Fifteen minutes later they got to Lauren's and went inside. Lauren and Alexis dumped their bags on the floor and fell onto the couch. They were exhausted even though they hadn't done a lot. They sat there for 10 minutes just thinking about Emma and how mean her mom was. Suddenly Lauren got a sick feeling in her stomach.

"I don't want to be like Emma's mom! I don't want to yell at my kid for making a small mistake!" Lauren said suddenly and then she started to cry.

"Lauren you won't be like that! I know you. You are never mean and you won't treat your kid like that" Alexis said.

"Alex I wasn't ready for this. It wasn't planned. I won't be a good mom. I'm going to fail." Lauren said.

"Lauren! Stop talking about yourself that way. You're going to be a great mom," Alexis encouraged.

Lauren and Alexis talked like this for about another 15 minutes before Alexis finally got Lauren to calm down.


June 5th, 2005

The last few months have gone by so slow yet so fast. The next few days at work went by somewhat fast for Lauren. The usual stomach ache was there but other than that everything was going pretty well.

Emma's house

Emma had just finished eating lunch and went up to her room to finish her her homework.

"Emma get down here right now!" her mom yelled.

"Oh great" Emma said to herself.

Emma ran downstairs to find her mom with one hand on her hip staring at her.


"What?" Emma asked.

"You didn't clean up your dishes Emma! What have I told you about leaving them on the table!" she yelled.

"Sorry" Emma said looking down at her feet.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Get to it!" her mom yelled.

Emma started to clean her dishes off the table, throw her extra food in the garbage and put the dishes in the dishwasher.

"And while you're at it, clean the table" Emma's mom said.

Emma did as she was told and then she ran to her room crying. She tried to make them stop but they kept coming and coming. After about 10 minutes Emma's tears started to subside. She looked over at her night stand where Lauren's number. She reached for it then took her pink phone and dialed Lauren's number.

Lauren is in the middle of a scene and her phone goes off.

"I have to stop it might be Emma," Lauren said.

"It's okay," the director said, "I have to go over the last footage anyways."

Lauren runs to her phone and answers.

"Hello?" she says and at first she doesn't hear anything but quiet sobs.

"Emma?" Lauren said with worry in her voice and in the corner of her eye she saw Mel, Alexis and Scott look over.

"Hi.." Emma said trying to calm herself down.

"Emma, honey, what's wrong?" Lauren asked.

"M-my mom yelled at me a lot" she said with tears running down her cheeks.

"Oh no" Lauren said motioning for Alexis to come over.