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Chapter 9
After Dana had composed herself, Steve suggested they go outside to talk
to Sarah's parents. He also remembered the steaks and the reason he and
Bill had initially come inside, so he grabbed the container and they
both walked outside to find Bill hugging his wife.
Joan was still crying as they heard her say, "I'm trying so hard, but I
feel like I keep hurting her all over again..."
Dana felt extremely guilty at that moment. Maybe if she had more faith
that April's plan would work, and she had already told Sarah the full
truth, that things might be going better than they were. As it was, she
had only found out the full truth from April shortly after she had
starting planning this. Still holding on to the anger she had felt for
so long, was extremely hard to let go of, and she had been afraid of
telling Sarah in case April's plan hadn't succeeded. If she had gotten
her hopes up and her parents never showing had been her main concern.
She might not have been fully to blame this whole time, but Sarah and
her parent's pain right now rested entirely on her shoulders, at least
some of it. That, she had every intention of rectifying.
Steve announced their presence by saying, "We forgot about these babies
still in the fridge." He was smiling, but everyone there knew it was
forced.
Bill halfheartedly smiled, "Oh right... Can't forget those..." Then much
more solemnly he looked at Steve and Dana and softly said, "Thank you
for trying..." Bill took the steaks and started arranging them on the
grill, in an effort to at least not feel helpless at the moment.
Dana moved over, and Joan readily grabbed her in a hug and said to Dana,
"I'm sorry that you and Steve have been put in this position... If you
think it would be best... If it would be better for Sarah... We'll leave
right now..."
Dana softly tried to reassure her, "No... Please don't leave... I know
it's hard for... well, everyone... I'm sorry I didn't tell Sarah before
you got here... I just didn't want to get her hopes and then you not
show..."
Joan just nodded as she wiped her eyes, "April told us that it was you
that had found her that night... When she tried to... Thank you so much
for being there for her... not only that but looking out for her all
this time... We had never meant for this to have gotten so... fucked..."
At that exclamation Bill looked at his wife and exclaimed, "Joan!!!" He
didn't think of one time that he had ever heard her cuss, at least use
the F word...
Joan looked at him and said, "I'm sorry... But that is what it is, had
we not been so blinded by that asshole we'd have still been in our
daughter's life... Had we only listened sooner... I hate him only
slightly less than I hate myself for listening to him..."
Still amazed at hearing his wife of almost forty years cuss, not once
but twice in a row, he said, "I know... I wish we had stood up to the
church sooner... It might have saved the families he wrecked after
ours... There's not a day that goes by that I don't blame myself too...
At least we know now that 'he' won't be able to use his pulpit to ruin
anymore young lives or families again..."
Steve asked, "I've heard about the 'reverend'," they could hear the air
quotes in his voice, "We haven't heard what happened though... What did
you do?"
Bill sighed, "We quit going to that church shortly after Sarah
emancipated herself, we would visit from time to time simply because we
had friends there. But we had started seeing just how wrong everything
was with what he was preaching after we lost both our children... It was
like our eyes were finally opened, but it was too late... Then when
April got hospitalized, somehow he heard about it and came to voice his
hatred and try to lay blame... April went off but I..." He paused,
ashamed of how he reacted in anger.
Joan smiled, "He knocked the hell out of him, or at least we could hope
the hell actually got knocked out of him at least... Unfortunately, due
to the aggravated assault charges, Bill was arrested, and the school
forced him to retire. The last thing the district wanted as a teacher
with anger issues and wouldn't listen to us... So, I retired as well...
We did go back to the church before the restraining order on Bill was
served, but we stood up and told the congregation what he had done to
our family... Turns out other families started standing up too... Only
about a quarter of the people that attended still go, and it looks like
unless he is removed, the church is going to have to close..."
Dana just uttered, "Good... Give Sarah time okay, I promise I'll talk to
her tonight... I'll do my best to get her to understand okay."
Joan looked like she was about to start to cry again. "I just don't know
what I'm doing to keep making her so upset..."
Dana softly said, "I made her upset this time, by telling you about her
storing her..."
Joan interrupted, "Why would that make her upset? It's not like it's a
big deal, I've read that's pretty common for male to female
transitions..." Then a look of surprise crossed her face as a thought
crossed her mind, "She's already found someone and used them, hasn't
she?!"
