Prologue
Cassandra was late again!
She worked at a coffee shop and was a single mother, she never mentioned it. Not that she was embarrassed of it but because she didn’t want to mix work with her personal life.
Her son woke up sick that day, and she had to leave him in the care of her sister, while she went to work. Her sister Cassidy, was always helping her, without her she didn’t know what she would do!
Cassandra was the waitress in the local coffee shop, not that she loved her job, but it was an honest living. Her husband, or her fiancé, left her in the altar and she didn’t wouldn’t trust men, after that.
She couldn’t bring herself to date anyone after the incident that happened five years ago. Cassandra was so in love, and she was sure he loved her. But he never arrived, and after that he never called or wrote to her, actually it was as if he had simply vanished.
Cassandra never came in contact with him again, later she found out from a friend that the wedding day they had ran away together. The bastard! How could he? Her friends turned their backs at her, except for one Julie.
He was the man she had fallen for but he didn’t love her. Later she found out she was pregnant, and when she told the family, the news they didn’t take it well, especially her father.
She was kicked out the house and times were tough for her, as she found herself alone. Cassidy, stayed in contact with her, she was the only family member that did, but their parents didn't know. Cassandra decided on having the baby, and named him after his father, Thomas.
Thomas was four years old now, and he was going to start school. It bothered Cassandra that he would see other kids that had fathers but he never saw his. She wasn’t about to tell him that his father was an asshole who left them for someone else.
Julie, was her friend they worked together at the same coffee shop, she was the only one that knew about her son.
The day that her parents, kicked her out was terrible, not only was she completely alone but she had no money, and no job. Julie was the one who picked her up at the bus stop, after getting a very sad phone call from her.
It was midnight when Julie got up to take the call, and when she heard her friend was alone, that her family and friends totally deserted her, she left to the bus stop where she stood in the cold.
She decided to let Cassandra stay and she would help her out with the baby, when he was born. Cassandra would start working after Thomas was born, at first since she never had a job things were hard.
But now she had her own place for her and her son.
Cassidy would always visit her, after telling her parents she would be going out with friends. She never lied, Cassandra was a friend to her, other than her sister, but if they found out she was visiting her sister, they would probably disown her, just like they did to her sister.
Cassandra would still want to know how everyone was and anything new in the family, they had a brother named Stanley and he was still in high school, their dad wanted him to go to college and become a lawyer or a doctor, while he was more interested in music.
When Stanley bought himself a guitar their father threw a fit, and they didn’t speak for a whole month! But things were more normal now, Cassidy was actually taking an economics course, she was interested in owning her own business one day.
Her mother, Olivia was angry when she found out that her daughter was pregnant, but never thought of kicking her out.
She had hired someone to look for her, without her family’s knowledge, she wanted to know from her, and meet her grandson- if possible ask her to come back. She would convince Harold somehow.
Harold, her father, was proud; he had been raised by his father who had been a soldier. But although he didn’t like to admit it, he was soft in the inside. He wasn’t a bad person, but he was always about order, honor and respect, when he found out Cassandra had broken the rules, to him it was more like breaking the ‘law.’
He was not the type to admit he was wrong to kick her out, although he was expecting her to come back asking for forgiveness. He would have too, if she just came back home.
That night he went looking for her when she wouldn't come back, he tried calling her, and she wouldn’t answer, later he found out she had left her cell phone in the rush when he kicked her out she left it in the kitchen table.
When it was dark, and it started to rain, he went out to his car and found that the paper with all her friends numbers were gone. He went in search for her, looked all night, but with no luck, well at least she was with a friend. But still he couldn’t help the feeling of guilt, which never left him after that.
The next day Cassandra called and left a message saying she was staying with a friend that she was alright, and she never left a number, her sister Cassidy found her, through e mail. They kept in touch that way until Cassidy thought it would be ok to go see her.
