Dealing

Chapter 37

Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
Makes me that much smarter
So thanks for making me a fighter

Fighter by Christina Aguilera

I head inside quickly to see my dad on the porch steps witch Richelle, trying to calm her down. I knew something bad was going on in there. I hurry inside to see her mom yelling. "That's my daughter and I want her!"

"Can we please discuss this as adults since we all are adults here?" questioned my mom in a reasonable tone.

"Hell no!" shouted Lily's mom.

"Fine! Let's argue and do it the hard way!" I shouted. "You can't have her! One, because you pretty much abuse and lead her to depression! Another is because you don't even care or love her! Three, because you can't force her in one damn thing!"

Lily was crying, it was probably the hormones taking over because normally she would be arguing back. "Let my daughter choose!" I look at Lily.

"I'm not going with you," she said softly as the tears fell down. "You're a sick monstrous bitch, and I don't want you near me or my child. I want you out of my life." Her mom looked at her and frowned.

"Don't you dare call me a bitch? You know what shit I put up with you! I gave you a home, for you spoiled brat! I gave you clothes! A phone! Anything you wanted! And you repay me with you taking drugs and getting pregnant! I think you're the bitch here!" her mom yelled and stormed out of the house in rage. Like a teenage daughter would with her parents.

Lily broke down and hid her face in her knees as she cried. "Don't listen to her," I say. "I'm glad you stood up to her. I'm glad you called her a bitch in front of her face." I hug Lily. Mom nodded in agreement as she massaged her shoulders softly.

"What if I am the bitch?"

"You're not!" I shouted. "Don't even think one thing about that because you're not one. You're one of the nicest people I meant. Sure, you can have a temper sometimes. Now think about what you want to be."

"I'm not sure," she mumbled.

"Let's talk about it later," I say. "Because I want to celebrate for my new job starting on Monday!"

"Oh my god, that's so great!" yelled Lily as she hugged. "I'm happy for you."

"That's great sweetheart, I'm glad you got the job."

"What are we talking about?" asked my dad.

"You're daughter got a job," said mom. My dad smiled and told me good job. "So I and you're father are going to discuss things while you two go out for lunch. You can take my credit card."

"Are you sure?" I asked. My mom nodded as we both left of lunch.

That night I and Lily didn't worry about anything. We went out for dinner and then went to zoo. We took picture of about everything. We didn't talk about boys or the babies. We didn't talk about problems. We just enjoyed each other. We both just needed to get away from it.

Later that night when we got home, we all sat in the living room. "We both care about you two teenagers very much." I nod and Lily was like what. "Yes Lily, you're apart of this family. So we have been thinking. Lily, you're having a hard time dealing with problems. I think you need to see a therapist, just till you feel better and let all out you're feelings." Lily nodded. "And we want to sue you're mom for what she did."

"Are you sure?" Lily asked. "You shouldn't waste money on me."

"We're not," said my dad. "We're helping you. We just think you need to talk to someone else about this. I think we'll do it on Saturdays and I'm sure Renesmee will go with you. And we don't think it's right with what you're mother did. So we think this would be good. We're not putting you in a crazy home." Lily sighs of relief.

"But Lily, I want you to feel welcome to talk to anyone of us in this house at anytime. I want you to be strong and healthy. If you can overcome all this, you'll make a great mother and parent. You'll have an amazing life. And once you get better, you could start taking with getting a high

School diploma." Lily smiles and nods knowing she would need to do that soon.

"Thank you so much," said Lily as she hugs my mom and dad. "I really appreciate what you have been doing." My mom and dad smile. "If you don't mind, I'm going to take a shower." I smile, knowing everything was going to be alright.

Work was getting so stressful. I had to paperwork and talk to parents. I taught kids and I tell them there progress with it all. It was getting hard to keep up with everything. The other teacher for piano just retired so I had all of her students at different times. I had to some violin lessons. But I was working very hard. By the time it was Saturday, I woke up at nine so I could go to therapy session with Lily.

Once we were in the room with her therapist, it was girl named Shelly Cooks. "Hello, I'm Shelly Cooks. And please call me Shelly. You're Lily Parks." She nods. "I think we should just get to know each other first, then nest week I'll be asking some questions.

"Hi, I'm Nessie Cullen, her friend, she needed me to come," I said and Shelly nods.

"I'll tell a little about myself. I'm married to this wonderful man. I had three kids, two are living with me currently, and we're planning on having another one. I've been working at this job for about ten years. I had many successes. I love doing this job a lot. And I always wanted to help people in some way."

"I'm-," started Lily but she didn't know what to say. "Well…my parents divorced and my mom hates me. My dad just left and never showed up again. I'm pregnant. I don't really know the father. I didn't graduate from high school. I've been in a mental hospitable for about two years. I'm still into drugs and I have an eating disorder. Well kind of, I'm getting used to the idea of eating. Can we just ask questions already?"

Shelly nods. "Where did you picture yourself fifteen years ago?" she asked. Lily thought and thought. It was silent for a little.

"You were five and I remembered you said you were going to be a princess and you would do whatever you wanted," I said softly as Lily laughs lightly at that memory.

"I probably picture myself as a princess." Shelly nods at that answer.

"What about ten years ago?"

"Well…I pictured myself as a house mom and my husband would work all the time." Shelly nods as she write this all down.

"Five year ago?"

"Honestly the same, I've never thought about working a job. I was so into boys and that was so damn stupid. Maybe Nessie was right and I was some slut who dated older guys and sex when I wanted." I remember that day in the mall.

"If you could change anything, would you?"

"Yes," she says.

"Next week, I want you to bring in a listen of memories of five years old to now. Tell me the memories you would never want to change and the ones you want to. That's what we will talk about. Could you do a few memories to Nessie, for an example for her?" I just nod. "Well we'll be talking about that for two weeks probably." Lily nods.

"She's really nice," Lily says. "I thought therapy would be horrible. But it's actually good."

"She's just going to help you get better and feel better," I say. "It's her job. Lily, I haven't told Macy about you. Do you want to talk to her? I think you should let her know what's going on with you. Because she is coming to visit soon." Lily just nods but I can tell she's not up for it.