My Baby My Girl

Episode 11

Breath Megan,
Breath!!!

She was staring at him and a thousand
questions was running through her head.
Why was he here,why? Did anyone tell him
about Kiki? Was he here to take her daughter
away from her, steal her behind her back, why
was he here? How did he know about Kiki, did…
did Tonia tell him, did her parents tell him, did
he find out and how… why was he here?
“why are you here?” she says, pushing Kiki
further behind her, holding her tight
“I came to deliver Uniforms and texts, my
company is the one handling schools in this
district and surrounding areas“

“Why are you here?’’ she repeats
Sean frowns staring at the woman and then at
Kiki behind her, she suddenly pushes Kiki behind
her again-okay, that’s unsettling.
“Look” he says dropping his hand “I don’t mean
any harm if that is what you think, I am perfectly
harmless”

“That is what the perverts, pedophiles and serial
killers say right before they cause one harm”
He was taken aback “Look lady you don’t know me”

“Oh but I do, you want to take my daughter but I
won’t allow you” she snaps

“What? If I wanted to … take your daughter which is utterly ridicules, if I wanted to cause her harm I wouldn’t do it in broad day light and have someone catch me I was just harmlessly talking to Kiki-”

“Don’t call her name” Megan snaps
“Whoa okay, I am sorry, you obviously got the
wrong idea or just a wrong perception of me, I
am sorry ma’am if I came off as someone who
is dangerous but I am not, I promise. Let’s start
all over, my name is Sean O’Conner, I almost
ran down your little girl and I felt like s–t
smashing her ball, I got her another one and
when I saw her again today after I came to
deliver the school’s orders I decided to say
hello… I am sorry if I came off as a threat to
your daughter but I am not, I assure you” he
places his hands to his chest, speaking
genuinely, then he stretches his hands forward”
And you are?”

Megan eyes his outstretched hands“No one”
She says hitting his hands away and walking
fast down the hall with Kiki who turns to look at
him, then waves.

He smiles and waves back as they disappear.
Walking down Sean frowns, lost in thoughts.
What did he do wrong? Okay he could
understand how a parent would feel when they
see their kids with a random stranger but come
on, the heat and anger radiating from that
woman was enough to burn down a building and
he did apologize to her, twice or three times if
he wasn’t mistaken, he told her who he was and what he came to do, surely she should have
been nice enough to return the courtesy.
There was something about the way she looked
at him, as though she hated him, but why? He
had never met the woman in his entire life,
never! And she kept saying he wanted to steal
her daughter away from her. Steal? Did someone
try to steal Kiki away from her to keep her on a
defensive like that? Did something happen to
that little girl at some point to warrant the
mother to be rude and snappy towards a
stranger?

He sighs,

Maybe that was the reason for her coldness, no
one was saying be nice to a total stranger but
her coldness was too strong.

Then another thought creeps into his mind, her
daughter seemed sad, or afraid. Was she
maltreating the child, was she?

He had heard of parents physically and
emotionally abusing their children, he could see
the fear leap into the child’s eyes as her mother
called her name, maybe that was the reason she
didn’t want her daughter to tell on her, this were signs.

What if the little girl was in danger, what if?
He picks his phone and dials “hey Zackary, if
you suspect a child is being abused by her
parents, what do you do?”

“Mind your business!”’ Zackary’s voices comes
through
“Dude be serious”
“I am, what do you want to do? Be the hero and
whisk the child away from them? If it bothers
you so much get child services on it, they would
investigate it and know what to do about it.
What’s this about? whose child do you want to
reap away from their parents?”

“You remember that kid I almost ran over a
couple of weeks ago?’
“Yep, the little monster”
“Dude, kids not monsters”
“Well to me they are. They cry a lot, throw
tantrums, can’t let you sleep, always wanting
something and very annoying, they are only
sweet when they are asleep.They are monsters”

“How do you know that much?”
“My ex had this twin niece and nephew and
always brought them over during the weekends, I
think it was her way of telling me she was
thinking of a family anyways we had them for a
month and I was going completely out of my
mind, they did things to me, my bed, my cloth,
my food, my phone. They terrorized me. I wake
up with makeup or a cartoon character on my
face, I see vitamins in my food, I get mucus and
spittle on my cloths… I was going crazy, I broke
up with her soon after”

