Sugar and spice, your love is nice.

Part 12: Best of both worlds.

Today's the day. The day me and my mom go to court to fight for custody of Zoe. Ryan's coming along too even though i tried to convince him not too.

I get up and throw on a pair of black shorts and an oversized hoodie. I throw my hair up in a messy bun and slip on my black vans.

I grab my phone and head downstairs to find my mom sitting on the couch in her pajamas, balling her eyes out. I sit down beside her and place my hand on her shoulder.

"Mom, everything is going to be fine." I offer her a small smile.

"I'm not going." she tells me. i give her a small look of confusion.

"You have to go. This is my sister you're talking about, your daughter. You can't just not go to the custody battle mom." I pull her up off of the couch and wipe the tears from her face with some tissues.

"Go get dressed. We're leaving in ten minutes." She goes into her room to change and comes back out wearing sweatpants and a really big t-shirt.

I don't make her change because we're already running late. I grab her car keys and walk out to her car.

Ryan's waiting for me beside the car so i walk over to him and he gives me a soft kiss.

"I've missed you" he smiles down at me.

"You seen me last night." i tell him smiling.

"i know but i still missed you." he kisses me again.

I pull away from him and start my moms car for her and open the back door for Ryan to get in.

"That's not how it works." he tells me.

"How what works?" i ask him smiling, knowing exactly what he's talking about.

"The guy is supposed to open the door for the girl not the other way around." he gets in and i close the door.

My mom walks out and gets in the passenger seat instead of the drivers seat....

"Mom? you're not driving?" she looks over at me. She looks like me last week.

"I thought maybe you could drive honey." She's trying to smile but it's not working.

"I uh...yea. Okay." I'm scared of driving now. I haven't driven since my accident and i get scared everytime i get back in a car and now i have to drive one.

I get in the drivers seat and slowly start the car. I buckle up and put my hands on the wheel and slowly but lightly push the gas. We're going 5mph down our driveway and Ryan and my mom are both staring at me.

I stop the car. "um...I don't think i can drive." i say embarrassed. I can't move my hands off of the steering wheel. Ryan gets out and opens the door to the drivers side.

He takes my hands off the wheel and helps me into the back seat and he climbs into the drivers seat.

"I'm sorry. I really though i could do it." I'm lying. I knew i wasn't going to be able to do it.

Ryan drives us all the way to court and back. Apparently you have to go to court more than one time for custody of a child that you birthed.

I look down at my belly. It's still not noticeable but my belly has gotten a little bigger. If anything my mom will just think i'm getting fat.

I'm not really sure how all the court stuff works but they asked my mom and Zach some questions like "what's the stability of your home?" or "where do you work?" and more questions like that.

Some lawyer lady is supposed to come look at our house to see if it's stable enough for Zoe to stay there. My mom is a registered nurse so she makes a pretty good amount of money so that's not a problem.

Zach, on the other hand, doesn't have a job.....or a place to live so i'm not sure why he's not just giving her up.

We have to go back to court next week and try and prove that my mom will take better care of Zoe than Zach will.

When we get home my mom goes inside but me and Ryan sit in the car for a few minutes. I climb up into the passenger seat beside him.

"How are you doing?" i smile at him and he takes my hand.

"Let's go get something to eat." he smiles really big at me.

"I need to ask you something first." butterflies form in my stomach.

"Chels, would you like to be my girlfriend?" he asks almost sure i'm going to say yes.

"I don't knowww. That seems like a lot of work." i laugh.

"i'll take that as a yes." He kisses me before starting the car.

We're about to leave when we see Brendon and Sarah walking out of B's house.

"GET IN LOSERS WERE GOING SHOPPING" i yell out the window at them laughing. They walk over here together hand in hand.

"What are you going shopping for?" B asks. He obviously didn't get my reference.

"We're not going shopping we're going to get food. Get in." i demand. He looks at me like i'm crazy.

"Get innnn." Him and Sarah climb in the back of the car and Ryan starts driving.

"You're in a relatively good mood today." B says as if i'm not allowed to be in a good mood.

"Well, I feel like things are getting better for me." I smile at myself.