Beneath the Lies: A Second Chance Romance by Célia Pereira

Author:Célia Pereira [Pereira, Célia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-19T18:30:00+00:00

Nineteen

Ashton

Three weeks later

Things were pretty much back to how they were when I was ten years old. I still can’t understand how this got so bad so damn quick.

Dad ended up calling mom’s therapist and asked if she had been going to her sessions, and the therapist stated that mom had been missing her appointments for almost a month now. He was upset and demanded to know why no one had called to notify him, since he was her husband. The response was something about confidentiality and that they would only reach out to the next of kin if they felt mom was a threat to herself or others.

Isn’t that just a fucking joke. Her not attending her therapy sessions has made her a damn threat to herself. My mom’s prescription was on an ongoing refill and dad would just stop by the pharmacy and pick it up. It looked like mom was taking them since the bottles would be empty when he would check. I guess she was pulling a fast one and either hiding her medication when she would take it in front of us, or toss it when she was alone so we would never figure it out.

To add to this cluster fuck, mom had started drinking. Well, isn’t that just the fucking cherry on top, mixing alcohol with mood episodes!

Dad stopped buying alcohol after the second time I showed up after school, and mom was passed out in the living room. But somehow, she still found ways to get it. It wasn’t until about a week ago that my parents got into it and dad took her debit card and any cash she had in her purse. Mom screamed and called him all kinds of nasty names. She even started hitting him and saying he was the reason she was sick.

I tried talking to mom, when she seemed to be herself, but when I would ask her to go back to the therapist and take her meds, she would just burst out crying. That’s all mom has been doing these last few days. Crying. I’m not sure if I would rather deal with her screaming drunk fits, or have her crying all the time.

I don’t know what to do or how to help her. Daddy says that the only way to help mom is if she wants to get help. We can’t force her to go. But what if she tries to hurt herself again? What if while I’m at school or dad’s at work, she does something horrible?

I asked Aunt Terri if she would check on my mom while I was at school. I gave her my key and told her to go over every hour or so. She agreed, and so far, Aunt Terri says that mom seems fine when she is there.

Today is Hunter’s basketball game, and the first time in a while that I will be going out after school. I don’t know if I’m afraid, anxious, or paranoid. I hate leaving my dad alone with mom.

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