How To Stalk A Family - Chap 2

The following morning, I dropped Kate off at Dwayne's house. Lisa came out and again assured me that they would be supervised and that everything would be fine. I left my daughter there and went to work. I also had to work my second job that evening, so my husband retrieved Kate when he got off work.

I received a phone call at my night job from Kate. It was almost closing time, which was midnight. Kate felt the need to be honest with me. She informed me that she and Dwayne had had sex for the first time that day. Kate was barely fourteen years old. I was furious! I asked her about the so called supervision that they were supposed to have had over at Dwayne's house. Kate informed me that he was indeed there. However, his "disability" was that he was in the nearly final stages of cancer and on morphine for the pain. Basically, he didn't even know where he was, much less what three kids were getting up to while he was supposed to be watching them.

When I got home, it was almost one in the morning. I didn't care. I demanded that Kate get Lisa on the phone immediately. At first, Kate argued with me. She didn't want me to call Lisa, it wasn't Lisa's fault, she said. It was too late to call Lisa, she was too tired from working all day and she would be in bed by this time, Kate insisted. Once more, I informed her that I could care less about Lisa's feelings or exhaustion or anything else. I had also worked all day. I was also tired. Obviously, no one cared about that, so why should I care about Lisa? Kate very reluctantly got Lisa on the phone and handed it to me.

As one can imagine, I let Lisa have an ear full. Of course, she tried to make it out to be my fault because I didn't inquire enough about her husband's condition before allowing my daughter to go over there for the day. She insisted that it wasn't her fault because she had to be at work, too. I informed her that it was her responsibility, and I let her know quite a few other things, as well. I was definitely not very nice about it, either. Kate went to bed very angry with me. This became a situation that I knew quite well over the next weeks, months, and even years.

Kate's anger was not abated at all when I made her an appointment with a gynecologist and placed her on birth control. I wasn't trying to encourage the behavior to continue, but I wasn't na�¯ve enough to think that they wouldn't do it again, either. Kate was humiliated and embarrassed. I told her to think about how I felt. Not to mention that she had broken mine and my husband's trust and faith in her. Naturally, her being a teenager and all that, she didn't really care about that at the time.

This situation put a rift in the relationship between Lisa and me. A relationship that was already on unsteady ground to begin with. This was a rift that, regardless of what I did, was never able to be repaired. Not that Lisa ever tried to repair it, and not that Kate did anything to try to repair it, either.