We Always Find Our Way Back Home

Chapter 14

Today Elliot is coming on set for our live taping. I have been on set all day. I am going to pick him up from Bradley's house in a half an hour and then we are coming back for the show.

Just as I was going into my dressing room to get my stuff Elliot FaceTimes me.

"Hi buddy" I say when I answer. I look at he was crying.

"Hi mommy" He says and sounded really upset.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"Daddy won't let me come and it's not fair." He says.

"Why won't he let you come?" I ask.

"I don't know. He didn't say" He says. "It's not fair. I did all my homework at school with my teacher during recess and I already took a shower so I don't have to when I get home and..." He says in between sobs. He couldn't even finish his sentence. I wanted nothing more then to just hug him and squeeze him and tell him everything is going to be alright. "You're still going to come get me right?" He asks.

"Yeah Elliot. I am. I'll be there in fifteen minutes" I say. Originally I was gonna leave in a half an hour but now I am leaving now.

On my way there I called Sarah and asked her to come to set. I have a feeling Elliot is going to want to be held all night.

I arrive at Bradley's house and look at it. I still can't believe we co owned this together way back in the day. I get out of the car and knock on the door.

"He isn't going" Bradley says when he opens the door.

"Why not Bradley? What's the excuse this time?" I am getting more and more angry by the second.

"He has school in the morning" He says.

"Give me a break. I said I would have him home by nine o'clock and his bedtime is nine thirty. It's not like I am keeping him out past twelve" I say

"Sabrina, I said he is not going and that is that" Bradley says.

Just as she says that Elliot comes running out with tears in his eyes. He runs to me and hugs me. I pick him up.

"Let him go and have fun. You can't keep him cooped up here all day everyday" I hear Bradley's girlfriend yell from inside.

Bradley rolls his eyes. "Fine he can go. He better not be home later then nine" He says.

"We won't be. See you later" I say.

"Bye Buddy" Bradley says to Elliot.

"I'm not your buddy today" Elliot says.

Bradley just shrugs his shoulders and closes the door. I carry Elliot to my car. I sat in the back seat with him for a couple minutes.

"Are you ok?" I ask him.

"Yeah" He says but sill sounded really sad.

"I promise everything will be ok and we will have fun tonight" I say.

"Ok" He says and smiles a little bit.

I give him a kiss on the cheek and then get into the drivers seat.

I drive to the set and he was pretty quiet.

"We're gonna have a lot of fun tonight" I say to him to try and get his mind off things. I didn't get a answer. I look in the mirror and he just shrugs his shoulders.

I pull into the lot and Sarah was already there. She was sitting in her car waiting for us. I pulled into the empty spot next to her. She waved. Elliot waved back.

I got out of the car and she does too.

"What happened?" She asks.

"Bradley wouldn't let Elliot come and he got all upset about it." I say.

"How is he here now?" She asks.

"I had to go to the house and argue with him a little bit. The girlfriend was the one to say let him go and he listened" I say.

"Maybe you need to get closer to the girlfriend" She says.

"Maybe" I say and shrug my shoulders.

I go and get Elliot out of the car.

"Hi buddy" Sarah says to him.

"Hi aunt Sarah" He says.

She gives him a hug. "We are going to have a lot of fun tonight" Sarah says.

"I know" He says.

We went on to the set and the fans were already starting to to arrive. They were very excited to see me with Elliot.

He sat with Sarah the entire time and watched while we filmed the episode. I would look at them every few minutes and he looked better then before. That lasted about a hour and a half. Once it was over we did the curtain call. Elliot came running over to me once it was ok.

"Hi buddy" I say and give him a hug.

"Hi" He says back.

"Did you like the show?" I ask.

"Yeah. You said a bad word" He says.

I laugh. "I know. Sometimes we have to" I say. There is a little bit of cursing in the show. Not a lot but it makes it funny.

I could tell he got a lot happier from before.

About a half an hour later we started meeting the fans. Elliot came with me. He was very into it. We both stood on the box to the audience stand. He liked meeting fans and they liked meeting him. We took pictures with them. I signed autographs and Elliot did too a little bit. It was cute. That didn't last long.

Once it was done we went back to my dressing room. I need to get my stuff and clean it up a little bit.

"Can I sleepover tonight?" Elliot asks as he was sitting on the couch watching tv.

"I don't think so buddy. You have school in the morning and I have work" I say.

"Ok" He says.

"Maybe you can sleepover this weekend again" I say.

"Yeah. I want to do that" He says.

"Ok. I will definitely make it happen" I say.

"Ok" He says.

At eight thirty we leave and go to Bradley's house. We got there earlier then nine like Bradley said.

I walk him to the front door and say bye and give him a hug and kiss. Elliot just walks in and that was it.

The second I get into my car I call Sarah.

"Any more drama?" She asks when she answers.

"Nope but we're gonna start some. We are going to get full custody" I say.

Sarah practically screamed and said "It's about time"