The Results

Jamie’s test results came back first. And the reports were all normal. Not that anyone had a doubt before. But Lydia’s reports were taking longer than necessary. She didn’t hear back from them the same day when Jamie’s reports came back. The delay didn’t send any red flags in Lydia’s mind. But the hold up was getting her slightly anxious. 

The Phone Call

Lydia was done with all the formalities related to the funding assistance. Yet the only thing remaining was the result of the DNA test. Lydia couldn’t understand why it is taking so long. That evening, when Lydia was busy making dinner, she received a phone call that requested her presence at the office of the Washington State prosecutor to go over the results of her DNA test. 

Questions

Lydia realized this cannot mean good news. Why would they ask her to come down and ‘discuss’ the results with the officials? Is there any discrepancy in the report? A thousand questions flooded her head. She assumed she might be getting unnecessarily paranoid. But she knew, this kind of delay and now asking her to come down to the office, none of it is normal. 

An Unusual Meeting

Lydia was on her way to the prosecutor’s office. She knew she was being paranoid for no reason. This will just be a routine procedure and will be over before she knows it. It is just some formality with a social worker. But when she reached the office and sat across the representative, something about his demeanor said otherwise. 

Interrogation

As soon as Lydia sat down, the representative shut the door and sat down across from her. Lydia could sense the tense ambiance of the room. The representative began to ask Lydia a bunch of questions about her identity. He told her to speak the truth and come clean instead of wasting everyone’s time. Lydia’s eyes went wide at the absurdity of the whole situation.

Suspect

Lydia came to know that the reason she was being interrogated was that nobody believed that she is the mother of her children. Apparently, the DNA test results proved Jamie as the father of the kids but did not prove Lydia to be their biological mother. Lydia could not understand how something like this is happening.