Stef
i listened to her explain the story and it answered many questions but i still have some unanswered. the main one being why would they kidnap me six years later. i heard mom pause on the other side. I can feel that shes keeping something huge from me.
"Mom just tell me" i demanded trying to keep my cop voice out of the conversation, i don't like using it on my mom, wife or kids, but the more mad i get the harder it gets.
"Honey…" she started.
"Cut the bull shit, mom. ok? I'm not a baby anymore, i can handle it so just tell me." i yelled as my temper got the best of me. i never meant to talk to her like that. She might not be a perfect mom but she has been through a lot with me. She has helped me get through the hardest things in my life and no matter what i'm always grateful for it. I know now it's hard to raise a traumatized child and she did a damn good job at it.
"I'm sorry" i immediately apologized. "I shouldn't have yelled at you like that" i said as tears came to my eyes. i can feel the stares from my family but decided against turning around.
"I know but don't you dare talk to me like that again… and you will always be my baby so suck it up!" she said and i laughed a little with her.
She sighed then said,"I guess it's time to come clean. Don't arrest me…" she started confusing me more. What does the don't arrest me comment mean.
"Mom…"
"I kidnapped you" she said and i froze. What?
"You're kidding right? My life is really starting to sound like a tv show i would enjoy watching." i said honestly. If this was a preview for a new show on tv i would be excited to watch it, doesn't mean i want to live it.
"No, i'm not kidding you. I'm sorry this is so messed up, i never meant it to be." How can she not expect it to be messed up? She stole me.
"How could you expect it not to be…. you can't just steal a kid and raise it to be your own and everything is fine. What did you expect just to move towns and get a big house and a dog and a pool and suddenly we are some big happy family? Thats not how it works mom." i can hear my family whispering about the conversation at the dinner table. Well there is no point in moving to a different room so they can't hear me, they already know it all.
"Well it worked for six years and considering what happened to her other daughter it probably saved your life." she said.
"Alex is alive, she is the one who told me you 'adopted' me" i said and i can practically see her confusion.
"What? How is that possible?" she asked.
"It's a long story… i was shocked too. How do you just take a baby illegally out of a hospital with no one noticing?" i asked as i gave a 'i know right' to my wife and kids.
"It's actually easier than you would think" she said. "I put you in my purse and you slept quietly as i just walked out of the hospital"
"Wow" i said blown away that it is so easier to just steal a baby. "How do you just decide to kidnap a baby?" i asked and despite everything i'm not mad at her. She might have kidnapped me but she was the one who took care of me and most importantly she was the one who loved me.
" I must say this is the weirdest interview i have ever had" she said and i can tell she is desperately trying to lighten the conversation.
"Listen Stephanie i just had to have you. You were mine, and she and her husband weren't good parents. I just knew i had too. She said you were mine, promised me. You were mine i cared for you and loved you. You can't claim they ever did. Why should they have a baby when i can't" she ranted.
"Life isn't fair mom" i said but i couldn't say i wouldn't do the same.
"Oh Stephanie you know i'm your mom…"
"I never said you weren't… how is it that i was kidnapped as a baby and still manage to not have it documented? You took me illegally and it says online that you legally adopted me. How did you manage that?" i asked as i grabbed a beer.
"They didn't report it and everything needed for me to legally adopt you was already done so people just assumed that i adopted you legally and i guess six years later they changed their mind and decided they wanted you, again." she said and i downed the rest of my beer. I went to the fridge to get another one but she glared at me. Her glare told me to please stop at one and i rolled my eyes and sat down at the table and avoided the stares of my children.
"I'll talk to you later mom. Dinners done" i lied we have about ten more minutes before supper.
"Wow i thought my conversations with my mom were bad" Lena said as soon as i was off the phone.
"You have no idea…" i said.
"Did she just tell you that she kidnapped you?" Jesus asked and i groaned.
"Yes, so who do you think should play me when i get my own drama?" i asked.
"You? Who should play me?" Mariana said and we all laughed.
"It would be so cool if you had a drama" Jude said.
"Yeah we could all watch our own life on t.v?" Brandon said.
"You should email them and be all i have a script for you" Mariana joked.
"Yeah i'm sure they would love that" i joked.
"You could always write an autobiology and get it published then maybe they will make a movie off of it" Jude said and i just laughed.
"Yeah kid you think? I don't really have much free time. Oh well i guess retirement is good for that" i teased.
"No then you went get to see in the movies" he said.
"Are you saying i won't live much after the book is finished?" i laughed."Oh well you never hear about people being recognized during their lifetimes" i said ruffling his hair.
"Yeah well it would be a bestseller" Lena said kissing me.
"Yeah it sounds like it would be a good book" Callie agreed. I laughed, atleast i have my family even if my life is practically a drama.
I didn't know how to finish this so i just ended it corny. There will be a couple of chapters after this so please give suggestions on how i should end it because i'm struggling. Also any ideas for other stories will be appreciated.
