*ADOPTED*

*ADOPTED*~Five~

All that night and all thru the next week I couldn't relax or sleep a wink, I kept hearing my husbands/ex-husbands threat over and over again in my head. Tommy told me not to worry about it, because he would keep me and AJ safe from him, but I knew it was now time for me to find my own place and get my new life started away from all of this and out of New York forever. So for the next couple weeks, I made calls for job opportunities and searched for available homes as far away from here as possible. Trinity helped me in the search, I just didn't really know where to start on the location.

Tommy came into the bedroom where we both were writing down different places and ideas, but none of them were panning out the way I wanted them too. He plopped down in between us and asked me why I haven't got a hold of my old girlfriends to see if they could help out by checking jobs and houses for me. Then I would be in a place where I had friends and stability. I reached over to my brother and kissed him on the cheek as I told him sometimes he was a real genius! Because I had three girlfriends that have been dying to get me to move closer to them so they could spend time with me and meet my son. I went down to the kitchen to grab my phone and looked thru my contact list until I found my three friends, Sandy, Rachel, and Chloey.

But instead of calling them one at a time, I made a Messenger group so we all could chat together. First, we talked a lot of silly girl talk, then I got around to telling them that I just divorced Kristoffer and told them that I was having some troubling after effects from it and really needed to get out of New York. Sandy told me that it was about time I left the bastard and that I deserved to be treated better, Chloey jumped in and told me that I could shack up with her for as long as I needed until I got on my own two feet again. Rachel added that it wouldn't take me long at all to do that because I was very intelligent and still looked so beautiful even after living the hectic lifestyle Kristoffer gave me, not to mention having a baby and still managing to have the body of a model only with a real bust instead of ones made of silicone.

I chuckled with my girlfriends and told them how much I missed hanging out with them, and it was a very generous and sweet offer from Chloey to let me stay with her, but I didn't want to be a burden, especially since I knew her career was shooting to the stars right now and her being a famous actress/lady magician. Sandy was also doing very well in the entertainment department in one of the major Casino/Hotels on the main strip, & Rachel was a bank manager, and they all lived in the huge and vibrant city...The Fabulous Las Vegas! Somewhere I might add, that I've wanted to visit for a very long time, and now my girlfriends were giving me the opportunity to actually stay with them for a while until I got on my own two feet.

It was everything I was looking for, it was fresh, new, and on the opposite side of the United States, plus if Kristoffer ever did decide to track me down, he would have a hard time finding me in a city as big and crowded as Las Vegas, because it was swarming with tourists all year round and very expensive to stay in let alone live there. But it was the first feeling of direction and control in my own life...so I had to accept it. I thanked Chloey several times and told them all that I couldn't wait to see them again, then I hung up and rushed up the stairs and told my brother and sister-in-law that AJ and I were moving to Las Vegas, to start our lives over and that my girlfriends would help me find a job and eventually a place of my own for AJ and I to live in.

Tommy shook his head in approval as he told me he wished me all the luck in the world that I do find my way back into that happy life I so much deserved. Then he added a little pervertedly that living in Sin City, it should be a snap for me to find a new man for myself and in time a new father for AJ. I slapped him on the head as I told him that was the last thing I needed right now, was another man to fuck up my life all over again. No this was my time to live on my own and see if I could take care of my son without a man in my life...I knew it wasn't going to be easy, and there would be times that I would really miss Kristoffer being around and waking up in his arms, but it was over with now, and I wasn't going back to it no matter how tempted I became to do so.

So for the next two days, Tommy Trinity and I got all my shit together and packed up nice and tightly in one suitcase, then packed AJ's stuff in his Godzilla duffel bag, it sort of hurt me a little bit when he looked around his cousin's room and realized that none of the toys were his, because I couldn't pack his toys when I rushed him out of the house...all he had was his stuffed white magically themed bunny. I knelt down as I grabbed his duffel bag and promised him when we got our new house, I would get him lots of toys to play with, and a room all his own again. AJ looked up at me as he wrapped his bunny under his arm and asked when that was going to be, I kissed his nose as I told him very soon...because he and I were going to be going for a long ride in an airplane tomorrow afternoon, to where we would start over in a new environment and home.