Through Your Eyes {On Hiatus!}

Story Time

Chapter: 24- Story Time

A/N👑: I bet you weren't expecting this update were you? *Wink* What did you think I was doing when I was gone? Enjoying my vacation? Pff, there's no rest for the wicked, I haven't been on vacation in two years, man I need a break. *TRIGGER WARNING, MATURE CONTENT, YOU MAY OR MAY NOT NEED TISSUES*

The song is Under The Bridge, by Red Hot Chili Peppers

❤Sarah's POV❤

I did what James suggested. Trying to get as comfortable as I could despite the fear running through me that I'd inevitably end up hearing a lot of things I didn't want to know, and the stiffness in my spine. God, I hoped I could get through this without breaking down in front of him, from the way he was making it, it seemed like this was going to be a very emotional story.

"So I guess I have to start at the beginning for you to understand it all, huh?" I gave James a little smile, nodding my head in agreement. I didn't want to miss anything and then interrupt him in the middle of his story all because I was confused at something he said.

"Well I guess it began around when I was fourteen years old. We were a happy family you know, my mother and father and I. But it was around then I remember my grandfather had suddenly fallen ill and died. My mom took it the hardest, to her grandpa was the only remaining family she had left, but when she went to follow after my father who wasn't of the same social status as her he had disowned her. He hadn't even bothered talking to her anymore, that is until I was born and I guess he couldn't resist not having contact with his own grandson.

They barely even communicated though it was always just mom dropping me off and me hanging around with the old man, so I wasn't shocked as much as everyone else when he died I inherited much of his fortune. It was like he just ignored his own daughter and that's when things started going south. My mom was depressed, and eventually my dad had, had enough. They got into a fight about the old man, but afterwards everything blew over.

I think they just accepted it as it was because we were distracted by good news. My mom was pregnant, and I was going to be a big brother. By then I'd already turned fifteen and my mom was late in the pregnancy like six months or so and we were all so happy. Though that changed when they went to their next appointment to check on the baby.

It was already a high risk pregnancy, considering mom was already in her late thirties, and she was a diabetic. We had learned that the baby was going to be a girl, though she was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, something we were a little depressed about but we all thought it was OK. We'd take it each day at a time and deal with it, it may have been a little harder but we'd do it. Then it came time for the baby, but...it wasn't going right.

I remember when mom went into labor, it wasn't...right it was just scary. I woke up to dad rushing me out of the house, mom was already in the car, but as I walked down the hall to the door I could see it. The trail of blood, something was wrong it wasn't supposed to be happening that way, you know? When we had got to the hospital the staff was already there, everyone was rushing, everything was happening so fast...She ended up losing the baby, they said it was a complication during the birth.

It was a breech birth, or something like that, and when they finally got to the baby they had realized she had struggled so much the umbilical cord had wrapped around her neck...and they couldn't save her." James stopped for a moment, tears in his eyes as he breathed in deeply. I myself was trying my hardest not to burst into tears at the moment but I couldn't. I had to be strong right now, if not for myself then for James so he could finish his story, hopefully.