Just Breathe - Adopted by Mandy Gonzalez - COMPLETED

62 - Confrontation

Dad, Mari, mom and I were eating the food that dad had gone out to get at 12. Still no one else was here beside us and the crew, but they didn't tend to go though the area we were in. "Lexi! Mandy and Becky are in!" I heard Joanna yell. I giggled lightly and kept eating as I waited for them to come.

"And Doug and Maribelle." Lexi added on. When we had visitors who were going to stay for the show backstage their names had to be added onto the list for the day. I heard their footsteps and saw the girls come though the door.

"Lexi! Joanna!" I called one to them. They rushed over and looked at me sadly.

"What happened Becky? Are you okay?" Lexi asked crouching beside me.

"I'll be okay. So when mom found me at the GWB I jumped up and ran to her, I slipped and fell, breaking my wrist and slicing my hands and legs. I have to be in a wheelchair for two weeks while the stitches heal enough. If I walk on them they could rip, opening the cuts once again. Hopefully my wrist should be fully healed by the end of October so I can still do Hamilton. But we aren't sure yet."

"Oh Becky, I'm so sorry, and I hope more than anything you can do Hamilton." Joanna told me.

"Thanks guys. Now, would you like to sign my cast."

"Awe Yes please Becky." I handed Lexi a light blue and Joanna a dark yellow and a red. Joanna wrote her name in red and then added a shadow with the yellow.

"Thanks guys. Um you should probably know, the reason I ran away was because I caught Josh cheating on me. With Isabella. They came off stage and made out in the corner and I saw. So I ran. And you know about after that. I'm sorry I never picked up any of your calls. I was just so done with everything. I wanted to be done. I felt so sick. Until I actually saw mom, I wanted to die." I burst into tears right up until out of the corner of my eye I saw Isabella and Josh giggling. I felt my mom wrap her arm around my shoulder and rub it gently. I smiled sadly at her as she comforted me.

"Hey Lexi, Hey Joanna, Hi Mandy." Josh said. "Glad you're back again. What happened on Sunday, Becky left before the end of act one and never came back? We were meant to go out on a date together and she just abandoned me." Josh clearly hadn't noticed that I was there. "She didn't even respond to my calls to texts, did you confiscate her phone or something? And where is she, is she here or at home or where?"

"I'm here." I say quietly.

"Oh Becky, I didn't there. Why didn't you call me or respond to my messages?"

"I was surgery! Is it not obvious that I'm in a wheelchair and my dad and sister are here to look after me."

"Why the hell were you in surgery? Did you twist your ankle dancing backstage or something stupid like that?"

"No I ran away." I begin crying again and Mandy squeezes my shoulder and Doug holds my hand.

"She saw what you did Josh, she knows and she's so broken by it. You are the reason she's like this. The reason she has a broken wrist and scared legs for life. The reason she is in a wheelchair is all your fault Joshua. And you Isabella."

"Mom, stop." I cry more but I can just see my mom getting angrier at the guy I had fallen in love with, but the person who had broken my heart.

"Saw what?" Josh asked as if he had no idea. I looked from him to Isabella and she knew what I was talking about. She stepped away from Josh and looked down at her feet.

"I'm so sorry Becky, I didn't realise you two were a thing, why didn't you tell me Josh?"

"Dad cover Mari's ears." He does and I scream. "THATS FUCKING BULLSHIT RIGHT THERE ISABELLA! You were there when Josh and I kissed on Sunday before the show, you were there when he asked me out, and then you make out with him mid way through act one when I was in the room. YOU FUCKING CHEATED ON ME JOSHUA!" Tears are streaming down my face. And mom pulls my chair out from under the table and pulls me up onto her lap. She holds me to her chest as I sob. She rubs my back and beside my tears and whimpers the room is dead silent.

"I hope you know that you've broken her heart Josh." My dad says. "On her opening night I thought you were a really good boyfriend for her, I thought you could be the one, for at least a few years. But no. You've broken my daughters heart and because of that you broke our family. It hurts so fucking much to see your daughter in pain, and to see your daughter stuck in a cast and wheelchair. She can't to the things she loves, because of you."

"Look Becky." Josh starts, I pull my head away from Mandy's chest and look at him. "What we had was going wrong. I didn't feel the same way about you as I did before. I was going to break up with you on Sunday night anyway. I was falling for Isabella and I feel like I connect with her more than I do with you now. I'm sorry you saw us making out, that wasn't my plan at all, I'm sorry all this happened. But I guess this is me telling you we are through." Even though I was so done with Josh, just hearing his words hurt me so much more inside.

"You could have had the audacity to break up with her before starting with Isabella." Lexi came in.

"I wanted to end it, but I couldn't find the right time."

"Just go away Josh. I can't deal with this or you anymore." I cried. Josh took Isabella's hand and walked off out the room. "I wanna go home mommy. I can't be here anymore. I can't do this."

"Are you sure honey? You can stay in my dressing room with dad and Maribelle. There's a few games in there for you to play with, or you have a few art supplies to do some drawings. But the options yours."

"Actually I may stay, I wanna see James and Ant and Lauren. I need to apologise to her. And I wanna see my other friends too. Can you guys help me upstairs?"

"Of course baby girl." Doug picks me up off my moms lap and carries me up to her room. Mom carries the wheelchair with Lexi's help and Joanna and Maribelle carry the sharpies. The whole evening I spent drawing myself burning letters. I was in the Peggy dress and you could see Josh as Laurens in the background. Maribelle did some drawing and colouring in too and dad watched us and helped Maribelle with her colouring when he could. Gosh, I loved my parents and sister so much.