Here's the next update, and thank you so much for reviewing. I will answer a few of them, maybe all:D
Guest: Really? Can you tell me why you think Selina is out of character? Not to be mean or anything, just curious.
Guest: Thank you so much for your encouraging words. I do have a few other serious stories written, they don't have Sean in it, but I think you might like them, maybe:D If you do, they are called; 'a girl in the neighbourhood' 'Caught in the riptide' 'Connections' 'here with me' (that one is complete), 'I feel so cold.'
Guest: Yes, but Sean can't get her out of his mind neither:D
Guest: Thank you, and the credit of the library scene goes to TEDOG. It was his idea:D
Guest: Thank you so much, glad you like it. I really wish you will stay in love with this story LOL
Guest: Yes, I know what you mean. There is certainly chemistry between them in this story.
Guest: Thank you very much, and I'm happy Selina outsmarted Sean caught you by surprise. There will be lots and lots of twist and turns in this story:D
Ana: Thank you for dropping by, Ana. Your name is almost the same as mine. LOL Anyway, 'm glad you like this story so far, and that mystery is your fav genre. A few reviews earlier I wrote a few stories that has some mystery in it as well, so if you're interested, feel free to read it LOL
Guest: Yes, either she likes him, or she's just curious about him. XD
anyway, enough of the A/N. here is the story. I do have to warn you, if you find the change, grab tissues, because it's going to be sad, again.
Chapter 3: Regrets
Selina lies on her old dirty mattress sleeping when suddenly something awakes her. It sounds like rumblings, and she feels the ground shake slightly. Her cats meow and walk around the place, cautiously. Then, it's gone.
The young cat-girl decides to pay not much attention to it and flops down again, back into her pillow. Her cats however, keep meowing anxiously. It takes longer for them to relax again, but Selina has no trouble with ignoring them and sleep again.
The next morning Selina leaves her hideout to get some food for her and her cats. While walking across the streets, she suddenly feels someone is watching her. As she turns her head, she can see a dark haired face duck back into the alleyway. She surely knows to who that face belongs.
With an eye-roll she turns around again and continues her stroll down the sidewalk. Normally she doesn't like people spying on her, but she knows it's Sean, and this time she would pretend she hadn't seen him. This time she would let him follow her, and maybe he could learn some pick-pocket skills while watching her.
Selina smirks to herself as she sees her first unaware victim. Quickly she closes in onto her prey and grabs the wallet from the man's pocket before walking on like nothing happened. The man hadn't noticed anything.
The young cat-burglar darts into an alleyway, and she can sense Sean is still following her. Quickly she climbs up a fire escape and disappears onto the rooftop, right at the same time as Sean pokes his head around the alleyway wall, looking inside.
Selina smirks softly as she perches onto the rooftop edge, staring down at the baffled looking Sean. It's obviously the street boy is stunned by how quickly she disappeared on him. The young cat-girl takes the money from the wallet and stuffs it into her pockets, and then tosses the wallet down, which lands with a flop in front of Sean's feet.
Sean looks up at the rooftop, but Selina already disappeared again. Quickly the boy climbs up, but once arriving at the rooftop, she's still nowhere to be seen.
'She's good,' Sean thinks to himself as a small smile curls his lips. Then, taking a very long run-up and leaps from one building to another. He will catch her up, eventually, right?
Selina scrambles back into her hideout, trying to find her way through the crowd of hungry street cats that come to meet her. Finally reaching her mattress safely, Selina opens the cans of cat-food and spoons them into some take-away cups. The cats immediately wolf down on it.
As she nibbles absently onto a croissant, Selina's mind wanders back to Sean Ornelas and the question why he followed her. Also, had he followed her the night to the library, or was Sean there for another reason? And what would that reason be?
A few minutes later the cat-girl finds herself in the GCPD, asking for Jim Gordon. The cop she asked it to said Jim was busy but Selina demands the cop to get Jim, or else she would start screaming so loud that his colleges think he was hurting her. Ten minutes later, Gordon arrives with Bullock.
Selina immediately drops the name Sean Ornelas, and Bullock spits the gum he was chewing on, from his mouth in shock. Jim stares at in disgust and says he never heard of the name Sean Ornelas. Bullock coughs loudly because this time the lackadaisical cop almost chokes on his own saliva.
