Irishlass16 suggested a clear timeline so you all know how old the girls are. I thought it would be easier to just add it to the top of this chapter real quick. I hope it helps those of you that were a little confused about it. Ch. 1 - 2 years old, Ch.2 - 2 years to 8 years old, Ch. 3, 4, 5 – 8 years old, Ch. 6 – 9 years old, Ch. 8, 9 – 12 years old,
Chapter 9
Dad came late that night. I was sitting in the living room watching tv, trying to pretend I wasn't excited. I was hoping that he was bringing the boys with him. It would have been the first time I'd seen my brothers in nearly 10 years. It was a total disappointment and then some.
Laura walked into the room first. She was crying. I immediately jumped up and asked her what was wrong. She told me that we weren't going home with dad. He was taking us to live with a friend of his in Nevada. She said the worst part was Sam. Dad and Dean never told him about us. Our baby brother didn't know we existed.
I gave her a hug and told her it would be ok, that we didn't need dad anyway. We'd been doing just fine without him. She just kept shaking her head and saying that everything was all wrong. No matter what I did or said to her, she wouldn't stop crying.
Dad walked in a few minutes later. I pushed Laura behind me and walked up to him. I just went off and started yelling at him. I said that if it made things easier he could take Laura home to the boys and leave me with Missouri. Told him that I stopped waiting for him to come for us a long time ago, but that's all Laura ever wanted. I just screamed at him about everything I thought he'd done wrong to Laura and the boys.
He just stood there and listened. When I was finished he asked me what I wanted him to do. I'd told him already, but said it again anyway. I said he could either take the boys to Nevada with us, leave me at Missouri's and take Laura home with him. He looked at me for a minute, then he looked over at Laura and said that neither option was possible. Laura started crying louder and I just reached back and hit him in the face as hard as I could.
I didn't stick around to see what happened after his head bounced off the wall. I grabbed my sister's wrist and led her upstairs to my room. Two hours later dad came upstairs and said it was time to go. Laura was still crying. I told him I wasn't going anywhere with him and that's when Missouri came in and smacked me upside my head. She said I was going whether I wanted to go or not.
Missouri sat on the bed next to Laura to try and calm her down while dad and I put my stuff in the car. I wouldn't even look at him. I didn't want him to say anything because I knew I'd just knock him out again. He stood there by the car while I put my stuff in the trunk. All of a sudden he said he was sorry. I told him that if he were really sorry, he wouldn't be throwing us away again.
I heard his breath catch so I looked up at him. He was trying not to cry. That just made me madder. I told him that he could never shed enough tears for what he's done to my sister and brothers. When he said "What about you?" I stopped. Then I told him I didn't matter, only my family mattered and that didn't include him.
He waited in the car while I went to get Laura. When I got to my room she wasn't crying anymore. I sat down on the other side of Missouri and begged her again to let me stay. She said that if I stayed, The state would eventually take me away again. I told her they couldn't if she adopted me. Laura looked at me then and said no. She knew that was all she had to do to make me shut up. We walked downstairs and got into the car. Laura started talking as soon as we hit the highway. She was determined that dad would hear everything before we got to Nevada.