The Quiet Sister✔️

8. No Place Like Home

Nola had to get her mind right.

After meeting Tori and getting her makeover, she needed to be around some of her family. Since she was at the mall, she might as well go see her closest sister.

Kitty lived less than a mile from the mall because when she bought the property for the mall, she bought the land around it and included property for their house...mansion she meant. It was a little over the top how huge it was, but hey, if they had it, spend it.

Kitty started building her empire by working for Icee, running his new hip-hop, rap-inspired clothing line, KStyle Fashions. That was not enough for her sister. With a loan from Icee, she built what would probably be her legacy, Ice Kingdom Mall.

The mansion was called the Ice Palace. It literally looked like a castle to her, complete with two separate maid's residences. If she ever decided to not live in the Kelly family home, she would move into the Palace.

It was gated with security, but each sister had the passcode to come in freely. There was a twenty-four-hour security team on watch and the best aerial security thanks to Victor's company TEAM. Even though that psycho and his sister were dead, there still were a lot of crazies out there that might try something.

Once she pulled through the gates, she still had a drive to get to the house. They were crazy rich for this.

Finally, she made it to the front of the house and parked in the circular driveway that could fit twenty cars. She left her things in the car, grabbed her phone, and headed to the door. Once she rang the doorbell, Deanna the house manager opened it.

"Hello Nola, nice seeing you again."

"Thanks. My sister home?"

"With those babies."

She headed upstairs to the nursery and sure enough, Kitty was there with the soon-to-be one-year-old IceeJay and the almost four-month-old twin girls, Kayley and Kaycee. It was one thing to get back-to-back pregnant after having one baby, but then, she had the twins early so now they were super close in age. Three babies under one? All in pampers, all still using bottles. IceeJay was an early walker, so that was good.

That little boy was running around the nursery screaming for no reason while Kitty sat on the floor with the twins laid out on the floor on a blanket. Kitty was singing a song to them, and maybe IceeJay thought he was singing along.

"Hey, little man!" She grabbed IceeJay up and hugged him, kissing his cheek as he giggled.

"Hey baby sis," Kitty said to her. "What brings you over?"

"Nothing."

Kitty turned to look her over. "On one hand, the face is facing...on the other, how do you leave the house dressed like that? You did not get the fashion gene from me or my twin, huh?"

She tossed her sister the middle finger.

"Actually, I just left your mall and bought it up. I'm doing a makeover for myself. I still can't be like you or Kryssy, let me be me."

Kitty looked her over again and grinned. "That's good to hear. You've been in a funk lately."

"Yeah" She wondered why her sister was not after all she had gone through. Being kidnapped and nearly killed by that monster. Losing their sister. Kitty was moving on with her life as if it did not happen.

Nola put IceeJay down and then sat down on the blanket with Kitty. "How are you doing?"

"Peachy keen."

She laughed. "Don't say that. Doesn't sound like you at all. Really, talk to me, how are you doing?"

"What do you want me to say." She handed one of the twin girls a teething ring, but Lord help her on being a bad auntie because she could not tell them apart at all. "That I still have nightmares about what happened? That I still see his face sometimes out of nowhere? That I don't even remember the birth of my little girls because I was out of it? Yeah, depressing. And on top of that...I don't have one of my sisters anymore. Annnnnd, my twin and best friend has moved so far away I cannot see her every day."