Ch.26
That was a month ago. The cops still couldn't find Taylor. Piper stopped talking to Grams, and barely talked to Leo, her sisters, and her friends. In school, she had changed. Her grades were dropping, but she didn't care. She didn't do her homework, refused to do work in school, and didn't do anything that the teachers or anyone asked her to do. She would wake up in the morning, drive herself to school after getting ready, not do anything in school, and drive home. Most days, she wouldn't even go home until about 9:30 at night. She either spent her times just driving around to absolutely nowhere, or looked for Taylor. Every night, she cried herself to sleep, thinking and holding a picture of her baby. Today was the worst day for both Piper and Leo. It was the first month since Taylor's kidnapping. It was 7:35 in the morning. Piper was at her locker, getting her books out when she saw Leo walk up to her.
"Hey," he said, trying to hug her. She shut her locker and walked away not caring that everyone was watching. She couldn't deal with him right now, especially since to her, it felt like he had betrayed her when he had said that it wasn't Grams' fault that their daughter was gone. She knew that he wasn't to convinced when he had said it, but she just couldn't forgive him right now. Maybe when she had her baby back in her arms she would, but not now. It had turned out that day, that Missy and her friends were at her house and heard everything. Eventually, the whole thing spread around school. The bad thing was that Missy and her friends were in Piper's first period class. Piper got to class, sat down near the back, and watched as everyone else came in. After a couple minutes, they walked in. Missy sat in front of Piper and turned around. Piper saw this, wiped away the tear that fell, and started to put away the picture.
"Wait, Piper, can I see the picture?" she asked. This surprised Piper and Piper's friends. Reluctantly, Piper handed the picture to Missy. It was a photo of Taylor, the day she had learned to walk. She had on a pink dress with matching shoes and the biggest smile ever on her face. Piper was kneeling behind her, a smile on her face too, along with tears of pride and joy in her eyes.
"Oh, she's so cute," Missy said, before handing back the picture.
"Thank you," Piper responded, before wiping away another tear. As she did this, she heard one of Missy's friends start to snicker and laugh.
She then heard her say, "To bad that she had a mother as ugly as her. No wonder someone took her." Piper heard this and got pissed off.
"Excuse me! What the hell did you just say?" Piper asked, looking at Karen, Missy's friend and the person who said that. Karen just looked at her and smiled. Everyone was shocked, including Missy and their other friends.
"I asked you something," Piper said, as Karen turned her back to Piper. Piper walked up to Karen and forcefully turned her back around. She then shoved the picture in Karen's face. "Do you see that?" she yelled, "that is a picture of my daughter! My one-year-old baby! She is missing and you're making jokes about it! If you're going to say something, say it to my face, you bitch! Any of you have anything to say about me or my daughter say it to my face!" Piper looked around at everyone in her class as she said this.
"Piper," she heard someone softly say her name. She turned around and saw him standing there. "Come on. Let's go. I have something to tell you," he said. Piper saw the look in his eyes, and could tell it wasn't good. She quickly grabbed her things and ran out of the room, leaving everyone shocked.