Second chapter is up! I have like 5 chapters written, but I was reading through them and I didn't like what I had written. I keep trying to go in like 20 different directions, so I think I'm going to pick just one and revise it. So the next few chapters should be up within the next week, but if it takes me longer don't get mad! Review please! I love them!
Zoey had somehow managed to sleep through the rest of the afternoon, into the early morning. It was about 5:15 when she woke up and decided to go for a run. She found her suitcases and pulled on her running clothes and headed out the back doors onto the beach. Back in Seattle it was almost always cold and rainy when she ran in the morning, it was a nice change to run in shorts along the sand. When she got back to the house an hour and a half later Addison was in the kitchen at the stove.
"What are you doing?" Zoey asked skeptically.
"I'm making breakfast, what's it look like?"
"Is that a good idea? Cause I'm pretty sure the last time you made me breakfast we had to call the fire department."
"That was a long time ago. I can cook now. I may not be a gourmet chef, but I can make you an omelet. Now go upstairs and shower, you are not sitting at my table all sweaty and stinky." Zoey rolled her eyes but took the stairs two at a time. She bolted into the bathroom at the top of the stairs and proceeded to throw up any food that was in her stomach. She wasn't sure why she was throwing up but once she had smelled the omelet cooking she could barely hold it back. She rinsed her mouth then got in the shower without giving it too much thought.
Twenty minutes later Zoey walked into the kitchen where Addison was sitting at the table with a few boxes of cereal sitting in front of her.
"Omelet didn't work out huh?" she asked simply.
"I think the only reason I married your father was for his cooking skills." Addison said. After this the subject of her cooking was dropped, "So I was thinking that we could go shopping today. You know, just kind of bond, it has been a long time since we've been able to do that."
"I never say no to shopping mom. Especially when you are buying."
"Subtle Zoey, real subtle," Addison rolled her eyes, "Finish your breakfast."
Another twenty minutes later and they were in Addison's car, heading towards the shops,
"Where to first?" Addison asked.
"Well, I need new jeans, and shorts, and shoes, and shirts"
"Did you just empty out your closet or something before you came here?"
"No, I just always need new stuff. The style is ever changing. Besides this is LA, they've got the good stuff. Not as good as New York did, but still, they got some good stuff. Seattle wasn't very good for shopping."
"I agree, Seattle kinda sucked when it came to shopping. But you will love it here, they have a lot of the stores that we had back in New York. Where to first?"
After four hours of shopping and a quick lunch, they found themselves in a small boutique squeezed in between two huge department stores.
"This is officially my favorite place in the world!" Zoey said from in the changing room, "Can you come help me with this shirt?" Addison walked into the changing room, she was helping Zoey tie the shirt when she saw a flash of something silver on her stomach.
"Zoey, what is that?" she asked, pointing to her stomach. Zoey quickly pulled the shirt over it to cover it up,
"Nothing mom."
"No, it obviously is not nothing. What is on your stomach," Zoey stayed quiet, "Zoey Montgomery-Shepard! Is your belly button pierced?" Addison pulled the shirt away from Zoeys stomach and saw that her belly button was indeed pierced.
"Who cares mom, it's just a piercing!" Zoey said defensively.
"How did you even get this? You know that I told you, you couldn't get one, and your father supported me. How did you get it? When did you get it?"
"None of your business mother." Zoey said as she put the rest of her clothes on and walked to the check out with Addison following behind her.
"It is too my business. You are my daughter, my 16 year old daughter, who would need parental permission to get this done. I want to know how you got it!" Addison said loudly as she paid for their purchases.
"I know people, mom. Ok, just let it go, cause I'm not gonna tell you." Addison was about to respond but her phone rang before she could say anything. She answered her phone while Zoey got in the car. Five minutes later Addison got into the car , "I have to run to work really quick. It shouldn't take me long, but I can't really take you home, so you're gonna have to come with me."
"Fine, whatever, " Addison was expecting fireworks, once Zoey got upset or angry about something she couldn't let it go and would fight tooth and nail about whatever it was.
