Chapter Three: Hush Little Baby

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CHAPTER THREE:

 HUSH LITTLE BABY:

He touched Alice’s shoulder, she flinched and straightened up, she nearly forgot that she was still in the car. They’ve been driving for a awhile. He kept his eyes on the road, ignoring everything she asked him. Alice sat there shaking her head in anger.

“Will you please just answer my questions?” She tried to sound calm but the anger was slipping out.

He was sighing and constantly looking up at rear-view mirror. They’ve only been driving for a half hour and she was already loosing her patients, she felt like opening the car door and jumping out, but she couldn’t he had it locked. Child locked. 

They stopped at a stop light, he finally looked at her. Then he began looking around.

The file. He’s looking for the file. Where is it?

When Alice found the file she opened it, and looked down, at her mom and Kyle then turned the page to see a picture of her and her two brothers, when they where younger.

“Mr. Moore I just want to know the whole story."

He murmured something under his breath, she couldn’t hear what he said, and it wasn’t meant to be heard what ever it was.

“What didn’t my mom tell me?” She said, feeling sadness, and anger build in her chest. Not at Moore but at her mother.

He looked over at Alice, and back at the light, it switched green.

“Let me start over.” She looked at him, and he looked at her, and he nodded. 

She nodded back. 

“Your mom, was suppose to marry this guy.” He said and flipped the picture back of Kyle and her mom.

“On the wedding day, your mom ran off with Billy Ward, a few months after the wedding was called off, that she wasn't ready yet. Kyle finds out she is pregnant and there not his kids, anyman can tell they weren't his. you can quite tell.” He paused and looked at Alice then at her hair, that was a dirty blonde with curls. He looked at her hazel brown eyes.

“ After Lana and Kyle broke up, he begins to harass your mother and brothers. She began dating Billy on October 24th 1972, not long after she had you. “ He paused and looked at Alice and smiled, the first time in awhile he smiled at her, it seemed to make her happy, but she couldn’t smile in return.

“ The only problem is, 19 years ago, Billy left your mom.”

“Yeah?” Alice nodded and stared down at her mom and Kyle.

“Your mom never told you did she?”

“Told me what?”

“Why Billy left?"

“I was in my 20s it wasn’t any of my business of knowing why he left, I never questioned.”

“He remarried a women named Rebecca Crisp, and 22 years ago,  she got pregnant, with a boy first , named Benjamin and then came Emily Crisp.” He paused and stopped at a red light and looked down at the file and flipped the pages twice to a photo of a black haired Asian women holding two, children. A boy and a girl. Benjamin and Emily.

“Okay this is what you wanted to tell me, that my dad had an affair with a women, and got her knocked up?” Alice didn't feel like crying, she felt decieved, she idolized her father, she looked up to him as a child, and when he left, he said he would call, and visit, he never called. 

“No.” He paused and looked at the rear-view mirror. “That’s only one, thing your mom hid from you.”

Alice closed the file, and threw it on the dash board.

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