Chapter 21

Gracie's POV

I woke up the next morning at 6am. I decided to take a shower. When I got out I put some sweat pants on and one of my Dad's t shirts on. I put my hair in a French braid.

I looked at the time it was 7am. Holy crap time goes by fast. I went into the kitchen and ate a bowl of cereal.

My dad walks in. "Hey Gracie you sleep good?"

"yeah, did you?"

"yes, I had the bed to myself." he smiled and I laughed.

His phone started ringing. He answered it and I finished the last 3 bites of my cereal. I washed my dish, and went upstairs to brush my teeth. I came back down and he was off the phone.

He looked at me. "there's going to be a social worker here after school."

"why?"

"they want to make sure, I'm a good parent."

"wow that's retarded."

"yeah, are you ready?"

"yeah." I grabbed my bag and we got into the hummer.

He pulled up to the school. "oh Gracie I forgot to tell you I talked to Vince and he found me a good lawyer."

"sweet, wait why would he do that?"

"Vince loves you Gracie, he would do anything for you."

"oh."

"yeah so today is going to be a busy day, I'll pick you up after school."

"alright." I leaned in so he could kiss my forehead.

"be good, love you."

"love you too Daddy."

I got out of the hummer and went into the school. It looks like I was early, oh well. I grabbed my history book and went to class.

I sat down and started thinking about stuff. I don't want to go back with Jackie I like my life here with Randy. I heard someone walk into the classroom. I looked up and it was Nick.

"Hey Gracie."

"hey." he sat next to me.

I just doodled on my notebook. "is something wrong?"

"well my Mother is trying to get custody of me."

"what?, the court won't give it to her, she's messed up."

"yeah well she doesn't seem to think so."

he put his hand on my arm. "don't worry Gracie they won't take you away from Randy."

"I hope." I sighed.

"hey I have an idea."

"what?"

"just follow me."

I grabbed my stuff, and followed him outside the school. "Nick where are we going?"

"were skipping school!" he winked at me.

"okay but if I get in trouble I'm blaming this on you." he smiled and we walked into the woods.

"uh Nick where are we going?"

"you'll see."

we came up to this huge tree and it had a house built in it.

"Whoa this is cool!" it was really big.

"yeah when my dad was living here when I was little he helped me build it."

"sweet."

"yeah let's go up." he said while climbing up the ladder.

"okay." I followed him up.

We sat our stuff down and he looked at me. "So let's just talk."

"about?" I questioned him.

"did you ever have a boyfriend?"

"yeah one what about you?"

"same, what was he like?"

"well his name was Dylan and we went out for about 5 months, he was nice, sweet, caring, but then he started pressuring me about sex."

he cut me off. "you didn't do it did you?"

"let me finish."

"sorry." he smiled.

"it's okay anyway just before we broke up he gave me a choice, either I have sex with him or we were done, and I choose the second one."

"good for you, he sounds like a Jack ass anyway."

I laughed. "he was…so what about your's?"

"well my first girlfriend was last year, you know her."

"I do?"

"yeah Rachel."

"oh, so how'd that work out?"

"she's a stalker!" he said in the most serious voice I've ever heard.

I busted out laughing. "why?"

"she wanted to know where I lived, and I wouldn't tell her so she followed me home."

"oh my god, she's crazy."

"yeah that's why I dumped her."

"well, I'm sorry things didn't work out for you."

"I'm sorry to you too."

I smiled, Nick is really sweet. I looked at my phone and it said 11am.

"hey Nick, don't you think we should get back?"

"yeah, let's go."

we grabbed our stuff and walked back to the school. The school came in view and I froze dead in my tracks.

Nick stopped and looked at me. "what's the matter?"

I pointed to the school. There was a guy in a suit and my Dad.

Nick groaned. "Crap who is that?"

"the social worker, I totally forgot about him, what am I going to do?"

"I don't know, I guess we go and find out."

the principle walked out and we walked over to them.

The principle looks at us. "Orton, Moore where have you been?"

then my dad looks at me. "Gracie Lynn Orton, did you skip school?" I nodded my head.

"why?" his veins in his neck were popping.

"I needed a break." my dad groaned and he cracked his neck.

The principle looks at Nick. "Moore C'mon let's go, my office." Nick gave me an apologetic look and I just shrugged.

They walked inside and the guy in the suit looked at my dad. "Mr. Orton I'm sorry to say this but, Gracie is going to have to stay in foster care until the court date."

"WHAT?" My dad and I both said at the same time.

He looked at me. "Gracie I know you might think skipping school was fun, but I have no other choice to take that as running away."

"if I was running away, I wouldn't of came back."

"I know I'm sorry, but I have to go by the rules, we will go back to your house, grab your things and you will be in foster care until next Wednesday."

"you can't do this!" I yelled.

He looked at me. "it's my job."

I looked up at my dad. "Don't let him take me away PLEASE!"

My Dad looked down at me with sadness in his eyes. "Baby girl I'm sorry."

I groaned. Why is this happening to me?

The suit guy looked at me. "c'mon let's go."

I got in the car and watched my dad get in the hummer. Tears were streaming down my face. We got to my house in about 5 minutes. I ran into the house, and up into my room.

I started packing up my stuff. The tears were getting worse, I could barely see. I threw my bag at the wall, and sat on the floor with my back against my bed.

I wrapped my arms around my knees, and buried my head into them. I heard footsteps.

"Miss Gracie, we need to get going."

"No!" I cried.

"please don't make this any harder."

then I heard more footsteps. "go downstairs she will be ready in a minute." I looked up and it was just my dad.

He sat down next to me. "Gracie, I know you don't want to go, but you have to, just think you will be back next Wednesday."

"not if Jackie gets custody of me."

"don't say that, she isn't going to get custody of you."

"but what if she does?"

"just don't worry about it okay?"

"okay."

"now c'mon before he thinks you runaway."

he helped me pack up my stuff. We went back downstairs, he helped me put my bags in the car.

I gave him a hug. "I'm going to miss you Daddy!"

"I'll miss you too, don't worry you will be back next week."

"I hope."

"alright I'll see you next week I love you Baby girl."

"I love you too Daddy!" I got into the car.

He pulled out and I just stared out the window.

i know i've been slacking big time! but i was so caught up with school, and i just moved recently. so things were a bit hectic. but please review and tell me what you think? :D you know i love you guys! thanks so much for supporting this story!

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