Life in L.A

Chapter One

I was walking down the street and I got a call from my grandmother

" Cindy, did you hear?" She said in a panicky voice.

"Hear what? What happened? "

" They took your mother away, she is at a mental hospital."

"What, why? What happened. Where is she? "

"At the Cools Road Mental Institution. Im in town now. Your mom is going crazy because of your father Cindy."

My father went missing a few months ago in January, the night before he was happy and was doing fine, until the next morning and he was gone. We called him, called his friends, his boss, nobody knew anything about where he was. My mother was panicking all the time. She went looking for him, called him. I guess finally she couldn't take it anymore and the thought of my dad not being here drove her insane.

" Cindy?"

"Huh, what sorry. Can you come pick me up ag my house, I'm walking there now."

"Of course, I will be there in twenty."

She hung up the phone and I started running as fast as i could to my house. When I got home I unlocked the door with my key and threw my bag on the couch kn the front room. I ran to my room and started to.scream! I was thinking about my mom, my dad, I might not ever see.him again, or my mom could never be herself again. I couldn't take it everything in. All of the sudden I heard a car pull up in my driveway, it wasn't my grandma, it was some blue Mustang convertable. I unlocked my door and a big man got out of the drivers seat, and a smaller skinny woman got out of the passengers side.

"Are you Cindy Lawson, Abbigal Lawson 's daughter? "

"Yes, who are you?"

"FBI, we have come to inform you that your mother is in -"

" A mental hospital. Yes I know."

My grandmother pulled up into my driveway next to the blue mustang. The women asked me " Who is that?"

"My grandmother. She is here to pick me up to go see my mom."

" Hello Cindy, and people I'm not sure I know." My grandma said as she was closing her car door.

" We are the FBI."

"Okay, and? " my grandma asked.

" Abbigal Lawson is in a-"

" Menatal hospital. Yes I know."

Our family is known for interupting people. Its just what we do.

" Well we have actually come to pick you up, Cindy." The big man said.

"What, no my grandmother is bringing me to see my mom. "

My grandma said " Come on Cindy."

I walked inside and grabbed my bag, then locked the door and got in the car with my grandma. We watched the FBI get in the car and drive away.

So did we.

" So.Cindy, since your mother in the institution you will have to live with me in L.A."