Dana glanced at her husband, and he could see from her expression that
she didn't know what to say. Steve tried to come to her rescue, so he
told Joan, "No that's not it, Sarah hasn't found someone... That's not
it..."
Perplexed, Joan asked, "Then what could the reason be?"
Steve not knowing what to do looked at Dana and she just softly nodded
and softly told him, "Go ahead and tell them..."
Taking a deep breath, he rubbed the back of his neck and sighed, "Oh
boy... Okay... For heaven's sake what I'm about to tell you, please
don't let her know we told you until after we talk to her tonight...
Please..." They both nodded in agreement, so Steve continued. "I'm not
sure how to even start this conversation... I guess I should tell you I
was injured in college playing sports."
Bill asked, "Football?"
Steve answered, "No, while I played football in high school some, I
couldn't cut it for college... I thought it would be bad ass to join a
intramural rugby league... It was my second year when I took a really
hard blow... well down there... I never thought anything was wrong, once
the swelling and soreness went away everything worked just fine.... Well
until we started trying to have kids..."
Joan gasped, "You mean you aren't the girls Dad?!"
Smirking at how she phrased the question, her responded, "Oh I am
definitely their Dad... I guess you could say that Sarah is their...
Father?!" Looking at Dana as he scrunched up his face and asked her,
"Did that sound as weird to you as it felt to say for me?!"
Dana couldn't help giggle at her husband but nodded. Then she noticed
the looks of surprise on the older couple's faces. Then Joan looked and
pointed to Dana's belly and raised her eyebrows. Dana smiled and told
her, "Yes this one too, this was actually the last try for us... Due to
the cost she couldn't afford to store much... She was only able store
five samples, and two of them didn't take..."
Joan slowly stepped closer to Dana and started to reach out her hand
before she paused and asked, "May I?" Dana just nodded, so Joan gently
placed her hand on Dana's swollen belly. Dana immediately felt the baby
shift to Joan's touch, which from the smile on Joan's face it was
obvious that she had felt it too. Joan just softly said, "Oh wow!"
Dana tried to reassure the older couple, "I promise I will talk to Sarah
when you both go back to your RV... Right now, I don't know if she would
really listen to me since she is still uncomfortable with you both..."
Bill had left the grill and had let Steve take over, he had put his arm
around his wife and staring at the woman who was carrying their
grandchild. He told her appreciatively, "Thank you so much for this...
For everything..."
After a few moments of Joan feeling the baby moving Steve spoke up, "Not
to change the subject, or that I'm quite the expert as you are Bill, but
I think these are done..."
Bill stepped over and checked, then they started pulling the steaks and
setting them on the plate. "Guess we need to go let Sarah and the girls
know supper is ready as soon as the stuff in the oven are done."
As both couples started inside the house, so the ladies could check on
the oven, they heard a guitar playing and a lovely alto voice singing
the first verse of "Puff the Magic Dragon". Both Joan and Bill looked at
Dana questioningly.
Dana spoke up, "Looks like Larissa talked her into playing, both of them
love to listen and sing along with Sarah. Steve, here take the steaks
and let's go check on the oven, while they go and listen to Sarah as she
finishes up the song. Just tell the girls to clean up for supper."
As they both walked into the living room, they saw their daughter
sitting on the ottoman with both girls sitting on the floor staring at
her. Sarah's eyes were closed as she was singing, Ally was sitting there
rocking and humming to the rhythm, while Larissa was actually singing
along. Joan and Ben just sat and watched in awe.
As Sarah starting singing, the last verse, her voice started to crack as
she sung the line "Dragons live forever, not so little boys." As she
continued the verse about Jackie Paper abandoning Puff, the pain in her
face was evident, as tears started to flow down her cheek.
Joan started to move towards Sarah, all she wanted to do was to console
her daughter, but Bill stopped her while shaking his head. Instead the
both watched the scene unfold in front of them. Larissa just creeped
closer to Sarah as she was finishing the song, being careful not to
interrupt her. As Sarah finished the song she looked down and took the
guitar she had been playing and leaned over to put it into its stand. No
sooner did she let go of the guitar Larissa immediately grabbed her in a
hug. Sarah closed her eyes and hugged the small blonde child for all she
was worth.
Sarah softly said, "Why do you always want me to sing that song, you
know it makes me cry."
Larissa just pulled back far enough so she could look Sarah in the eyes
and said, "I know... When you cry I can hug you to make you feel
better..." She then gave the sweetest smile she could to Sarah.
