River's Rescue (Book 2 River's Story)

Final Test

A few months have passed by with no word of my mom. I still can't wrap my head around the thought that my mom is really truly after me. We are still no closer to her, or to the reason. I have gone to Italy with my grandparents, and it has been super sad because the guys are not really around much.

I have spent these last few months learning a lot. I have gone through what they call the training process. I have learned to fight, use a gun, learn how to use the special equipment they have. They even thought I needed time to learn to drive again. Which I really didn't. But it was fun learning different stuff then what was taught to me.

"Poppy, I really miss everyone back in Vegas. When do I get to go back home?"

I have decided that Vegas will be home for me.

"Come here Pumpkin." He pats the spot next to him on the couch. Not that Gramma and Poppy's house isn't lovely. It is huge, I never seen a house this big in my life. It is mansion. But I really need to go home, and I need to find my mom. I need this all to end. I don't want to worry about what I can and cannot do. "I know you really want to go back, but we need to find you some place different to stay. Why don't you use the internet to find an actual house. And we can work on getting it secure and what not. Then after your graduation we will sneak you back."

My own house? What about my guys? What about Jazmine and KK and Zeke? As to reading my mind.

"Mykayla is living with Rafael, Jazmine and Nick are happy and actually bought a house for themselves. And Zeke, well he has a place. The guys have a little apartment of their own. But I am sure you wont get rid of them that often if you got a place of your own." He stands up and kisses the top of my head. "Pumpkin, it will all work out."

He leaves me sitting in one of the many living spaces that has a few couches and a few chairs. I get up and grab a bottle of water and take a drink and let out a sigh. I just need my life back, but not the life of living with my mom and all the drugs she takes. I need a normal life. Maybe spending time finding a place, would help pass time. And I don't really have that long till I graduate. Then said I could go to work for the same company Poppy works for. I think it is the same company that Gramma once used to work for too.

I walk to my room and go to my desk and start browsing for houses. I think about what I need. I know I need room for the guys, and to have Gramma, Grandma, and Poppy come visit. And at some point I will have to rescue Aspen and take her in as well. Not to mention, I want to do that before Christmas. So I have to find a place and be moved in a month. Actually a little less. And I need to go Christmas shopping.

Ugh, why did my mom have to do this. I curse her. I should have left her ass sooner. I click on the icon of a mountain knowing it will show me my little sister. I watch her playing in her bedroom. She has a few dolls, and her room isn't small but it isn't huge either. It is bigger than the one I had when I lived with my mom. I vow to fill a bedroom up with lots of toys, and clothes for her. She needs a place to play outside too.

I wish I would have been able to see her while she was growing and have a relationship with her. I think things would be a different right now if I had. I may even need to find a place for her grandparents, because it would be scary to move in with a sister you never knew away from the only people you have known.

I start writing this all down:

I need to have around 10 or so bedrooms. For us all and for guest. At least 11 bathrooms, conference area, living area, kitchen, laundry, pool, hot tub, outside green area, and BBQ. I need a separate living house for Aspen's grandparents. I do not know how they would feel to live with me.

I put all that in to search for a place to live. I watch my sister play, and a friend of her's shows up and with her dolls and they look like they are playing house. I am really glad my loser of a mom hasn't found her yet. But on the same note she probably doesn't know I have either.