The Begining Continued

At the ripe old age of 13 I finally got the guts to tell my father that I wanted to go live with my mother so it was set that I would do so at the end of my 7th grade year. I was so excited!!! It was great for a while but she started drinking again and things got bad again . When she was sober she was the best mama in the world but the alcohol turned her into another person. I would hide her keys or drive her to the store myself.  So the summer after my 8th grade year I was out with a friend of her and on our way back home we saw her driving very slow down a 4 lane hwy. The next thing we see is the police and she was arrested for DUI and taken to jail. I went to stay at my then boyfriends house and was eventually sent back to live with my father for my ninth grade year. I was again not happy as I am sure he and his wife felt the same.
           I was saved and baptised during this year as a friend from school had invited me to her church. I loved that church if the doors were open I was there. I grew so close to God. I will never forget the Sunday the whole church was on their knees praying for my mother.  So the summer after my ninth grade year I went to for my 2 week visit with my mother. While I was there I met a guy that I really liked. I went back to my fathers and told him I wanted to move back in with my mother and he let me.  So I packed up my stuff and Ronnie came and got me. My mother was still drinking. I was determined that I was not going to go back to live with my father again.So I was staying with some friends of Ronnie's but grew tired of it and wanted wanted a more normal life so I called Susan and asked her if I could come live with her and she agreed,I was in the tenth grade at this point. 
          I made great friends and started dating David and my mother went through a very extensive rehab. The next three years were as normal and happy for me than any other up to that point. Susan had a baby girl who I adored. I would pick up Katie for the babysitter after school, she was my girl. 
         I graduated in 93 and my father,his wife and Brandy came.  It was such a wonderful time for me. I was finally free. For the past three years I had had to lie to my father about where I was and that I was living with Susan. I guess at some point he probably figured it out.