Mommy Dearest *Completed but Not Edited*

Chapter 24

Jaida: 

I stared at the phone in confusion, why would she be calling me? I felt Cam's stare on me and I stiffened, if I didn't answer no doubt about it she would call again, "Uh Cam I'm gonna go answer this in your room," I told him walking towards his room before he had a chance to answer. 

"Hello," I answered as normal and as calm as I could manage. 

"Jaida!! How are you dear?"  

She sounded happy, normal, so that rules out any emergency, "Mother, I'm fine. How are you?" 

"Just fine dear. How's your life? You've got yourself a decent job?" Things were getting weird, why would she act like she cared. Deciding to keep playing along, hopefully she'll get to the point of it all.

"Things have been a little hectic with Bella but I'm looking for another job and I'm still waitressing at the diner, the pay is good enough for now." 

"Oh you still have that child with you." I narrowed my eyes even though she couldn't see me, I didn't miss the sneer in her voice when she said 'that child.' 

"That child, is my daughter mother! Of course I still have her. She may not be mine in the biological sense but she is mine in every other sense." 

"Well I just assumed you would come to your senses as you call it when you see how hard it is to raise a child especially when you're not prepared for one," she said getting defensive. 

"I know it's hard mom but that doesn't mean I'm giving her up, if I didn't do it then I'm sure as hell not doing it now! You have some damn nerve calling me after three years to criticize me on the choices I've made instead of supporting me like parents are suppose to!" I snapped at her. How dare she call me after three years when I needed her the most to insult me, like I'm some incompetent idiot. 

"Your father and I have always supported your choices, we just decided that this time we'll let you handle the consequences on your own," she answered back in a snippy tone. 

I felt myself bristling at her tone, "You completely cut me out of your life and you expect me to be happy when you finally decided to contact me! and just accept you back into my life! Get real mother I grew up! I had responsibilities that I did with no help from you or any other member of my supposed family. I have even more responsibilities that I'm handling without you so if you think I need your help now then woman you are sadly mistaken and downright crazy!" 

I was fuming! How dare she call me and expect me to come crawling back to her after three damn years! I was hurt, I had to watch all my friends from university embrace their parents after graduation, I didn't get that. I never had my parents support. I never had them pushing me to do my best and I had missed it. Deep down inside of me there was a longing, a yearning to finally have that. 

"Jaida Williams do not talk to me like that, I am your mother and I deserve to be spoken to with respect!" 

"Yea well mother, you haven't been much of that in the past three years now have you," I told her, my voice getting thick, as past feelings came flooding back to me. 

"I did it for your own good," she told me, weakly trying to defend herself. 

"You refused to come to my own graduation mom, that's how low you stooped. So don't give me that it was for my own good crap." 

"Well I didn't call to apologize for what I thought, no what I knew was right." 

"Of course not, I would never expect that from you, so why did you call?" I was glad we were finally getting to the point of this conversation.