Amelia couldn't get it out of her head as she walked down the halls to where the playground was. James was here, in this very town. And not only that but his daughter just happened to be in her classroom. What were the odds? Was fate just against her so much that she would have to be reminded of one of the hardest times in her life? It wasn't fair to have all of those memories thrust upon her again. Memories of they happy first year together, when they truly had loved each other. Memories of his popularity causing him to drift away from her. Memories of seeing him in bed with another woman. And worse of all, the memories of him completely shunning and ignoring her in that frightful and confusing first few months of her pregnancy. She had been so scared. So helpless. All she had wanted for for someone, ANYONE, to comfort her. To tell her it would be okay and everything would turn out fine. She understood if he didn't want to be with her anymore, if he didn't love her, but to treat her as if she never existed? That was the worse thing he could have done to her. 

She walked through the doors and out to the playground, immediately smiling to see her little girl climbing up the monkey bars and hanging upside down from it. She was a very energy filled little girl that was for sure. She reminded Amelia of herself when she was Lily's age. Always running around and playing, seeming to bring a smile to anyone's face who was fortunate enough to see her. Walking over to the bars she grinned up at her daughter, putting her hands on her hips, "Lillian. Time to go sweety. We have to go get you a new dress for your birthday party, remember? If you don't hurry all the shops will close before we even get a chance to look around." Who needed James? She sure didn't. So what if he was happy and had a family of his own? So what if he had shunned her and had said she was a stupid and worthless girl? It was his lose because he would never get to have the privilege of calling this sweet little ray of sunshine his daughter.

Reaching up when Lily hung upside down again giggling, she wrapped her arms around her and pulled her off laughing, "Come on you silly Lily." She carried the girl happily over to the old 1995 monte carlo and let her get in before getting into the drivers seat and left from there, heading to the indoor mall just a few miles away. Once there she lead the little girl inside and smiled holding her hand, "Okay, so, we need to get you a dress and a new pair of shoes." In reality, she couldn't afford even that. She was behind on her bills majorly and shouldn't even be getting anything they didn't need, especially if it meant using her credit card, which was already a large bill. But, she had promised the girl over a month ago to do this for her and she for sure was going to keep that promise! If it made her daughter happy she would do anything. 

Walking into one of the stores she let the little girl look at some dresses while she herself just browsed around. Amelia found a rather pretty dress. One that she wanted to get so badly to wear for her mother daughter night with little Lily. She hadn't bought anything new for herself in months. But one look at the price tag and a deep frown came to her face. She couldn't afford it. Sighing, she looked at the dress another moment before she turned, and gave her daughter the same smile she always gave the girl to keep her from worrying about her mother, "Did you find anything yet Lily Pad?"

"Uh-huh!" The little girl held up a pretty little green dress and Amelia smiled, "Okay, lets go try it on." She walked her daughter over to the dressing room and let the little girl go in by herself. It only took a moment but soon she came out and Amelia smiled at her daughter, "Oh, sweety, it looks great on you." Kneeling down she hugged her daughter close to her and smiled more, "Here, turn around. I want to see what it will look like with your hair up." The girl turned around obediently, and Amelia took to rolling the girl's hair up, hoping to put it in a pretty looking bun, when she saw her worst night mare come into the door of the shop. James. He was still with his daughter, probably looking for something for her. She quickly looked away and went back to doing her daughter's hair, thinking and hoping that maybe if she pretended not to have seen him, he might not see her. Or if he did he wouldn't dare come over to her. So, she rolled her daughter's hair up again, focusing on that instead of her old lover being in the same store as her, and worse, while she was here with their daughter he knew nothing about.