Maya's Next Adventure

Chapter Sixteen

until everything went wrong...

TRIGGER WARNING

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THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS SCENES OF VERBAL HARASSMENT AND STRONG LANGUAGE

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Maya's POV

"Calm down baby, Can you breathe for me Amelia. She's gone now" I say to the tiny child who is fighting to breathe. I press her head closer to my chest so she can hear my heartbeat.

"In... and Out... In...and Out... In... and Out..." Carina repeats to Amelia. I feel her tiny body struggle.

"She... She... G...g...gone" Amelia says through the struggle and tears.

"Yes, baby. she's gone. Now we need you to breathe for us, then we will go home okay." I tell her. "Breathe with Carina, Amelia."

FLASHBACK

I watch Amelia run around the park, playing on the slide when suddenly someone starts shouting. It's quite far away, but the women gets closer and closer to the park. It doesn't look as though she has any child with her but she heads straight to Amelia. I watch as Amelia looks up at the woman and the colour instantly leaves her face. I know something is very wrong.

"Carina, we need to get to Amelia. NOW" I say to my girlfriend sat next to me.

She nods her head and we make sure that we get to our baby before the woman does.

"Help" Amelia whispers to me.

"Help with what Amel..." I get cut off.

"AMELIA-GRACE WALKER" I hear the woman shout.

That's when it hits me.

"Is that her mother" Carina whispers to me, whilst I hold a shaken child in my arms. "Should I call 911"

"Yes, go" and so she discreetly goes and calls 911

"Look at you, acting as though you care about that little bitch. Admit it, you hate her" The awful woman shouts at me. I feel Amelia cling onto me tighter, her breathing getting faster and more shallow.

"Sorry, but I need you to stop. Can't you see what you are doing to her." I shout at the woman.

"Yes I can, and she is a fucking baby. she should be able to take it. It's called tough love."

I stand there in disbelief. "I can't believe you just said that. Tough love. No. You have traumatised this child. A child never deserves to have ever gone through what she went through with you. What you did to her ruined her. It's going to follow her around for the rest of her life. She will forever have to live with the fact that her own mother didn't love her." I notice that Amelia is struggling to breathe. I take my attention off of her god awful mother who is still screaming at us, and work on calming down Amelia. "Breathe baby, come one, your okay, breathe."

Carina comes back and nods her head and hold up 3 fingers signalling they are 3 minutes out. "Amelia, I'm going to pass you to Carina okay." she doesn't respond as she is so focused on trying to breathe again. I hand her over to Carina "Please calm her down Rina". While I'm trying to deal with a stressed out child, her mother doesn't stop screaming at her. No one else is in the park as it was getting late, so we had no help. all we had to do was wait for the police to arrive.

"Ha, see. Even you can't handle that bitch. You have to give her to some one else" She says slyly.

"No, You are so wrong it's funny. I love Amelia, right. I love her. And I didn't hand her off to someone else because she is 'too much to manage'. I gave her to my girlfriend who also loves Amelia and Amelia loves her." I snap back at her.