Is This What It Feels To Be Loved

ver find out. As always, Betty would be out of the house for the whole day. She would leave the house at five in the morning and come back at eleven at night. Thankful

ccount when he died. He had spent most of the money on alcohol. Six months before his death, he became an alcoholic. The more Sophia grew up, the more she resembled her mother, which caused Ralph to miss his daughter even more. Therefore, he had been secretl

-home mom, she still could not discipline Sophia's mom no matter what. She then blamed herself for not being able to see how much her husband was suffering. She thought that maybe she could have helped him with rehabilitation earlier if she knew sooner. When she found out about Ralph's alcoholism problems, she tried to get him some help, but it was too late. Ralph had become too addicted to the alcohol, so he did not want to go to rehabilitation. Therefore, she was willing to do anything in her pow

erefore, being able to take care of Sophia was good for her. She was not bored anymore whenever her husband would go to work. She knew how challenging life was for Betty, so she only accepted fifty dollars a week payment for babysitting. Around that same time, Betty had to look for a second job because life was getting expensive. The older Sophia was getting, the more money she had to spend. So, she ended up working two full time jo

ctantly agreed, what worst that could happen? She thought that if she did not drink or smoke at the party and was home before her grandmother came back from work; she would be fine. She planned to get back home by nine. The party started at six in the afternoon. Little did she know, her friends got too drunk to drive her home. She did not have any money to take a taxi. Unbeknownst to her, the policemen were called at the party house that was full of teenagers and alcohol. Some teenagers man

tty did not say anything to her except to tell her to get into the car so she could take her home. She gave her silent treatment all the way until they got home. After they got home Betty decided to tell Sophia about her mom's behavior when Sophia's mom was also a teenager. She told Sophia that she was afra

e had promised her grandmother that she would never get herself into trouble again, Betty wanted to trust Sophia again. She decided not to let Sophia stay at Ruby's place anymore. From then on, Sophia would just come home after school and never leave the house unau