Life After Rehab ✓

[Chapter Thirty-Nine] Where The Results Are In

Chapter Thirty-Nine - Where The Results Are In
Julian's Pov

Amelia has been staying with Bailey for the four days while we waited, she was only fourteen but she was stubborn. Mia refused to stay with any of us until the tests were back and I don't blame her, I felt guilty, my mother and Carter treated her awfully when she showed up where as Bailey, like always, did the right thing and opened her home up to Amelia to give her a place where she felt safe.

Bailey was great at making people feel safe.

If she was our Mia, she would be home right in time for her fifteenth birthday, which is in three weeks. That thought was unbelievable to me, the fact that she may be alive, that we'll get to see her turn fifteen years old.

These four days the hours ticked by slowly and I felt like each one was bringing me no closer to any kind of peace; I couldn't sleep, I wasn't writing or singing, I felt stuck and I would be until I knew the truth. Gordon told me he was pretty sure but not a hundred percent and Mia was actually five when she went missing, not four, I doubt she knew what was real and what wasn't in all of this.

Bailey didn't say much to me and I was okay with that, she spent all the time with Mia and even dared to bring her over to Drew's house, she told me she would rather swallow the fact that she was wrong than give up in the kindness of strangers. Bailey had no obligation to her, our Mia or not and she treated this little girl the way that she should be treated.

Amelia hasn't spoken a word to me, not a single one and I admit it kind of hurt If she was our Mia, I was the one who raised her. I taught her to walk and to talk, I changed her diapers and fed her and made sure she got her bath, I was the one to do all of that while Sarah struggled to accept what Mia was to her.

I was the only parent she ever really knew and if this was all for nothing, I was going to be absolutely crushed by this. I had accepted long ago that Mia was gone and if I had to do that all over again I was going to lose my mind and it would kill me.

I was in the middle of picking up my apartment, staring at the door knowing Mia and Bailey were just a couple of them down when I got a phone call from my mother saying the doctor called and the results were in.

I grabbed my jacket and Mia was hiding behind Bailey as they stepped out at well with Gordon who had remained pretty quiet about everything through all of this, I didn't want to be easily fooled, and with the results in I even dared to say that I think his intentions are good, that he just wants to find her family.

Mia looked at me and then her eyes stayed glued to the ground, no one said anything but Bailey squeezed my hand momentarily before we got in separate cars and headed to my mothers. When we got there everyone else was already there.

No one had seen the results yet and as we all stood or sat there we were all wondering and hoping for what the results would say; Mia looked highly uncomfortable.

She looked like she was bracing for the worst but hoping for the best.

When he opened them I didn't miss how she grabbed onto Bailey's hand and how she hid slightly behind her, Mia's head resting on the back of her shoulder and for the first time I noticed how fragile she looked, she was Bailey's size and I don't know how I didn't notice it before.

Everyone was talking, my mother and Carter looked at her like she was still the enemy, they didn't believe a damn word any of them had said and were waiting for this to tell them they were right, my mother and my brother loved being right.

I stared at Mia as he the doctor spoke, everyone suddenly got quiet and her eyes widened, it's been a long four days and for her, it's been a long ten years that could end now or go on for a eternity. She gripped Bailey's hand harder and Gordon put a hand on her back as he told us what I already knew.