A Life Completed (Hard Time Series Book 5)

An Update

LENA POV

"Engaged?" I say rather confused to my wife as she just dropped the bombshell about Callie, well another bombshell since it seemed like every week it was something different with her. " But, to who?" I whisper since Baby Stef is outside with her friend Tasha doing homework as Stef rolls her eyes at me.

"That fucking piece of shit she's been living with across town. The one who showed up at Baby Stef school with her. Him." She says chopping a tomato while we are trying to get dinner done. All I can do is rub my forehead as I feel the agitation in my wife's body spilling over

"Well, I mean under normal circumstances this wouldn't be the case. We know this and this illness is really killing her Stef. I mean you know this is not her? It just...

"It's not just that Lena. She is completely off her meds, and she's doing drugs. Not like we didn't fucking know but it's fucking evident to Jude because he's been meeting her the past two weeks for lunch to make sure she eats."

"Oh, he has?"

"Yup. And every time he sees her, shes fucking high off whatever the fuck she uses and um"....she trails of as I put my spoon down and looking toward the back door seeing Baby Stef and Tasha laughing and joking. 

"And what?" I ask as I grab her hand and she looks right into my eyes, clearly finding it hard to tell me what she needs to. "What is it baby? What?" I sooth as she looks back into my eyes.

"He saw track marks up her arm."

"OH lord."

" And he said she showed him a photo of her first sonogram, and she's three months along." She whispers as my heart continues to feel heavy. "So not only is she killing herself but she's killing her baby, and I don't know Lena. This is some shit. I mean all the shit Frankie did as a teenager I'd take any day over this. Those were just dumb ass impulsive mistakes, that she learned from, same with Jude, and Noah, but this. This shit is something else babe."

"I know it is. I know honey and I was really hoping she wasn't pregnant. I was."

"Well that dream died, now didn't it?" She says tossing the tomatoes in the salad bowl." She's dirty, smells like shit and is a just a fucking junkie whore."

"She's sick love. I mean, I'm not happy that she showed up at Baby Stefs school and treating her the way she did but, nor do I like how she is speaking to you." I continue to whisper as my wife shakes her head. "It's just sad to well hear you refer to her as that."

"A junkie whore? But it's the truth Len. Even if she gets fucking help will she ever be who she was?"

"It is possible, sure. We have to think positively for the kids."

"I know it and I plan to, but we have to be realistic abotu this shit too babe. But getting high while pregnant, none of this shit had happened if she just had taken her fucking medicine Lena like she was. She was doing better before school started, at least I fucking thought."

"Well yes and no. She just unfortunately won't stick to her treatment, and well...what else did Jude say?" I continue to whisper as Stef leans her back against the counter looking outside at Baby Stef.

"Well, he's trying to get her to let him take her to her next appointment. Jude was always someone Callie felt comfortable with.  But again this is not his fucking job Len."

"I know that, but if you or I try to step foot in her place it's not going to go well, and she may end up leaving."

"Well, that's the thing. She told him they are moving to Florida in an RV with this Chuckie she's with, in the Keys, living off the land with her new baby, Andrew and maybe Baby Stef." She laughs rather awkwardly as I rub my forehead again for this just continued to get worse and worse. "She's not taking any of them anywhere. I don't care what I have to do."