Falling

Chapter 6-Tucker

    I decided to surprise Lona by picking her up from dance tonight. She said it was the last class of the year and it was the class she loved most. I wanted to look through the window and watch my little sister dance her heart out. As I peer in I can't help but gasp. Libby was her teacher. She had on a bright pink leotard and black tights pulled over it. Her hair was in that twisty thing girls did with a clip and fuck me she was bent over correcting one of the students posture. Those fucking nipples were poking through her leotard just like on the day she bumped into me. 

    As if feeling my eyes on her she looks up and her face turns blank. She claps her hands and all the girls leave the bar and run to the center of the room. Libby takes up the middle and begins demonstrating the next set of moves. She does them full out and she is stunning. Watching her dance had always been mesmerizing. I wonder why she's here teaching. I watch the rest of class alternating between staring at Libby and my sister. When class was finally over I stepped back into the lobby and noticed a familiar face.

   "Hey Sammy how are you?" I ask as panic flares into his face. I can see him holding hands with a little girl. I bend down and offer her my hand

 "Hello and who are you beautiful girl?" I like this kid she doesn't hesitate and takes my hand and kisses it.

"Hi mister I'm Lennon but my mommy calls me Lenny or baby and Uncle Sambam calls me Lenny Girl" I laugh at the Uncle Sambam and stand back up. I can see Sammy's panic looking from me to Lennon and back again. Weird.

"Lennon it's very nice to meet you. I'm Tucker" She smiles up at me. That's when I hear my favorite voice. The voice that flowed through my damn veins and has owned me since the first time we ran into each other.

"Baby girl come here." Libby demands and Lennon takes off and jumps into her arms. So thats why Sammy panicked, Lennon is Libby's kid. It makes sense she looks just like her. I open my mouth to say something but her Sammy and Lennon take off to the parking lot.

   "Tuck?" My sister says my name in a weird way. 

   "Hey little moonbeam" I say. Lona gives me a forced smile. "Lets go momma has dinner waiting for us." We walk to my truck and she stops watching Libby put Lennon into the car seat.

   "So did Libby come teach a class now that she all big and professional? How was that? You looked great dancing I hate that I haven't gotten to see you in all these years" I can't help the word vomit coming out. 

   Lona has a weird look on her face. "Tuck Libby hasn't left this town in 5 years. She never took off for the dance company. She got pregnant and has been here ever since." I swallow hard "Big brother Libby's parents died a year after Lenny was born. Tucker she has been my teacher the last year and half and she works at the dinner on east lake." She whispers this time.

Fuck my girl never got her dream and her parents died. I got mine but she didn't get hers.

------Libby

  I thought I was going to cry. It was Christmas morning and for the first time it just being me and Lenny wasn't enough. Tucker Cole just had to come back and now I ache for it. A family. One where Lennon has a mommy and a daddy. One where she doesn't feel the need to ask every day with tears in her eyes when daddy is coming home. I wanted to give my baby girl the world and I was failing.

   Sammy had always been pro don't tell Tucker but now that he was around Sammy was starting to worry about me. We had talked about it in length and I just didn't know what to do anymore. Lexa was flying in tomorrow from Belize where she had been staying for Christmas break with her newest girlfriend because Sammy had invoked a 911 meeting with her.