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finally arrived at Rachel’s a half hour later. When she arrived, she pulled her car into the open spot and saw Maria’s car across the street. She knew they were wondering what in the world was going on with her. She needed to stall for a little to test the waters first. She didn’t know how Rachel was going to react to this.
    When Rachel answered the door she didn’t look so good. She looked like she had been crying all night. “Rach, what’s wrong? Where are the boys at? Why are you crying?”
     
    “ Just come into the kitchen. They slept at Mommy and Daddy’s house last night. Maria is here waiting for you. I need to talk to you.”
     
    Gia had never seen her sister look or act like this ever before. Something serious must have happened for this to be occurring. “Is Vinnie sick?”
     
    “Fuck Him” she said in a calm manner.
     
    Yeah, I need to hear this.
     
    “Thank God I got a box of coffee. It looks like we might be here a while.” She walked over to Rachel and hugged her. ”What’s going on Rach? Please tell me. You’ve been acting weird and I want to help you.”
     
    “You can’t help me. There’s nothing you can do or I can do for that matter.”
     
    “Just fucking tell me what’s going on for God’s sake.” Meanwhile Maria was just sitting there looking at the both of them going back and forth.
     
    “Vinnie confessed that he’s been cheating on me for the past three months with his new assistant, Clara. She sounds like a fucking musical instrument. He claims he stopped seeing her, he regrets his decision and wants to work this out with me. I kicked his sorry ass out last night and told him to go to his whore. Then I called Mommy and Daddy to come over and pick up the boys. I sat here and cried all night. I suspected for the past month that something wasn’t right. Yesterday when I saw you, I was really thinking about what I should do. I decided I was going to confront him. When I asked him last night he confessed.”
    Gia sat there dumbfounded. She didn’t know what to say. Her sister had been with Vinnie forever, or that’s what it felt like. Then Gia spoke her sisterly words. “That fucking cheating dog, I’ll kill him. Why didn’t you tell me what you suspected yesterday?”
     
    “ Because I wasn’t sure and I didn’t want to burden you. You’re so busy at work.”
     
    “I’m never too busy for you.” Gia walked over to her and hugged her so hard and said, “I will support you no matter what you decide and I love you so much. If you want a hit out on him, I’ll arrange that too... Just kidding”
     
    Maria chose to change the subject. “Didn’t you have something to tell us? Isn’t that why I’m here at 9 A.M.?”
     
    Thanks for the reminder. Great timing, Maria.
    “ Well, I think under the circumstances, it can wait for another time. Rachel needs our support right now.” They both looked at Gia as if to say, you’re not getting out of this.
     
    “I’m fine. I’ll get through it. I just thank God that I have my job because I need to be prepared to support myself. I was thinking about quitting, but I figured I’m going to need it now more than ever. Anyway, tell us what’s going on!”
     
    Gia had a moment of panic. Oh Shit. I have to say this after Rachel just said all that.
     
    “Maria, remember last night when you thought I was missing.”
     
    Maria nodded, “Uh huh. I was about to get the bouncers to look for you.”
     
    “Well, I kind of ran into someone when I went to the bathroom. He took me to the back to use the private bathroom.”
     
    They both started throwing questions at Gia at the same time.
     
    “Who was it?”
     
    “Where did he come from?”
     
    “Are you dating someone we don’t know about?”
     
    “Was it the owner?”
     
    “Ok, listen I’ll tell you but Rachel has to promise to keep quiet until the end.”
     
    Rachel gave Gia a dirty look and said, “Fine, whatever.”
     
    “Here’s the short of it. It