The arrival of her uncle was drawing near and all Celest could do was try to make herself busy as to not have to talk to him. She even started to head out a little earlier. She sat in the front of the school with Adrian handing out fliers for the conference for the ending of the daycare program. She looked up and saw a mini-van pulling up in front. She saw drew jump out of the van with his football gear.

"Dammit.", she muttered while grabbing her bag and the baby bag.

Adam climbed out of the car and saw her run into the building. He quickly fixed his jacket and followed after her.

"Celest wait!", he yelled while following.

"I'm sorry Adam I have to hand out the rest of these fliers.", she said looking down to make sure her grip was still tight around Adrian.

He ran in front of her and took the last one in her hand.

"Now you have time?", he said with a smirk.

She looked down and attempted to come up with any excuse to leave. She looked down at Adrian who was playing her sweater. What she was about to do was against her better judgement. While Adam was talking to she took the sweater out of Adrian's mouth causing the toddler to cry.

"I'm sorry she needs to be changed talk to you later.", she said running to the ladies room.

She apologized to the baby several times while she cleaned her face. She waited a few moments until she heard people starting to walking through the hallways. She went to the daycare which she was still trying to save. She walked to her locker and started fumbling with her books. She couldn't help but feel frustrated from all the events happening in her life. She could deal with the Adam situation he she didn't have such a huge damn crush on him. Truthfully he was perfect boyfriend material, but he might not want to be around a baby all the time and that was kind of part of the package. It was probably not gonna work out. Celest walked to the locker room to get ready for gym. She looked up and saw a bunch of giggly perky cheerleaders changing. She couldn't stand the bunch and now she has to have a class with a few of them.

"Do you have a problem?", one of them yelled.

Celest paid no mind thinking they were talking to someone else. It was until one of them walked over and sat next to her. She looked up and saw on of the girls looking at her while she fixed her socks.

"Can I help you?", Celest said standing up.

"Oh yes can you please tell me how you manage to lose all that baby weight...I heard it's hard especially when your babies daddy bails on you...", she laughed.

Celest laughed and grabbed the bottom of her shirt and pulled it up half way up her mid-section. She was no where near tiny but her stomach still seemed slightly more fit then the cheerleader.

"I had no problems...but I guess when our at the bottom of the cheer-pyramid it makes you bitter.", she said fixing her clothes.

"You are a bitch...no wonder you hang alone.", the girl said in a serious tone.

"Okay thanks for watching me...tell me if you learned anything.", Celest said walking out of the locker room.

She went to the gym and sat in the bleachers. She just couldn't stand when people are assholes for no real reason. After some stretching they were told to run the track. Something Celest didn't mind at all. Running helped her think, but at the moment no matter how she tried to distract herself her uncle stayed on her mind. It had been a while since she chose to raise this child...and decided to never reveal who the father was. No one knew, not even her parents. 'Maybe I should tell someone...', she thought to herself. All she could do was run, run from the fear, run from the hurt. She could feel him, smell his horrible drunken breath. She could feel her breath getting heavier and heavier as she ran. Her face turned red as her cheeks began to heat up. A warm tear ran down her cheek. She stopped for a moment to catch her breath.

"Aww...Looks like americas next dumb skank can't handle track...", One of the cheerleaders yelled

"What is your problem?", Celest yelled as she walked over to the blond and got in her face.

"Loser like you...and I was wrong your body is disgusting...you should really consider dieting..", she said as a smile crept across her lips.

"I'm not dealing with this..", Celest said pushing past the girls heading back to the locker room.

She went to the showers and undressed in the closets stall. She hated the smell of sweat and didn't mind exercising at all. She allowed the hot water to run over her body. After she showered she went back to her bag. She saw that her bag and all of her clothes were tossed all over the locker room. She walked around looking for her clothes, she found a few items thrown into the locker room toilet. Her heart was crushed as she saw a few pictures of her and Adrian. Celest felt her face turn red, as a stream of tears run down her face.

"God!", she yelled as she pulled them from the toilet.

She placed the pictures on the bench and changed her clothes. For once she didn't feel like fighting or cursing. All she could feel was sadness.