We were supposed to hang out on Fridays. I called last Friday to make plans for the day. Her mother answered and I asked for Nikki. She said Nikki was sleeping and asked who was calling. I told her who I was, and she said she'd wake Nikki. Nikki answered the phone groggily, even though it was 2 PM. "Hello?" "Hey!" I began asking her about her plans for the day. "Who is this?" she asked. I told her. She groaned, and her mother was back on the phone. "Nikki's sick. She's been sick since last night."
"Oh, that's OK" I said, "I'll just call back later this week."
I called on Monday evening to make plans for Tuesday. Her mom said she was out for a walk and said she'd have Nikki call me back.
No call.
I called today and her mother answered. She didn't know exactly where Nikki was but ensured me that she'd tell Nikki I called.
I'm not even sure what to think. I'm calling Childrens Services tomorrow. I don't know what to do. I don't want to torture the girl. I don't want to annoy her mother. I don't want to annoy her. I just want to hang out with a girl who could use a good influence... I'm not here to make anyone miserable. Let's see how this goes.
I'm feeling pretty discouraged. I had big plans.
don't always work out. Don't get discouraged. If this one doesn't work out, there is another one you can make contact with. Do bring this to the attention of social services. you have no idea what could be going on, intervention is needed. what kind of parent doesn't know where her daughter is? You might not get to meet her and get all the warm fuzzies you were hoping for, but you are making a differences, you are expanding the possibility that this girl can be saved, and you are being asked to move according to where the need and possibility for change is....
"O, I'm sorry you took that, -I meant that for the Devil, and you have stepped in and taken the blow. Don't get between me and the Devil, brother, and the you won't get hurt." --Billy Hibbard
Sounds like you got there just in time. I know you had big plans before but look at it this way. You are there to see something going on and possibly intervene as needed. You are in a great position to be the ear Nikki needs to talk to whenever she resurfaces....just don't give up on her.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.~- Anais Nin