The Oceans Legacy

Chapter IX

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~Tallulah's POV~

Nat places me down in a chair next to her. A plate of food is placed in front of me and my stomach sinks. I'm still so full from yesterday's lunch that I feel sick at just the thought of eating more food.

My hands grow sweaty and I wipe them on my night dress, my attempts are fruitless however, as my palms are sweaty less than a second later.

I stare at the food in front of me. What if they get mad at me? They said that they aren't mad or won't hurt me, but can I trust them? Adults lie. That's just what they do, isn't it? They might send me back. I really don't want to go back.

"Tallulah?" Nat's voice informs me that I had zoned out without realising. I hate it when I keep doing that.

I look up and see that everyone's eyes are on me. Uh oh. I turn my head to look up at Nat.

"Are you hungry? Do you want to eat?" Are they going to get mad at me? I mean, they made me food and now I'm not touching it.

"I- I-." I can feel myself starting to shake again as I force myself to hold back the tears I can feel threatening to spill over.

"Hey, hey, hey. It's okay. It's okay. If you're not hungry that's okay. Can you take some deep breaths for me? It's okay.

I force myself to take deep breaths and stop my bottom lip from quivering.

"Do you want to sit with me?" Nat asks as I try to calm myself down. I give her a small nod in response.

She pulls me onto her lap and strokes my dark curls out of my face. She continues stroking my hair as conversations start to go back to normal.

~No-ones POV~

The group of adults watch the little girl with careful eyes. All of them, not helping but to feel sorry for the poor girl. What had happened to her to make her this scared at such a young age?

~Tallulah's POV~

After a while everyone had finished their breakfast and started to pack up. Nat leant back so that she could look at me.

"Tallulah? I know that all of this is very new to you, and very scary, but. We were looking at your file and we couldn't find any medical records. You need a check-up and a physical exam. I know that you are scared, okay. But you need to have one. One of our friends, Stephen, is a doctor. So I'm going to give you two options, you can either have Stephen do your check-up, or we can take you to the hospital. Which one do you want to do?"

No, no, no. They can't. No. They are going to see the scars. I can't. I feel hot tears run down my face. I shake my head furiously.

"No. no, no. Please. No. I don't want one. Please... please." Nat looks at me with caring yet stern eyes. Telling me that there is no way of getting out of this. I eventually stop mumbling the same words over and over again, knowing that I can't get out of it.

"S- Stev- Stephen, please." I manage to get the words out through sobs. I know that my outburst has caused all of the eyes in the room to land back on me.