(I decided to repost these last four chapter, they were bad so.)
A/N: You'll get a little love from are minor characters in the next four parts (To help any confusion: the party was on Friday and these next parts will take over the course of Saturday and Sunday much like JJ's and Naomi's past parts and I'll let you know which day the chapter will take place.)Thanks to everybody who leaves reviews and for those who just look =)
Chapter Fourteen: Fathers II (Gina's POV)
Saturday at 4:35 PM
Once Gina Campbell was able to get a wasted Naomi up the stairs, and once Gina was able to get Naomi to settle down enough to pass out, and once Gina closed the door to her daughter's room and made her way down the stairs toward the kitchen: she knew what she had to do. It was time Gina thought as she stalled in the kitchen doorway it was time for her to call Naomi's father.
Gina didn't know what else to do; she was at the end of her rope. Naomi was spiraling out of control: Coming home high or drunk, disrespecting her mother by bringing girls home to have noisy sex (Gina didn't need to know those things about her child), getting sent to jail with a DUI, and the worst was that sometimes Naomi wouldn't come home at all and Gina couldn't stand any of it anymore especially after what happened today with Naomi nearly killing herself with all the drugs and alcohol she had consumed last night at that party!And what made all this reckless behavior worse was that it had nothing to do with Gina at all.
If it had, Gina would be better equipped to figure out a way to fix it but it wasn't all her mistakes driving Naomi to such great lengths to forget the past: it was because Patrick had left home. Thinking back, Gina supposed it started about two years before Patrick had packed his bags; One day Naomi had been the sweet doe-eyed girl with a passion for justice and then the next she became a nasty sarcastic (She hated calling her daughter this) bitch; it was like almost overnight she had become distant and sullen; snapping at everyone and drawling deeper into herself. A part of Gina blamed herself for her daughter's descent into drugs and alcohol for not seeing what had been happening; for not seeing what Patrick had been doing to Naomi by making her keep his affair a secret. How could she have been so blind as to not have known her husband was having an affair?
It wasn't all Patrick's fault because even after Gina had found out and Patrick had left, she probably had done more damage to Naomi by going into a deep depression and she couldn't help thinking that somehow she had done something far more worst than Patrick having an affair by not been there for her daughter when she needed her the most. It wasn't that Gina didn't know that she very well may be betraying her daughter's trust (which had took her forever to gain back) by making this call but it needed to be done. Gina was sure of it now because some mistakes needed to be fixed and it had to begin with Patrick. Gina walked the rest of the way into the kitchen and picked up her phone with trembling hands, she scrolled through her contacts list for the number she wanted and once she reached it, she took a deep breath and pushed the call button on the bottom left side.
Gina hadn't been aware she had been holding her breath until he picked up on the fourth ring. "Gina?" Patrick's smooth Australian voice sounded, he seemed confused as well as happy to hear from her.
"Patrick, I think it's time." Gina said unevenly before she added, "I think it's time for you to tell Naomi your back in Bristol." Gina was so scared that her hands were shaking; the realization that she was risking losing her daughter on the stake that Naomi needed her father was almost too great. She knew Naomi needed to find some way to heal and put the past behind her but Gina was more afraid that if this wasn't done now when there was still time that Naomi would someday wake up: alone and extremely bitter and what mother wanted that for their only child? There was only silence on the other end and for a minute Gina felt relief and fear that Patrick may be backing out of their deal but then he said nervously, "Are you sure?"
Gripping the phone tight, Gina said, "I'm sure." But that was a lie, she wasn't anywhere near sure that seeing Patrick would help Naomi but she was sure that Naomi needed to understand a few things and a few seconds later she said as much, "Naomi needs her father, Patrick. She needs to know the whole truth." Gina may be sure of that fact but she couldn't shake the feeling of dread that she had somehow just made the wrong dissuasion by calling Patrick.