You're Not Like the Others

"Kayla I found the person that did this"

"What do you mean? How?"

"Honey Bee, I might not be on earth in physical form but I'm still with you two no matter what" he said with a chuckle, "Do you remember Henry Cunningham?"

I blinked a few times with a confused look

"The guy from 7th grade that had a crush on you? Tall, blonde, and big dorky glasses "

"Oh, yeah, I remember him"

"Well your mom and stepdad hired him to get rid of our daughter-"

"Why would he do that for them? He was a good guy"

"Probably to get revenge on you for breaking his heart...He's got a long wrap sheet"

"You're telling me that the smartest and nicest kid is a criminal?"

"Yeah, it goes all the way back to when he was in 10th grade...it started out as stealing money from a cash register and escalated to battery and assault on his girlfriends, he got out of prison about 4 months ago"

"How do you know all of this?"

"C'mon now honey bee,I was a cop and I can see everything that goes on now"

Victor then looked behind him

"I guess my time's up for now, I need to start heading back"

"Alright, I love-"

Victor put a finger on my lips and smiled

"I know you do, but you need to love Zak as much as you love me"

I just stared at him for an explanation

"I don't have time to explain right now... But I can say that I have a feeling that he's going to be by your side no matter what" he looked behind him again, "The big man's starting to get upset with someone" he looked at me again "Just remember honey bee, I love you and I'll always be there for you, not physically though, but I'll be there and so will Zak, so don't push him away"

he leaned down and kissed my forehead before he walked away, slowly fading till there was nothing. I opened my eyes and I was in a hospital room with Abby next to me sound asleep

"Morning"

I jumped and looked to my right and saw Zak

"When did you get here?" I asked trying to catch my breath from being startled by Zak's voice

"A few minutes ago, you were asleep so I let you be, are you ok?"

"I'll be fine, I just had this weird..."

I don't know if I was dreaming or if it was real I thought

"What?"

"I don't know if it was just a dream or if Victor actually came and talked to me"

"Ms. Summers..."

I looked towards the doorway and saw the detective from Abby's other case that's going on and a few cops with him

"Hello detective..."

What was his name again? I thought

he chuckled a little

"Tom Sellers"

"Thanks, there's been alot on my mind"

"No need to explain, but I do need to ask you a few questions"

"Sure"

Detective Sellers looked at Zak

"He's fine, he knows what's going on" I said

"Alright, Do you know of anyone that would want to do this?"

"Besides of my mom and stepdad?..."

Should I tell them about the dream? I thought

"There might be somebody named Henry Cunningham"

Det. Sellers wrote that in his notepad

"How do you know him?"

"School, we were both in 7th grade. After we passed the 7th grade I went to a different school, so that's the last time that I saw him" I explained while I answered the next question, that 'When's the last time you saw him?' question

Abby started waking up when a doctor came in

"Thank you Ms. Summers for giving us the information..."

"Last night there was a hit and run involving 5 children and a woman in her mid 50s early 60s. Other drivers stopped to help them out..." me and the detective looked at the T.V and we saw Gloria's car smashed to pieces

How in the world did all of them survive? I thought looking at the image

"Witnesses are saying that this was intentinal. Cameras caught his personalized lisence plate from the Black extended SUV..."

they showed the personal lisence plate, NRD4LFE

Classic I thought sarcastically

"If you have any information about this please call the TIPS hotline"

I looked back at Sellers and he was writing the information down

"Like I was saying thank you for giving us all the information you know, we'll be in touch"

"Thank you"

Him and the officers left. The doctor finished checking Abby out and gave Zak the release papers

"Excuse me, but do you have any information on the patient Gloria Billington? She came in with 5 kids lastnight"

"She has stabilized and she should be moving out of the ICU into a normal room somtime today"

"Ok, thank you"

the doctor nodded and left to do the rest of his rounds before the afternoon shift change.

"Daddy, I'm hungry"

"What do you want sweetie?"

"Ice cream"

"Ab-" I started

"Sweetie it's not good to have that sugary stuff first thing in the morning, maybe later, what else do you want?"

"Sausage biscuits"

"Ok"

Abby got out of the bed and went to the bathroom

"Do you want me to take her for the day? Don't take offense to this but you look like hell"

I sat down on his lap and leaned my head on his shoulder

"If you do take her, what am I suppose to do?"

"I don't know... Take a nice hot bubble bath, sleep, relax, take my card if you want to go to the spa" he said holding his credit card infront of my face

"Zak I'm not taking your credit card to spend your money on something-"

"That'll make you relax and feel a little bit better"

"Zak-"

"And you can't really so no to the spa because I've already set up an appointment for you today at 1:30 at Tina's Magical Touch"

"Zak, why?" I said sighing

"Because I love you" he said kissing my cheek

"Eww"

We looked at where that came from and Abby was standing by the bathroom door looking at us.

"Wanna hang out with daddy today?" Zak asked

Abby's face lit up

"Yeah" she said excitedly

"Ok, tell momma bye so we can get going"

I got off of Zak and Abby came to me. I picked her up and gave her a kiss then put her back down

"You be careful and be good"

"I will" she said then headed to the door

I then felt a pair of hands on my waist

"She'll be fine Kayla, we'll see you later" he said kissing my cheek and patting the left side of my waist gently

They left and I looked down at my watch '12:15pm'

"That gives me time to clean up" I said to myself

I went home and got changed into some gray knee high shorts and a white t-shirt. I sat on the couch and flipped through the channels

Why is there nothing good on when I want to watch T.V? I thought finally stopping on a music video channel.

I watched music videos for 10 minutes before I finally shut it off and got up

I should eat something real quick I thought

I went into the kitchen to get a chocolate chip granola bar and when I finished I went and brushed my teeth. I looked at my clock that was on the wall, it was two dolphins jumping out of the water on oppisite sides and the clock part was inbetween the dolphins and above the water and it read '1:10'

I better get going who knows how long it'll take me to get there I thought

I grabbed my car keys and slipped on my black flip-flops and headed out the door to go to Tina's Gentle Touch.