Visiting You (Soph)

Sophie gave Mackenzie’s hand a squeeze before letting her head off to the bathroom. “It’s down the hall to the left. There aren’t any locks on the doors so don’t bother trying to figure that out.” she said.

The room lapsed into silence after Mackenzie left. At least, it did until Lilian broke it. “I took you as many things, Sophie, but suicidal wasn’t one of them,” she said. There was a cold quality in her voice and Sophie had to wonder what her mother actually thought about the situation. Was she so detached because she didn’t actually care or had she been scared when she heard? There had been a time Sophie almost believed her mother wanted to protect her from harm. “What happened to the girl that was too stubborn to give in to anything? You were so driven, even if I disagreed with your goals.”

Sophie chewed at the inside of her cheek. She didn’t know how to respond. She still wasn’t sure how she felt about her mother’s presence at all. “You should have called ahead and let me know you were coming,” she said. She wanted to glance down and study the floor, but she forced her eyes to meet her mothers. She refused to show anything that could be interpreted as weakness.

“And risk your father hearing about it? That would have been a pretty stupid thing to do.” she replied.

Sophie shook her head. “You’re that afraid of him, yet he doesn’t even care enough about you to admit you exist,” she mused, “You're still pretending to be something you’re not. But you will always be the scared young girl who gave up her child to a monster because she thought she couldn’t make it on her own.”

“Watch your tongue!” her mother snapped. “You don’t know anything about me or the life I choose to lead.”

Sophie smiled. “And you can’t do anything that would scare me.” she replied. She knew that even if her mom got angry she wouldn’t strike Sophie. She was too soft to do anything like that. “The worst thing you could have done was abandon me to dad and you did that years ago. You can stick around and try to actually be a mother if you want, but you have a lot to prove. And I don’t want you here in this prison, it’s not even grounds.”

Lilian studied Sophie for a moment before nodding. “Whatever, if you don’t want me here I’ll leave, just get them to stop calling me.” she said, then grabbed a burner phone from out of her pocket and tossed it to Sophie. “Jason said to give this to you.” she said before walking away.

Sophie tucked the burner phone under her pillow. She’d deal with Jason and the gang later. Right now she the only person she wanted to interact with was Mackenzie.

Sophie shrugged. “She left. I didn’t want her here. Not right now.” she replied.

Sophie shrugged. "She's different, that's all," she replied. "She's not a direct threat to me or anything, she's just selfish and wouldn't hesitate to throw someone else under the bus to keep herself safe."

Sophie grinned. “Well that is a different kind of selfish.” she replied. “I think I’m good with that kind.”

Sophie didn't have an answer to the question, so instead of speaking she closed what little space remained between them and kissed Mackenzie.

Sophie let out a small breath and nuzzled a bit closer to Mackenzie. “I don’t want you to go either,” she muttered, “But you don’t belong here and some of the other inmate-I mean patients don’t take too kindly to new people.” Before she’d settled in she’d narrowly avoided several fights. Not that she’d been polite to the people that tried to pick on her.