The months pass quickly, and April has been showing some slow signs of improvement. She doesn’t have the nightmares nearly as often.

Toni has begun to feel more confident about her daughter. She wishes that she never had to go through that. But she also realizes that it was out of her control. Most of the altercations between Mark and April, happened while she was at work.

Toni sits at the table in the kitchen. She is looking over some paperwork she received in the mail. Her attempts to press charges on Mark, have been successful. She reads the trial date information. She thinks to herself how this will be very helpful for her and her daughter. It will give them much needed peace of mind.

“What is that your reading momma?” April looked at her mother.

“This is paperwork for a trial, we have to go to. Remember honey, We asked the courts to put daddy in Jail” She said as she looked at her daughter.

“Oh right, now I remember” April said with a forlorn look on her face.