Rough Waters by C.E.F. (novel24 .txt) 📕

to come back in to not seem rood. At the time we didn't care if we were rood or not, he scooted us off the couch. But we listened to her and went back. A few weeks went by and he brought two old cars over and mom let him keep them in the driveway. After about 3 weeks this women comes to our front door and starts screaming at my mother. Me, being the nosy one of the house, goes to the front door and stands next to mom. The lady screaming at my mother was the man's wife. Mom was just standing there taking what the lady had to say. I can't stand people yelling at my mother so I said something after the lady did. She said I was a lovely young girl and didn't want to turn out like them. She probably meant screaming over a man. I said, What a slut like you? She shut up after that. I told her I was calling the cops for harassment and she said fine go ahead, she was calling them too I guess. I'm not sure why though because she

was causing the problems at my

house. Well after the cops were called there were about 3 or 4 cops total at my house. That had to look bad. I honestly didn't care as long as she was gone and didn't come back. The cops made the Ron (the man) take the cars out of our driveway and told Melinda (the crazy lady) to stay away from our house. From that day on she drove by our house at least 3 times a day. My mom told me that I was aloud to call the cops on her if she came on our property or if she didn't stop driving by us all the time. When mom was at work one day Malinda came to the house thinking no one was home. I ran out the door at her and told her to stay away from my house and mother and if she didn't I would make her life a living hell and would call the cops again. She looked at me and drove off. I never saw her around my house or mother again. For a 14 year old I guess I was very intimidating. Now that I look back on that day it makes me laugh. After all that, Ron stopped coming around. Soon after, they broke up. I was kinda happy they broke up. I didn't like him much. When they were dating and she wouldn't answer his calls, he would call my phone and go back and forth like that. I hated it. I hate the cops but that was the month I called the cops at least 5 times. He was a very controlling person to date. He wasn't any good for my mom. Sometimes I feel like my moms protector. Looking back on it I guess I was her protector. That was the craziest birthday month I've had. In November Jim was sent to rehab for the sixth time. This time it was a rehab center in West Virginia. I stopped feeling bad for him after his second time. Why should I feel bad for him if hes gonna keep doing it? Well anyways, as all this was going on my papa (my mom's dad) was dating this woman named Nancy. I met her and she seemed ok to me but kinda fake. I can usually tell if someone is fake by listening to them talk or watching them interact with people. When she said hi to me and my mom I could tell something wasn't right. But anyways, she started taking me to church with her. At first I didn't like it very much but after awhile I got used to it. Still to this day I go. After I started going regularly I met people and talked with them. My favorite people to talk with were Silvia and Sarah. Silvia was married to Ferd and is still in her 60's. She was the sweetest person. Sarah was and is in her 20's. When I first came to the church she was pregnant. She was really sweet too. After the baby was born I used to go in the nursery with her and but baby Charlie to sleep. I loved it so much, he was and is adorable. Well after about 2 months of Nancy driving me back and forth from home to church and back she started complaining. So I found this lady Jane at the church. She is the most giving person I know. She lived about a mile away from me and offered to drive me every Sunday back and forth. She still does it to this day. We have a community meal at my church. Its every 4th Sunday of the month. I've been doing that for about 2 and a half years now. I love it. it makes me feel good to know that I fed someone that needed to be. And most of the time I out a smile on their face, all you have to do is smile and show you care. We cook the food, serve it, then clean up. Most people are shocked to find out how young I am and volunteering to do it willingly. But most people doesn't know how it feels to help somebody. I have the privilege to know that feeling. Well anyways, Jim got fired from his job. He was smoking pot and had to take a random drug test and he got in trouble. When I found out I just laughed. I knew he would have to get caught sometime. And I didn't feel bad for him because he did it to himself. He soon went to rehab again. Not a surprise I know. I loved it when he went to rehab. I felt so free, like a bird. I never wanted him to come back again but sadly he always did. When he came back he was always in a bad mood but only with me. What a surprise.....NOT! I didn't know why he it was with me, its not like I made him smoke the weed.So he had no reason to be mad at me. Soon after he moved out again he told us everything. He blamed me and my mom for him smoking pot and stuff. He blamed me and mom for him always going to bars or some other place to shoot pool or play poker so he can gamble. We didn't understand how WE made him go do that stuff. But now I understand that WE didn't. It was just his stupid excuse so he wouldn't seem stupid. Oh well, guess that didn't work very well. Some people say I have a good attitude for all the stuff that I've been through. I just think of the stuff that happened to me as a test. Everything happens for a reason. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. That's how I see things. Some people say I'm crazy for what I think, well I really don't care what they think. It works for me so I'm gonna keep it that way. While he was in rehab again mom was talking to me about divorcing him. I thought it was a good idea but she made some good points against it. One was we couldn't afford it. another was Savanna and Conrad would be vary sad. I think that was all that she came up with. So I had to come up with points with divorcing him. I said that if she did me and her would be safe. We wouldn't get hurt by him anymore. We wouldn't have to buy as much food as we had to, because he wouldn't eat it all. I told her we could do it. I knew we could do it. That day I looked in the phone book for lawyers. I called this one lawyer that has worked with families and saw that she didn't cost that much. So I gave her a call. She seemed very nice and understanding so I took down her cell phone number and said I would try to get my mom to call her. When I said that she asked how old I was. I told her my age, and at the time I was 14. She said I was very smart for calling her and trying to help my mom. Later that day while I was doing the dishes mom was on the phone. She got off and looked confused. I asked her what happened and she said that the lawyer is gonna do it, but she also told me something that almost gave me a heart attack. Jim was coming home early. I could have died right then and there. He was supposed to come home in 4 weeks. But hes getting out 3 weeks early. That meant we had to get this process done quickly. She called the lawyer back and told her what was going on. She said she will have the papers in 2-3 days tops. We could breathe finally. A couple days later we got the papers in the mail. We were so happy! She told us we could pick someone to serve the papers to him or she could. We wanted to choose, so we chose my uncle Mike. He is from New York and hates Jim. That's why I chose him. Jim is afraid of Uncle Mike because he knows Mike could kill him. Uncle mike came in a few days after the papers came in and went to give them to Jim. I was smiling the whole time. Mostly because I was gonna get to see his face when he saw mike then him give Jim the papers. I was in the passengers seat and then we saw him. I told Mike that was him in the black. He said I know then got out of the car. I couldn't help it and I started busting out laughing. The look on his face when he saw my uncle come out of the car was priceless. Well to me it was. Mike handed him the papers and came back to the car. I looked at him and asked what happened. He said that once Jim saw him that he thought Jim was gonna pass out. I almost died of laughter when he said that. On the way home he took me to dinner and we talked. He told me that he knew what Jim did to mom and I. He said that hes never gonna do it to either of us again. I thought he meant he was gonna kill Jim, but he meant that Jim was gonna stay away from the house or he would kill him. After we finished he took me home. He stayed with us for about 2 months. That's how long it took Jim to get his stuff out of the house. Uncle mike has always been very protective over me since then. Each time I go to see him, he never lets me leave his sight unless I have my phone with him and he is near by. I think its nice, but it gets annoying sometimes.