Isaac sat at home with Walker, Taylor, Zac and the kids who were on their fourth game of "Go Fish". Walker looked at his three worried sons. He sighed and put his hand on Isaac's shoulder and gave him a reasurring look. Isaac gave a fake smile and stared back at Mackie, Avery and Jessica.
Diana walked in alone and went into the living room where the rest of her family was. "Mom!!" Zac shot up. "Wheres Tia??? Is she okay????" Zac hugged his mother and looked up at her with a tear stained face.
"Tia is at Rachelle's house honey....."
"Is she okay??"
"Yes..." she sat down holding Zac in her arms. "She had many test done at the hospital, they found out that the man had on a condom so they couldn't get any idenification of him. And Tia is still too out of it to remember what he looks like..." she took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Zac looked at her and rested his head on her shoulder and hugged her weakly.
Rachelle sat on her bed with Tia's heas in her lap, she stroked Tia's hair softly. Tia looked up at her and she simply smiled weakly, "Tia, you are more than welcome to stay here as long as you'd like..." she offered.
"Thank you Rach..." she sighed as a tear found its way down her cheek. Rach wiped it away and softly sang to her:
"Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though its breaking
Although a tear, may be ever so near
Thats the time you keep on trying
Smile, whats the use in crying
You'll find that life is still worth wild
If you just smile....."
Zac slowly entered Rachelle's room, he saw Rach looking out the window and Tia was asleep with her head rested in Rachelle's lap. He walked closer to her and touched her shoulder softly and she looked up at him. He saw that she had been crying from the dried ter streams that were goin' down her cheeks.
"Hi..." he whispered.
"Hey......" she said softly. She figured he would want to talk so she carefully moved Tia's head off her lap, and placed it onto a pillow. She quietly walked out of the room with Zac at her heels. They went into the quest room and sat down. "So... whats on your mind?" she asked.
"I'm not sure... I guess my question is, what happens now?"
" Well," she took a deep breath. "We treat her no different than a normal day. Don't make her feel uncomfortable by treating her any different." she looked at him.
"Okay, I guess I see what your saying and where your comming from." he half smiled.
"We all just need to give her time... ya know..." Rach said looking out the window again. Zac reached up and touched her shoulder.
"Rach, are you okay?" he asked meekly. She looked at him with tears in her eyes.
"Yea...I'll be fine..." she said and hugged him.
"Your right Rach, I think everyone just needs a little bit of time....." Zac said hugging her back.