Sarah then pulled Larissa in for another hug and told her, "Sweetie,
your hugs always make me feel better."
Joan felt her eyes starting to moisten at the tenderness of the moment
watching Sarah and the small girl, Ally stood up and got into the hug as
well. It was then that Sarah looked up and saw her parents standing
there watching them. She immediately pulled back and started to wipe the
tears off her face, then asked, "So how long have you two been there?"
Bill replied, "We came in about half way through the song, Sarah that
was amazing..."
Sarah gave a half-hearted smile, "Thanks... So, what do you guys need?"
Joan trying to be nonchalant now that she knew that those were their
granddaughters, said, "Dana and Steve said dinner was just about ready
and for the girls to clean up."
Both girls hopped up and squealed as they bolted to go wash their hands,
leaving Sarah alone with her parents. Both Joan and Ben watched the
girls take off running and were unaware that Sarah was staring at them.
When they returned to look back at their daughter they immediately
realized the look of anger on her face.
Sarah had been caught off guard when she realized her parents had been
listening to her sing, and then the moment she had with the girls. The
looks they had given them didn't immediately set off any warnings. When
the girls took off though she noticed how her parents were staring
adoringly at the girls and how their gaze followed them out of the room.
Immediately she knew why... In a very flat tone she stated, "They told
you..."
Caught off guard, her parents started stumbling over their words. They
had promised they wouldn't tell her they knew, but they couldn't help
how their expressions had given them away. Joan tried to say, "Told us
what?"
Sarah said with much more force, "Do not play stupid with me. They told
you about the girls, I know it! I could read it in your faces that you
know!" She glared at them a few moments, daring them to say something.
Neither of them dared to speak, afraid of upsetting her any worse.
Finally, she spoke again, "Just don't start getting too comfortable with
that bit of news..."
Joan said, barely audible, "What do you mean?"
Again, in a flat emotionless tone, Sarah stated, "It just means that I
haven't decided yet if you two will be staying here much longer..."
Chapter 10
No sooner did the words come out of Sarah's mouth, she regretted them.
She knew that her parents were trying and trying really hard. She knew
she had been difficult, but she had that right, didn't she? She didn't
know if the reason they were here were only to honor a dead child's last
request, or if they truly wanted to reconcile. The entire day had been
an emotional rollercoaster, one that she couldn't seem to get off of or
have any control of either. The one thing she did know was just how much
those words had hurt her parents, the look on both of their faces turned
her anger instantly into remorse. She covered her mouth with one hand,
and mumbled, "I'm so sorry..." Then the tears started to flow yet again.
She uttered I'm so sorry..." Then she turned and bolted to the bathroom,
she just had to be alone long enough to recollect her thoughts.
Steve had walked in to the living room to see how things were going to
witness Sarah's outburst. He was stunned at how cruel she had been, but
also saw how much saying that had hurt not only her parents but Sarah as
well.
Bill looked up and saw Steve right after Sarah had gone down the
hallway. He softly said, "I appreciate all this... I think we should
go... It's just too much for her..." Joan just held on to her husband
tightly.
Steve tried to console them for a moment, but he was also worried about
Sarah. He had seen her angry, but she had never been cruel. He looked at
Bill and Joan and told them, "No... You two go get your plates and sit
down... I'll go talk to Sarah. It's going to be okay..." He mentally
added the words 'I hope', but refused to say those words to them... The
older couple nodded and moved on towards the dining room, then Steve
made his way to the bathroom.
As he was about to knock on the bathroom door, he stopped and listened
to see if Sarah might be okay. He could hear her crying through the
doorway, even though it sounded like she was trying to muffle it. He
said gently, "Sarah, its Steve... Open up please." He listened some
more, and it sounded like she had stopped crying, or at least loud
enough to hear. He repeated his plea.
"Go away, I'm Fine" came through the door.
"No, you're not fine, c'mon and open the door. Talk to me.", he told
her.
A muffled, "It's not locked," came from the other side of the door.
Opening the door, he saw a distraught Sarah sitting on the lid of the
commode and wiping her eyes with tissue. The look on her face crushed
him, seeing his best friend like this made him wish he could just take
her in a hug and hold her till she was okay. Trying to console her he
squatted down, so he could look her in the eyes and softly said, "Sarah,
it's going to be okay..."
