The Search For Mystery Girl

Birthday Party

Carrick
I can't believe the Williams and the Johnsons are promoting their girls like they are a commodity to be sold. I finally tell them that our sons are going to choose their own wives without our opinions and Grace agreed with me on this point. I can't believe it. The Kavanagh and Steele family are not talking up their children. The only thing we know is they have children they are proud of. Mia likes her friends but the only ones not taking advantage of her good nature is Kate and Anastasia.

Grace
I am looking at Anastasia and she is having a good time, in my mind she is that little girl that was brought in all those years ago and possibly same girl in the painting. I was wondering what happened to her after all these years. I couldn't get any information on her after she left for foster care. We spoke to all the parents about various things and that's when Carla mentioned that they had just got Anastasia back in their lives after being kidnapped on the way home from school at six years old. I looked closer at her and I am sure she is the same girl that she treated. A smile spread as she watched the girl enjoying her life now and is back with her parents at long last.

Anastasia
I notice Grace smiling at me and I smile back at her. She looks familiar to me, like I have met her before.  My memories have still not returned yet. I have decided the psychologist is not helping me. I decided to try to just try to make myself into someone that I want to be and allow the past to stay in the past. I am in a better place now. This party is fun and Mia loved her gifts. We got her a gift certificate to her favorite salon. I have never been but mom and Isabel have been to it. Christian came and sat down by me and started asking me questions about how I met Mia and Kate. I told him it was at the college. Soon I felt like I was being interrogated and not trying to get to know me. I guess being so wealthy people try to get close to him and his family, but I didn't go up to him I reminded if that and went to find my family. I am not like the other females trying to get him interested in me. I couldn't care less if he were interested in me at all. I am a friend of Mia's not his. I avoid him until I am ready to leave. We all tell the Grey's family goodbye. Mrs and Mr Grey tell me and my family we are welcome to join them for their family bbq in a month. Mom accepted the invitation and they exchanged phone numbers. I don't even look Christian at all and we leave. I don't like being given the third degree and I have a feeling he is going to investigate me, well good luck on that. I tried my own investigation and got nowhere.

Kate
Mom and dad were their typical selves trying to impress the Grey's and I think they burnt bridges if you ask me. Christian wasn't thrilled at the latest news that appeared in the family newspaper and pretty much tried not to have any conversation with my dad. Elliott was flirty though and I asked Mia about him and she told me that he is a player and Gia got him drunk and had her way with him. She thinks it could be an issue if she finds out he is trying to date me. I ask her if he married Gia? She told me that he says marriage is not on his to do list. I laugh because it isn't on mine either. My parents are the Ozzie and Harriet couple and I don't want that happening to me. Her parents fight but just over silly things.

Gia
Elliott is staying away from me, but is flirting with a few of Mia's friends and it is making me mad. So I try to get Christian's attention and soon his security is preventing me from following him around. My parents are trying to talk me up, but the Williams and the Johnsons are talking up Leila and Lily and I think mr and mrs Grey are becoming annoyed because they are excusing themselves to another place. The party was a bust and Elliott is off limits. He has gotten a restraining order against me and only allowed me at the party if I stayed away from him.

Carl
I like Mia and a few of her friends but I think a birthday party isn't the time to ask any of them out. I was glad that we all got an invitation to a family bbq soon and mom and mrs Grey exchanged numbers. Their house is in walking distance from ours. It's a lot bigger than ours and built better than ours. Dad worked hard to get our home in the shape it is in today. It's beautiful and large but it is very old and it needs a few updates and dad is working on the updates. I am learning to become an electrical engineer and started courses and after I get that certification I will get other degrees. Dad has his certification already. He worked hard to get it once we got to Seattle. He got licensing in investigating and soon he was getting clients left and right. He has bigger building and a lot of employees now. He's really good at his job and has found missing people and most were still alive. I think he started the company because of Anastasia and had hopes of finding her. Well he did and it was a fluke that he saw her outside that bank that day in particular. As he says it was fate that brought her back to us. He was following a subject and lost them in the crowd and then saw Anastasia.