The Visit
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After picking up Nicole we head straight to the house speeding at times. Mom is ready to scream and shes on the hunt for Elizabeth. We make it home and no more than five minutes goes by and in walks Elizabeth. She's asking why we haven't packed up the girls stuff and being rude I can hear mom starting to yell asking question after question. Elizabeth just gathers the girls and their things and runs knowing we have no legal power to do a thing she's their mother.
I rush out and hug both of the babies and remind them I'll always be there for them all they need to do is call aunt Alice. My nephews run out in tears the girls are basically twins to the boys in age as well as how they think. I catch them so my sister won't be hateful to them they are children and don't understand all of this.
After everything died down and I got the boys to take a nap me and Nicole decided to go for a walk. We needed some fresh air after all the drama that day it was getting dark and living in the middle of no where leaves nothing but trees around. Not that we minded to us that was the best time. As we got about a mile from the house we saw my brothers truck coming up the road. He stopped and asked what we were doing out, he's always been so over protective. He has us hop into the truck and hits a side road we all pull off so we can explain to him what happened. He handed us both a beer and set us free for our walk knowing we had blades and mace on us and would be safe. He continued on to visit with his sons while we walked about dipping into and out of the woods and back onto the road. After a while we headed back so we didn't miss Jake's whole visit.
We walked into the house to the smell of mom's cooking it smelled so good. Chicken and dumplings with mashed potatoes and green beans that woman knew how to cheer anyone up. Jake started to joke around making comments about my best friend. I got defensive as always and told him I didn't want him around my friends making comments like that at my birthday. Oh how I wish now I could take those words back. The next few days slide by like nothing I still have 10 days until my birthday and Nicole and I got mom to agree to let us go stay with our other friend Crystal. We get to town to Crystals and hop out of the car and dash into the house. We all go through the motions of saying hi and giving hugs and putting our stuff in Crystal's room. We played video games and watched so many movies about midnight Jake calls and says he's coming to get me I explain to him I can't leave because my friend's dad will flip if he wakes up missing a kid. He asked what time her dad got up for work which was 4 am so I told him he said he would be back to get me. I'm laying here watching death race I get up to go get a drink and suddenly it feels as if I've been punched in the chest I can't breathe. I wake up in the floor a few minutes later to Crystal standing over me worried with Nicole right behind her.
I sit up and tell them how I had felt but that now I'm ok.
They look super concerned but allow me to brush it off. Come 4 am on the dot my cell rings I go to pick it up expecting to see Jake's number but I see my mom's. Knowing something is terribly wrong I pick up the line to tears and sobs.
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