Kara entered her apartment and was immediately greeted by her phone ringing. She hurried over to answer it expecting it to be Zak checking in to make sure she had convinced Laura to join them for dinner.
"Hey babe! Don't worry it's all taken care of Laura's going, she didn't agree but I didn't give her much of a choice."
There was a slight pause fallowed by a few quite giggles and finally a young girl spoke.
"Hey Aunt Kara so um would you like to clue me in on what you have my mom doing and why I shouldn't worry?"
Kara smile knowing that she should probably let Laura fill Amy in on what was going on, but then again Kara was always involving herself in other people's lives so why stop now?
"Amy! Sweetie it is so good to hear your voice! Don't worry nothing serious is going on. I'm kind of forcing your mom to go on a blind date tomorrow with Zak's dad. So how's school?"
Amy paused for a few moments while she slowly let her mind accept the fact that her mother was finally dating, and that she had never said anything to her.
"Schools going good I just finished up finals. I'm going to pack up and head home in the next week or so."
Kara let out a squeal of delight,
"You're going to be home in a week! Oh my gods I am so excited. We are going to have to hang out and go shopping… Wait! How long will you be home for?"
Amy's ear was still ringing from Kara's squeal when she answered,
"Two weeks for sure maybe a little longer depending on my classes for next semester. So tell me about this date you're dragging mom out on."
Biting her lower lip Kara let out a sigh, "Amy it really is not my place to tell you. You should talk to your mom first and let her be the one to tell you."
Kara closed her eyes and held her breath waiting for the response she hoped Amy would give her. "I will talk to mom, but you're going to tell me everything now just incase she doesn't feel like sharing."
Kara exhaled in defeat and knew that Amy was just as stubborn, if not more so, than she was. Kara had no choice but to spill everything to the 15 year old. "Well, I told you that I am seeing that guy from flight school Zak,"
Amy hummed a yes. "See we're not exactly supposed to be dating now because as of today I am his superior officer… I got promoted I will tell you about it when you get home next week,"
Kara had cut Amy off in order to save time and hopefully be able to give just the minimal details about the double date. "Well we have to tell my superior officer now and we are going to dinner to do it, see Zak knows the old man really well and I thought we should set him up on a date so I would have someone there that I know really well other than Zak. Well your mom is the only person I know who is close to his age and I thought since she knows me better than anyone else, she would understand how important this is to me. She didn't agree at first, but I already told the old man that she would go and he said he would pick her up at 7:30. I refused to give her his number so if she didn't agree to go she would have to tell him face to face, so she agreed."
Kara waited for Amy to respond. There was only two ways this could go either Amy would be furious or she would simply accept it and not really care. "I'm surprised she didn't kill you. So where are you guys going?"
Kara paused before answering. Unsure if she really should give away anymore, but she decided it really didn't matter because one way or another Amy would find out. "We're going to Fossies down the street for dinner and drinks."
Kara was unsure of how Amy was taking this, so far things seemed okay but with her you never could really tell. "Well I hope you guys have fun. Hey Kara, I got to get going. I'll see you when I come home. Love you, bye."
Kara heard the dial tone. Amy hadn't even given her a chance to say goodbye. Kara has thought it was okay, but maybe Amy wasn't ready for her mother to date yet.
Amy had hung up the phone and was continuing to stare at her laptop. She felt terrible not telling her mother or Kara what she was up to, but her mother hadn't mentioned her date so she didn't feel that bad. She decided that she would call her mom and see if she was going to mention the date, and if she did then Amy would share half of her surprise over the phone. The phone range twice before Laura answered
"Hello?" Amy smiled, hearing her mom's voice always made her happy.
"Hey Mom I didn't wake you, did I?" Amy could practically hear Laura's smile. "No honey not at all. It's so good to hear your voice. How are you?"
"I'm good, a little tired but good. How are you?"
"I'm good. When are you coming home, I miss you?"
"I miss you too. Next week, I was thinking on Saturday if that works for you. I would come home during the week but I don't want to fly late at night and I know you work so I figured I'd come on a day off."
