HER SHADOWED PAST
stated at what she
doing her weekend chores to make out lunch
n't lift
for almost twenty years an
most could tell he
ar
e all
lled herself
id on for the pas
he bed and staggere
into her kettle and tu
e went to her kitchen cupboard
g hot coffee and went b
g on t
ere playing
he TV and went b
were still on her bed
about this whole bullshit in front of h
was
at her al
n
hours to do whate
d back the photos
her shoe box and ke
clothes and threw each
as done with almo
nd had a very
ee when she came out of the bat
lost coun
idn't notice her phon
th when she heard the l
the bed, took her towel an
eephole and check
as J
ened t
." She sa
fro
r quite a while now but you weren
omething w
she
er, so didn't hear
t Jake as a very sensitive gen
crying?" H
er and touch
lled away
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b for a very long t
g about not crying but
d left him to go
you got here."
sm
ha
w minutes to get
dded an
le
walked around
om, he understood
a neat
specks of d
it looks like some perfectionist
der
asma TV and a DVD player set, a breakfast corner a
ully fu
r and same all over
classy and
eave now?
back, wearing a while cotton p
gorgeous." He
as n
ooks good on any
aid with her cr
to her and took h
ave now me lad
e door behind them. He took her to the Village I
near the window while a waitress ca
ase." Jacky said to the lady in black and white checked ski
thing else?" Jake asked her
ith the pie
e lady," Jake told the waitress, t
and creamer." He explained to the lady w
their order while Jake now had his fu
rself, I want to k
now about my life, I'm a pretty ope
head but not wanting to dwell on them, she pushed them as
n with my parents, Ada
there?" He aske
two years when I moved down to Brooklyn....." She w
o tell me about you, at least I've said something a
ven't sa
lings?" He aske
younger br
is in his first ye
brother, my uncle, Gabriel and he lives with them in your family
perated, trying to sup
ng, co
hat
s but apparently that wasn't God's plan for me cause I dropped out of c
g and art and after the program, I interned in NYPD for three month
nows what she want, when she wants it an
She said to him, looking curiously at him a
in San Anto
live." He breathed out lik
it
be sad losi
and she's married with two kids while Corin
on, where I majored in Criminal Justice and I got a degree in the course. I joined the FBI a
man already. They went on and on talking till they finished their snacks and afterwar
r home late
'd fun." He said when he stopped
d and tur
un too
ks a
t again?" He aske
should go
issed her lips, she invited h
and when they retracted from each
." Jake breathed
ast wave, she walked towards the building while he stayed there, watching her
ecided to
ck, then went to
home when she got there except
into her d
was neatl
r father's sea
out the
there was any document signed on her behalf
out every f
rts on her and he
ng till she got to th
and her biological parents and
t she woul
few photos fr
ng back the way it
ranging
mom's room to get
ly fo
eft it on the
and left the sa
en by anyone as s
nd searched on her f
new client of his at an Italian Resta
he was going to g
g to meet him. That night, dressed in a bl
inside the hoods
fort
by eight pm and he
She asked the waitress who she'd
lied her as she took the
." Jaclyn said to the la
her order. It was seven fifty-fiv
he man to come when she receive
cause she felt it was unimpo
ious and decided
he message popped in front
it any lo
ome
u or know that you'
text, from the sa
home
you when y
know you're alive
ed as s
to see if anyone
o one
e about her coming he
s this
d her a w
asn't going home till
mind
text c
st have to tru
who I am and why I'm ask
s I say to save your
she developed all of a sudde
stoo
!" She
her earlier came aga
s." She handed t
ka
She pushed a twen
the ba
she left the place with th
s mysteri