Hi guys! Thank you very much for your reviews. I hope you have a wonderful Sunday. So this is the chapter 3. An entire chapter about Regina and her new life. I hope you will like it. As usual I'm sorry for my mistakes. Enjoy it and let's your reviews…
Chapter 3
It had to be ten times that she pushed the snooze button of her alarm clock. But why had she drunk so much yesterday? In spite of an awful headache and a good hangover a smile illuminated her face in the memory of her evening. It seemed to her that it had been ages since she didn't have had so much fun.
Finally she opened her eyes…
- Shit… I'm late!
She rushed in the bathroom where she took a fast and cold shower just to put back in place her neurons before beginning her day at the center. She liked her job. She had been very lucky by taking down this post in Boston. In fact, she didn't even know how she had found to manage this center of reintegration for young delinquents. A part of her life had evaporated of her memory suddenly while she was driving her car. It went back to six months.
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Regina had just hung up with Emma. Tears flooded the face. She knew that for what she got ready to make, no step backward was possible. She told goodbye at a life of sufferings but also at the only person she loved… her son.
-I hope that one day you'll forgive me Henry.
She stepped on the accelerator and with a last look in her rear-view mirror, she crossed the limit of the city.
The driver had a loss of consciousness for a few seconds. When she took back consciousness she just had time to give a blow of dry steering wheel to avoid a car that came on the other way. The shaking hands, the heart beating at a furious pace, the young woman lined up on the low side to let get down the adrenalin. What had happened? She closed her eyes, taken big breaths and felt her body relaxing little by little. But this return to a state of calm was short-lived. A fear began to display on the face. A question tapped her mind. A simple and commonplace question and the answer freaked out her because she didn't have any answer … Who was she?
She didn't know since how long she stayed like that behind the wheel of her car by trying to find an appearance of memory on her identity. The only thing that she had won at it was a big headache. " But why I didn't think of it before! ". She took the handbag put on the passenger seat to take out a wallet containing identity papers. The driving licence belonged to a certain Regina Mills. Was she this woman? She looked in the rear-view mirror to compare the face with that from the picture.
Although she looks like to the picture the name told her nothing. She continued to check the bag, slightly ill at ease, having the impression to violate the intimacy of somebody who she didn't know. She found a card or rather a pass at her name, with " Manager's " mention. She was manager but manager of what? Going ahead her investigations she found a cell phone. Finally something useful. It had to have a list of contacts, thus people there who could bring her some answers. The heart filled with hope she switched on the mobile. A CODE! It damned device asked her to enter a code! That was too much for her. She burst into sobs.
The forehead on the steering wheel, it took her a few seconds before understanding that someone was banging against her window. She looked at the man. It was a policeman.
- Good evening lady, are you okay?
- …
The tied throat, the sobs submerging her, the brunette didn't manage to pronounce a word.
- Try to calm down, the officer says with a soft voice.
When finally she managed to calm down and to look at the man, she began thinking that she found him rather attractive. He had to have around thirty old years, brown, beard of a few days. But what was happening to her! She doesn't have identity anymore and the only thing that comes to her mind is to flirt with a perfect stranger.
- Madam? Madam?
- Ye… yes… excuse me.
- Do you have a problem with your car?
She shook the head negatively.
- You know that you don't have the right to stop your car on the road side without a good reason.
- …
- Where are you going?
- Well… actually… I don't know.
- You don't know where you're going!? On which kind of mad was he still fallen. Have you the papers of the vehicle and your driving licence?
The young woman tightened him documents.
- I'm coming back.
- Wait!
The agent retraced his steps and waited patiently that the driver tells him her story.
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Dressed in jeans and in a white shirt, Regina arrived at the center.
- I see that her majesty eventually woke up.
- The fault to whom? She says with a half-smile.
- I've only paid the drinks, I never forced you to drink them.
- For once that it is me who win a bet! I wanted to catch and to make you pay a little.
- You were lucky. Montreal should never have won this match. Besides it was not very nice from you to bet against our team.
- Our team!? I remind you that I have been living in Boston only for six months. Besides, I always liked siding with the one that everybody thinks of already beaten. Well, it is not all this but we have some job.
- About that, there is someone in your office who is waiting for you.
The days of Regina were far from being creatures of habit. To try to change the behavior of teenagers already fairly damaged by the life had nothing easy. But she loved these young people and strangely, without knowing really why, she understood their rage, their anger, their need for destruction. Had she already known so many sufferings?
She opened her door's office.
- Hello! She says to the people who waited for her.
- Hi! How are you? The man asked kissing her on the cheeks.
- Fine and you?
- Always when I see you my dear! He answered with a large smile.
- Well… I think I'm going to leave you, the teenager suddenly says trying to go out of the office.
- Hi Alexandra!
- Hi Gina!
- I already said to not call me like that! The brunette says annoyed.
- Idem for you! ME it's Alex not Alexandra.
Both women gauged. In spite of her fourteen years Alex was a very mature girl, too much moreover. Never she lowered her guard. At her age she had already seen too many things and undergone too many things. The first time when they had met, it was there are four months. She had been to arrest for shoplifting and ownership of bladed weapon. As it was her first arrest, the judge had placed her in a home for young delinquents, that of Regina. The first relationships between the manager of the center and she were rather stormy. Impertinent, violent, she had saved nothing to Regina. Nevertheless the brunette could not refrain from being affected by this lost soul. For weeks Alex had tested the limits of Regina. But Regina had never shown herself impatient, violent or just indifferent. And then a day, without she expects it, Alex had opened her fortress to let in Regina.
- What did she do this time?
- She slightly stabbed her stepfather. Nothing very important. He just needs some stitches.
- Too bad! The Young girl whispered.
- Why did you do that?
- Hands too much handcarts …
- Ok… I see… Thanks Chris, I'm on it.
- Alright! So… are you free tonight for a dinner? He asked smiling.
- Yeah!
- I pick you up at 7:00pm.
The officer went out the office.
- Wow… Gina has a boyfriend! Rather cute actually. But you could choose someone else than a cop.
The words of the teenager made Regina laugh. Undoubtedly she adored this kid and her arrogance.
- What I am going to do with you? it is going to need that one day you take the right way. You have so many capacities Alex.
- What do you want? I must not be made for the happy endings!
- We have all right in the happiness, you maybe more than somebody else. Give you a chance to create it.
The young teenager answered anything and looked at her feet.
- Well in the meantime, I am going to ask to Crystal to show you your room for the period of your stay among us.
Alexandra got up and went to the door.
- Hey Alex! Never forget that I will always be there for you, as everybody here. Thus if you want to speak …
- I know … thank you, she answered with a light smile.
The day moved forward with a good rhythm. Regina as usual had not seen the hours. While she got ready to go back at her home, one knocked at the door of her office.
- Come in!
- Hello! I know that it's late but this young man has just passed in front of the judge. He attacked public proprieties with baseball bat! And besides he decided to play the mute. Can you tell me what there is in the head of these teenagers? Well, I leave you. We see each other always this evening?
The brunette shook the head before turning her attention to the kid who was in front of her.
- Hi! The boy says.
- Ah well it seems that you found your tongue. Hello! My name is Regina and I am the manager of this center. I am going to fill your file and then I will go you to show your room. Then, to begin what's your name?
- Henry!