Confessions of Ashlee: Part One FINISHED
SenkoTwiik:
I forgot to get the removing the pause frame thing, and I only remembered after my pictures were taken...next chapter won't have red frame.
Chapter 9:
She was now 6 months along and it seemed like she got heavier and bigger by the day. She decided around this time that she was going to name the baby Carrie. It was that or Calypso, and Aubrey thought that Carrie sounded more elegant. It means “free person” according to the book Aubrey rented from the library.
“That’s exactly what I want her to be, a free spirit.” Aubrey said after picking out the name. She said she finally felt relieved that she could call her daughter a name instead of ‘her’ or ‘the baby’. Frankly, it took her a pretty long time of doing just that, what was 3 more months? But then again, what do I know? I’m not a mom and she is.
The trial was finally set, and we appeared in court only once before the verdict was found. He tried to say that he and Aubrey only had a one-night stand, and he didn’t know how old she was, but that she said she was 18. That lie was thrown out the window when Aubrey brought forth this picture:
And on the back of that picture it said. “I love you, babe. I can’t wait to spend my life with you when you become of age. I hope you’ll say yes when that day comes.”
With the witnesses, pictures that the doctor took of Aubrey after the beating, and the DNA test proving that Carrie was his daughter, Richard Meyers was found guilty of physically assaulting a minor, statutory rape and lewd conduct with a minor. After the guilty verdict was carried out, he was served with 5 years in a state prison with possibility of parole, and he has to sign the registry for sex offenders for the rest of his life. Some people would say that it seems like a harsh punishment for a now 19 year old kid. I say, “boohoo, he should have thought about that.” It’s not like Richard was too stupid to know the law.
Mom and Aubrey had to re-file another restraining order against the Meyers’ so that they couldn’t call or come over to our new house with any renewing of their same cowardly threats. That part of our lives was finally over, and it couldn’t have come sooner. These legal battles always took forever to work through. But the judicial system did its job and we were safe from anymore suffering due to those people.
School was even easier. Nobody sided with Megan in making fun of Aubrey anymore. Ever since word of the trial slipped out, the verdict was all that people needed to hear in order to do a complete flip in their siding. Megan became ostracized by a lot of the other students, who saw her as a liar just like her brother. She now had no bearing on what other people thought, and her ill-gotten popularity slipped away.
Aubrey even got a few apologies from other kids for the way they had treated her before, without teachers forcing them to do so.
Since she knew she was going to keep Carrie, Aubrey got herself signed up for the WIC program, which is a state-to-state funded program that provides pregnant women, breastfeeding moms, and children under five years old with nutritional vouchers. Every month you receive checks for certain food (eggs, cheese, milk, cereal, juice, formula, etc) for moms and their children. It’s actually a really beneficial program. They also do donations, where they receive baby items and will give them to mom’s that don’t have enough money to afford them alone. WIC already gave her a nice car seat and a pink diaper bag.
Since Mom already had a sturdy metal changing table that has lasted for 6 years, all Aubrey needed was a crib and dresser for the baby. She and mom got that taken care of by going to the library and searching on Craigslist.com. They found a cute little wooden 2 in 1 dresser and crib put together.
It was perfect since Aubrey’s bedroom was short on space and we didn’t have an extra room in the house to use as a nursery. That is, unless someone decided to sleep in the basement. Adam liked the idea, but every time he mentioned it, Mom would freak out.
Her weirdness about the basement was a little disturbing to say the least. She wouldn’t go down there even to get laundry. Adam, Aubrey or I had to wash, dry and bring loads upstairs and Mom offered to fold and put them away, but she would not even open the basement door. I tried not to laugh, but this was so incredibly stupid that it was hard not to. I thought at first that she just wasn’t used to the house…now I was starting to think she’d suffered brain damage.
That aside, Aubrey signed up for a parenting class at the hospital, which had a special section designed for care of differently-abled infants. The class also dealt with birthing, as well as techniques on less painful labor. Mom commented, “I took those classes before. It really didn’t help. When you’re in that much pain, you barely remember to breathe, much less breathe in a pattern.”
Aubrey was unconvinced, and still continued her 3 week class until it was over.
It was March, and at now 7 months into her pregnancy, Aubrey was having to go to the bathroom at least once every 20 minutes, and she was suffering from massive water retention in her feet and ankles. The doctor even had to write a note to her school, giving Aubrey permission to wear bedroom slippers to class, because her feet were so swollen that she couldn’t get her shoes on. Her back hurt and she was now having trouble sleeping, due to Carrie kicking the crap out of her insides. She used cocoa butter lotion as often as possible to prevent the stretch marks from looking terrible, but the doctor said that at her age, she was probably going to have them anyway.
Zorom:
Wow, pretty good! I hope the basement thing isn't something serious. <<
SenkoTwiik:
Nah, Nadya is just cookoo about the idea that there is an angry ghost down there, since that's where the previous owner was murdered.
Bookfreak:
Brilliant cant wait for the next chapter :D
Katie:
wow I can't believe it took this long for me to see the new chapter~! :eek: but of course it is brilliant and has me reading until it is all done~! I am so glad that she is keeping little Carrie, she seems like she knows what she is doing. :D
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