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Chapter 15: I'm Free

"Hi Karen," Richard said as he walked into his kitchen. "Did Sarah call today by any chance?"

She just gave a him a puzzled look.

"You know, Sarah, my daughter? The girl that used to live her until she moved in with her boyfriend."

"Oh, ah no, she didn't call."

"Alright then honey. How did your dinner go with that friend of yours?"

"Ah, I didn't go. Didn't feel like it."

"Oh really? Well maybe another time. By the way, Celeste rang me earlier and said she won't be needing you to baby sit Amelia anymore. Sarah spoke to her and said she'll do it whenever she needs it. Did you know that Amelia spent the weekend with Sarah and Jareth? Well apparently Jareth loved her so they offered to look after her when Celeste needs to go out of town. So that means more time for just us."

Karen was in shock. 'What's going on? Sarah doesn't have a boyfriend and they didn't move in together. And Jareth, that name seems familiar…the Goblin King! And why doesn't Richard say anything about Toby? Unless he doesn't remember…'

"Karen, are you alright?"

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine, just kind of tired is all. I think I might get an early night. By the way, does the name Toby mean anything to you?"

"Nope, not really. I had an uncle named Tobias once though. Oh well, you go and get some rest. I'll be up soon."

"Alright, goodnight."

Karen made her way slowly up the stairs thinking about what had really happened. It hadn't been a dream. Toby was gone, it was as if he'd never existed. And Sarah living with some guy named Jareth, and Amelia staying with Sarah from now on…Then it dawned on her. I'm free. I'm really free, no more snotty nosed brats, no more bitchy teenage step children! I'm free."

As she lay in her bed waiting for her husband to come upstairs Karen remembered what the goblin king had told her. "If you ever, ever have another child, you will not keep them! You don't deserve the gift of a child! Now be gone and you better hope we never cross paths again!"

'What does it matter, I'm free, and I don't plan on having another child. They're nothing but trouble anyway.'

And with that she fell into a troubled sleep about goblins and a screaming baby.

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