Chapter 17

Oh sister

"Hi I'm Gabriella Montez and I'm looking for my sister. I was wondering if she has been there or stopped in…her name is Daniela Montez" I said.

"Yea she was here a few nights ago…but she left…"

"Did she say where she was going?"

"Um…nope…she just said she had to leave"

"Ok thank you" I said.

It's been a week since Lettie lost the baby. This whole week I have been calling numbers for both Chris and Daniela. I just called the 1 of the 500 something holiday inns in Maryland. I called Chris' parents and sisters and they are working on finding him. Doing all of this also trying to make the summer designs of my lines. And doing stuff for the wedding. But I'm not giving up until I find Daniela and Chris.

Then an idea just hit me!

"How could I not think of this before?" I said. I was home alone with Lettie…who mainly stays in the room. I get what she wants and I make her eat, I know she's depressed but she needs this time to grieve.

I just thought about Lana, whose brother is a detective officer in Florida, who has to know people who can help me find her.

"Hello?" Lana answered.

"Lana I need a favor"

"Anything what is it?" she asked. Lana and Tristan broke up and Lana is now running her own chain of clothes stores.

"Your brother is a detective right?"

"Yea…"

"I need help finding my sister"

"Well I'll call him and give him your number, when he gets chance he'll call you" she said.

"Thank you so much Lana"

"No problem. PARKER NO! But yea it's no problem I wanna help. PARKER STOP!" she yelled at parker between talking.

"He just started to crawl…and getting into everything" she said.

"It's ok I understand" I said.

"Ok well I'll call him right now." She Said.

"Ok thank Lana" I said and hung up. Next person I called was Mr. Santos…he'll know where Chris is.

"Hello Loyal business how may I help you" Mary said.

"Mary, its Gabi is Mr. Santos there?"

"oh hey gab, yea he's here I'll transfer you' she said.

"Gabi!" Mr. Santos answered

"Hi Mr. Santos, has Chris contacted you in the past week?"

"Yea he did…he said he needed some time off…"

"Where did he go?"

"He said he was going to…oh he said he was going to New York"

"Did he give an emergency number?"

"Yea…Gabi is everything ok?"

"Mr. Santos, my sister, Chris' wife had a tragic miss carriage, and Chris bailed I'm just trying to find him so he won't regret it"

He said ok and gave me the number.

"Gracias Mr. Santos" I said and hung up.

After I got off the phone with Mr. Santos I went upstairs and checked on Lettie. I stood outside the door and I heard her crying. I just sat outside the door leaning on the wall. I can't help her…I can't help this…

I heard the phone ring about and hour later. Lettie stopped crying and I think she went to sleep. I ran down the stairs.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hey Gabi" Lana's brother said. I met him my first year in California and him and I really hit it off and became friends.

"Hey Michael"

"So I heard you need help finding your sister"

"I will pay you anything" I said.

"Don't worry about any cost. It's me repaying you for helping me out all those times" he said.

"Really please let me pay"

"No Gabi. Now what I need is her full birth name, your mom's birth name, and your home town" he said.

"Uh her birth name is…Daniela Carmen Montez my mom's birth name is Maria Yasmin Gonzalez and our home town is Laurel Maryland" I said.

"Ok…I should be able to get some results in a few hours…or it could a few days but I will make sure I will find something that will help you" he said.

"Thanks Michael" I said.

I next had to call Chris. I dialed the number Mr. Santos gave me.

"Hello?" it was Chris.

"Chris" I said.

"Gabi?"

"Yea…"

"How'd you find me?"

"I have my sources"

"How is she?"
"She needs you"

"I miss her"

"Then come home"

"Where is she staying?"

"My house…"

"I just…need…some time. Have they found him?"

"I don't know…I'm working on that too. Please come home!"

"I will soon" he said.

"Now"

"Gabi…"

"You have a week or I will find you and kick your ass!" I said.

He laughed. "Ok gabi" he said. I hung up with him and handled some wedding stuff.

The wedding is in 8 weeks, and only if by some miracle that Daniela comes back in time then I'm only going to have Eva and Lettie as my maid of honors. I hope I find her.

A few minutes later I got another call. I was praying it was Michael but it wasn't.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Hi is this Gabi Montez?"

"Yes it is"

"Hey Gabi this is the editor of OK! Magazine…we would like to take pictures and be there at your wedding"

"Oh…well…I'm flattered but I would like to talk to my fiancé about it and I'll get back to you"

"Ok thank you Gabi we will look forward to hearing from you"

I sighed when I hung up from the editor. I thought that when we moved back all of that magazine stuff would stop.

I started to feel really tired and rundown so I lied down on the couch. I didn't even realize I fell asleep until I woke up from the phone ringing.

"Hello?" I answered. My voice was really cracking from being asleep.

"I got a heap load of stuff on your sister"

"Really?" I said sitting up.

"Look Gabi…it's not good." He said.

"Is she dead?"

"No"

"So she's alive in some way?"

"Yea"

"Then it isn't bad. Now…tell me" I said. I was scared to hear what he would tell me.

"She filed for an annulment and restraining order from her husband, she quit her job at the diner and bookstore, she's been in jail twice, she is a known drug addict, and some other stuff. Look I will fed-ex all of these files to you right now and make sure it gets there in the morning…but Gabi…I don't know if you can even help her"

"She's my big sister and I have to at least try…If I don't then im worthless"

"Ok…I'll get these out to you" he said.

"Thanks Michael"

"No problem Gabi"

When I got off the phone with him I got really nauseated and ran to the downstairs bathroom. What is wrong with me! I can't get sick now!

I was done puking my guts out and I rinsed out my mouth with Listerine. I walked back out and started to put a oven baked pizza in the oven. Troy isn't coming home tonight he's having a guys night.

I went upstairs to Lettie.

"Sissy…" I knocked on the door.

"Yea gab" she said. I opened the door and saw her sitting on the floor at the end of the bed.

"I put a pizza in the oven…you want some"

"Yea…sure" she said. She came downstairs and I got the pizza out.

"How you feeling?" I asked.

"Ok…Gabi I think I overstayed my welcome" she said.

"Of course you didn't Lettie; you're never not welcomed here." I said. She smiled.

"How's the wedding planning going?" she asked.

"Oh it's going good…" I said.

"You look really stressed" she said.

"I'm fine"

"You know Gabi…I think I'm finally coming at piece with what happened"
"Lettie it's only been a week"

"Yea I know but remember what mami told you after you went through with the adoption?" she said. Pain always strikes through me when I think about that.

"she said to hold your head up and be strong because having a baby then to raise wasn't in your chapter yet" she said.

"I remember"

"Gabriel isn't in this chapter…"

"Lettie you don't have to be strong you can do whatever you need to in order to move on"

"And I am moving on…I'm turning the page"

"Well I still want you to stay…I'm not comfortable with you leaving yet"

"Gabi"

"Don't Gabi me, you may be older but I have those feelings! And those feeling are telling me to keep you!" I said. She laughed.

"Ok" she said. She finished her pizza.

"I'm going back up" she said. "Ok" I said and hugged her.

"Night sissy" she said.

"Night sissy"

So this is setting up for the next two chapters. Kind of a filler but also important. So can you guys guess what's wrong with Gabi! Ha-ha. Well I hope you guys liked! REVIEW!!