There was a slight pause before Laura continued the conversation. "Actually honey you can come sooner if you want. I have two weeks vacation starting today, and when my two weeks are up I'm not going back."
Now it was Amy's turn to pause. "You quit your job?"
Although Amy understood how much her mother hated working for Adar she knew that her mother loved to work. "Yes I did. Don't worry I'll think of something to do with my spare time other than bugging you."
Both women laughed but it was awkward at Amy's end of the line. Laura tried to play it off like nothing and continued the conversation, "So how long will you be able to stay on Caprica?"
Amy had decided to go to a university on Picon so that she would have space from her mother yet still be close by if anything happened. "Well I don't know yet. I have a two week break and it depends on a few other things, but we can talk about all of that when I come home next week. I talked to Aunt Kara today."
Amy could hear the worry in Laura's voice, "oh and what did the two of you talk about?"
Amy decided to let her mom off the hook this once, since she was keeping a secret of her own. "Not much we just talked about school and me coming home for a bit. Look mom I've got to get going but I'll call you later on this week when I figure out when I am going to be coming home. Love you."
Laura let out a sigh of relief, "Love you too sweetie."
Amy hung up the phone and continued packing her dishes. Amy had only been living on Picon for a year. When she finished high school at the age of 14 she decided to immediately start her education at a university.
At 15 she was the youngest student on campus and the youngest with her own apartment. Many of her fellow classmates lived on school grounds in the dorms, but thanks to her mother Amy had her own two bedroom apartment.
Laura had decided that she didn't want her daughter to have to live with an older girl who might take advantage of Amy's age. Amy was studying Education, Religion, and History, and with triple majors and being the youngest student on campus Amy faced teasing from her peers on a daily basis, and was glad she had the privacy of her home to return to each day.
Amy had decided at a young age that she wanted to become a teacher like her mother and grandmother had been, but she also found Religion and History of the 12 colonies to be fascinating so she decided to study them as well.
Amy knew that she still had three years until other kids her age would go off to college so if she took some time off now it wouldn't be that big of a set back, she just hoped that her mother wouldn't be too upset with her. Amy finished packing the dishes and carried the box downstairs where she loaded it into a moving van.
She walked back upstairs and took a look around her apartment to make sure nothing was left behind. As she looked in each room she thought of all the memories she had made here.
The first room she walked into was the guest bed room. She remembered moving in with help from her mom and Kara and how the first night in her apartment was the first time she had gotten drunk. The legal drinking age was 16 and Amy had just turned 15 but her mom and Kara had decided that since she was in college they would make it a special occasion.
The three of them had gone threw four bottles of Caprica's finest wine and ended up sleeping with all the boxes in the guest bed room. The next room was the guest bathroom where she had cared for her mother when she had come to visit. Her mother had always been very open with Amy but this time she had gotten drunk after a fight with Richard and shared with Amy the fact she was having an affair with him, and that she wished she had tried to find Amy a dad instead of shacking up with Richard.
Amy was not surprised by her mother's admission because she had assumed something had been going on between her mother and the president for quite some time. Amy had been the result of a one night stand, although her mother told everyone she had gotten a sperm donor, and a small part of her thought that her father might be Richard although she never mentioned it because if he was she didn't want him.
Next room was the master bath room where she would relax in a bubble bath talking to her mom or Kara complaining about school or about her boyfriend Nick.
She walked into her bed room and her hand immediately went to her stomach. She had given every thing to Nick and as a result he had left her, and she felt sick just thinking about what she had done.
Now she was going home to her mother to hopefully work things out, and for once Amy understood why her mother had been with Richard. It was simple and since she knew he would never leave his wife there was no way she could have her heart broken.
Amy walked out and looked around her Kitchen and living room and thought about the hours she spent studying and sitting on the kitchen floor for hours when the phone call that changed her life came.
She walked to the door looked around once more and walked away to the next chapter or her life. All Amy could think about was how she hoped her mother would take these surprises okay.
