After reminding myself that I needed to breath to stay alive I began to come up with and improv plan to break out of the bathroom and get help. Melissa took a step towards me and out of reaction I threw my hands out in front of me.

  "Carlyn baby-" was all I was gonna let her say before cutting her off.

  "I am not your baby. And you are not my mama." I said to her trying to keep calm so I can stick to this randomly thrown together plan.

The smile that once covered her face from ear to ear was now a frown. Her eyes looked glazed and dark like she was mad. She better get over it because I know who my mother is and it ain't this crazy bitch. Hell nah!

  "Now you listen to me. I am your mother and you will come with me and Dwayne away from here. Don't you wanna come home with me? With your mama?"

"Stop saying that! You're not my mom!"

"Carlyn!" She yelled out in frustration as I slowly began to back further away.

"You are my child. You're MINE! Nothing or no one will take you away from me ever again."

My fear soon turned in to confusion as I looked her with squinted eyes.

"Ummmm......I'm sorry.......but didn't you dump me.....at a playground.....when I was five? That must really make you parent of the year!" I said.

Her face turned sour as I smirked at the thought of her calling herself a mother after what she did to me when I was just a baby.

"Things were different then. I did what I thought was right when Dwayne was attracted to you more than me."

"Again......at five?"

"He's still my man and he's promised to not do what he did again because I missed you so much and he would do anything for me to be happy. Don't you want your mama to be happy Carlyn?"

Since she keeps pulling this mom card I might as well use it to my advantage if I want to get out of this bathroom in one piece. I put on the best sad face I could give and gave her my sweet 'but daddy I really wanna' voice. I took my pinky nail and jabbed it in the back of my leg to get a few tears out to make this thing look legit.

"Ok! Alright! I'll come with you......mama."

God it sounds like I'm committing murder calling her that. I almost wanted to throw up and die right here on this disgusting bathroom floor. Melissa began to smile and get all excited since I called her 'mama' and took another step.

"Oh baby-"

"For now lets just......keep our distance until we get outta here huh? I don't think you don't want.....anybody trying to take me from you. That is what you want after all right? You want me to come home with you? Be a family?"

Lay it on her Carly. Make it believable baby! This was the easy part. I learn how to convince my dad into letting me sleep in the living room a few nights ago and now I'm putting my smoozing to good use. Melissa couldn't keep herself from bathing in her happiness. Too bad it's all about to be cut short. I had to continue to be light on my feet with this plan and still had to execute it flawlessly. What I couldn't figure out was how was I gonna from this stupid wall to that door! Without making it obvious I looked around the bathroom to find my best and only usable option. So far the only thing I could come up with was the soap dispenser. SHIT! I need more than that! This might not work after all. At this point I'm begging to God for some type of Hail Mary but it doesn't look like I'm gonna get one right now.

  "So you believe me now that I'm your mama?" Melissa asked me just seconds away from turning into a weak and annoying puddle of tears.

  "Yeah! Yeah I believe you!" I said trying my best to keep my sarcasm at bay until I could figure out my next move.

  "Good because.....you know.....I didn't want to leave you at that playground all alone.....I just.....I was just confused. You know what? We don't need Dwayne! We'll go back to Indianapolis without him! We'll live our own lives and we'll be happy! You like that right you wanna be happy?" She sniffed and sniveled.

  "Sure! But you know what would seriously be really.....really......fab right now? You should give me a hug."

Damn Carly that's a bit much. I know I thought the same thing when I said it. Don't worry though it's part of the plan. Y'all really think I wanna hug this bitch? Hard pass. I can tell you right now once this is all over I'm going home and taking a nice long shower......in battery acid. But I digress. I stretched my arms out to her welcoming her in for this deplorable physical exchange and just when she was about to embrace me the whole plan went to shit. How you might ask? Some dingbat tried to get into the bathroom. Melissa turned to the door and then turned back to me pissed all the way off.

  "You sent them to find you didn't you?" She said angrily trying not to give herself away.

