Chapter 6
When they finally arrived at Lu's apartment, Lu had opened the door and said: "This is my place", Erin had walked in and started to look around. It was small, not what she was used to back in New York City., with her parent's penthouse apartment in the Trump Tower. "Nice place", She said as she sat down on a bar stool. "Do your parents know that you're here"? Lu asked as she opened up the fridge and got out two sodas. "Yes, I left them a note. Not that they would care or anything", she said as Lu handed her the soda. Erin opened it and sipped it a bit. "How old were you, when your parents told you that you were adopted"? Lu asked as she sat next to Erin. "They told me, when I was ten years old. But I kind of knew before then to", she said as she sat the drink down on the counter. "How did you know without them telling you?" Lu asked. "I knew when I was like five years old, when someone pointed out that I didn't look like neither of my parents. It was sure a devastating blow to my self esteem", She said.
"I'm sorry to hear that. Now that you are here, I realized that I shouldn't have given you up for adoption. Marc, my son, had always asked me for another kid; but I didn't have a heart to tell him about what happened to me when I was 13 years old", Lu said, as she looked down in shame. "What did happen"? Erin asked as she looked at Lu. "I was raped by a family friend. It happened at a neighborhood function of all places." Lu said. "So, about a week after the incident occurred, I found out that I was pregnant with you", Lu said as she looked down and started to cry. "Wow, I'm surprised you didn't abort me like some women would have", Erin said. "I almost did, until a friend of mine told me that it was a little to late. Which was true because a month later, I went for a check up and heard your heartbeat on the monitor; and right then and there I knew I couldn't have aborted you", Lu said as she grabbed Erin's hand. Erin looked at Lu and said: "My goodness I don't know what to say". Then, all of a sudden Lu said: "I think you should go to bed now, Marc's room is just down the hall and to your right", Lu motioned her hand towards her son's room. "Oh, alright then", Erin said, as she gathered her duffle and backpack and started to walk her way toward Marc's room. Erin entered Marc's room and dropped her stuff on the floor next to his bed and looked around his room. His walls were blue and had toy airplanes hanging from the ceiling, and he had a few music posters of his favorite bands on the wall. Not a bad room, Erin thought as she got undressed and into her PJs. She took out her razor blade and sat on the edge of Marc's bed. She ran the blade across her arm and quickly dabbed the blood with some Kleenex that she had in her bag. She had done that a few more times and then sighed. I feel much better now, Erin thought and pulled the covers over her, turned off the light and had fallen asleep.