The ride to the practice was quite, filled only by the music from the radio that Zoey had turned on. Of course she and Addison had completely different tastes in music. They walked into the practice still in silence and Naomi saw them walk in,
"Hey, how was shopping?" she asked brightly. Zoey kept walking without a word. "Something wrong?"
"We were in the changing room and I saw she had gotten her belly button pierced and she wouldn't tell me how she got it. All she said was, 'I know people, mom' then walked away. You know how I feel about those things. I think they are slutty and inappropriate for teenagers. I already let her do her ears a million times, isn't that enough?" They began walking into Naomi's office, since Zoey had set up camp in Addison's.
"She's a teenager Addie, it's just what they do."
While Addison and Naomi were talking Sam walked by Addison's office, then walked back, doing a double take. "Zoey? What are you doing here?"
"Hey Uncle Sam," she said quietly, not really looking at him.
"What's wrong bug?" he asked, using his old pet nickname for her.
"Nothing. I just had a fight with mom and I don't really feel well."
"Why don't you come on over to my office, I can check you up?"
"I'll come hang out in your office, but I'm fine, I don't need a checkup." She got up and they started to walk to Sam's office.
"You just told me you don't feel well. And honestly Zo, you don't look that great either."
"I'm fine." She said pointedly, "Just tired from the trip I guess. It was a long drive." She said as an excuse, while trying to hold back the nausea she could feel building in her stomach. "I'm just gonna go to the bathroom real quick and I will meet you in your office." Without waiting for an answer she bolted into the bathroom and promptly emptied the contents of her stomach into the toilet. After a minute or so she stood up and walked to the sinks, not noticing the blonde woman watching her.
"You alright?" she asked, startling Zoey.
"Oh, um, yeah. Yeah I'm fine. Sorry, I didn't realize anyone was in here."
"Are you someone's patient?"
"No. I'm Zoey Montgomery-Shepard." She said, holding her hand out to shake.
"Charlotte King. So your Addison's daughter? I didn't know she had a kid."
"Yeah, apparently no one else did either," she said resentfully.
"Are you sure you're ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, really. I must have just had some bad sushi at lunch today is all. I gotta go though, Sam is waiting for me. It was nice meeting you Dr. King," she quickly walked out of the room and back to Sam's office
"There you are. I thought you had fallen in or something."
"Nope. Just ran into Dr. King and we were kinda talking is all. No big." The two talked for a while before Addison came in to take her home.
"Do you want to get take out for dinner?" Addison asked.
"You mean because you don't want to try cooking twice in the same day?" Zoey asked light heartedly.
"Exactly," she paused for a second, then continued, "Look, I'm sorry that I freaked out earlier about the whole belly button thing. I just saw it there and I over reacted. I didn't want to fight with you about it."
"I know mom, I'm sorry too."
"Will you please tell me how you got it though? It's been driving me crazy."
"You have to promise not to get mad though," Addison nodded, "Ok, well Meredith took me to get it done."
"Meredith? As in Meredith Grey?" It was Zoeys turn to nod now "Why would your father's sort-of wife take you to get your belly button pierced?"
"Because I asked. I had asked dad, but he said no, and we had this ginormous fight about it, and I told him that I was gonna get it done at some seedy infected place where I didn't need adult permission. And so Meredith offered to take me to get it done at a clean place where I wouldn't get a STD just from walking in the store and we kinda never told dad…" Zoey had said most of this without taking a breath and paused, then quickly said, "Please don't tell him!"
"I'm not going to keep secrets from your father Zoey."
"You had no problem keeping secrets before we left New York," Zoey shot coldly.
"That's not fair. YOU are not allowed to use that as a weapon when we fight. Go upstairs, I'm going to order Thai" Addison said as they climbed out of the car.
"I hate Thai food!" Zoey rushed into the house, taking care to slam the door behind her, and ran upstairs. Leaving Addison standing alone in the dark.