapy. I want my life to return to normal with you in it."
"Me to mom I can't wait to stay in your new house. But I think my room may need a little redecorating."
"I say think that's completely understandable why don't you and Alexis go shopping I'm sure she'd love to show her little sister around." She says a smile appearing on her face.
"Well I haven't really met Alexis yet mom and I'm not sure if she even knows. Well technically I did meet her for a brief few seconds but it didn't count."
"Sweetie don't be nervous I'm sure she is going to love you." She says handing me some cash.
"Alright Lanie is texting me that a body just dropped and she has to go. I'll see if she'll drop me off and Castle's and see if Alexis is there. I'll be here Friday after school when you get released."
"Bye I love you" She says as I run out the door.
"Love you too." I stop and say back before bolting down to the waiting room where Lanie is waiting.
"Lanie can you drop me off at Castle's please. Mom said some things I need to tell him pleaseeeeee I'm sure he'd happily watch me for me for a few hours. " I say putting on my cutest puppy dog face.
"Fine. But call him and tell him you are coming." She says sternly.
"Fine." I say picking up my phone and dialing his number.
"Hello."
"Hey yah Castle can I come over for a little while and hang out while Lanie investigates a body drop." I say quickly.
" um sure but uh let yourself in I'll have to have a talk with Alexis there is an extra key in the plant." He says hanging up the phone.
Castle pov
"Alexis? " I yell up the stairs.
"Yah?" Comes the reply.
"Can you come down a second I have some news to tell you." I say fidgeting with my hands. This is going to be the most awkward conversation I've ever had with Alexis.
"Yah dad?"She says plopping down on the couch.
"Well we all recently learned Kate has a daughter who she had in boarding school. Well Kate told me who the father was." I say taking a break to look at her.
"Who is it?" She asks extremely relieved.
"Me. We had a one night stand 14 years ago and she was gone in the morning and she never came to find me or tell me she actually sent her to boarding school so I wouldn't find out. She was afraid I'd try to take her away from her because of her job. But now that I know she said Ican be as involved as JJ will let me be. She's actually coming over in a bit to meet you." I say looking at her face hit every emotion.
"Is she the one that came over with Lanie?"
"Yes. She wanted to thank me for saving her mom's life."
"That's sweet but dad what am I going to talk about with her so you know any of her likes dislikes? Anything?"
"She loves laser tag and chocolate milkshakes. And throwing fries. She's kinda like how you were at 14."
"Dadddd" She whines. We both look up as the door flies open.
"Hi um you told me to let myself in. Sorry to interrupt. " I mumble not knowing what else to say.
"Its alright and I'm going to give you two a formal introduction Alexis this is JJ. JJ this is Alexis."
"Hi."
"Hey" She mumbles back.
"So umm. My mom wants me to go shopping for stuff for my room wanted to know if you would like to come with me and help me pick out some stuff."
"I'd love too." She says smiling her head turning to her father.
"Can we?"
"Of course and I'll drive you just call me when you are done." He said surprisingly. I thought he would say no or another time but he said yes.
"Wait." He said as we were getting out. "Take my credit card." He said throwing it at Alexis.
"Mom gave me some money." I say.
"She is so not paying for this just think of it as a birthday present for all the years I missed. No budget what ever you want. Have fun!" He said driving driving away before I could protest.
"Well then." I say letting out a breath.
"He's like that sometimes, stubborn as hell." Alexis says walking through the doors of the mall. I follow closely behind her as we enter the tempur pedic store.
"What about this one?" She says plopping down onto on to a king size mattress.
"I think king is a little too big." I say.
"Well how about a queen?" She asks.
"Yah that sounds good."
"Alright so how about this one?" She says throwing herself onto a queen size euro top mattresses. I plop down onto it and love it.
"Yes I think this is the one. How much is it?" I ask.
"We don't need to know let's just get a store person and give them dad's credit card."
"Ok." I say a bit unsure still. Alexis came back with a smile on her face.
"They'll deliver it tomorrow to your house around four I'll tell dad to be there." She says.
"Well now we need to look at sheets and blankets. All I have are for twin."
"Alright let's look somewhere else for them. But first let's go into ikea and look for a desk. You'll need one for school." She says pulling me down the mall. Some people might find it annoying, but I always wanted a sister and it's nice to have one.
"Alright it doesn't need to be big just big enough to hold a laptop and your work we can also look for a bed frame here." She says pulling me in the direction of desks.
"Do you want light brown or dark brown wood or they have mahogany colored."
"Let's look at frames and see if we can't find a matching set?" I ask and she looks at me like I'm a genius.
"Of course bed frames are on the next level." She says walking towards the escalator.
"This mahogany one looks sophisticated and cool." She says. "And it would match that desk."
"Alright sounds great I think my mom just wanted me to get some stuff to decorate with. She's gonna be surprised to find I have a completely different room."
"Yah how is it having Kate as a mom.?" She asks as we walk to the register.
"Its nice actually she lets me be independent and my own person. I mean she let me go to boarding school so." I say my voice a little shaky.
"Cool. I'll get this stuff delivered at 4 tomorrow also. Are you hungry because I am."
"Yah I could eat and I could pay with the money mom gave me."
"Thanks that sounds good you wanna go get us seats at the food court while I settle this?"
"Sure." I say walking to the food court. I pick a table near the doors. It was something I got from my mom, we have to be near the exit and we have to see it our backs can't be turned. I sit down and wait for Alexis my mom had given me a hundred dollar bill for redecorating we have probably dropped $1250 at least.
"What do you want?" Alexis says as she finds me.
"I really want a good cheeseburger and fries. What about you?"
"I think that sounds great. We can't get a great cheeseburger but we can get one from McDonalds."
"Sounds good to me." I say placing our orders. It takes ten minutes before they get our order to us. We eat in silence.
"What else do you want to get?" She asks.
"Well a bed set, some paint, and a few shelves to put stuff."
"I think we can get the paint and shelves at Home Depot and the bed set at Target."
"What's closer?"
"They are both right next to each other so either one."
"Alright let's get the bed set first since it's easier to carry."
"K." She says eating her last fry. As soon as I finished she pulled me down the mall.
"What color scheme are you doing?" She asked as she looked at the sets.
"I was thinking of painting the walls a light blue to compliment the mahogany."
"So then what color for your bed set?"
"I was thinking like neon green or orange so it stands out its like wow." I say after contemplating about it.
"I think neon orange or green would look great but they only have the neon orange so orange it is." Alexis says grabbing it. We walk into the next store after Alexis texts Castle to let him let him know we were almost done. We walk into Home Depot on a mission it takes us less than ten minutes to find everything. Alexis carries the paint and I carry the bag with the bed set and shelves and the primer.
Castle gives us a look as we get in the car.
"What else did you guys get?" He asked.
"Well a bed, frame, desk yah know the essentials." Alexis says and we both laugh at his face.
"Kate is going to kill me. " He says quietly.
"Yeah probably and could you be at mom's apartment at 4 tomorrow when the stuff is getting delivered?" I plead pulling out my puppy dog eyes.
"How could I say no. You two are going to kill me."
An: alright so I have had this written for about five days now, but my computer decided it was going to be a pain in the butt and not work. It finally decided to work today so here you go.