At dinner, Andy was silently debating whether or not to tell Jessie and Lizzy when Jessie excused herself to do her homework.
"Mom?" Once Jessie was far away in her room, Lizzy broke the silence.
"Yeah?" Andy looked up, thankful for the distraction.
"I think I should tell you something." Lizzy squirmed in her seat.
"What?" Andy didn't seem to take notice of her daughter's discomfort.
"It's about Jessie." Biting her lip, she hesitated. "I think she's pregnant."
Caught incredibly off guard, Andy choked on her food. "What!" Andy looked at her daughter in shock.
Lizzy bit her lip and pulled something out of her pocket. "I used the bathroom after Jessie and I found this in the trash can." She held out a pregnancy test box. Andy recognized it has the one she had used that very afternoon. She couldn't believe that she had forgotten about it.
"Lizzy, you, Jessie, and I need to talk."
A couple minutes later, the girls were sitting on the couch in the living room and Andy was on a recliner into front of them.
Lizzy looked as guilty as ever, still thinking this was about Jessie. Jessie was just looking as if this was the biggest possible inconvenience on her life.
Andy cleared her throat and held up the box. "Lizzy, this isn't Jessie's, it's mine."
"What!" Jessie's mouth gaped open at her mother.
Andy took a deep breath and tried to hold back her tears as she continued. "I'm pretty sure I'm pregnant."
"I don't believe this!" Jessie jumped up with her arms crossed. "How could you do this?" Jessie looked at her mom in disbelief.
Tears threatened to fall from Andy's eyes. "Jessie, I-"
"So who was it Mom?" Jessie's voice was harsh and cold. "Who knocked you up?"
Andy's eyes glared as she stood up as well. "Jessica Campbell! I am your mother and you do not speak to me like that!"
Jessie ignored her mother's orders. "Well who was it? Or don't you know?" Jessie looked right into Andy's eyes.
"Jessie-"
"Was it all those 'late nights' at the hospital?" Tears welled in Jessie's eyes. "Were you knocked up by some doctor?"
Andy was shaking in anger. Disregarding everything, she lost it. "No! I was knocked up by your father after he raped me!" Andy immediately wished she hadn't of said that.
Jessie's mouth fell open and her arms dropped to her side. Suddenly, she was almost knocked over by Lizzy running past her and up the stairs.
"Lizzy!" Andy ran up the stairs after Lizzy. "Lizzy honey! Wait!" She winced as she heard Lizzy's door slam. "Lizzy?" Andy opened the door to find Lizzy lying on her stomach. "Honey…" Andy sat on her daughter's bed and rubbed her back.
Lizzy got up and wrapped her arms around her mother. Sobs racked the small girl's body as she curled up in her mother's lap.
"Shh. It's okay honey." Andy hugged her daughter.
Suddenly, the squeak of Lizzy's bedroom door opening caught Andy's attention. She looked up to find Jessie standing in the doorway in tears.
"Jess…" Andy held her arm out and beckoned for Jessie to join them.
Jessie sat on the bed next to her sister and mother. The three women just huddled together and cried.
I guess Jessie seemed a bit out of character there. I don't know if she would do that or not, I just had to find a way to get Andy to tell her daughters what Les really did to her.
Okay, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to post the second half tomorrow or something.
