Fathers, Sons, Sister and Siblings – Chapter 2
Dante and Lulu are walking hand in hand towards Kelly's front door. When he met up with Lulu in the hallway of the hospital he didn't think the day could be any worse. He had just come from visiting his sister and her from visiting Maxie. The doctors had informed everyone that Maxie's had slipped in to a coma and that if the phenomena got any worse she would die. Now here he was walking with the love of his life worried about his sister, his brother, Maxie and now most of all her. Stopping he turns to her, taking both of her hands in his.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"You know 2 years ago if someone would have come to me and told me Maxie might die I would have started planning the funeral. We have quite the history between us and it took Maxies' sister Georgie dying before we were able to become friends and now she's dying and there is nothing I can do about it."
"Yes there is you can be there for her. You can sit by her side and talk to her like you did with me."
"Yea I was thinking about after I go check on Ethan heading over to the apartment and pick up some of her stuff to make her hospital room a little homier."
"Yea actually I need to talk to you about Ethan."
"I don't believe he hurt Kristina." Lulu blurts out.
"I know I don't believe it either." Dante agrees.
"Wait you don't think he hurt her? I thought you were going to tell me to stay away from him."
"Why would I tell you that, he's your brother and besides after the way I saw him protect you when I was hitting on you at Jake's I don't think there was any way he would hurt Kristina, no matter what she says."
"If he didn't do it, then who did?" Lulu asks.
"I actually have a couple ideas on that but I have to follow up on some hunches and as soon as I know something I'll let you know.
Lulu reaches up and kisses Dante. "Thank you." She says taking a step back. "I should get going I have a lot to do."
"Are you sure you don't want to stay and have lunch with us?"
Lulu smiles. "No I'll let you and your lunch date have some quality time together but I'll call you later and we can meet up at the loft and get some of those boxes unpacked." She reaches up and kisses him again.
"I love you." She says as she starts to talk away.
"I love you too." He shouts after her. Dante turns towards the door to Kellys and stops when he sees Mike behind the counter. He should have suggested a different restaurant for lunch. He's successfully been avoiding talking to Mike since he found out Sonny was his father. Between taking the backstairs or only coming and going when he knew that Mike wouldn't be around. Heck he even slipped a note to one of the waitresses to let Mike know he was moving out at the end of the month but now he was here and he had to face the music. Opening the door he ventured inside stopping just a bit when Mike looked up at him. Get a grip Dante says to himself as he sits down at the first open table. Mike came walking over holding the coffee in his hand.
"Coffee?" He asks.
"Sure." Dante says pushing the cup towards Mike.
"Somebody joining you?" Mike asks.
Dante nods his head. "Yea they should be here shortly."
"Mind if I sit down then?" Mike asks not waiting for Dante to answer he takes as seat.
"Sure, why not. But if you're here to give me some lecture about Sonny I'm not interested."
"I'm not here to lecture you I just wanted to know why you moved out. You know you didn't have to; you're my grandson and your welcome here for as long as you want. I don't want you to move out."
"Actually that wasn't the reason I moved out but it was a little uncomfortable and I didn't know how you would feel about what I was doing."
"I can't lie to you and say that I'm happy you're going to testify against your own father but you're my grandson too and I know this can't be easy on you. It has to be eating you up inside going against your father. Sonny's a good…"
"Can we change the subject?" Dante interrupts. "I'd rather not talk about Sonny if that's ok."
"Yea no problem. So if avoiding me wasn't the reason you moved out then what was?"
"Actually I figured since I was staying in town permanently I should probably find something a little bigger, it was getting kind of crowded around here."
"Ah I get it not enough privacy for you and Lulu huh?"
"You ain't kidding, every time we where alone upstairs someone would interrupt. It's like they all had radar."
Mike starts laughing. "Is that who's meeting you here?" He asks.
"Actually no, I'm seeing her later. But my lunch guest is here right now."