Sarah slowly nodded, "I want it to be... I keep lashing out at them... I
know they're trying... What the hell is wrong with me? I don't want to
be an angry person..."
Taking her hand in his and giving it a soft squeeze of encouragement, he
told her, "Sarah... You've been through a lot... We all know that.
They'll forgive you for your outbursts, I know that... Look let's get
through dinner and when they leave why don't you stay so we can talk. We
actually need to talk."
Still upset that he and Dana had told her parents the truth about the
girls, she nodded and replied, "Yeah, we do need to talk..." Giving his
hand a squeeze, she then said, "We just have to get through dinner,
right? I guess I need to straighten up my makeup..."
Giving her one of his patented mischievous grins, he said, "Well I
wasn't going to say anything..."
Giving him a go to hell look before her lips started to curl up in a
small grin, she told him, "You're such an ass..."
Shrugging her comment off, he joked, "Yeah, but that's probably one of
my redeeming qualities." He then stood up and helped her up, where he
gently gave her a hug.
"You're probably right." She told him softly laughing in his embrace.
This was one of the things she both loved and hated about him. No matter
how mad he made her, she could never stay mad at him for long, even if
she wanted to be angry with him.
Releasing her from the hug, he asked, "So you going to be okay?"
Nodding she told him, "Yeah, at least for the next few minutes..."
That brought a chuckle from him, "Well we can't ask for more than that.
See you in a few minutes while you do... You know, your face stuff."
Sarah playfully slapped him on the arm and shooed him out of the
bathroom, so she could clean up her tears.
A few minutes she walked into the dining room where everyone was seated.
Her parents looked up hopefully at her, hoping she wasn't still so
upset. Still regretting how she had snapped at them, she smiled slightly
and apologized softly to them.
Then Larissa spoke up, "Sarah! We saved you a seat!!!" While little Ally
just kept saying, "Sarah, here. Sarah, here..." Seeing the two empty
seats, with one of them in between the two girls, she giggled at their
enthusiasm.
Dana spoke up, "They had to have you next to them, if you want just sit
at the other side okay." Both girls groaned at that, which only brought
more giggles from Sarah.
She said, "It's okay I've missed them almost as much as they missed me
it seems." She sat down in between the girls and facing her parents.
Ally was to her left, and on the other side of Ally sat Dana, with Steve
at the head of the table. All the food was already placed in the center
of the table, and shortly everyone had helped themselves to the food,
with Sarah helping both Ally and Larissa with theirs.
Before they dug in Steve spoke up, "First things first, 'Rissa do you
want to say the blessing?" Larissa just nodded vigorously.
As they bowed their heads the young girl started the prayer, "God bless
Daddy and Mommy and Sarah and her Mommy and Daddy, and bless Ally too...
She needs it the most..."
Ally interrupted, "Heyyyy... Nuh uhhh!!" Which then made it difficult
for the adults to silence their soft chuckles.
Larissa continued without missing a beat, "Thank you for all the yummy
food the Daddies and Mommies made, and God thank you for helping Sarah
find her mommy and daddy... that's it... Amen..." She then looked up at
the adults seeing if they liked her prayer, all the adults were smiling
at her, but her eyes rested on Sarah. Seeing that Sarah was wiping a few
tears away, she asked her, "Do you need a hug?" She then held her arms
up to hug her.
Sarah gently leaned over and gave her a hug and told her, "I'll always
need your hugs sweetie..."
The tender moment was broken up by little Ally speaking up, "Me too, me
too!" Which made Sarah laugh in earnest, but she still leaned over and
hugged the four-year-old, who also gave her a sloppy kiss on the cheek.
Once everyone recovered from Sarah's expression when she wiped the
slobber off her cheek, everyone started eating, well at least everyone
other than Sarah. Both girls slid their plate towards her with hopeful
expressions that she would help them cut up their food into bite size
pieces. Dana tried to help Ally, but she was insistent that she wanted
Sarah to do it.
Sarah laughed, "It's okay Dana, I don't mind... You do this all the time
anyway..." Looking at her parents she saw them looking at her with, what
she thought was pride, on their faces. For a moment she felt the anger
starting to boil up, she was able to stifle it quickly though. Trying to
change her mood, she looked at Bill and Joan and told them, "I guess you
see now how I stay so thin, I call it the 'Rissa and Ally diet plan..."
Everyone laughed, other than the six and four-year-old, they just didn't
get the joke.
