A/N: Well here is the next chapter. It's a little longer I think and it really builds up into the next chapter…so let me be gone and here is the next chapter! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I forgot 2 put this in my other chapters so I don't own summerland blah, blah, blah, etc. u get the picture!

Special Thanks to: kandykane33(love ur stories glad u like mines and good luck w/ ur last year of school!) and beverleyd( don't worry Bradin and Zena will hook up lol) thanx soo much for the reviews! keep the reviews coming!

Chapter 10

I wish dad was here

Zena made her way to the table where her mom sat and waited. She took a seat and picked up the menu without even acknowledging her mom.

"Thank you for coming sweetheart," Jen said breaking the silence between her and her daughter.

"Yeah sure" Zena replied back in a cold tone. She sat in her chair reading over the menu, looking for something to order. Even though she had been there a thousand times and knew the menu from heart, she was trying hard not to have the conversation with her mother which she knew was ahead.

"I'm sorry I'm not a good mother" Jen said blankly knowing it might had been the wrong thing to say.

Zena looked up from the menu and into the eyes of he mother.

"Well at least your right about something" Zena said in that same cold tone.

"What do want me to do Zena what can I say that-"

"What can you do mom?" Zena cut off "You could have tried not walking out on me when I needed you the most. You could have tried to remember my birthday once in a while you- you could have tried harder to be a mom you could have tried harder to be there for me but no! you didn't want to be a mom you didn't want me!" Zena said louder making everyone in the restaurant turn their heads. Zena looked around and saw that everyone was looking at her. She grabbed her bag and walked out of the restaurant as everyone watched her leave.

"Zena!" Jen yelled trying to grab the attention of her daughter "Zena wait!" Jen said grabbing her daughters hand once she was in the parking lot.

"What!" Zena shot back in tears

"Oh hunny" Jen said watching her daughter cry, "I'm really trying to be there for you as much as I can."

"Bullshit! Your running away mom your running away from here! Why can't you stay here and work why can't you stay here with me? Why do you keep running away from here?"

"Because…Dammit Zena there is nothing for me here!" Jen said regretting those words as quickly as she said it.

I"t's good to know how much I mean to you" Zena said still stunned by what her mom said.

"I didn't mean that Zena I-"

"You what?" She said cutting her mom off as she began to walk away.

"Look at the way your acting, what would your father say about this?"

Zena stopped dead in her tracks and looked back to her mom.

"Daddy would say that I should never came here. He would have said that I should have gave up on you the day you walked out on me!"

"Well why the hell haven't you given up on him?" Jen said as her hands went directly to her face knowing again that was a mistake.

Zena felt a jolt in her body. She could have almost killed her mom for saying that. Saying that she should give up on her dad when all he did was love her and teach her the most precious thing in the world that meant everything to her. Surfing.

"Don't you ever talk about daddy like that! He means everything to me even though he's not here. He means more to me than you ever will."

Jen felt tears fall from her eyes hearing her own daughter talk about her that way.

"You know mom," Zena said in between tears "sometimes I wish daddy was still here instead of you. Then I might actually know what it feels like to have a parent that loves me." Zena said as she walked away. She stopped and turned around and looked her mother right in the eyes "and next time you think about coming back to see me, do us both a favor and don't." Those were the final words which came out of her mouth as her mom stood there and cryed. And those were the last words Zena would ever tell her mom.

Jen walked back to her car and sat in the drivers seat. She stayed there for over three hours and cried hearing the words here daughter said over and over again in her mind. She finally started her car and began to drive off. And as she drove she thought that one day she was going to make everything okay with her daughter. But she didn't know that that day would never come.

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Well I hope you liked it! Please Please review! I really love reviews! And tell me what you thought about this chap. You know like if Zena was to hard on her mom and stuff. And well next chaps. Will be MUCHO drama! And for everyone that wants Bradin and Zena to get together its getting there its getting there. So review and until next time have fun and be safe!