As soon as Sadie arrived she got her bags then hailed a taxi that took her to the Marriot right around the corner where she stayed for the week.
The first days in San Diego were spent exploring, she went to the zoo, where she came across a few people whom she knew that ran away as fast and far as they could, and on the last day she headed to this ‘maybe mother’s’ home. She arrived then rang the door bell. An unfamiliar face answered, Sadie was about to say sorry wrong house, but instead she began to cry, already the hopes of success were slightly crushed. The kind women ushered her in and helped her, she gave Sadie some cookies and when Sadie had composed herself, she thanked the women solemnly and packed up at the hotel, as her father had traced her there so she was headed to Texas, the closest location of someone under the name of her mother.
In the next two stops, the same happened as San Diego, she would go to the town and meet someone she knew who would immediately alert her father of her location so, with her father was right behind her, Sadie needed to get somewhere, and that somewhere had to be far away from her father as didn’t want to admit defeat, so she hailed a taxi to take her out to Canada, where nobody she knew could be, so no one could report her to her father. As the taxi drove, Sadie’s heart sank lower, until the taxi stopped at a stoplight, and Sadie watched some men at a banquet hall put letters on the announcement board they read: “Congratulations Mrs. Christine Marie Harrison and Mr. Aaron Jacobsen on getting married!!!”
One word crossed Sadie’s mind, and one word only, mom. This could be it! This could be her mother… she wondered why she wasn't on the internet, and then decided that it must be already changed to Mrs. Aaron Jacobsen.
The sign said that the party was at 5:30, Sadie’s watch said 3:00 and there was a hotel a half hour away, according to her fun, and there was a dress shop right around there, so Sadie had the cab drop her there, where she bought a room for one night, that would be all she needed. She went outside and walked down the street where she found a local store, she had very little money left, but she managed to find a rather inexpensive yet elegant dress.
Sadie returned to her hotel room and got herself ready to go, she put on her makeup, she did her hair put in her dress and then she started to walk down to the banquet hall.
At 5:30, Sadie was one of the last “guests” to arrive, once in the banquet hall, she saw the back of a figure totally dressed in white, so she pushed her way through the crowd, then she heard a familiar laugh, that saw a familiar smile, but it was at the faces above, not at the small girl hidden by the large crowd of people whispering to her to watch where she was stepping and to stay out of everyone's way. Sadie still managed to force her way to the front where a strange man stood with his arm hooked through the woman's arm, he whispered something and that laugh came out of that women's lovely and familiar mouth.
Sadie stepped forward, but was quickly pushed aside by other people, no matter what Sadie tried, whether it was pushing to the front, or jumping up and down to get attention, nothing worked, once someone even tried to kick her out when they didn't recognize her from the wedding. Sadie began to lose heart. How could she be so close, but she just couldn't get to that familiar women. So finally ran up and pushing everyone aside, at last getting everyone to move aside, making a path for her getting that lovely bride to notice her. Under her breath, Sadie whispered, “I don’t know how to say this, but I still love you” then she enveloped the bride the biggest hug possible for such a small girl, and looked up at the shocked then happy face of her mother.
I Don’t Know If You Want This, But Here’s Your Epilogue.
Soon Sadie discovered that the time right before her mother abruptly disappeared when her parents had told everyone they were going out to dinner; they were at a divorce trial. They had divorced, and Sadie was in the middle of the deal. They never decided who got to keep her, but when Sadie's mother left in search of a new life, the answer that Sadie was her father's was obvious according to the courthouse. Though those details had been carefully hidden from Sadie, her mother had decided that she might as well know. Very shortly, Sadie's father caught up to her, he attempted to make her come back to his home, he bribed her and used his legal point of view, but Sadie wouldn't leave the mother she hadn't had for most of her life. Sadie lived a wonderful life, and grew up to be a lovely strong woman.
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