TAKEN (Austin Mahone Fanfiction) UNDER MAJOR EDITING

Chapter 35

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**Austin's POV**

i hugged michaela tightly as she did to me. her touch made me feel alot better although i am very suspicious about how she found out about katelyn.

"you should probably go get some sleep so youre wide awake for that party tommorow." i say gently stoking her hair.

she pulls away and looks at me. she respomds to me by nodding her head.
i step out of the car and make my way to the passenger side and help her down.

i wrap my arm around her as i walk her to doorstep of her house.

when we're standing in front of the door she starts feeling around her pockets as if she forgot something.

"is everything ok?" i ask worried

"yeah, i guess i just forgot my keys, but its fine i think my mom is home."

"ill wait here till you go inside your house."

she looks at me and smiles "thank you, youre the best."
she tiptoes up and kisses my cheek, its one of the best feelings in the world when her lips touch my skin. she strangely gives me a different sensation that ive rarely felt in my life, i look back to about two weeks ago and who would of thought id be here, with her.

she knock and the door seconds later her mom opens the door. she shows a look of worry and relief.

"michaela hunny, i was worried about you." she hugs michaela tightly causing her to almost loose her breath.

"i was with Austin, he invited me to watch a movie."

she sighs in relief "well, im glad youre okay, i was getting really worried."
she then looks at me

"how have you been Austin?"

"ive been great, and yourself?"

"thats good to hear hun, im great now that i know that my daughter was with you and not out in the streets with who knows who."

i laugh at her worry "dont worry, as long as shes with me nothing will happen to her." i glance at michaela and flash her smile which she returns.

i redirect my attention to her mom and before i can say anything she hugs me, at that moment i feel weird but i hug her back after a few seconds. i look over at michaela and give her a 'whats going on?' look and she shrugs as she giggles.

her mom finally lets me go and i smile awkwardly

"my daughter is all i have and im glad to see youre treating her right." she almost cries

"ill always treat her right, dont worry about that." i brag

"and i cant thank you enough for that."

i get a warm feeling at how im being treated by michaela's mom. by what i hear she works her ass off to give michaela a good future and its pretty obvious that she unconditionally loves her and would do anything to keep her happy. Being a single mother she always puts michaela before herself.
i sure wish my mother would of been like that instead of an alcoholic whore!
i snap out of my thoughts and redirect my attention to the happy mother and daughter in front of me.

"well, i should probably get going now."

i give michaela a hug good bye and i hold back the urge to kiss her remembering that her mom is there. i then give her mom a hug goodnight.

"good night austin." they say in unison

i smile and start heading to my car.

When im inside my car i start thinking, not about michaela but about my mom, i wonder how shes doing, i havent seen her since that day that she left to go out to the bar and she never returned to stay. i was about 7.

****flashback****
i remember waiting for her until 2 am, she had promised that when she came home she would play with me, i was sitting on the living room floor with my crayons and coloring books all over the floor, i saved the power ranger coloring book for me and the scooby doo coloring book for mommy.

i remember being really hungry but when i got up to check the fridge all i saw everywhere were cans of a liquid that smelled funny, once i asked my mom what it was, she told me it was her medicine so i wasnt allowed to drink it. i had no luck finding something to eat so i just decided to wait for mommy hoping she would bring me back a kids meal when she got home. i looked over at the clock and it was 2 in the morning, its way past my bed time but i have to wait for mommy, she promised she would play with me.

i decide to get my toy cars to pass the time. i sit on the floor playing with my cars and then theres a knock on the door, i rush from the floor and open the door. its mommy, she looks different. shes talking funny and her breath smells like her medicine. is mommy sick? will she be ok? i hug her tightly and she pushes me aside.

"mommy are you ok?"

she looks mad. did i do something wrong? i dont want her to be mad at me. maybe shes mad that im up past my bedtime.

"austin!" she yells "go to your room to sleep."

"but you promised youd play with me." i pick up the coloring book from the floor and hand it to her
"look mommy, i saved the scooby doo coloring book just for you."

she doesnt look interested and she smacks the book from my hand.

"AUSTIN DID YOU NOT HEAR ME? STOP ANNOYING ME AND GO TO YOUR ROOM."

I dont get it, why is she mad at me? doesnt she like scooby doo? she can have the power rangers coloring book if she wants.

"do you wanna use the power rangers one instead, i dont mind coloring scooby doo."

she gets up from her couch and approaches me taking the book from my hand.

"did you not hear me? i said go to your room, i feel sick stop annoying me!" she threw the book along with the other one.

"but mommy, im hungry, i havent eaten anything."

she tugs at her hair and she looks like she wants to hit me
"I DONT CARE, GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE I SMACK YOU."

im scared, i dont want her to hit me, shes done it before and it really hurts.

i run upstairs and once i reach the top i hear another knock on the door.

i bend down and peek through the stairs, i sure hope mommy doesnt see me, she will be very angry. i stay as quiet as a mouse and watch.

mommy looks annoyed, she has a bottle in her hand and shes drinking as she opens the door.
A man in uniform stands at the door, i think hes a police officer. I like police officers, they always catch the bad guys.

i start thinking, did mommy do something bad? why is the police here?


"Mrs. Mahone?" he asks

i hear mommy laughing and she cant speak clearly. "uhh, yeah, what do you want."

"you are under arrest for driving intoxicated and causing the death of an innocent person."

What does that mean? death? is mommy gonna die!? i see the police putting some shiny metal things around my moms hands, i believe theyre called handcuffs.

he starts pulling mommy out and shes screaming that shes innocent, that she didnt do it.

where is he taking my mommy? i rush downstairs with tears in my eyes. i dont want him to take my mommy.

"mommy!!" i cry rushing to hug her, she looks down at me with no emotion like she doesnt care.

the police officer looks at me and pulls me away from her while his partner takes my mom inside the cop car. i cry for her but she doesnt care, she doesnt even look at me.

"hey little buddy whats your name?" he asks bending down to level his height to mine

with tears in my eyes i ask him "is my mommy in trouble, why are you taking her?"

he looks at me not knowing how to explain himself to a seven year old
"your mommy did a bad thing and she has to be punished for it."

"my mommy is a good person, why would she do something bad." i ask confused wiping the tears from my eyes

"tell me your name buddy."

"Austin."

"listen, austin your mom, she made a bad choice and with bad choices come punishments, thats where we come in, were gonna punish her so she'll never do it again." he smiles

"but what about me? is she mad at me? why didnt she tell me you were taking her away."

the officer gets up and i see the pain in his eyes not knowing how to explain to a kid that their alcoholic mom just killed someone and is now going to jail for years. he simply doesnt say anything. i still have so many questions about where mommy is going and when she'll be back but he doesnt say a word.

i follow the officer outside and i see mommy inside the car yelling at the other officer. she still doesnt look at me or gives me an explanation. the car drives off and i wait there with the other officer who tells me not to go back in my house.

"where am i going?" i ask

he says nothing and moments after i see a white car that says "child services" come to pick me up.

***end of flashback***

i am snapped out of my thought by my phone buzzing.

i look down and its a text from michaela

From: Michaela <3
i had a great time, i asked my mom and she said i could go to the party. good night, ill see you tommorow <3

i respond immediately

To: Michaela
thats great, good night princess <3

i then shut off my phone and drive home.

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