her cheek and started crying. “What the fuck? You cannot just sit there and tell me that Mercy didn’t bend over backwards for you. Even after she was tossed out of your father’s home, she continued to help you. That’s not even talking about her healing you. Christ, I should just let you sit here until you rot. To think that I was so excited to have lunch with you sometime soon.” Piper stood up. “If it’s anything at all to you, your...no, Mercy has given birth. While you sit here on your ass, shrugging off how you think she helped you, she’s sobbing her fucking eyes out because you weren’t there when it all occurred. You should be beaten.”
Piper shifted and took to the skies. It was in her to go and shit on the girl’s head. Flying as far from her as possible while still being able to keep an eye on her, Piper landed outside the home of Benson and Molly. She wanted to talk to Molly in the worst sort of way.
Molly was the mother she’d never had. Not that she even remembered a time when she’d had a mom, but Piper had been going to her regularly over the last few weeks. As soon as she was let into the house, Molly told her to come into the kitchen, then smacked her on the back of the head when she was seated.
“What was that for?” She told her that she had spoken to Miley. “I did. But I don’t understand how that is deserving of a pop to the back of my head.”
“Would you like another pop?” Shaking her head, Piper told her what had happened. “I’m going to allow this of you this one and only time. Because you don’t know. You and the others have no idea what it’s like for a teenager. Miley is going through something that none of you have experienced, nor will you ever. She’s changing daily. Her heart is taking a beating too. Teenagers, humans and shifters alike go through this sort of thing all the time. They’re not mean. They’re confused. I’m sure you didn’t help matters one bit by making her cry.”
“She hurt Mercy.” She said that Mercy was next on her list. “This is insane. I came here to talk to you, and you’re yelling at me. I don’t like that.”
She hit her again. “Listen to me. Or better yet, reach out to that little girl and tell me what you’re feeling from her.” She did and was astonished to hear that Miley was as depressed as she’d ever felt a person to be. “That’s not entirely on you, but a great deal of it is. Lucky for you that I love you, or I wouldn’t have helped all of you out. When you have trouble with someone, do you accuse or ask questions first?”
“So that you don’t hit me again, you tell me the answer to that.” Piper was beginning to hate the fact that she’d come here when Molly hit her anyway. “What the fuck am I supposed to do?”
“You reach out for help. I’m trying to tell you something here so that when you have children, you’ll have a better understanding of things.” While she was still listening to Miley’s thoughts, terrified about them, she felt the moment that someone else sat down beside her. She told Molly. “That would be Tracy, a girl that has had it much rougher than Miley has, yet has gone through the same changes she is experiencing. They’ll get this worked out. The two of them will. Not you.”
“I was asked to go there by Mercy.” Molly told her again that she would talk to Mercy. “If having kids is this much work, I’m not sure I want any.”
“You’ll have them, but you’ll get to see them grow and develop into where those two are now. A daughter of yours will be with you forever, through changes that you can talk to her about. Never go to another parent’s child to help them out, Piper. That is walking on dangerous grounds. What if you had said something about her mom? Something that you wanted to impart to her that would get Mercy in deeper trouble than she is now? Because you can’t fix hormones.”
“I’m not going to have any girls then. Fuck that shit.” She dodged the smack to her head this time but didn’t count on her smacking her hands. “You’re very violent. Did you