Selina, knowing that something is wrong with Bullock and that he's trying to hide something from her, pierces her green eyes into Bullock's. Bullock however, looks away and whistles and pretends nothing is going on.
Jim looks suspiciously from his partner to Selina, and then back to his partner and asks; "Bullock, what do you know about this Sean Ornelas?" Again, the cop clears his throat as he pretends to have a frog in it, and shrugs sheepishly.
Then, Jim has to recoil because Selina claws her nails and scratches to Bullock's face while hollering; "Tell me everything you know!" Bullock tries to scurry away in fear, but loses his footings and falls backwards onto the floor. Selina casts over Bullock, dangerously.
"Okay, fine, please don't scratch my eyes out!" Bullock cries anxiously, and then reaching out to Jim to help him to get up. Jim shakes his head but helps Bullock up anyway. "Sean Ornelas is my case, like ten years ago. He's the only one who survived the attack on him and his family. Until now I still don't know who made the attack, nor did I know where Sean is. I assumed he was kidnapped by the mob, or something like that."
"Okay, so how do you know the name?" Jim asks, now suspiciously looking at where Selina stood, but she already had disappeared through the main door, right after Bullock finished his story.
Once heading out the door, the young cat-girl picked up a lot of angry chatter and shouts of insults, and when she looked over she noticed Sean Ornelas running across the street, dodging people and jumping over cars. He looked like he was in a hurry, and he was holding flowers in one of his hands.
Selina cocks her head curiously as her eyes keep following Sean as he jumps over some more cars and then heads over to the sidewalk to disappear into an alleyway. It looked like he was heading to the docks. But why flowers?
Suddenly realizing what it might be, Selina's heart aches a little, but why? After all, it's not her problem he has a girlfriend, right? Selina snorts, turning on her heels as she starts sauntering down the sidewalk, telling her mind it's silly to feel like that. She tries to tell herself Sean is just like any other boy, and not good looking and handsome, at all.
But her curiosity takes the better of her and before she can even stop herself, she finds herself at the docks and hidden behind some crates as she watches Sean from afar.
The young street boy stands onto the ledge beneath the docks, and Selina sees how he bends down and places the flowers onto the wooden ledge before sitting down beside it. Selina can see Sean's lips moving, but she can't hear what he says, so her curiosity takes the better of her again and moves closer, and hides behind a crate at the edge of the dock.
From there she can hear street boy sob softly, and though a part of her knows it's something private, she can't turn around and not listen. Then, Sean even starts crying faster, and it's like he has no control on it anymore.
"Mom, dad, I'm so sorry for falling into the water and not swimming back to the boat, but swum back to Gotham instead. Now I lost you, the two people I loved the most, and the most awful part is that I don't even remember how you look like. I'm so sorry about that too."
Sean's crying's becomes softer but his muttering's not. Selina can tell that the street boy blames a lot on himself, which is weird because what could he have done? He was only eight years old. But it is really heart breaking, even for a girl like Selina, who always tried to hide emotions.
"I will find the person who did this, mom, dad, and will make him or her pay for it. And if you two still are alive, somewhere, I will find you as well. Though I don't know how you two look like, my heart will tell it's you."
"My heart will tell it's you."
Sean stands up and picks up the flowers, reading the label around it one more time, saying; "I will find you, mommy and daddy. Much love Sean Ornelas." And like he does every year, he wishes from the bottom of his heart the water will take it to his mom and dad, so they will read it and know it's from him. That they know he will never, EVER stop searching for them. And maybe, just maybe they will search for him too.
Sean sways the flowers back, and then tosses them as far as possible forward, into the waters. Selina wipes a tear from her cheek before turning around, and leaves Sean alone. Not today, but maybe someday, she will walk up to him and wrap an arm around him. If he would allow her to do that.
Sean turns his head, and suddenly sees the shape of a familiar girl climbing up to one of the warehouse roof, and disappearing in the distance. Sean wipes his face clean, and frowns. Why was Selina here?
So, what do you think so far? I didn't made you guys cry too much, did I? Don't hold back, tell me, because writing emotions is something new to me, and I really would like to know if the emotions are there.
Anyway, next chapter is going to be thrilling. Sean is getting caught in a roof collapse, that's all I can tell without spoiling too much.
