Nine Lives by Erin Lee

Author:Erin Lee [Lee, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01AWYCJ34
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Flesh And Blood

Heather

Something needs to be done. This can’t keep happening. Laina and Faith are worried about themselves, but they don’t realize how many other lives are being impacted by their selfishness. Jeremiah is getting angrier and angrier. Today, he hit me when I took away his ear buds. He told me he hated me. I wanted to hug him and tell him he was hating the wrong person. I wanted to tell him to hate his sisters. Instead, I made him a snack. He’s still not speaking to me. I have no idea what to do. I know he wants Tom. I know he can’t understand why his father isn’t home with us, or coaching his teams. I’d ask Joseph to help, but he has a family of his own. He might do it, though. I don’t know. I’m not sure how long I’m supposed to play Mom/Dad here, but it’s getting old.

Behavioral issues are nothing compared to what’s going on with Hope. I shouldn’t have used her as my therapist. I need to get one of my own. I feel like I’m responsible for her miscarriage. If she weren’t under so much stress, she might still be pregnant. There’s no way to make it up to her. I want to be there, to hug her, to tell her it will all be okay. But I know there’s nothing I can say to make her pain go away.

I met Jada for dinner last night in Vermont, a rare chance to get away. Laina was all too eager to babysit Mary and Jeremiah. Noelle was supposed to watch them but her car wouldn’t start. Laina will never tell that I left them home alone. I found Tyler’s baseball hat on my couch. Now I know why she was so agreeable. It’s always some motive with her.

At dinner, Jada told me something that has me worried. She said Faith told her that she’s been visiting Sadie. She said that Sadie picks her up from the library, where she’s supposed to be studying. She goes to Sadie and Slash’s house. One time, she told Jada, Slash tried to kiss her. Imagine that? A thirty-four-year-old making a move on a fourteen-year-old? Does twenty years mean nothing? I asked Jada if Sadie knew. She said she did and made excuses for him. Tell me what twentysomething is okay with their boyfriend hitting on their fourteen-year-old sister? She’s just as bad as Laina.

I don’t know where these girls came from. How are they my flesh and blood? How could Tom and I have done everything right with Hope, Jada, Joseph and Noelle and then gone so horribly wrong starting with Sadie and trickling down to Laina and Faith? What if Mary’s next? Or could it also happen with Jeremiah? When this all first began, and I was trying to explain that Tom would never do the things he was accused of, a social worker asked me “why would the girls suddenly have all these

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