The Accident
4 JANUARY 2020
**Future Arielle here, this post has been sitting in my drafts for a week now and I don’t know what else to do with it... Its been a rough week in our house**
“Long time no post... I managed to squeeze up a few pictures on Christmas morning but that certainly feels like a whole year ago. So I’m sure most of you know we had the usual breakfast and lunch at our house to celebrate with as much family we could muster together. Which resulted in Us, Nyx and her family and surprisingly Demeter as well. (plus respective children). But it was about noon when we noticed that Demeter had disappeared and as per usual she had left Aubree with us. Which do not for a second get me wrong, I am so thankful she chooses us and not someone else or chooses to bring her along. To be honest we didn’t think to much of it, she would have gone and got drunk in front of the children and ruin Christmas again this year. It wasn’t until 9 am boxing day when we actually began to worry for Demeter’s health and safety. I got a phone call from Aubree’s social worker asking if we had Aubree as there was a current amber alert for her and that she had hoped that Aubree was with us. She was happy for a few moments, but when she sighed... I just knew something was wrong with Demeter. She told me Demeter was in a serious car accident, believed to be a suicide attempt from her behaviour that night... and the fact she swerved into a tree on a complete straight road, in Boroughsburg, an hour away.
But that wasn’t even the worst part.
Only an hour before I got the phone call, the amber alert was made by Aubree’s father demanding to have his daughter taken from Demeter’s custody because of how mentally unstable she is. And it worked. She was taken legally from Demeter first, and then from us later that day.
And I saw from the small window of the door at the CPS offices, that little girl scream and fight her way out of that mans arms. My heart broke to a million pieces. I knew right then and there the adoption NEEDED to happen now.