A/N.: uh.. I just noticed that i didn't post the previous chapter... seriously i almost posted this one instead of the other... so this will be a double update. hope you guys like it.
C-12
Every day while Andrea worked Patricia sat at her feet. The large dog wouldn't make a noise, only when Andrea talked to her. It was quite pleasant in the pregnant woman's opinion. Today however she wasn't relaxed and the dog was quickly to notice and whined looking at the woman as if asking what was wrong.
"I don't know if I can do this motherly thing, Patricia." Andrea whispered petting the dog's head. "I'm sure I did it before but I don't remember… the closer I got is that time when I sent Caroline back upstairs so she could finish her homework." The dog whined showing her confusion. "You weren't here."
The large canine was padding her way closer to Andrea when the townhouse's door was slammed open.
"Seriously, Cass, I don't know what you problem is but that was completely uncalled for." Caroline said angrily and going up the stairs.
The girl was about to follow her sister in a much less enthusiastic way when she heard her name being called out. She turned in the direction of the voice and was met by a pair of brown eyes. The moment the saw the look on them she knew she was in trouble.
"We need to talk." Andrea said curtly. "Come in and have a sit."
"I have homework and…" the girl tried to avoid whatever came her way.
"Cassidy, I won't say it again." Andrea kept her tone a little dry, but when she turned and knew that she was out of Cassidy's sight, she just grinned at Patricia as if proud of the parent like authority she just displayed.
Her giddiness dropped out of her face the moment she heard the girl entering the office. The large dog just ruffed hardly amused by the woman's antics.
"What you wished to talk to me about, ma?" Cassidy asked a little insecure. It was the first time she saw Andrea in full parent mode since the accident.
"Your mother and I noticed that something is happening with you. You've being short tempered and closed off and it simply isn't like you." Andrea began. "You usually are the calm one yet you've being snapping at your sister. You usually all over the house yet you're keeping only to your room the last few days. You helped me when your mom was away so let me help you too Cass."
"There is nothing wrong." The girl mumbled.
"Of course there is!" Andrea exclaimed. "You see. I may have lost some of my memories, dear, but I'm still me and I know you and you're not acting like yourself."
Cassidy didn't even moved her eyes away from the table between them she just stared at the wooden surface as if it would show her a way out.
"You know? Me and your mother… we've being theorizing." Andrea began again trying a different approach.
"About what?" Cassidy asked out of custom.
"About you, of course. We have two theories at the moment." The brunette revealed making Cassidy finally look at her. "One is that you like this guy you were talking about in the sleepover. The other is you like Stacie."
At that Cassidy eyes bugged out. The word 'Bingo' quickly ringed inside Andrea's head. Now they had something to work with.
"I…" Cassidy tried to say.
"It's okay, sweatheart. You mother and I… we're not hypocrites. We want to help you. And you need to reconcile with your sister. You can't keep it that way."
"But I can't tell her! She will just tell Satcie… or she will just pity me because she knows as well as I that I have no chance with her. I don't want my sister and no one else pitying on me." The teen girl fired.
"And you think I thought I had a chance with your mother!?" Andrea said back
"It's different!"
"How is it different, Cassidy? It's liking someone and not knowing what to expect from them."
"Yeah, but mom liked you too!"
"And you think I knew? I spent all the months before I met her again just thinking she hated me now that she just sent that recommendation so she could rub on my face how little I knew about her. I spent months thinking that the next time we saw each other she would tear me down. Rub on my face she got me what I had even thought I gave my back to her. I thought she would make me feel miserable and I knew it would destroy me because, God help me, I had a crush on her." Andrea started tearing up at this point, memories flooding her head with images, sounds and smells from the encounters she and Miranda had before starting their current relationship. "And then we met again. And we were cordial with each other and I saw she was being real and not just trying to fuck with my head. And we became friends and my feeling grew so much more… You think I knew she felt the same? I thought she would feel disgusted, I thought everything but the fact she may fell the same. I thought I would lose all again. I thought I would lose her to some of the man she would talk about or that she would tire of me. But look where we are now! I'm having her baby, I have you girls… I have everything. Love is about risk, Cassidy. You may have it or not, but you will never know if you just keep bottling things up. You may leave know if you wish." Andrea finished her speech with a tired sight.
She never noticed Cassidy leaving.
Being a parent sure was tiring. Would the twins that were on their way be as tiring?
If she was honest with herself, and she usually was, she secretly hoped they would. After all she wouldn't have her girls any other way.
I was hard getting back to work after her talk with Cassidy, but she managed. Patricia was even closer to her than before, as if feeling Andrea distress. A very different from the one early that day. What a mess of feelings and memories. She couldn't believe she remembered more. The memories were still a little fuzzy as if behind a fog, but this fog was rapidly dissipating making these old emotions rush at her making her feel everything at once. Still she found control again and was able to work.
Work was good kept her head busy until Miranda was back home and they could talk and kiss and just be together.
'I remembered us happening.' She wanted to tell her wife. "I remembered us falling in love." Andrea whispers to the quiet room.
She really wanted that Cassidy also had her perfect love story. She knew that kids would say all sorts of things to fit in, even fake interest in a boy. She also knew that live wasn't a fairy tale, though. She had luck and she hoped that Cassidy would have too, but she knew too well of the possibility of Stacie not feeling the same. Too bad the girl was seeing only it as a possibility.
"If you can't have them maybe you should try moving on." Andrea mumbled the words said to her by Lily when she first told the woman about her feelings for Miranda.
"What do you mean by that?" a voice coming from the doorway asked.
Andrea looked surprised to find her other step daughter standing there.
"Did you ran into your sister when you came down?" she asked ignoring the question for the moment.
"If call having a door practically slammed into your face 'running into' someone then yes." Caroline answered a little to sassy.
"It's something she should be talking to you. I have to respect that." Andrea sighed. "She has a lot in her head right now?"
"Is this about her liking Stacie?" Caroline asked rolling her eyes and making Andrea arch her eyebrows. "Please, we're twins, give me a little more credit. She is just so over herself, that she can't even see that I don't have a problem with it."
"I think she will talk to you about it soon." Andrea reassured the girl indicating for her to get closer. "But tell me what are her chances… In your opinion?"
"I really don't know… I don't think Stacie is really that interested in Roger. Or any guy. Sometimes it looks like she is just going with the flow. But then she start's talking about this guy from Teen Wolf…"
"The movie?" Andrea frowns
"There is a movie? Never mind. It's a TV show, it came out in June this year." Caroline explained. "She really likes the guy who plays Derek."
Andrea just hummed in understanding. Maybe Cassidy had a chance after all and if she didn't, she would still have her family to hold her and help her up again. She just needed no see that now.