Week 42 - Truth: What do you have to lose?
She didn't sleep on the plane and she really should have because by the time they touched down in Milwaukee Lauren was exhausted. They still had to get a hotel room and talk to her mother before she even considered sleep.
Finding a hotel turned out to be a fucking ordeal but tracking her mom's phone number and address down proved to be pretty easy. Her and Barry were right there in the phone book. There was even a nice little picture of Barry in there thanks to an ad for Barry's furniture store. It was probably because of her suspicions of abuse but the guy just looked shady. He probably even sold faulty or damaged furniture.
The whole way to the hotel Lauren stared at her cell's display screen and her mother's number that was already dialed. All she had to do was press talk. She was just having a little trouble pushing that button. The worst she could say was no, right? She'd gone her whole life without the woman. If she refused to see her or told her to leave she hadn't really lost anything.
It was a good argument but ever since Joe told her about her mother there was this little nugget of hope inside her. It wasn't loud. It just sat there with great big Puss in boots eyes. She had Andy and Andy's family. They treated her like one of their own almost from the start but this woman shared her blood. She knew her dad in a way that Lauren could never know. She wasn't there during the years Lauren grew up but she was there for the start. The summer before when Elizabeth Stevenson-Allen showed up at her house in Baltimore, Lauren was so lost and lonely she longed to have some sort of connection. She was hesitant though, protecting herself and it proved necessary when Lizzie begged her to never contact her family and revealed that her children didn't know about her. Lauren kicked her ass out and they hadn't spoken again since. The plan was to never talk to her again. She didn't even want to talk about her. Her mother was dead.
Just getting on the plane changed everything but hitting that button and talking solidified it. In some ways she had nothing at all to lose but in others she had everything. She could feel Andy watching her as this internal debate took place though he was silent. It was her decision, right or wrong.
With a quick glance to her husband, her thumb hit the call button and it started to ring. She was confident the first ring. Less confident by the second. But by the third she was about to hang up when a soft spoken voice came on the line.
"Hello?"
Lauren (Order) Longbottom
Original Character
463 Words
Finding a hotel turned out to be a fucking ordeal but tracking her mom's phone number and address down proved to be pretty easy. Her and Barry were right there in the phone book. There was even a nice little picture of Barry in there thanks to an ad for Barry's furniture store. It was probably because of her suspicions of abuse but the guy just looked shady. He probably even sold faulty or damaged furniture.
The whole way to the hotel Lauren stared at her cell's display screen and her mother's number that was already dialed. All she had to do was press talk. She was just having a little trouble pushing that button. The worst she could say was no, right? She'd gone her whole life without the woman. If she refused to see her or told her to leave she hadn't really lost anything.
It was a good argument but ever since Joe told her about her mother there was this little nugget of hope inside her. It wasn't loud. It just sat there with great big Puss in boots eyes. She had Andy and Andy's family. They treated her like one of their own almost from the start but this woman shared her blood. She knew her dad in a way that Lauren could never know. She wasn't there during the years Lauren grew up but she was there for the start. The summer before when Elizabeth Stevenson-Allen showed up at her house in Baltimore, Lauren was so lost and lonely she longed to have some sort of connection. She was hesitant though, protecting herself and it proved necessary when Lizzie begged her to never contact her family and revealed that her children didn't know about her. Lauren kicked her ass out and they hadn't spoken again since. The plan was to never talk to her again. She didn't even want to talk about her. Her mother was dead.
Just getting on the plane changed everything but hitting that button and talking solidified it. In some ways she had nothing at all to lose but in others she had everything. She could feel Andy watching her as this internal debate took place though he was silent. It was her decision, right or wrong.
With a quick glance to her husband, her thumb hit the call button and it started to ring. She was confident the first ring. Less confident by the second. But by the third she was about to hang up when a soft spoken voice came on the line.
"Hello?"
Lauren (Order) Longbottom
Original Character
463 Words