Between Enemy Lines

Between Enemy Lines (Chapter 30)

Between Enemy Lines

Chapter Thirty

Eliza was having a full blown panic attack, she locked herself in the bathroom and had a breakdown. Everything just seemed to be getting worse for her. She found out that the man she had been staying with had killed a man. She wanted time alone to think, then her ex was trying his hardest to get her back which only confused and stressed her out even more. Dean and Bray hated each other even before either of them met her, so she wasn't surprised that they started fighting. She really should have known that she would get hurt trying to break up the fight, but she didn't expect what would happen next. Social Services came and took Noah. After that, Eliza couldn't take it anymore and broke down. Bray and Becky wished that there was something they could do to help, but Eliza locked herself in the bathroom. She couldn't be around anyone right now, there wasn't really anything anyone could do to help.

She wasn't sure if it was because she was so upset that she threw up, but she had also secretly bought a pregnancy test. She didn't think about it at the time, but her and Bray didn't use protection when they had sex. She waited for the results and was shocked and even more stressed out when the results showed up as positive. It was just a store bought test and she wasn't sure that she should believe it. She wanted to go to a doctor to find out for sure. She wasn't sure she could face Bray anymore. One thing that stuck with her was something the Social Services worker said. He said that she was more concerned about finding a man than taking care of Noah. Eliza had always worked hard for Noah, but she had been hoping for a relationships that would last. She wondered if she would have avoided Dean and Bray if she would still have Noah. Dean had never really liked Noah, she should have realized that things wouldn't work out with Dean. He should have known that if he wanted to be with her, Noah was part of the package.

Bray had always been so sweet to her and Noah. He had helped out with Noah, and Noah had even said he considered Bray to be his dad. Bray was there for her when she needed him. He drive for several hours just to pick her up when he car wouldn't start. He moved her out of her trailer, it held many painful memories and she was glad to get away from it, but she never expected that he would let her and Noah move in with him. She had found out that Bray had lost someone that he cared about and he was an emotional mess, now she had found out that he had killed someone. She wondered if the two events were connected. She had never willingly had sex with anyone but Bray, she had grown closer to him than anyone. She felt at her eye, it still hurt from when Bray hit her. She knew he didn't mean to hit her, she was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. She still didn't want to believe that she could be pregnant, she wanted to find out from a doctor for sure.

She broke down in tears, if she was pregnant, she just couldn't bare the thought of losing another child. She didn't know what to do. She wasn't sure if she could face Bray. Even though she found out that he killed someone, that doesn't mean she didn't still have feelings for him. She was just afraid of how he would react if she told him. She cried knowing that she would either have to take care of this baby alone, or Social Services would take this baby away just like they did Noah. Eliza was completely heartbroken that Noah was gone. He was her whole reason for living. She didn't have family she could turn to. The family she had met when she was younger had their noses in the air. She didn't live up to their expectations. She never even knew her father, and her mother had passed away. Before she lived in her trailer, she would live in her car. She couldn't go back to Bray's home, she didn't have her trailer or even her car to stay in anymore.

Eliza would sometimes take medication for her depression, but she had ran out of pills. She felt like a failure at life and couldn't take it anymore. She had always dreamed of what it would be like to be happily married in a loving relationship with a loving family, but that's all they were, dreams. It was clear to her now that she would never have that life. She had always struggled and she always would struggle, life for her had been nothing but pain. She just wanted the pain to go away. She couldn't talk to anyone, losing Noah was her breaking point. She knew exactly what she was going to do. She just didn't care anymore. She unlocked the door to the bathroom and quickly exited the building. She wanted to avoid people if at all possible, but she ran into Becky on the way out. Becky came up and hugged her.