Now I have a real reason to beg.

  "N-no! I didn't! You saw me the whole time! I couldn't have told anybody!" I said as I was now stuck between her and the wall.

  "You little bitch! You lied! You don't believe that I'm your mother!" She shouted as she lunged at me.

I didn't even think about my next move I just ducked down as she smacked hard into the wall. That was my chance to make a break for it. I ran for the door as fast as my legs could get me and unlocked the door rushing out to find my dad and the rest of the crew. I didn't get too far when I was tackled from the right by who I thought was a stranger but it was my worst nightmare coming true.

  "Where you think you running to girl? Didn't ya mama say you comin with us?" The deep voice said with and angry rumble from his chest.

  "Dwayne. Let me go!" I said trying to wiggle free of his tight grip around my body.

  "I like how you move. Let's see if you can still do it when I getchu outta here."

I didn't like how that sounded at all. My heart rate picked up and out of nowhere the fear took over as I tried to fight him off. Dwayne scooped me from the floor once he found his footing to get up and tried to drag me to the exit. I was still too far away from my family and the music was too loud for anyone to hear me. I was being snatched away from home once again and no one is able to get to me. As I was being dragged I was trying my best to break free when I felt something tapping softly at my chest. I looked down and it was like in slow motion that I noticed my necklace that uncle Morris had just given to me. I was never so glad that Tre put it on my neck at that moment. I grabbed the chain and pulled it from my neck and clutched it in my hand as I looked around for someone I can get to look my way. Good thing I found someone in time. I hurled the necklace at uncle Dre's back while we was just making his way up to the concession stand. It hit him hard enough to find me being pulled out of the building.

  "CARLY!!!!!" He shouted as he chased after us.

Uncle Dre ran at us in a full blitz as he pushed through the double glass doors of the skating rink.

  "UNCLE ANDRE HELP ME!" I screamed causing Dwayne to suddenly stop running and put me down.

He turned to find my uncle right behind him.

  "Let her go!" He said to Dwayne.

Dwayne did what uncle Dre said and he let go of my forearm. Immediately after my dad and everyone came running out in a state of panic.

  "Where's my daughter?" I heard my dad say as he pushed through the tiny crowd.

  "Daddy!" I cried running into his arms.

  "Are you alright my love? Are you hurt?" He asked worried.

  "No I'm ok! I just wanna go home!" I said.

He let me go and hand me stand with uncle Morris who was holding my necklace. Regan was standing just behind us with Tre with her arm around him trying to calm him down. The anger in his face was so scary I was almost afraid to approach him. I decided to go to him anyway even though I was scared to death.

  "Carly!" He said as he grabbed me and hugged me.

  "I'm alright Tre. It's ok now." I said to him hoping to calm him down.

  "I should have been with you."

  "You can't go into the bathroom with me."

  "Yeah but I should have been close by. This was my fault."

  "Don't blame yourself. It's fine now."

Regan came from behind him and rubbed my back.

  "Did he do anything to you?" She asked.

  "Just tackle me and drag me out. It was the crazy bitch that locked me in the bathroom." I told her.

Regan's tan face was a bright red color and she bolted back inside the rink.

  "Regan! Wait!" I shouted.

I guess that caught everyone's attention because the focus shifted from Dwayne to Regan.

  "Mouse! No!" I heard my uncle Dre call out.

  "Tony stay with this one!" My dad directed as he and uncle Dre went after Regan. The group soon split into two groups. One group stayed with Tony who was also responsible for getting Joey into a car safely and the other group who had to stop Regan for whatever reason. I didn't want to go but my curiosity was pulling me in the direction of the rink.

  "Come on!" I said pulling Tre with me.

  "Carly what are we doing? We shouldn't be in there!" He replied.

  "I know but Regan is my friend and she might need my help."

We ran back to the rink to see what was going on and to see if my new friend was ok. I hope for my sake she beats the hell out of Melissa.