Daughters/Beatrice B Barnes [Editing]

37. Another guest.

On any normal day I probably would be studying for my last day of high school, or out with my friends just chilling out, but today was not any normal day, in fact today and the last three weeks! Have not been normal.

I have been visiting my dad and closest friend for the last few weeks now, I very rarely leave the hospital, it's usually to go get more clothes or to get good coffee for me and Sara.

Sara should get out any day now, she's practically all healed up! But doctors are very protective so she'll be in here for a little while longer, ever since E Nalla and Sara explained what happened I felt really bad that my boyfriend was the cause of Sara getting hurt, so it wasn't long, in fact! It was only a week ago when I broke up with Lincoln, in a text I might add.

I'm not really proud of what I did, but it has to be the right thing to do right?

I mean he didn't even visit me while I was in the hospital!
He was practically begging to be dumped!
I haven't been back at the school since.

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"Hey dad!" I said as I entered his room.

I sat down in a chair next to his bed and held his hand while I read a book.

It wasn't long until an uninvited guest came in.

"Hey Bee" said a soft nervous voice.

I right away 'thought' I knew who it was and looked up.

To my surprise it wasn't Lincoln, but my one and only brother Ryan.

I slowly stood up and closed my book ready to throw it at him.

"What the heck! Do you think your doing here!" I yelled holding the book above my head ready to strike.

"l-listen Beatrice I can explain" he said with a soft and gentle voice, but I didn't care.

"You kidnapped! Me!" I yelled again.

"You got to listen to me bee"

"No! I don't need to do listen to anything you or that crazy person you call a mother! Have to say!" I yelled, I walked closer to my slightly taller brother with the book still in my hand.

"Moms dead" he said quietly, as tears began to threaten his eyes.

I dropped the book in surprise.

"She's dead?" I asked.

"I didn't know where else to go. He started with tears rolling down his cheeks. I'm- I'm sorry bee!" he cried, it wasn't long until he rapped his arms around me and just cried into my shoulder, I rubbed circles on his back to try and call him down but the tears just kept on coming.

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I was sitting at a coffee table in a little coffee shop that was still close to the hospital, Ryan was sitting across from me.

(Kinda like that but there next to a window and the table and chairs are yellow)

"Ryan when did this happen?" I asked carefully.

He stared at his coffee in his hands for a long while, he looked just like dad when he was upset, in fact Ryan looked like dad all the time, he had blue eyes and short brown hair, he was as tall as him, the only thing missing was the metal arm and long hair, but I guess I got that from him:-)

"Um... I- it was a while... Like after you left. He rubbed the back of his neck. She- I.. I don't even know who it was! Tears came to his eyes again. I walked in the house and she was there on the couch! ju-just dead! He cried into his hands. I heard police sirens and I just ran!" He finished.

I felt bad for him even though I never even knew her that long, she was the only family he had, he had nowhere else to go.

I looked at my watch and it read 2:30, school is almost over and Aurora, Athena and E Nalla are coming to the hospital to give me and Sara homework to do at the hospital, since she can't leave at 3:00.

"Ryan? I asked calmly. Can we take this to the hospital?" I asked, gently smoothing out his hair.

"Ye-yeah" he said, wiping away his tears.

"Ok"