Raising Amber Marie

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Chapter Sixteen


Just when Serenity thought that her life was going great, she had her daughter, brother and family what more could anyone want, her happiness was about to come to a screeching halt, the grandfather of Amber was about to make an entrance and it wasn’t going to be pretty.

This morning when Serenity awoke, Amber was in her crib playing with one of her favorite books that her Uncle Joey had given her. She got up and walked over and smiled at Amber who held up her arms, for her mommy to pick her up, then changing Amber, they went downstairs to get breakfast.

As Amber was eating her breakfast, Helga gave Rene a cup of coffee and she said, “Remember that tonight you have a date to go to the movies with Mokuba.” I smiled at her and said, “I remember.”

Just then, Mokuba, Seto and Joey all walked into the kitchen and as they sat down at the table, Serenity looked at Mokie and they both blushed to the delight of our brothers. Helga must have given then the look, because they both stopped what they were doing and we all had a very pleasant breakfast.

Serenity then took Amber upstairs, changed her, and got her dressed, and then she changed her own clothes, got the diaper bag and her backpack, and started back down the stairs.

Roland came in from outside and said, “The cars ready.” Then he took Amber from me and we walked outside and as I got into the car, he gave me Amber and then he drove us to the Day Care and after I dropped Amber off, Roland took me to Domino Community College. As Serenity got out of the car she said, “Thanks for the ride.” He gave me a hug and then he drove off.

I love going to College and learning new things everyday, I especially love the Childhood Development Class I was talking. The Instructor was a retired Nurse and she was great in teaching us about children.

When the class let out, Mrs. Benton asked to talk to me. “Serenity, I wanted to tell you that you are one of my favorite students, you really participate in every discussion and your grades are up in the ten percentile range.”

I thanked her and then she asked me, “Would you be willing to help a couple of the other students who are having trouble understanding some of the things that I’ve been teaching?”

I told her, “I’d love to.” Then she said, “Next Monday, maybe you could stay a little later and I can introduce you to the ones having trouble.”

I told her, “I’ll talk to my brother and see if he can pick up my daughter from Day Care that day and that way I can stay later.” She told me, “That would be great.” Then I left to get to my next class.

When I was ready to leave, Joey was there to pick me up and as he drove over to the Day Care Center, I told him what my Instructor asked me and he said, “Sure I can pick up Amber for you, sis you’re really loving going back to school aren’t you.”

I smiled and told him, “Yes, I really love to learn and this Childhood Development Class is going to help me as Amber gets older.” When we got home, Joey carried Amber inside and I followed behind them. When we got to the living room, Serenity saw that Chester was there along with Solomon, the tension could be cut with a knife, and Serenity said, “What‘s going on?”

Roland then said, “Do you know someone by the name, Douglas Hammond Sr.?”

I nearly fainted when he said that name, if it weren’t for Seto grabbing hold of me I probably would of hit the floor. Helga took Amber from Joey and he ran over and said, “Rene, what’s wrong?”

Tears were running down my face as I looked at my brother and said, “He’s Amber’s grandfather.”

Roland then said, “A man called Kaiba Corp. today and asked to speak to Serenity Wheeler, they put the call into my Office and I asked him, what he wanted. He then said he wanted to see his granddaughter.”

Serenity was frantic and Joey said, “Don’t worry; he won’t get near you or Amber.” I looked at him and said, “How did he find us?”

Roland then said, “I asked him that exact question and he told me, he had tracked down your mother and he went to Germany and when Chester refused to talk to him.

Chester then said, “He discovered where your mother was and somehow got them to let him see her, then your mom told him where you were and well that’s how he knew.”

Amber started fussing and Helga put her down and she walked over to me and as I took her into my arms, she reached up and wiped the tears from my face and I decided that I was going to fight to keep my baby. I smiled and kissed her and said, “Mommy’s alright baby.”

She smiled at me and said, “Me to mommy.” We all laughed and then Joey took Amber so that I could get off the floor and then she reached for me and as I took her in my arms I turned to Roland and I said, “I’m going to need a really good lawyer, Douglas isn’t going to get his hands on my daughter, without a fight.”

Chester then said, “If you’ll let me, I’ll get my best team of lawyers on this, we’ll find out what’s going on, that man has something up his sleeves and I’ll bet it has to do with money and lots of it.”

Roland looked at Serenity and he said, “I agree with Chester, this man doesn’t want Amber, he just wants the money that he thinks he can get you to pay to make him leave and never come back, well that’s not what he’s going to get I promise you.”

Solomon then walked over to Joey and he said, “Do you still have that letter that Mary gave me to give to you?”

Joey said, “It’s up in my room, why?”

Solomon then said, “It’s got the date on it that will prove that she gave it to you and if this man thinks that there’s someway of making it look like Rene knew about Amber, then he’ll do it, even if it means lying about it.”

Serenity was holding Amber, she went over and sat down on the couch, and as she held Amber to her breast, she said, “Mom told me that when I found out my baby was born dead; she paid Darrell to leave and never come back.

What if this man can prove that my baby was alive, can he use that to take her away from me?”

Joey went over and as he sat down next to her, he said, “Listen, let Chester get his lawyers here and they can sort through all the legal stuff, right now you need to keep calm or Amber is going to pick up on it and she’s going to be crying all the time.”

Helga smiled at Rene and she said, “Listen to your brother, he knows from experience that this little one will know when her mommy is upset and she’ll be upset too, so why don’t we go get something for Amber to snack on and forget any of this happened.”

When they left the room Solomon asked, “Do we have enough proof that Serenity didn’t know about her baby to keep that man from taking Amber from her or not?”

Chester then said, “I’ll call and have two of my best lawyers come here, they can be here tomorrow, but in the mean time, Roland can we speak to one of Kaiba Corp. lawyers and see where we stand?”

Roland then said, “First thing in the morning, I’ll have a meeting set up, but in the meantime, Chester I want you to stay here with us, there’s no need to get a hotel room.”

Chester thanked Roland and then he said, “That baby is not going to be taken from her mommy, I promise you.”

That evening as they all sat down to dinner, Amber kept looking at Chester and she’s smile and hold out one of her chicken fingers for him to taste, and Chester would pretend to eat it, that would cause Amber to start giggling and that would make the rest of them laugh.

Chester then said, “You’re one very special little angel aren’t you?” Amber smiled at him and said, “Me Amber.” Serenity’s eyes filled with tears as she heard her daughter and as she wiped them away she said, “That’s right, you’re Amber.”

After dinner, they were all sitting in the living room, Chester was talking to Solomon and Roland when they heard Amber let out a squeal and they turned around to see Joey on his knees and Amber sitting on his back and he was moving around pretending he was a horse.

Chester laughed and said, “I will do everything I can do to keep that man from trying to take Amber from her mother, it makes me happy to know that Serenity isn’t anything like her mother.”

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