Song: Broken and Beautiful by Kelly Clarkson
"What...don't tell me that I am not getting out of here...and please don't send me back to that place."
She looks down and stands up to walk over to the window. I watch as she bites her bottom lip and I know she is trying not to cry. "Sophie...I never wanted you to be there. The judge makes the rules, not me. I don't want you to go back there either."
"So then...take me home or send me back to college. I mean how hard can it be to just tell the judge to butt out of my life."
"I wish it was that easy." She looks over at me. "Look I have been talking with the lawyers and the judge alright...I am trying to work something out."
"And..."
"They think you belong in the home. Look I can't take care of you and you sure can't do it on your own."
"Mom...I can...I will show you...really I can."
"Sophie...please. I have been doing a lot of contemplating the decisions on this it's either going back to the mental facility or...or..."
"Or what?" I sit on the edge of the bed and take the towel off of my head to start brushing my hair out.
She walks over and takes the brush from me so that she can brush it just like she use to when I was little. "There is this other place...it's a home that takes in people kinda like you. They can watch over you, make sure you take your meds...and care for you in a way that I am no able to."
"You want to toss me to someone else...let someone else deal with my problems." I feel my eyes starting to fill up with tears. I am trying not to let any of them escape but I can't stop them from flowing. She has never wanted me...not since I have been talking to the voices...seeing them. She just doesn't understand that I have no control over them. "Stop trying to fucking fix me...you can't change who I am."
"Sophie language please...I love you...you know that. This is just as hard on me you know. I would like for you to try the place out see if you like it...if it doesn't work then we will have to see what to do."
There is a light knock at the door and then walks in Andy. Our eyes meet and he looks over at my mom. "Is everything all right?"
"Yes." She says as if we were not just talking about my life.
"No...everything is not alright. She just wants to send me off...get rid of me like I mean nothing to her."
"Sophie...you know that is not what I want. I want the best for you but I can't give that to you."
"So just let me walk right on out of her and then you will never have to deal with me again since I am so much trouble."
"Looks like I came at a bad time...I will swing by tomorrow for therapy if that is alright?"
"If I'm even here...she might send me off by then." I glare at her with tears still in my eyes.
"Andy...she will see you tomorrow alright...sorry about all the commotion."
He just nods his head and turns back around to leave the room.
Due to our argument, she has someone watch the room all night just to make sure that I don't escape. Dear lord...she would die if she found out I was gone in the morning.When I do wake up...it's already going on nine and the light knock on the door woke me up. Andy walks in with a half-hearted smile on his face.
"Is it clear to come in?"
"Whatever...you're going to come in anyway what difference does it make what the hell I want?"
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Kidnapping Sophie
Teen Fiction"I can't remember the last time I was normal...wait what is normal." - Sophie Sophie is a freshman in college, trying to survive everyday life with a mental illness. Growing up her mom tried to get her help, although Sophie thought she was trying to...
