Life As It Is

Panic

⚠️mention of suicide, panic attack and others⚠️

Olivia's pov
I wake up to someone crying. I look over and see that's it's 1:36 am. I sigh and look around. I'm in Ashley's room but I can't see her anywhere. "Ashley?" I get up and follow the sound. It's coming from the bathroom so I open it and see her with a little blade in her hand and her arm is bleeding. "Ashley what are you doing?" I
rush to her taking the blade out of her hand. She doesn't say anything but just bursts out with tears running down her cheek. "Why are you doing this?" I ask her getting a wash cloth to clean her up.

"S-she did it. Brooklyn is gone" she says crying. I didn't know what to say. She was her best friend and now she's gone. I then hear that her breathing is different and I look over and see her trying to breath. "Shit Ash" I said running out the room not caring how loud I'm being. My sister needs help. I run into dads and Scarly's room and immediately go for Scarly. "Scar?" I shake her now crying. "Y-yeah?" She wakes up and looks at the time. "It's 1:45 am go back to sleep Liv" she say then she sits up so fast. "Why are you crying?" She ask looking worried. "Ashley. She needs help" I tell her and she immediately gets out of bed and runs to Ashley's room. I follow her but dad stops me. "Liv what's wrong?" He looks around. "Um Ashley's best friend died and um she's not doing great" I tell him then he immediately runs off. I follow them to her room and see Ashley on the floor in the bathroom trying to breath.

Chris' pov
I see Ashley on the floor trying to breath so I rush over to her, to help her. I think she's having a panic attack. I help her through it and it seems to calm her down a little. I don't know what happen to cause all of that but I know it's something bad. "I'm sorry dad" see whispers and I just rub her back. "It's okay Ash. Your okay" I tell her and she nods hugging me. We stay like that until I can hear her snore a little so I know she's asleep. I carefully pick her up and set her on her bed. I pull the covers up and turn the light off and I look to see where the other girls went.

Scarlett's pov
Olivia is panicking a little seeing her sister like this and I know that I would too. "Hey Liv how about we go and get some water" I ask her and she nods but stands there. "Can I have a piggy back?" She whispers and I laugh. "Of course you can" I bent down and she jumps on my back then I walk to the kitchen. I set her down on the counter and she looks down at her hands. I get her some juice instead of water because why not. "Wanna talk?" I ask her and she looks at me about to cry. I get some water then look back and see that she was crying. "Awww babe why are you crying?" I set my cup down and rush to her. "I-I know what's going to happen" she tell me crying.

I hug her and rub her back while she just cries. I don't know what she meant by that. "What do you mean?" I'm still rubbing her back. "This happened before and things aren't going to be good for her later" she tells me. "H-her friend committed suicide and..." she stops and cries even more. "Shhh it's okay" I rub her back and she just hugs me tighter. I don't know what it is but I have a feeling that I need to keep these girls safe no matter what. Even though they aren't mine and I'm not their mother, I still feel like I need too.

Liv soon stops and I can tell she's falling asleep. "Let's go to bed" I tell her wrapping her legs around my wait and holding her. "Can I sleep with you and dad?" She asks halfway asleep. "Of course babe" I tell her and I can tell she's smiling. I walk up to the room and see Chris splashing water on his face in the bathroom. "Everything okay?" I ask him setting Liv down on the bed. "Yeah..." he sighs and walks over climbing in. I climb in and Liv is in between us. We pull the covers up and Liv is debating if she should cuddle up next to her dad or to me since she won't stop switching sides.

She then chooses me and cuddles next to me. "Darn" Chris says making me laugh. "She really likes you" he says and I nod my head. "Goodnight Liv" he says kissing her head. "Night dad" she answers. "Night Liv" I tell her and she snuggles up to me even more. "Night mom" she says making me freeze. Did I hear that right? I look over at Chris and he looks surprised. "Did she just?" I ask him and he nods smiling. I can't help but smile. "Well when should we tell them?" He asks me and I look over at him. "Whenever you want" I tell him and he nods reaching to kiss me. I gladly kiss him back pulling away before things get heated.

"Goodnight Scar love you" he says already half asleep. I swear this man can fall asleep just like that. "Love you too" I said with a sleeping Olivia on my chest. I didn't go to sleep just yet. I'm playing with Liv's hair hearing her say a little 'thank you' and I smile remembering what she said a couple minutes ago. Honestly, I don't think she even knew she said that. She was half asleep saying that she would literally say anything. Oh well, I ask her tomorrow or something. I look down to see her smiling in her sleep and I brush away some hair out of her face then making myself more comfortable to fall asleep. Let's see what tomorrow brings us. Or I guess later today.

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