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Tessa

I know that today was supposed to be a happy day...a day for me to be ecstatic about making it another year but i just couldn't be happy without my Sister and true friends here...I missed JJ and Jack...I miss being free to get dressed up and it mean something...I don't wanna get dressed up just to sit in my room all day staring at the same white wall and stupid free form shows...

Every.

Single.

Day.

It sucks horribly

After dinner last night, Nicholas walked me back to my room and i cried myself to sleep after i remember what today was...I have nobody here anymore...Savana hates me, Aidan is a liar and gone, Frankie has been very busy with therapy sessions...He's been having a terrible amount of relapses...

It's just me in this lonely old room with four walls, a door, a flat screen tv, and a door that remained locked all night until the next morning when the nurses and Nicholas come unlock them...

That's two hours from now...

I kept a sad pout on my face staring uninterestedly at the tv displaying young and hungry.

There was a quiet knock on my door, i turned my head to make sure since i almost didn't hear it the first tims.

The door clicked and in walked Nicholas, A couple nurses, My sister, Jack and Jack, and my mom. Nicholas held a sweet smile and a small light pink birthday cake with candles lit with beautiful fire at the top.

The light shut off but i could still see with the candle light and my Christmas lights hung up around the wall as decoration.

" Happy birthday to you...Happy birthday to you...Happy birthday Tessa...Happy birthday to you..." They all sang, Nicholas putting the cake down on the table beside my bed.

I smiled wide looking back and forth from the cake to my family.

" Make a wish shortie" Jack smiled sitting beside me.

I giggled scooting over and leaning down.

I took a minute to think about what i really really wanted then blew out the pink candles with a smile.

" What did you wish for?" Tiera smiled sitting beside me hugging me.

" something for you to do and Nicholas to agree to" i smiled looking up at Nicholas in front of me.

" Well if it is what i think it is...we're wayyyy ahead of you" Nicholas smiled grabbing an id card from my desk that i didn't know i could open

He held the card up and pulled out a pair of scary looking scissors and snipped the dard righr in half...tossing it into the trash bin.

" What was that?" i asked furrowing my eyebrows.

" Your id card...Congratulations Mrs. Bryant...This is your last day in our institution" Nicholas smiled. I gasped squealing.

" Wait really?!" i exclaimed standing up. Nicholas and all the nurses nodded smiling. I squealed running and wrapping my arms around Nicholas.

"Thank you so much" i smiled not realizing i was tearing up.

I'm finally getting out of here...

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" Ok...Do you have everything?" Tiera asked pointing towards the bags Jack and J were carrying to her all black land rover .

My sis got stacks now huh

" uh...ye-"

" wait!...We almost forgot!" Nicholas gasped running inside to my room.

It took a minute before he finally walked back out with a yellow envelope. I furrowed my eyes taking it from his hands.

" Nate left it the last time he visited you and told me to give it to you when you get released...so here" he smiled. I nodded looking over the little package skeptically.

" Well...Bye Nicholas and thank you for actually helping me in there...i appreciate it a lot" i smiled hugging him.

" No problem...its my job but it was so great helping you overcome and become bigger than what you've been through...I hope your life turns out better and you learn to love somebody else despite what has happened..." he said rubbing my back. I nodded happy that i didn't flinch when he touched me.

" Tessa we gotta go!." Tiera yelled waving me over.

I nodded smiling.

" Bye Nicholas..." i waved.

" Bye Mrs. Bryant" he did the same slowly backing up back into the facility.

I smiled jogging back to the car hopping in.

" Hey sweetie" My mom nervously smiled pushing her small fragile fingers through her hair.

I looked at her for a second debating something and just decided i wasn't ready yet.

I wasn't ready to forgive her for letting him do those things to me or listening to me cry while he hurt me at only 9 , 10 years old...I was a broken teen way before i became a teen...

" Your father is in prison for 20 years..." she said in a sorta tone that seemed like she was blaming me...like i should feel bad for him hurting not only me but my sister also....

" and?" i asked pulling my eyebrows together looking at her.

" Thank you..." she sniffled out unexpectedly.

" what?" i asked.

" You two are not the only ones he was hurting...you're just brave enough to get out...and lucky enough to h-have people who cared to help you...I was too scared and broken to help you two and i'm such a terrible mother for that...I can't justify my actions or your fathers actions...It was a broken relationship that became a broken family...I-I am terribly sorry Tessa...I love you...i truly do...and i'm sorry that i've wronged you..." she had tears pouring out of her eyes...

hell we all did...

I just stayed quiet laying my head on Jack's shoulder...

I don't know what to say to her...i'm still coping myself...

" It's okay princess..."

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