The rest of the dinner was actually pleasant, the conversation was
directed away from Sarah's transition or the twenty-year gap in their
history. Before Sarah realized it, it was approaching 9PM, which was way
past the girl's bedtimes. Everyone looked exhausted, the stress from the
day had taken its toll on everyone present. Sarah volunteered to put the
girls to bed, while Steve and her parents cleared the table, so Dana
could sit and rest.
When Sarah came back downstairs after getting the girls to sleep, Steve
and her parents had been finished cleaning for a while and were just
finishing a cup of coffee around the dining room table. Sarah sat down,
and they talked for a few more minutes before both Bill and Joan stood
up saying they needed to get some rest. After making sure that they knew
she wanted them to come to her birthday party, Steve volunteered to walk
them out to their car, so Sarah could sit and rest with Dana.
While walking them out, Steve asked them, "So do you two have any plans
for in the morning?"
Bill replied, "Not really, since we are in a new place we were thinking
about trying to find a church to go to... One that isn't so... I guess
'old fashioned'..." Steve immediately understood what he meant, with
what their old church had caused.
Steve grinned, "Well that is why I was asking, I wanted to see if you
two wanted to join Dana and I at our church. It's a really good place,
one that welcomes everyone."
Bill and Joan looked at each other for a moment, then Joan said, "I
think we'd like that... Will Sarah be there?"
Steve smiled, and for a quick second Joan could have sworn a mischievous
look crossed his face. He said, "She normally sits with us, but tomorrow
she has other obligations. So, it'll just be us in the pew."
Disappointed that they wouldn't be with Sarah, they both eagerly agreed
though. It had been so long since they had been to a church after what
had happened with their old 'Reverend'. Their faith had been shaken to
the core with how much hate they had witnessed in their old church, but
it was still there. Bill shook Steve's hand, while Joan grabbed him in a
big hug and thanked him before they got in their Prius and drove away.
Steve walked back into the house and found that Dana and Sarah had moved
to the kitchen table where they both sat, with a frustrated looking
Sarah nursing her own cup of coffee. As he sat down, Sarah stated, "Okay
now will you two tell me what the hell is going on? Why are you two
being so insufferably nice to them? You know what they did, and what
they put me through."
Steve started to say, "Sarah, trust me we are just trying to help..."
Sarah accused, "Help who? Them or me?!"
He just stated, "All three of you..." He then glanced over to his wife
and then back at Sarah who was glaring at him.
Dana trying to calm her down, softly said, "Sarah... Things aren't
exactly what we thought..."
Sarah exclaimed, "What do you mean its not what we thought? They kicked
me out, disowned me and only regretting their actions twenty years
later, only because April died and wrote us those letters!"
Dana tried to reach across the table to grasp Sarah's hand, but Sarah
pulled it away. Dana looked down at her hands and said, "It wasn't
twenty years later that they regretted it, it was less than twenty-four
hours later..."
Sarah gave her a confused expression, "Twenty-four hours? They didn't
want anything to do with me! April told me that..."
Dana interrupted her, "Sarah, she lied... She lied because she thought
she was protecting you... She lied to us both... I had believed April
the same way you had..."
The accusation completely caught Sarah off guard, she just stared at
Dana in shock. Finally she asked in a very cold tone, "What do you mean
she lied?!"
Dana softly stated, "I mean she lied... Your parents regretted their
actions the day after you left... They tried to search for you, and you
were nowhere to be found... When you showed up at the sorority, April
called let them know you were safe... All they wanted was for you to
come home. It was April that didn't let it happen..."
That was a hard statement for Sarah to believe, especially since April
had been there for her for as long as she could remember. "No! She
wouldn't have done that! You're the one that's lying... She had always
been there for me! For you too! How dare you!"
Dana appeared to be on the verge of tears, "Sarah... She got it all
twisted up somehow... She thought the best way to protect you was to
keep you away from them, anyway she could..."
Sarah blurted out, "Why are you telling me this?!? Did they tell you all
this?!? They just show up and tell you all that crap to try to get on
your good side?"
Dana started to cry at this point, seeing her best friend so angry at
her. Even though she had expected it, but she couldn't prepare for it
actually happening. Softly she sobbed, "No... they didn't tell me
anything..."
Sarah exclaimed, "Then how do you know all this crap?!"
Reaching into her purse, Dana pulled out several folded pieces of paper
and told her, "You're not the only one that got a letter...
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