About two hours had passed now, and Gaze had come back into her old room with a bowl of porridge for the little girl. It was aromatic so it woke up the girl immediately. Gaze lifted her up and spoon fed her bit by bit. She patted the girl back to sleep and went back into the kitchen to clean up.
As she pushed her hair back: Negligence and mental abuse, she diagnosed. Her brother was lazy and mostly didn't want to deal with a lot of things. Its unfortunate that negligence and mental abuse of children aren't apart of the laws yet, although physical abuse is.
His wife is a spendthrift and never wanted to be home, nor have any kids. Otherwise why would two children be in a car accident while she was supposed to be home and her brother was at work. She most likely left things to her teenaged eldest niece who was already busy with housework. Perhaps she should contact her at some point.
Gaze wondered.
It was nightfall by the time anyone came in, she saw the drunk women that appeared to be her brother's wife walk in with another man on her arm. She sat in the living room and just stared. She saw the man froze and blush at her but didn't say anything.
"Put my Sister-in-Law in the bathroom tube." Gaze said standing up and she looked at her unconscious Sister-in-law with disgust. She pointed to the bathroom the young man obeyed his Gaze down after a moment he walked out and Gaze gave him 200 dollars for his troubles. Which he gladly took and left.
Walking into the bathroom she unhooked the shower head and turned on the water to extremely cold with a decent amount of pressure.
Her sister-in-law woke up screaming, don't worry about her niece she used her shadows to make sure she won't hear a thing.
"How Dare you!" the women screamed at her and then looked confused, she was in her house and she didn't recognize the person in front of her. "Who are you and what are you doing in my house?" she yelled and then said. "If you don't leave now, I'll cal-" She stop when she saw Gaze dialing someone.
"Hello" She heard her brothers slurred that showed he had obviously been drinking.
"You Wife's returned home drunk and your daughters sick, now, what are you doing? Steven if you do not come back home your wife will call the calls on me. But, even if she didn't, I would call them myself under the claim of child supervision." She ended the call before he could say anything else and dropped it on the bathroom floor before walking out into the living room and sat on the couch.
Some time later her sister-in-law walked out and rushed to the door as it was about to ring and two officers stepped-in, she pulled on a face to them full of pity and then pointed at her.
They stepped in and both officers paused in recognition of her. The perks of having a useless brother who like to get into trouble. Yes, every police officer in their small town knew her personally. The new recruits where members of the community when she used to live her to. They all knew her because of her brother
"Leilani, it's been ages I didn't even now you where back in town." Said one of the officers with a smile. He was Officer Johnson he had been on the force since his younger days, and his partner was Officer Nickson, they went to school together.
"I'm only visiting" Gaze sighed as she pulled out a document. "This should be solved first." Officer Johnson looked at it and nodded.
"You never transferred the deed over."
Gaze shook her head; the documents were the deeds to the house. Although their parents wanted to leave everything to her younger brother, they also wanted to tie her down to take care of him for life. Leaving half the money and the deed to the house in her name. She had already given the money and the house. She had just never legally transferred the name over because she still paid for regular maintained as well as the water and electricity. Everything else was on her brother and his wife.
"So you have been paying for this house for almost twenty years." Officer Johnson and Officer Nickson looked shocked.
"What our parents wanted" Gaze shock her head. "Can you breathalyze her for me? I need to make a report on child abuse and have CPS involved."
They Nodded.
"Mrs. Sweeney, we are going to have to…." Officer Johnson got started on that stupefied Sister-in-law of her's whose name she never bothered to remember. Just because there are no laws against negligence and mental abuse does not mean that CPS is useless. If a report is made up, they can examine and make a determination.
CPS, does have the right to decide if the child would be endangered, by a coupled who constantly leave the supposed child not under supervision which 'is' a law.
After that mess, Gaze returned to her home in the next town over, from what she understood that it took a year before the two girls where put into the foster care system. It may have been wrong of her but she was called to see if she could take them in, and she refused. Leaving them to be put into the system in the first place.
As for her Sister-in-law and her brother they never contacted her and still live in the house.