“You broke up with her just because of the
kids?”
“Well, that and the fact that I wasn’t ready to
settle down and she was pushing for it ,plus,
she became a lazy lay after some time”
Sean shakes his head “You need help brother,
everyone likes kids, you are just scared s–t to
commit that is all, I am sure by the time you find
the one, and get married, you would eventually
fall in love with your child and wouldn’t mind or
bother about their little tantrums and whatnot
because the fatherly love would kick in and you
would see it’s perfectly normal for kids to be
hyper-active, especially when they have too
much sugar, it’s like weed to them’’
“Oh that explains the craziness! To shut them up
I usually let them take sweets, chocolates and
cake, you know juice and whatever they asked
hoping while they are eating I get to have a little
peace but I was wrong, they begin to get like
monkeys and roar like Tarzan”
Sean laughs “There you go, you can see that you
turned them into the monsters”
“Did not, but really, what about that little girl,
you saw bruises on her body or what?”
“Not that I could see physically but there was
something off about her mother, the way she
was acting and the way she was hiding the girl
behind her stopping her from talking and the girl
seemed sad, she didn’t have any friends and I
don’t know but something didn’t feel right”
“Hmmm, I think it’s nothing, don’t go rustle
leaves when there is nothing underneath. Really
it’s none of my business neither is it yours, it
might be nothing”

“Well nothing hurts to make sure, I wouldn’t be okay until I do so”

“Fine, so how did her mother look? Despite that
the little girl is still a monster, she is a beautiful
child”

Sean frowns “yeah,she gets her beauty from her mother.”

“Oh you checked her out?’
“Barely, I was trying to get her to relax but she
was throwing darts and knives with her eyes and
mouth. Look I gotta go, talk to you later,still
hanging out tomorrow right?’’

‘You betcha!!’’ Zachary’s voices says
“Cool”

Sean cuts the call and heads out, he was going
to come check on the little girl during the week
and maybe ask around about her relationship
with her mother and if he suspects anything foul
he was calling child services. No child needs to
stay with an abusive parents, he had heard
firsthand how this kids turn out to be depressed
and begin to inflict pain on others. “Prevention
was better than cure” he came to realize

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“What’s wrong?” Tonia says entering into her house “Is Kiki okay?” she asks coming to sit opposite her friend

Megan is seated, holding a cup of tea
“I saw him today”
“Saw who? Where is kiki?”
“She is watching cartoon in the room. I saw him
today, he was just there talking to her, I felt fear,
then I became angry”
“Who Meg?”

“Sean, he was at the school today”
“How, why, does he know?”
“I don’t know, I mean why was he talking to kiki,

and today wasn’t the first day he had seen her,
you remember me telling you how she got that
yellow ball?”

“Yes” Tonia nods “Wait, he was the one who
almost hit her?”
Megan nods “Oh dear, but what was he doing
there in the school”
“He said he was the company supplying school
stuffs, the same company that the school has
been using for uniforms and texts over the
years, I guess he is the new person in charge
there and he came to deliver supplies and I
don’t know I just saw him with kiki and I didn’t
know what they were talking about and I was so
scared I took my daughter and left’’

“Does he know?”
“I don’t know“
“Did you tell him who you were?’’
Megan shakes her head
“Okay, maybe he doesn’t, maybe he was just
saying hello to the girl he almost ran over”
“But we don’t know that, Kiki kept asking why I
was rude to her new friend, imagine, her friend”

Tonia bends her head to the side and then leans
forwards “one thing I have realized in life is that, things we run away from keeps coming towards us.

Maybe, you should tell him, I mean he has ran
into Kiki twice already and this was without my
doing or yours, it’s nature taking its course of
events”

“I will pull her out and take her elsewhere”
“And you think that would be wise, pulling out
and where will you relocate too?”
“I don’t want him near my daughter!’’ she says getting up

“Yes and I do understand that, but right now, he
is already her friend according to Kiki, are you
going to keep having to explain to your daughter
why you are constantly rude to a random
stranger who is trying to be nice?”
Megan is quiet “I don’t want him near my
daughter” she repeats. She would have to pull
her out, no questions about that.

“Fine, do you Megan, do you. But think about
Kiki for a minute, does she needs this change?
Will it be okay for her? You already know she
had withdrawn from making friends with kids her
age, you want to pull her out and dump her into
another school and have her keep withdrawing
more into herself?

“I don’t want him close to my daughter
Damnit!!!’’ she snaps
Tonia keeps quiet “Kiki also deserves the right to
normalcy, she does”
Megan doesn’t respond.