Confessions of Ashlee: Part One FINISHED
milie529:
I LOVE it!!! Can't wait to read next chapter and learn what's gonna happen to this family! ;D
Katie:
oh my goodness!!!! another BRILLIANT chapter, i felt like i WAS Ashlee!!!! you are truly brilliant Senko!!! amazing!!! i'll be posting my story later, so, check it when you see it! :D
SenkoTwiik:
Chapter 4:
About a month after the first doctor’s appointment, my new little brother Andrew was born. My grandma came to stay with us for three days, while my mom was in the hospital, and Aubrey asked me to keep quiet about the pregnancy because Grandma didn’t know. I said I would, because honestly I didn’t want to be the one to break it to Grandma. She was one of those people that asked a million questions and always lectured when she found out something new. For the most part, I didn’t like being around her, but she was my grandma and she helped our family through a lot, so I couldn’t be rude to her.
My mom could be a real jerk to Grandma, even though if it weren’t for Grandma at one time, she would have been living on the street with Aubrey and me. I understand she is annoying, but my mom owes her a lot of thanks. She has been there for us when we needed her and still tries to help out. My mom just doesn’t want to hear Grandma’s opinions about the life that she lives, and therefore pushes her away more often than not.
After bringing Andrew home, Grandma went back to her house across town. When Aubrey wasn’t at school, Mom involved her heavily in helping to take care of and play with Andrew, as a way of prepping her for the future. Aubrey already knew the basics: how to change a diaper, give a bath, feed, burp, swaddle, etc. But Mom felt that she needed to gain some of the fine touches of motherhood, such as soothing and multi-tasking. Haha, if she learns that, she will already be above Mom’s skills. Since I was 6, her multi-tasking was always, “Ashlee, keep an eye on the baby for a little bit, I have to (insert whatever ‘task’ she needed to get done).”
At this time, the pregnancy had been a secret, kept between me, mom, Aubrey, the doctor, my mom’s case worker, and the prosecution lawyer that was working with us in the upcoming trial. The situation needed to be added to the list of charges held against Richard. Of course, soon the Public Defender had to tell Richard about the new charges, and he told his family. Of the people that quickly found out, Megan was one of them.
Since the incident, Megan had stopped being friends with Aubrey, because she and her parents defended Richard for some ungodly reason, and if he went to jail, it would be “all Aubrey’s fault.” Luckily, witnesses at the party felt otherwise, and they agreed to testify in our favor.
Instead of seeing her brother as a pig, and defending her friend, Megan decided to do the opposite. She quickly broke off her friendship with my sister and started becoming a little fiend. As soon as she heard, she spread the news of Aubrey’s pregnancy all around the middle school, and soon the whole town was talking about it. Sadly the whole town didn’t know the truth because Megan neglected to tell it. Instead she lied and said that Aubrey had been with a whole bunch of different guys and had no idea who the father of her baby was. She said that Aubrey and her brother never dated, and that all this was a plan of hers to get Richard thrown in jail for rejecting her.
Of course this was an obvious fabrication, but nobody took the time to care. Small towns are all about gossip, and it didn’t matter to people if anyone was hurt in the process of their rumor mongering. The false information snow-balled and before long the bullying at school started up.
A group of kids started calling Aubrey names and made her come home feeling lower than dirt. Things never got physical, because Aubrey still had her own diminishing group of friends that had her back at all times, two of which were huge, tough, tall girls: the Makowski twins. They were really only around just incase, because middle school girls didn’t tend to follow through with any of their threats. They just wanted to look cool picking on people that are less fortunate.
Because of the recent harassment, the school called my mom into the office for a meeting. She spoke with the principal and confirmed the rumors, but explained the situation as well, so that nobody in that office would be able to jump to conclusions.
The principal and mom agreed that once a week, Aubrey should have time to see the school counselor. Time to openly talk and have something done about the hard time others were giving her would benefit her.
For the next three weeks, things looked like they were doing better. The kids that had been so rude got a firm talking to and whilst in school the jeering seemed to stop all together as everyone moved onto the next flavor of the week. Aubrey had a little bit of peace now, and could go back to doing her school work. She was actually still allowed to be in student council as well.
Aubrey almost made it to her 4 month mark without any further interruption until one Tuesday afternoon when we were all sitting at home, relaxing and having a decent time for once when we heard a knock at the front door.
Mom got up to answer it and there was a corporately dressed woman on the porch, followed by two make policemen. “Hi. I’m Sharon Taylor with Child Protective Services.”
Katie:
oh no! they had better not take her baby! :eek:
Stelio Kontos:
Oooh, stuff's going down, I've got the popcorn ready to go if anyone wants it.
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