As Abby and Sapphire James marched into their apartment in Nashville, Tennessee two days after the incident they both knew this is where they would be for the rest of their lives. Unless Abby picked them up and moved them to some god for saken middle of nowhere type of place to start over.
"Put your clean laundry in your room and the dirty stuff in the laundry basket and I'll start a load of laundry. Then come out here and tell me what you want for dinner, because it is late and you need to eat before you go to bed." Abby said as she guided her daughter to her bedroom.
"Okay mommy. pause Ummmm….are we every going to see daddy again?" sapphire questioned shyly.
"No…..he is no father to you after what he has done to me……and you of course, ruining your life like that. It's not fair what he did and he shouldn't get to have you if he is just going to ruin your life all over again." Abby mumbled on trying to make sense of what she was saying to her daughter.
"I loved your father, and he broke not only my heart, but yours' and he will never be the same now, because of what he did. Do you understand what I am trying to tell you?" Abby said as she helped collect her daughter's laundry and tried to make dinner at the same time.
"I understand mommy. But can we have chef Boyardee instead of whatever that is?" sapphire asked peering into the pot of soup her mom was trying to cook.
"Yes, we can this is burnt anyway. First, go wash your hands and face because you have chocolate pudding all over it. Then come back and we will eat in front of the TV. What do you want to watch, Friends or Gilmore Girls?" Abby asked as she dumped out the remaining soup into the trash.
"I want to watch friends. I love Rachel she is soooo cool. You know who she reminds me of? She reminds me of you mommy." Sapphire yelled as she walked into the bathroom to wash her hands and face.
"She does kind of act like me doesn't she?" Abby asked herself if she was that kind of person.
"Hey sapphire come on dinner is ready and it is getting late so come on" She screamed into the bathroom to her little girl, "come on baby lets go eat." She said as she took her daughters hand and they walked over to the couch.
That night Abby didn't sleep a wink she was up all night thinking about what had happened in the last three days. She was trying to make sure that she had made the right decision for her daughter. Her parents had ruined her life and now she was ruining her own life and she didn't want to go and ruin sapphire's life too.
After thinking all night Abby knew exactly what she and sapphire needed to do. They needed to live their lives like nothing had ever happened, but they would no longer go and visit Dan on vacations or over the summer. After college Abby would take sapphire and they would move to somewhere else and start all over, Abby would get a good job and sapphire would go to an excellent school.
Abby was so excited she almost forgot to ask for sapphire's opinion, she never made a life changing decision without consulting her daughter, It was her life that would be changing as well.
"I'll ask her in the morning. I think she will agree with me or at least I hope she does." She whispered out loud to herself as she lay in her master bed in the tiny room, she called home.