The one who got away

Chapter 9: Onyx

It's been the same cycle month after month after agonizingly long month. It doesn't help that I have been on absolute edge after finding out that Kayn escaped and is out there somewhere.

I sure as hell not told my mother, her heart couldn't take that.

But she can't seem to pull her self out of this cycle of waking up, crying, refusing to eat then repeat. I have to beg her to eat something so small like a cracker. The doctors finally had to put her under and place a feeding tube to keep her alive after she kept refusing food, now we have to worry if she has pulled the tube out or not.

I've been coming to my mothers side everyday since that horrible night which now has caused my sister to have nightmares that wake her up in the middle of the night screaming, which then I have to calm her down and put her back to sleep.

My mother hasn't spoken a word to anyone either, she looks so lost, so broken, so... gone. I tried to bring her favorite flower from my garden but she never bats an eye. It makes me so pissed off that a man who never showed her love since I can remember has caused her so much lost and pain.

She doesn't even know how to look my sister in the eye because she looks so much like him.

"Ms. Galanis please, I need to replace your feeding tube," I over heard the doctor struggling in my mothers room and I sighed and walked faster to the room.

"NO!," my mother screamed, "I don't want it please just let me die in peace...."

My heart sank more knowing I had lost my mother a long time ago.

"Momma please just let the doctor help you," I placed my hand on her arm trying to get her to settle down.

"No no no no..." she continued over and over, shaking her head.

"Please momma, I can't lose you too." I whimpered out, fighting tears.

I had just drove my sister to training for the morning for the first time in 3 months because she was stuck in her room, mourning the loss of her father and a mother that was still here.

She looked up at me with sunken eyes and a thousand yard stare. "It hurts.." she gasped out in between sobs.

"I know momma, I know but please let the doctor help you." I hugged her and she finally settle down long enough for the doctor to replace the feeding tube she had once again pulled out.

"Ms. Galanis, you have to keep this tube in, if not we can't help your body heal." Dr. Lykos turned to me, "I'll be back in two days to do a check up on her, I have to go out of town, let the nurses know if anything changes before I get back."

I simply nodded and with that she walked out of the room.

I turned back towards my mother as she just layed in bed, staring out the window. "I'll be back momma, I have to go run a few errands, okay?" She didn't reply but just nodded.

I headed home to shower and change real quick because I've been just rewearing the same clothes for the past week.

My birthday was tomorrow and my sisters was today and I  wanted to throw just a little party, hoping it would cheer us all up. I needed to order a cake and get some party decorations but that required to go to the nearest shop on the pack lands and that was about 45 minutes down the road from our house because Kayn wanted to move us to the farthest edge of the pack lands to be away from everyone which as I got older I realized why real quick.

I left our house and drove to the store, gathering the decorations and picked up a small simple chocolate cake and headed back home to set up the decorations and set the cake in the fridge for when I brought her home.