Chapter 3
It is after school and Jessi, LuLu and Brooke are in LuLu's room. They are in the Spencers' attic looking for old photo albums because LuLu has a project where she needs baby pictures of herself and her siblings. Nikolas had dropped one off earlier that day. She was just looking for cute ones of herself, her older brother Lucky, and younger sister Lindsey.
J: "Here's a cute one, Lu." Lulu takes the picture from Jessica. She takes one look at it and puts it in the discard pile. Brooke picks it up and looks at it.
B: Lu, what's wrong with this, its so cute. I love the way your hair curls around your ears.
L: "Yeah, well I have chocolate all over my face in it." She takes the picture from Brooke and puts it back in the discard pile.
J: That's what makes it so cute. You know my mom's favorite baby picture of me is where I'm sleeping on the couch, holding a half eaten chocolate chip cookie and have smudges of chocolate on my face."
B: "That one is so cute. It's the one she has hanging in the hall to the kitchen, right?"
J: "Yeah, it is."
L: "Know, what guys? I'm not finding anything in this box, I'm going to try that one over there."
B: "Okay, do you want us to help or you want us to keep looking here?"
L: "There is fine, just show me the ones you think I could use. I found one of Lucky, so don't worry about him."
J: "Did your parents have many pictures of him when they were on the run?"
L: Opening up the box. "They had a couple. They couldn't take much stuff with them, but they did have a few. The one I got is really cute. He must be about two and he's trying to put an ornament on the Christmas tree."
B: "That must be really cute. Hey Lu this one of Lindsey looks good. She's trying to ride Foster."
J: "Let me see." She takes the picture and starts to laugh. "Foster looks like he wants to get away from her as fast as he can."
L: Her head is buried in the box as she digs through the contents. "I think that must be the picture I was looking for. I wanted to write a little bit about Foster also, and that would be the perfect..." Her voice trails off. Brooke and Jessi look up at her
J: "Lu, are you okay?"
L: Looks up at Jessi, she's holding an old yellowed newspaper. "I don't think I should have opened this box."
B: "Why not? Lu, just show us what your looking at."
L: Her hands are shaking and she looks like she she is very unsure about what she should do. "This is so unbelievable. Where did this box come from?" She folds the newspaper in half, and looks closely at the top of the box to see if the contents are listed.. She can't figure out how she missed it. The box said it was personal items of Sonny's from Luke's office. She vaguely asked herself why these weren't at Jessi's house.
Brooke and Lulu were getting worried by now. They come over to her and try to reason with her.
J: "Lu, are you okay? What are lyou looking for?"
L: Looks at Jessi. "Do you know how your father died?"
J: "Why do you ask? Yeah, him and mom were in a car accident when they left town. She survived and he didn't. She feels guilty about it sometimes. You know this, why are you asking?"
L: Hands her the newspaper, and gives her a hug. "Sweetie, I don't think we were told the whole story."
J: Looks at the paper. A look of shock and terror crosses her face. "I need to sit down, this can't be true." She looks up at Lulu's face with pleading eyes. "It can't be, right?"