The Secret - Camren

Part 10

When we get home, I put my half asleep sister to bed.

"Lauren?" she said as I was leaving her room.

"Yeah sweetie?" I questioned the younger one.

"Were you and Camila on a date?" she said her voice almost a whisper.

"Yeah it was but you can't tell Sofia okay?" I answered her.

"Why?" my little sister continued.

"I don't know Tay, it's a mystery" I answered honestly. I looked at her sadly. Her eyes could barely stay open. She probably wouldn't remember this in the morning.

"Just like their parents?" she asked.

"Just like their parents" I said in reply.

"I wish they would tell us" she mumbled barely audible.

"I wish so to sweetie, I do too" I replied as I closed her door behind me.

I went to bed after that. I had an appointment door an evaluation with my mom on Monday that I was completely dreading.

***

Monday went by in a flash. Camila and I held hands under our desks in English. The whole class was excited because we were choosing room partners. I ended up with Camila, no surprise there, and these two other girls I had never talked to Maia and Kelsey.

At lunch I headed home to get my mom before heading to her new doctor's office. Getting her in the car was extremely difficult. She was worse than a scared puppy and a tantrum-ing two year old but once I got her in the car all went surprisingly well. I went in to meet her doctor, and then I read old magazines in the waiting room for about three hours before the doctor called me into his office.

He explained that my mother was in a major depressive episode with hallucinations (DUH!) because her brain was unable to cope with the loss of my father. Then he praised me for all I was doing for my mom by taking care of my siblings but that having to deal with my mother's episodes and tendency towards alcohol was going to cause me, my mom and my siblings, especially Taylor, harm.

He decided that she needed some in-patient treatment at a short term facility. She could get in as early as tomorrow and would leave when the doctors thought she was ready to be an out-patient. I agreed to do whatever it took to get her back to being my mom.

After the meeting the receptionist gave me five documents; a doctor's note for my absence, a letter for my sister's principle explaining that my mom was getting the help she needed and to allow me to sign for my sister as her guardian for the time being, a letter to my principle explaining that I should be allowed to sign in the place of a parent/guardian for myself id the occasion arose, information on the facility my mom would be going to and my mom's admittance note.

We went to pick up the kids after and I dropped off the note. Then we all went home before I headed to work.

I was working every night this week to make up for missing three day's next week and it was really going to be ruff

***

Finally it was Sunday and I would be leaving doe our school trip tomorrow. The past week, after dropping off my mom, consisted of school and work and I was completely beat. I barely had anytime with Camila other than at school and we couldn't act as cuddly as I would have liked. Sure we held hands under our desks and we joked around with paint in art class but it wasn't the same. I wish we could be more open about what I hoped was becoming a relationship, but I understood neither of us was ready.

All the girls were coming over tonight. Ally and Mani would stay until Thursday morning and Camila was coming over because she was driving us to school so early in the morning.