Black and Blue [Young Justice]

Chapter Five: I've Told a Million Lies

Acacia's POV

I've been released from the hospital. Turns out the reason I was there was because of panic, anxiety, and shock all put together. I'm just glad that they didn't make me get a therapist. Instead, they sent me to my aunt Mary's house. Which is worse than getting a therapist, believe me.
I arrived at her house, after some overly nice lady escorted me to my family's apartment so that I could get my stuff. I swear if I had to see her smile one more time I would have punched her.
Anyways, almost as soon as I knocked on the door my Aunt opened it and leaned against the door frame, smiling.
"Acacia" she says to me as she looks me up and down, "looking good, hair isn't the best though"
"Well, Aunt Mary, that's what happens when what's left of your immediate family completely ignores you," I reply, with my usual calmness, that everyone but Aunt Mary hates, "until you're hacking and analytic skills are needed, that is"
My Aunt laughs slightly at my comment.
"There's the Acacia I know and love," she says, "unchanged and untouched by things, with an amazing sense of humor"
I wish I could say she was wrong, but I knew what she meant. I bottle things up inside me. I don't let them touch me until I have no choice but to feel everything all at once. Like a storm waiting to happen.
"Thank you for your observations Aunt Mary," I say, "may I please come in now?"
"Of course," she says opening the door a bit more, "this is your house too after all"
"Don't remind me" I mumble under my breath as I walk in, rolling my suitcase behind me
"Look, Acacia," she says as she closes the door, "I know I haven't exactly been the best aunt in the past, but I will do whatever I can to raise you the way your mother would have wanted"
"I get it, you hated my father," I say looking at her, "but that gives you no right to treat everyone else like they're less than you. I think that you're actually the reason my sister is the way she is. She learned her stuck up ways from you."
"I know, and I'm sorry," she says, looking me right in the eyes, "but that's the past, this is the present, and I'm doing all I can to fix it. I lost my sister, and it was all my fault, so don't sit there and act like I don't blame myself for all of this every single day"
Thats right, I forgot. Aunt Mary works as a biochemical engineer for, none other than, Wayne Enterprise. She's the reason my mom decided to work there.
How could I be so stupid to have forgotten about that.
Maybe this won't be so bad after all...