The next day.
Nick walked into the house. He was tired and sleepy. He dropped his stuff on the floor and went to the theater.
"No!" he whine when he saw Alexa sitting in his chair with a DVD in her hand "You can't watch that here. Go watch it in the living room." Alexa ran out of the crying and returned with Dana.
"He kicked me out." she told her mother.
"Well go watch it with your sister." Dana said and sat next to Nick. "What are we watching? "
"Gladator." he answered.
"Nick, I was thinking. Maybe we should go to Verginia. They haven't seen Jessica and we haven't seen them in a while."
"They were here 3 months ago."
"But Jessica wasen't."
"Okay, whatever you what. I'll order the tickets online tonight."
That night. Nick entered his room, Dana was in bed watching TV.
"We leave in two days."
"Ewww! Now I have to pack."
"It was your idea, don't even look at me."
"I hate packing."
"Why?"
"Because you pack, then the airline looses your luggage. Like on our honeymoon the bag with the... protection got lost."
"And that's why we have Jessica." Nick interupped her and finished her sentance.
Two days later.
Dana unlocked the front door to her parent's house with her key. Everyone's ation was to the door to see who was coming in. (Everyone Her brother, Steven Her father, Ezra Her mother, Annabell Her brother's wife, Jennifer and her niece, Lily.)
"It's Nick." Erza announced
"Nick who." Annabell called from the kitchen
"The one that married out daughter." Ezra yelled back. "Oh, she's here, too."
"Hi, Daddy." she said "It was nice how you didn't even notice your only daughter."
"Gald you're here Nick. I beleive only you can solve this argument. These two have been fighting over this subjest for two hours. What's more expensive A Mazerati or a Porche?" Jennifer asked
"When I was shopping for a car it was the Mazerati." he answered
"And what did you end up buying?" Ezra asked
"The Mazerati."
"Excellent choice my boy. See, Jennifer you could have married a Nick type man. Up no, Steve was your final choice. Idiot thinks his Audi is better then my Rolls."
"This is the stupidest conversation." Dana thought aloud.Her mother came from the kitchen.
"Hey guys." she said happily and greeted them. "Somethings diffrent." she thought
"Very diffrent." Nick exclaimed sarcasticly
"Are you pregnant, Dana?" she asked
"No, you ask me everytime you talk to me. No, I'm not. I'm not planning to be. Ever again."
"That's exactly what your mother said after Steve. But you're here... somehow." Erza said
"This is our daughter." Nick presented Jessica
"You adopted another one?" Annabella asked
"No! Mom! This is Jessica, my biological daughter, Jessica. The one that was kidnapped three years ago, when she was three."
"You found her ?" Ezra and Annabell exclaimed
"You guys didn't know? " Steve asked "I heard it on the news."
"New?" Nick repeated
"Yeah. It was a special on kidnapped children then in the end they mention how. ' Mr and Mrs. Nicholas and Dana Biancavilla recently found their currently six yeat old daughter.'" he imitaied the news reporter
"She looks exactly like you, Dana. Hasen't changed at all."
"How did you find her?" Jennifer asked
"She was Lu patient, and while Lu was on her honeymoon I was covering for her. So she was brought to the ER about an insect bite. And she han a picture of me and her on our birthday."
"So when we ran a DNA with the blood we had taken and it matched our DNA." Nick finished the story
"And the people who bought her, what about them ?" Ezra asked
"She was bought and sold to three couples. Right now we only have the kidnapper and the last set of parents in cusdity."
"And the other two couples?" Steve asked
"We don't even know their names." Nick explained
"Jessica, do you remember anything ?" Erza asked "When you saw your parents did you recongnize them."
"She said I looked like the girl that she had a picture of. And she showed us the picture."
"What about your father did you recognize him?" Ezra examimed the situation. Jessica shook her head. And turned around to face her mother.
"I'm sleepy, mommy." she said
"Take her into your brother's room, the girls can sleep there. You and Nick can sleep..."
"We're married with two children. Can we please sleep in the same bed this time ?" she begged, Annabel and Ezra exchanged looks.
"Fine, but the only thing you are permited to do in that bed is sleep, with all your clothes on!"
"Why do people assume that all we do is...?" Nick asked
"Because that's all you do." Steve answered.
Jessica and Alexa entered Steve's room fallowed by Dana.
"You two are going to sleep here, Daddy and I will be right accross the hall. Gradma and Grandpa are doing to be down the hall, okay. "
"I don't wanna be up here all by myself. I don't like the dark"
"Yeah, I remember. We're going to be right downstairs. If you get scared you can come down"
"Stay with us" Jessica pleaded. Dana sat on the bed next to Jessica. Twenty minutes both kids had fallen asleep. Dana made her down stairs. She sat next to Nick trying to catch up in the conversation.
"The weirdest place Dana and I have done it is... In DisenyLand. Splash mountain got stuck. And we did it in back of a buncha dolls."
"That's nasty, Dude." Steve rebelled. Dana was astonished at the converstaion. Then the empty bottles of Tequela and vodka cought her eye.
"How much of this stuff have you drank?" she asked her father.
"I don't recall you having a twin Donna." he replied
"Dana." she corrected
"Whatever. Get another bottle, will 'ya?" he said, he mother pulled her aside, into the kitchen next.
"Did the girls fall asleep?" Annabella asked
"Yeah."
"So is it diffrent now that you have two kids, again." Jennifer asked
"I didn't remember it to be this hard. Jessica refuses to stay at Nick's mother's house while I'm at work. I have to take her to work with me. And it's hard to consentrate on patients when your kid can't leave you alone."
"Now you know how your father felt." Annabell exclaimed "You would never leave the man alone."
"Is she able to open up to you? "
"At first in like the very begening she was scared of me. When I was taking blood while she was in the ER she got this impression. The again couple of days ago, I was giving her a physical and I accidently touched this bruise she had. She had been abused and she was trying to hide it from me. She thought my life goal was to hurt her. Now we're pretty close."
"Abused? " Jennifer and Annabell repeated at once.
"Yeah. She's had three diffrent sets of parents and all of them had abused her. She thought Nick and I would, too. She's really quiet, doesn't ask for anything. If she would be starving she wouldn't say nothing."
"That's because her former parents never payed any attention to her. I learned about this in collage. I took a psycology class." Jennifer said
"Nick thinks I'm paying to much attention to her. But I can't help it. She's been neglected all her life I don't want her to feel neglected now. "
"Dana, you're her mother. You can't be her best friend. You have to have some authority." Annabell exclaimed
"I think if I establish a good relashenship now then she won't rebell agaisnt me when her teenage years come."
"That's what I said but as soon as you turned 11 you moved out. By 16 you were engaged, at 17 you engaged to another guy. By 19 you were engaged to a very diffrent guy, then within five months of that engagment you got married."
"What's you point?" Dana and Jennifer asked at once
"Have your eyes open. Don't make the same mistakes I did. Enjoy these years you have with your daughters. One day you'll blink your eyes and they'll be having their own kids."
To Be Contiued...
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