Chapter 3

-Someone's Gotta Pay 1-

"MA NO!" Hanna yelled. AT emerged from the bedroom.

Lizzie gasped at the disheveled sight in front of her. The once powerful, smart, beautiful girl that'd been Angelica Tiffany, otherwise known as AT. The woman who'd ripped apart Elizabeth McGuire's world after taking her husband. It'd taken a lot on Gordo's part for the police to drop the charges on AT and not just arrest her on the spot. But then again Lizzie always had to wonder why he didn't let them. No one would ever know.

"What do you want?" Lizzie seethed through her teeth, holding her sixteen year old close and stroking her hair as Hannah stood by the wall, her eyes glazed over with disgust and her mouth clamped tightly shut.

"Well if it isn't Ms. High n' Mighty Lizzie McccccGuire. Not Gordon . . . McGuire." AT laughed before she was overcome with a cough. Her hair was ratty and dry, cracked in a way.Her face was hollow, sucken, and her eyes were empty. Meth and Smoking. sleeping around. AT had long since been let go by everything she'd created, by her fantasy that never really existed.

"Ma, stop." Hannah began but was silenced by a look from her mother.

"Ms. Mcguire might I ask why the fuck you care if I take your daughter. I mean, I gots your man n' I gots our kid. so why not gimme another important family memba, make it even? That ways you gots yo otha three n' I gots a good daughta, yo's, n' my slut o' a daughter." AT attempted a laugh again but was again stopped by the hollow and hacking cough.

"Fuck off AT, just leave. Your daughter's staying with me and you are leaving before I call the police on your ass." Ericka and Hannah stared at Lizzie for a moment. Because Lizzie didn't talk like that. Ericka had never heard her mother go off on someone like that ever, not with that language. It was weird. And Hannah, Hannah had been offered a home, a home without a father, but looking around her she was sure it was a real home.

"You can't have Hannah Lizzie." AT said coldly.

"Why not? You took my children from me once. You stole them from me and you have never known the pain of not knowing where someone you loved was at. Never." AT stole a glance at her daughter, Hannah looked down. "The game is over AT, the game is done. You have the only man I'll ever love. Why must you continue hurting me?" Lizzie asked. AT glowered at her before opening her mouth.

"Because Gordo's coming back. After Hannah's eighteenth birthday he's coming back. I'm not letting him." She said angrily but with tears falling down her face. The three women in front of her were to shocked to do anything when she pulled a gun out and shot out, three shots. Hitting Hannah in the shoulder, missing Lizzie and Ericka in the stomach. "He's not coming back to you." AT screamed and ran out of the house and hopping into a green volvo and driving off. Lizzie dialed 911 as she pressed against her daughters wound, throwing a cloth to Hannah to do the same for her shoulder.

"Daddy's coming back mom. Daddy's coming back." Ericka smiled at her mother, holding her arm tightly as they were assured help was on the way.


Softly we tremble tonight,
picture perfect fading smiles are all that's left in site,
I said I'd never leave you'll never change
I'm not satisfied with where I'm at in life.

Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
You said, you said that you would die for me.

We made plans to grow old,
believe me there was truth in all those stories that I told.
Lost in a simple game cat and mouse are we the same people as before this came to light?

Am I supposed to be happy?
with all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
Am I supposed to be happy?
with all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
You said, you said that you would die for me

You must live for me too'...
For me too...yeah, yeah
You said that you would die for me

Am I supposed to be happy?
with all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
Am I supposed to be happy?
with all I ever wanted, it comes with a price
You said, you said that you would die for me

cat & mouse-red jumpsuit apparatus


i hope you guys liked it, there's more to come soon!!!! ah I've had major writers' block cause I lost my notebook for the longest time, but it's all good now I found it! YAY! lol review five reviews at least before I update again!!! kk

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