Team Julia.
When Carly finds out about this, she's going to call me a traitor.
Its a pretty easy category to fall into with her nowadays. Being one of the last ones still talking to her doesn't make me immune, either. With the way Carly is doing things, I wouldn't be surprised if she said she was trying to get rid of all of the people who betrayed her all at once. Make a clean break or something. That's one of those things I can't put past her, no matter how much I'd like to.
So, I'm taking a risk. If Sam doesn't give me away, Julia always could by mentioning him a lot when I take her home, but this is the right thing to do. A baby can't be expected to understand what's going on with them. Half of the time I don't understand it myself, and I'm nineteen.
If Carly asks me whose side I'm on, I'll tell her I'm on Julia's. Someone has to be looking out for my cousin. And if there's one thing I'm sure of, its that Sam and Carly aren't. They'd swallow their pride and get in contact with each other if they were. Julia is too young to understand why she hasn't seen her father in a week. She's had him with her every day since her birth up until recently. No matter how hard Carly is trying to be there for her, there's no making up for that.
And this is good for me because I was planning on trying to talk some sense into Sam anyway. I got sidetracked when Carly had David staying their apartment, and then by school, and even by Arianna. This is the first chance I've had to make an effort at talking to Sam about what happened.
I doubt I'll be able to make any headway, but I'm going to try.
Seeing Julia should be enough to get Sam to take a break. Then hopefully, we can sit down and discuss this. I'd like to tell him how Carly's holding up in all this. He should know that a change isn't going to come from her end anytime soon. If its left up to her, it could be weeks before he gets another opportunity to see his daughter.
If that happened, I'd step in again. But I know better than to mention that when I'm trying to get him to contact her.
I parked in front of the building and got out, taking Julia out of her carseat and grabbing my backpack that had her stuff in it. Then I pushed the door closed and started for the door, glad that it was just about lunch time. It should fit in with the break idea almost perfectly.
I headed in, thanking the woman who held the door open for us, and asked the receptionist where to find Sam, then thanked her when she told me and took the stairs up to the second floor.
"We have to be good Julia." I grinned, finding the second door on the left and going in.
Huh. Interesting. I've never been to one of these before.
I took a few steps into the room and then set Julia down, deciding to let her suprise Sam since had his back to us. She toddled along in his direction and fell, then she got up, started towards him again, and ended up back on her rear.
Carly did say that Julia hasn't perfected walking yet. Oh well. Maybe she'll try again.
"DADA!"
Guess that's all the surprise she feels like giving today. I think its good enough. He looks happy.
Its a pretty easy category to fall into with her nowadays. Being one of the last ones still talking to her doesn't make me immune, either. With the way Carly is doing things, I wouldn't be surprised if she said she was trying to get rid of all of the people who betrayed her all at once. Make a clean break or something. That's one of those things I can't put past her, no matter how much I'd like to.
So, I'm taking a risk. If Sam doesn't give me away, Julia always could by mentioning him a lot when I take her home, but this is the right thing to do. A baby can't be expected to understand what's going on with them. Half of the time I don't understand it myself, and I'm nineteen.
If Carly asks me whose side I'm on, I'll tell her I'm on Julia's. Someone has to be looking out for my cousin. And if there's one thing I'm sure of, its that Sam and Carly aren't. They'd swallow their pride and get in contact with each other if they were. Julia is too young to understand why she hasn't seen her father in a week. She's had him with her every day since her birth up until recently. No matter how hard Carly is trying to be there for her, there's no making up for that.
And this is good for me because I was planning on trying to talk some sense into Sam anyway. I got sidetracked when Carly had David staying their apartment, and then by school, and even by Arianna. This is the first chance I've had to make an effort at talking to Sam about what happened.
I doubt I'll be able to make any headway, but I'm going to try.
Seeing Julia should be enough to get Sam to take a break. Then hopefully, we can sit down and discuss this. I'd like to tell him how Carly's holding up in all this. He should know that a change isn't going to come from her end anytime soon. If its left up to her, it could be weeks before he gets another opportunity to see his daughter.
If that happened, I'd step in again. But I know better than to mention that when I'm trying to get him to contact her.
I parked in front of the building and got out, taking Julia out of her carseat and grabbing my backpack that had her stuff in it. Then I pushed the door closed and started for the door, glad that it was just about lunch time. It should fit in with the break idea almost perfectly.
I headed in, thanking the woman who held the door open for us, and asked the receptionist where to find Sam, then thanked her when she told me and took the stairs up to the second floor.
"We have to be good Julia." I grinned, finding the second door on the left and going in.
Huh. Interesting. I've never been to one of these before.
I took a few steps into the room and then set Julia down, deciding to let her suprise Sam since had his back to us. She toddled along in his direction and fell, then she got up, started towards him again, and ended up back on her rear.
Carly did say that Julia hasn't perfected walking yet. Oh well. Maybe she'll try again.
"DADA!"
Guess that's all the surprise she feels like giving today. I think its good enough. He looks happy.