Chapter 16-Choices

Parker stood outside of the house she knew so well and sware she'd never set foot in again. She looked up at the old house, the roof just barely standing up, the shudders covering the windows keeping the light from the outside world out. She walks around the house until she was face-to-face with the back door. She hesitates but knocks.

Soon, a tall man with long blonde hair and blood shot brown eyes answered the door only wearing a baggy pair of jeans. He smiles a crooked smile at her and slurs out "Babe! I thought you were off doing the whole damn goody-too-shoes, mommy dearest routine."

"Can you picture me sticking to that life forever?" she says with a smirk. He shakes his head and steps aside, letting her in.

"How old are you now?" He asks slinging his arm around her waist.

"16." She states back facing him and looking around the room. She sees drugs, glass, and bottles of various alcholic substances. People sitting around hungover and drunk and making out.

"I heard you were knocked up." He says leading her into a bedroom and shutting the door.

"I was. I had twins." She says half proud and half ashamed of what she was doing there. "Little boy and a little girl."

"What are you doing here Parker?" he asks sincerely. He was a sweet guy, even if he was high as hell, and didn't want Parker to hurt herself but also knew, from past experiences, that he couldn't stop her.

"Their dad left me today. I don't think I can handle both babies, school, and living at the manor with mom without some help and this place and you just came to mind." she said, the situation sounded much worse out loud then it did in her head.

He goes over to a desk and pulls out a baggy and hands it to her. "Here, free of charge." he said with a small smile.

She looked at the bags contints and then thought really hard about she was doing. She then looks back up at him and he gave a weird look and she smiles and hands it back to him. "How did you know I'd back out?"

"What makes you think I did?" He asks smiling.

"There's no real drugs in here. There's just rollers and a lighter." she states handing him the bag.

He shrugs and turns her around and walks her back to the back door with his hands on her shoulders. He opens the door and she steps out. She turns around and kisses him on the cheek. "Thanks Jake."

She turned to leave but he grabs her arm. "Parker, there were real drugs in the bag I gave you. Don't do anything stupid. OK?" She nods and walks off wondering how he knew that she snuck the drugs out of the bag to make it look like she backed out she he wouldn't know.

She goes into an alleyway and checks to make sure no one was watching and orbed to the park. She thought back to over a year ago and tears spill down her cheeks. She takes another inhale of the drug and soon, she doesn't feel anything. It's like she doesn't have a care in the world.

After all of the substance was gone, she pulled another thing she knows so well out of her pocket. She lifts the athame up to her left wrist and runs the blade across in one quick motion. She doesn't feel the pain but she feels some anger lift from her like always. She does the same to her other wrist and after a few minutes of emotionless breathing. She heals her wrists and lays down on the grass looking at the stars. Unfortunately, when she healed her cuts, she also took away the high, flying sincation that the drugs gave her. It was now as if she hadn't smoked anything at all.

Parker orbed into the nursery at the same time Piper was rocking Phoenix to sleep for the night. She sends Parker an 'You-Have-No-Idea-How-Much-Trouble-Your-In' glare and layed Phoenix down in her crib. Parker walks over and gives her daughter a kiss on her cheek and pulls her lavender baby blanket up to her chest. She looks over and Potter was sitting up awake. She reaches to pick him up but Piper beats her to it. "Here mom I'll do it."

"No I'll do it. You go into my bedroom and wait for me." Piper tell her.

Parker nods, knowing that she's in deep shit no and there's no use fighting her mom, at least not infront of her kids, and walks out of the nursery and into her bedroom. She carefully hides the athame and goes into her mom's bedroom.

About 5 minutes later, Piper comes walking in the room with a baby monitor. She quickly shuts the door and walks up to Parker, who was sitting on her bed, and starts the normal routine, "Where the HELL have you been?" She practically screams at her.

"I went to a friends and lost track of time." Parker tells her mom, yet again it wasn't a lie Jake was a friend and she did loose track of time.

"Which friend?"

"Jenny." 'Jake's sister, close enough' Parker thought.

"OK, I'm gonna believe that, for now, and move on to other pressing issues. Why did Dillon leave so suddenly this evening?" She said taking a place beside her daughter.

"We've been fighting a lot lately. He says I've been to over protective of the kids and I said that he's making me choose between him and them and I won't do that. So, he left. Told me to call him with i decide." Parker said with a disquested grin on her face moving her head from looking into her moms eyes to her hands in her lap.

"Sweetie, He shouldn't have done that. How can you choose between the man, or boy in your case, you love and your children? That's just not a choice any woman, or girl in your case, should have to suffer through." She tells her looking worriedly/sympathetically at her daughter. "I'm gonna ask you a question and I want you to answer with the first thing that comes to mind OK?" Parker nods and looks at her mom with interest. "Dillon or your kids?"

"My kids." Parker says without hesitation.

Piper smiles and pulls her daughter into a hug. "That's all you need, we'll get through this and if Dillon comes back, and if you decide to take him back, we'll get through that too." Parker smiles and nods. She gives her mom another hug and a kiss on the cheek.

"Can you give me the details of their day tomorrow? I'm tired." Parker asks her mom refering to her children.

"Yes, go to bed, you need your rest." Piper tells her watching her stand up from the bed and exit her room. She sits there in silence until she hears Parker's bedroom door close and she gets ready and goes to bed herself.