Marshall, You're Not Alone (GxG)

Chapter 22

Staring at the picture of my so-claimed half-brother I kept on glancing at the awkward three, standing next to my hospital bed unsure of how to act. They told me everything, how they grew up together, how they met, and how much they loved one another.

I had no idea what to make of it. On one hand, it was amazing, to finally get some sort of insight, closure about my real family, even if not much, it meant everything. On the other, I felt confused, scared and angry, because once again life has stripped me bare from hope.

He was gone, so was she.

"He would have given you the world," a blonde man named Sam - who by the way had a hard time pulling his eyes from mine – told me with a faint smile.

Daisy chuckled to herself and commented under her nose, "No doubt about that... He was the best of us."

With uncertainty, I searched for a confirmation. "Even you?" I asked the teacher.

Her bright green slowly searching my chocolate brown. "Yes," she smiled brightly, exposing her white teeth. "He was the m-m..most selfless person to walk t-the earth." Her voice paused, she seemed to be needing a second to gather the strength and continue without tears. "An angel."

Gulping, it wasn't hard to tell how much they loved him, almost heartbreaking to watch them. For some reason even if he were my real brother, I wanted to console them instead, because no matter how incredible he was, I didn't know him.

I never will.

The thought itself broke me, no willpower to play this game of pretend, I allowed myself to cry like a baby. Sniffing and sobbing into the hospital sheets, choking on my own saliva as throat tightened up and each breath became a fight – Fuck.

"I want to meet him!" I wept not recognizing my own voice. "I want... I want a family!" Almost like a little child, this time not keeping the sorrow grow, but letting it out. "I want to be cared for..." This might have not been one of my proudest moments, yet undoubtedly the most liberating.

Alexis reached for a consoling hug, but I pushed away, "I want to be left alone." I muttered into the pillow, afraid to look up.

"Of course..." Sam was the only one to answer, as her cries were breaking my heart until I heard them no more.

Unsure of how long I sat with my face buried into the fluffy pillow that turned wet from all my tears, but it was enough to believe I was left alone. So, imagine my surprise when I noticed Daisy sitting quietly like a mouse on a nearby chair watching the setting sun.

"I thought I was clear..." I grumbled, attitude wasn't necessary, but I didn't feel myself.

Her eyes snapped towards me, orange sunset shadows giving them sparks.

"I went to your house," she revealed without an ounce of amusement.

My finger was tapping nervously against the corner of my lips.

"I met James," she continued with a clenched jaw. "Why didn't you say anything? Alexis would have helped you."

I sneered, "Sure, get me back to the system."

Her eyes rolling and lips leaving a scoff. "There are other ways," she argued.

"I'm eighteen soon, I can take it for a bit longer."

However, she skillfully countered, "Bruises all over your body say otherwise."

Ugh, why did she have to be so annoying!

After a short silence, she finally sighed and added, "He's lucky I didn't kill him."

I looked at her in pure shock.