A month had passed since I had moved in with Kym, things had calmed down a little, it was as if I wasn't there, and I was perfectly okay with that. After hounding Kym to let me make a doctors appointment she finally started the process. Tom had gotten me on his medical insurance and Richard was paying for my portion of it, as well as my co pays, I later found out Kym had told him my co pays were $35 when they were only $15, and she was keeping the rest. I finally saw my doctor when I was close to 15 weeks along. Everything looked good, babies heart beat was strong, my blood pressure was good, BUT I was considered high risk because of my age so my doctor wanted to see me twice a month for now.
Kym took every opportunity to tell me what an inconvenience I was being to her, driving me into Memphis so often was a hassle, so I decided I needed to get a drivers license so I wouldn't have to rely on her anymore. Richard sent me the money to go to drivers school, I would ride in to town with Tom and wait at the school for an hour before anyone got there, then wait for about 3 hours after it was over waiting on Tom to pick me up. I was only able to go for about half the class because my morning sickness got terrible and I was basically living in the bathroom (I found out that it was all stressed induced, at this time my blood pressure also became a concern to my doctor but we got it under control fairly quickly). I tried going but was missing most of the class so the instructor suggested non to politely that I come back when I was more able to pay attention....so I quit...and I was still having to rely on Kym to get me to and from my doctors appointments.
I didn't leave the house unless it was for doctors appointments, I mostly stayed in my room and listened to the radio, counting down the days till I could get back to Richard and for twenty minutes every night I got to talk to him on the phone.
One day, I was in the living room watching tv, Kym came out of her room and decided she was going to be nice to me. She started talking to me about baby names. I told her that Richard and I hadn't really talked names yet, she said her and I should knock a few around just so I had an idea of what I liked. I figured it couldn't hurt anything. Kym brought up the name Aurora for a girl, I kinda liked it so I told her I would run it passed Richard and see what he thought. That night when Richard and I talked I asked him what he thought about it and he said it wasn't a name he really liked so I said okay, and that was that. The next day Kym asked me if I had talked to Richard about the name and I said yes but he didn't really like it so we were going to keep looking for a girls name, but we had decided on a boys name, we Liked Chandler Scott. Kym went from normal to psycho in 1.2 seconds flat. She started screaming at me and said I was a terrible daughter, that I had told her that I was going to name the baby Aurora if it was a girl and now I'm going back on it. Somehow Kym had convinced herself that I was definitely going to name the baby Aurora.
Kym didn't talk to me for almost a month after that, when she did talk to me again it was to give her an alibi...yes you read that correctly.....an alibi. She was apparently sneaking out in the middle of the night and seeing some man she had met at the grocery store, and by seeing I mean sleeping with. Apparently that morning she had gotten home a little too late and Tom caught her coming in the house, she told him late the night before I had said I wanted orange juice so she went into town early that morning to get me oj, but got to the store and realized that she had forgotten her wallet. She begged me to tell Tom that I had asked for the orange juice because she just knew he was going to ask me about it when he got home that night. I was SO tempted to tell him the truth, that I didn't ask for orange juice and I had no idea why Kym was out when she was, but I knew what would happen if I didn't lie for her, Tom would get violent with her, and maybe even my little brother, because he was getting in the middle of there fights more and more, trying to defend Kym, I knew it was only a matter of time before Tom started in on Dakota, and who knew if and when he would turn on me too, so....I lied and told Tom that evening when he asked me about it, that I had in fact told Kym I wanted orange juice.
Kym knew why I lied for her, she knew it wasn't for her, but for Dakota and I. Kym now used this to her advantage, and started using me as an alibi more often and would just let me know what I needed to say in case I was questioned.
I was becoming not just uncomfortable in this place, but also becoming scared, I didn't know what was going to happen, but I knew it wouldn't be anything good. I knew it was only going to be a matter of time before the lid would be blown clean off this whole thing and I prayed I wouldn't be around for it when it did.
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