Last update tonight, just for you Natty
Chapter 20.
“The year Stella turned 21 and was ready to move in, in her own apartment, I should’ve moved with her, but… But the day we moved there, things started to change, I was 14, how does any other teenage-girl behave?… I… We argued a lot, I was so sick of her making all the decisions, telling me how to live my life.” Rebecca started, Mac noticed the tears that were still running down her cheeks.
“One day, while Stella was at school I… I stole what I could find of money in the apartment and took off, I didn’t even leave her a letter. Of course later I considered contacting her, but, I was scared you know… And now, I finally gathered courage to find her, and apologize for everything I’ve done, she’s just gone.”
Rebecca took a deep breath, “When we were younger, and I had done something wrong, I apologized, sometimes I said I love you to her, then she’d say ‘I love you too sis, for ever and always right?’ and I would say ‘for ever and always’ before I would take her hand, and everything was good again.”
Mac felt a sorrow he hadn’t felt for almost 2 months now, the sorrow of remembering exactly how she was, exactly how she would make him laugh a dark, rainy night, and exactly how her absence made him cry every dark rainy night now.
“Where do you live now Rebecca?” Mac looked at her, she smiled, a smile he recognized only too well, the same nervous but comforting smile Stella had.
“New Jersey.” She looked away for a second, probably to hide the weakness, if she were anything alike Stella, she would.
“Okay, should I book a hotel room for you for the night?” Mac smiled, Rebecca looked at him, “I’ll be fine, I don’t want to burden you.”
Mac stroked her back, “You wont, you are a Stella’s family, means that you’re our family, I’ll get you a hotel room.”
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“How’s Rebecca doing?” Adam looked at him, with a both curious and protective look in his eyes.
“She’s still pretty shaken up, from what she told me, her and Stella were very close when they were kids.” Mac smiled, “Why don’t you ask her yourself? I have her number here. Call her, she needs to talk to someone.”
Adam smiled, but at the same time seemed confused, “Can I? I mean, are you sure she wont mind?”
“Talk to her Adam…” Mac smiled even more before he left the lab, it was 2:30 pm, he had to pick up the little princess from kindergarten, Danny and Lindsay were both working a high profile case, he had trusted them with it, they kind of both had Stellas old job now.
But before he went to the kindergarten, he wanted to stop by Stella’s grave, somewhere inside him, he still didn’t believe that she was gone.