Ok so here is chapter 12, hope you enjoy :-) No Copyright Intended!
Chapter 12
Olivia's point of View
My daughter looked terrible as she walked to the table. She hadn't even noticed me as she pulled out a seat. She collapsed onto it and put her head on the table, moaning as she did. I cleared my throat to get her attention. Slowly she looked up.
"Morning?" She croaked.
"Afternoon." I corrected.
"It's only just turned 12?" She complained as she put her head back down.
"Aria we need to talk." I said in my best mom tone.
I heard her sigh as she once again looked up.
"About?" She replied.
I glared at her, not able to belief she didn't understand how worried I was.
"About last night." I stated what I assumed to be the obvious.
"Mom, relax not like I haven't been drunk before." She said.
"Excuse me?" I hissed.
"I was really worried, imagine getting a call from some stranger to say I need to come and collect my daughter!" I added.
She finally seemed to register I was worried.
"I'm sorry ok? I wasn't thinking when I left and I wasn't thinking when I pounded all the shots. I just needed to clear my head, forget all the shit that's happened recently." She explained.
"Besides I'm not used to having someone care when I come home. The Clarke's just left a key in the flowerpot for the nights I made it home." She added.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing, the Clarke's didn't care what time their daughter came home at? After all the effort they went to, to kidnap her?
"Well I'm not a Clarke, I have seen enough young girls in situations similar to the one you were in last night. Your lucky you didn't end up like one of them." I lectured.
"Not to mention how worried I was. You should have asked could you go out before you took off and given how upset you were I would have preferred you talk to me instead of drinking your worries away." I continued.
"I'm sorry, I wont do it again. I should have come to you instead of shutting you out. It's just I can't get the image of Jared out of my head. I keep seeing him collapsing over and over again and I don't know what to do." Aria replied.
"It will get easier honey I promise. You just need to give it time, and maybe talk to someone? A professional maybe?" I suggested.
"A professional? Aren't they for crazy people?" She asked hesitantly.
"No they aren't for crazy people." I laughed.
"Have you ever been?" She questioned.
"Yes I have and it really helped." I told her.
"Why did you go?" She asked.
"Um how about we save that for another day?" I replied.
Aria nodded in response.
"So am I off the hook?" She smiled.
"Oh no not by a long shot. What you did is totally unacceptable. You wont be going out for a while, you're grounded." I told her.
A look of horror crossed her face as she stared at me.
"For real?" She asked in disbelief.
"For real." I confirmed.
She let out a loud sigh as she once again put her head on the table.
"Oh no you can't do that, take these, get dressed you can eat on the way." I instructed as I passed her two headache tablets and a bottle of water.
"Where are we going?" She complained as she swallowed the two tablets.
"I have to go to work for a while and seeing as I can't trust you to stay inside the building your coming with me." I told her.
"What about the whole Jared situation?" She mumbled.
"Taken care off, Amaro assures me it is. He won't tell me how but it is." I replied.
"So why are we going in?" She questioned.
"Because there is still the problem of Frank and Mary. They don't know their son is dead yet." I explained…
Until next time ;-)
