***The Littrells***
"Hey Marie glad you could make it." Brian said as he welcomed her in.
"Thank you Mr. Littrell."
"Call me Brian."
"Alright Brian. Um I have some questions. I mean Shawn explained some of what happened and I know it's not the whole story."
"Well first let's sit down." he said leading her to the couch. As soon as they sat down he said "Now go ahead and start asking anything and I'll try my best to answer."
"Who was the other woman?"
"The other woman?"
"You know the girl that you were with at the time..."
"Oh her name was Nina....Mynina. She was your older sister. Well one of them."
"How many did I have?"
"Three including Nina."
"Who are the other two?"
"Faith and Hope. You also had a brother named Sean."
"Are they um...dead also?"
"No from what I know they are all still alive."
"This is just a little bit creepy. I mean I have never had any brothers or sisters."
"You've always had them just didn't know about them."
***Later***
"So you mean to tell me you kept a room all done up in baby stuff for like 16 years without changing it?"
"Yeah it was your room. I filled it with all sorts of stuff that belonged to you and Nina. You want to see?"
"Sure."
"Ok." he said as he stood up and led her to the room. Once there she looked around her in amazement. "I pulled out some of the pictures and things that you might like to see. In fact you can take any of them that you'd like."
"Ok." she said as she studied a few of the pictures around the room. One was of a little baby that she assumed was herself and Brian doing finger painting. "Oh my gosh..." she gasped picking up a photo of a girl that looked almost exactly like herself.
"That's Nina."
"Could you tell me more about her?"
"Well she was a wonderful woman. I was engaged to her and more than a month before the wedding she was murdered."
"I know that much but I mean her as a person."
"She was the kind of person that was almost always happy. She found good in everything. She was a very passionate person. When she was growing up her mother didn't really take care of her and her little sisters and brother. So Nina did a good amount of raising those kids. She used to tell me about times when they'd be without simple things because their mother left no money for such things. It was a rough up bringing. When she came on tour with us she'd still send about half of her pay check home to Sean, Faith and Hope. Then later that same year we were blessed with you. Your mother came to a show and had you with her......she ended up leaving you outside the buses. That's where Nikki, Nick and myself found you. From that moment on you were a part of our family. I remember the guys all fighting for your attention and trying to get you to say their names before anyone elses."
"What made you want to keep a baby?"
"We wanted to keep you because it was like destiny. You found Nina. And Nina was not going to give you up. I didn't want her to and she didn't want to. I was a daddy and darn proud of it. Your first word was Dada and your second was Cola. And that's what we named your little puppy. I used to always sing you to sleep. There was no way I wanted to ever lose you or Nina. But I lost both. Nina because she died and you because some judge decided that your mother should have rights over me since I wasn't a blood relative. I always have regretted not adopting you but I just never realized there was a chance you'd be taken away."
"I had no idea..."
"Listen I won't be able to tell you as much as you deserve to know so I decided I'd give you this..." he said as he pulled open one of the dresser drawers.
"No it's alright......"
"It's Nina's Dairy..."
"Are you sure? I mean it must mean alot to you...."
"It does that's why I want you to have it. You'll understand a little bit more about Nina. You should be able to know her. She was such a wonderful person. And if I know Nikki; I'm sure she kept in contact with Sean, Faith, and Hope. So I could give her a call to help you get in contact with them."
***The Carter House***
"Hello?" Savahana said softly into the phone as she picked it up.
"Hey Savahana, This is uncle Brian, can I talk to your Mommy please?"
"Ok hang on." she said smiling. "Mommy! Mommy!"
"What is it sweetie??" Nikki asked as she ran up the stairs.
"Uncle Brian wants to you talk you." she said holding out the phone.
"Oh ok thank you sweety." she said taking the phone from her daughter. "Hello?"
"Hey Nikki. I need to ask you a favor."
"Ok shoot."
"Well I as you know I found Nicola and now she is here and I explained some things to her. But she wants to meet Faith, Hope and Sean but I haven't spoken to any of them for years. So I figured if anyone knew how to get a hold of them it'd be you."
"Nicola is there??"
"Yeah...hang on." he said pulling the phone away from his ear. "Do you still go by Nicola at all or is it just Marie?"
"Um I go by Marie now."
"Ok well I'm going to have to get used to that...and it may take a while." he said smiling. "Ok Nikki you still there?"
"Yeah, now tell me, Is Nicola there?"
"Yes but we're going to both have to get used to calling her Marie because that's what she goes by now."
"Oh ok. Well I'll go grab my phone book and give you those numbers."
"Ok."
"Brian, could I talk to her?"
"Nikki?"
"Yeah you said she was Nina's best friend and she is still talking to my brother and sisters. I'd kind of like to know a little about how they are doing and stuff." she said nervously.
"Ok sure."
"Ok I'm back. Sean's number is 373-8091 and Faith's is 479-8252 and Hope's is 377-1064."
"Thanks Nikki. But Nico...Marie wants to talk to you real quick too."
"Alright." she said as she heard Brian handing Nicola the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hi Marie."
"I was wondering how old are my sisters and brother?"
"Well Sean is 33, And Faith and Hope are 35."
"They are the same age?"
"Yeah they are twins."
"Oh, I didn't know that. Well thank you for the numbers and I guess I'll probably see you later." she said knowing she'd probably be able to learn alot more about Nina from Nikki.
"Alright bye."
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