Maternity in Four Parts
Authoress: Wee-Me
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the "Beetlejuice" characters. The OC is mine. I'm just playing in the sandbox; I'll put it back like I found it when I'm done.
Biological: Bess
Lydia doesn't talk about her mother.
Ever.
But, when pressed, she'll say the woman is dead. For all she knows it's true. Everyone takes her silence as a sign that's she's broken up over her mother's death, that they were close, that Lydia misses her mommy.
The truth is that Lydia herself packed up all her mother's possessions and handed them over to the strung out man that showed up a week after her mother ran off the last time. In exchange for the useless crap that hadn't yet been hocked she received the signed divorce papers to end her parents' marriage. She was only eleven then, but it wasn't the first of her mother's boyfriends she'd had to deal with and at least this one didn't touch her or fake an interest in being her new step-dad. She got him out the door without incident or having to call the building's doorman for help.
She slipped the divorce papers under the door of her dad's office/study for him to find when he came home and she didn't mention her mother again.
She only ever even thought she saw her mother once more. It was a late school day and she was on the bus coming back from a field trip. They stopped at a red light in a not great part of town and she could have sworn the woman staggering out of the bar blind drunk at 4:00pm was her mother. She didn't try to look any closer, was in fact relieved when the bus pulled away. The only outward break in her calm was a nervous tracing of the trio of perfectly round burns on her left forearm, the permanent reminder of why it's a bad idea to bother mommy while she's drinking.
End Biological
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This one does not fit in with the rest of my stories; I prefer a much happier view of the mother and the life before. Still, I had the urge to do a darker take on things. Please enjoy. (This is part of my 13 Posts of Halloween. Further notes in my bio.)