Part 10

2 months later

Bess was sitting in the kitchen talking to Lucretia about what they were having for dinner. Bess liked to help out in the kitchen, she said that if she didn't learn how to cook now that she'd have to go through Bianca's cooking every time she went over and then she knew that she'd be dead before her 16th birthday.

As Lucretia was showing her how to make some kind of beef stew Bess was nibbling on a carrot. She smiled when she heard the door open and close and excused herself to go meet her father at the doorway. When the teenager got to the hallway she heard her father yelling at someone on the phone. She pulled back slightly and listened from the shadows.

"I don't care what that lawyer says, deal with it. I won't go down for saving my daughter and letting her bitch of a mother rot in that car. You heard me, I saved my daughter she was my first priority not my slut of an ex-wife." JR said into the phone and he groaned at something the lawyer must have said. "No...there was a DNA test done after Bess was born, to make sure she was my child and not Bianca's. Yes, you dim wit if she was Bianca's child then she would be living with Bianca not me!" JR turned on his heel as he put his brief case down and he looked up the stairs thinking Bess was up in her room. "Jamie is not Bess' father. Just...just handle this. Or I'll find someone that can!" JR said and slammed his cell phone shut.

Bess saw this and turned and ran into the kitchen and took the back stairs up to her room and once there she went to her laptop and waited for her father to come in and say hello. JR walked up to Bess's room and knocked on the door before he walked in.

"Hi kiddo." He said looking at Bess.

"Hi daddy." Bess said and turned around to look at her father. "How was your day?" Bess asked in a slightly shaky voice. She felt like crying but knew that if her father touched her or tried to comfort her she'd be sick.

"It was very busy." JR said. "What did you do today?"

"I auditioned for the school play and I'll see if I got the part tomorrow." Bess said smiling. "It may be a slight problem with going to the hospital if I make it so I'll have to talk to Maggie about that because I really want to be in this play." Bess said and looked down. "No dad I don't want you to call any friends to make sure I get in it. I want to make it on my own." Bess said and stopped her father from talking again. "I know you and I know that's what you'll do because you love me and you want me to be happy. And I will be, but only if I get this part on my own. No influences from you or grandpa."

"Ok. Scout's honor." JR said as he held up his hand. "So...are you hungry? Do you want to come downstairs with me and see if Lucretia got dinner ready?"

"No...I need to finish up some home work. Dinner will be ready in about twenty minutes which will give me plenty of time." Bess said and watched her father nod stand and leave the room.

Bess moved to her bed once the door was closed and encircled her arms around her pillows and cried into them. She started to kick her feet against the bed in just utter anger. Her father he left her there, he admitted it but told that weasel of a lawyer to tell them that he only had time to save her, she had heard the story. She was in the car. She had been laying with her grandmother Krystal, and her daddy had been driving. When she woke up she watched as they were going through the forest. She had heard her father and mother fighting before that, that was what woke her up. When the car came to a very sharp stop her mother had slammed her head into the dash board and when the car set on fire she screamed for her mother to wake up. But she didn't her daddy did and he got out of the car and ran to the other side because Krystal was against the other door and she wasn't moving.

Bess remember screaming, she remembered everything. She even remembered her father running them away from the car, and she remembered screaming for her mother to get up, to wake up and for her father to put her down so she could go save her mommy. She remember JR promising he'd be right back. She thought back to the car to save her mother the car exploded and she screamed, she screamed so loud that JR had to cover his ears. She tried to run back to the car but her father grabbed her and then turned her around. She knew what it meant when the car blew up with her mother and grandmother inside. She knew it all meant that she wasn't going to see them ever again.

This made her cry harder. Her father had never intended to go back to the car, for them. He let her mother die in that car. Bess stood up from the bed tears falling and she started throwing things, she threw her chair at the wall and watched as it broke and shattered her glass figurines. She threw her books and her over turned her desk. She grabbed her hand bag and ran out of her room past her grandfather and down the second stair well and right out the door not turning back. She just ran.

TBC...