Oh Brother

Sprinkles

Flash back
Bailey is 9
the twins are 13
Cameron is 16

Grayson pov

"Sprinkles!"

"Sprinkles?"

"Where are you sprinkles?"

I open my eyes listening to the chaos down stairs. I roll over in my bed and check the time. 8:07am.

"Gray?"

I sit up in bed rubbing my eyes. Ethan's standing in the door way.

"Yeah?" I groan.

"We need your help can you come down stairs?" Ethan says, concerned.

"Sure, just gimme a minute." I yawn.

I knew something wasn't right considering that Ethan was up early for once.

I swing my legs out of bed as I stand up stretching.

"Sprinkles where are you?" I recognise it as my little sisters voice. Bailey.

Her voice is very squeaky and very loud when she wants to be.

I walk out the door as I run into a tiny body. Bailey falls backwards as she rubs her eyes.

"Sorry bailey, I didn't see you." I mumble.
She jumps back up to her feet.

"I have to look for Sprinkles, he could be hiding in your room." She squeaks, while charging into my room. I grab her small wrist as I lead her away, shutting the door.

"We'll look in there later B. Sprinkles has a big cage you know. He could be hiding in there, do you want to double check?" I say, while squatting down to her size.

"Ok." She mumbles before tearing off down the hall dragging me along with her.

Let me explain.
Sprinkles is a guinea pig that mom got Bailey last month. I'm allergic to dogs so we never could have a dog and Bailey is terrified of our bird Gismo. So we decided on a guinea pig, which she named sprinkles.

We charge into her room which had toys scattered all over the ground and her walls were purple.

She runs over to the cage and starts scanning all around.

"He's not here Gray." She squeaks.

I take a step towards the cage as I look over it. No sprinkles.

"Shit" I mumble under my breath.
Baileys little head snaps up at me as she sits on her bed

"I thought I closed the door last night." She sniffles.
"Ethan says I'm stupid and he's right!" She squeaks as she looks down picking at her fingernails.

I groan, of course Ethan would say that.

"You're not stupid Bailey." I smile while lifting up her head.

"I'm sure Sprinkles is just... hiding. Ethan and Cam have probaly found him already."  I try to reassure.

She reaches out her hand as I wrap my much larger hand around hers.

"We're going to find him." I smile.
I hear her breathing start to get faster.
She Bursts into tears.

"Sprinkles is lost and it's my fault! Ethan's right I am stupid!" She sobs.

"Bailey! It's ok, breathe. It's not your fault. I promise."

Ethan and Cameron walk in and judging by the look on there faces they've found sprinkles.

"Uhm Gray... can you come out side for a second?" Ethan whispers.
He has a hand behind his back. I gulp before I turn back to bailey.

"I'll be back ok?"
She sniffles and nods in response.

I step outside as Ethan pulls his hand forward, holding a shoe box.

"Oh fuck, oh shit!" I whisper yell.
I look to Cameron.
"Please don't tell me he's dead?" I groan.
Cameron nods as Ethan opens the lid.
There lay sprinkles. Dead.
"What the fuck do we do now?" Ethan whisper yells.
I run my hands though my hair.
"If bailey sees this.. she'll freak!" I yell.

All of a sudden bailey walks out and looks into the box before Ethan has time to pull it away.

She steps backwards as she lets out a high pitched scream.

"Sprinkles!" She squeals before she collapses to the ground.

"Shit!" We yell all yell in unison as we run over to bailey.

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When mom got home from work later that day she took bailey to the doctors where she was diagnosed with severe anxiety.

We learnt that she had fainted from a panic attack and mom and dad gave us a speech about being careful with her and making sure she's ok.

While they were at the doctors, Cameron, Ethan and I decided to bury Sprinkles in our backyard as it wasn't best for bailey to see him again.

When Bailey got home again, she was very quiet. And we never mentioned Sprinkles again.

Hey guys!
This chapter is just a little flash back on Where Bailey's anxiety attacks started.
What happens after the 'blame' chapter will be published next chapter as I just wanted to do a flash back before I started on the next part!

Q: what do you think of this chapter?

Thank you once again for all the love

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