Dumb Love (completed)

(14) Brix

"So, I still don't understand, is the person who shot you the same person who burned the house down?" Mom asked.

"No, well atleast I don't think so." I said.

"I think your dad did it." She said taking another sip of her orange juice.

We sat in our room eating breakfast.

"The only good reason for him doing that, that I can think of, is while he was drunk." I told her.

She nodded her head, I could tell she was thinking about something else.

"What are you thinking about?" I asked.

She took a deep breath and blew out her cheeks then replied, "Just, I can't stop thinking about Kate.

"Why were you looking for her here, if she's back in Virginia?" I asked her.

"I guess she found out I was coming here for business and lied about being here." She sighed.

"What reason did she say she was coming here?" I questioned her again, this started to feel like an interrogation.

"Your father told me, to make sure I wasn't worrying about her anymore, that she was moving here because she had found a better job." She answered.

"Do you think she lied or, he did?" I asked.

"I..I don't know." She said taking a gulp of her orange juice.

"I think Kate lied." I told her.

"But why would she want me in New York?" I asked.

"To get back with Johnathan." She said shaking her head, "Regardless we need to find her, and Johnathan, and get that girl."

"You're right, but I can't go back to Virginia." I told her.

"Why not?" She asked.

"Someone's trying to kill me." I said.

"What!? How do you know?" She asked.

"Camille, the persons house the party was at, she told me about this guy who could be dangerous, Charlie. He had something to do with me being shot." I told her.

"Well, we have to go back, if he tries anything we'll know who he is and he'll go straight to jail." She told me.

"How are you going to be with me all the time?" I asked, "Especially if we have no house now." I told her.

"I rented out an apartment, when I planned to go back I wanted to take you and Landon and live there." She said.

"Well, what about the girl, aren't you going to adopt her?" I asked.

"Yes, we'll get a bigger house by then." She told me.

"Don't you need a licence for that?" I asked.

"No, not really, it will take long though."

"What would Kate do?" I asked.

"I don't know. I'm not sure about anything. Which is why we have to leave, tomorrow." She said.

I just nodded.

"I'm going shopping, you wanna come?" I asked, if we're leaving tomorrow then I might as well get to see more of New York.

"No thank you, I have a lot of packing to do." She replied scanning the dirty hotel room.

"Ok." I told her and grabbed my phone amd a jacket.

I didn't plan on buying clothes, or even trying them on, just looking. I wanted to sit, alone and think, and not speak.

I walked out and walked around for hours. Knowing I wouldn't be able to find ny way back to easily.