A Country Girl.

Chapter 51

Ty

I pulled into the driveway Thursday morning and parked outside the house.It had been 3 days since Hailey was diagnosed with PTSD, she's been locked away in her room the whole time. Amy showed me the paper from him and I completely understood why she was upset, it's just strange I've never known her to act like that. We all tried to get her to talk or at least come down to eat but it was all to no avail.

I walked into the house and,as always, Amy was in the kitchen. "Morning Ty" she said "Morning, is..." "no, she is still up in her room" I sighed "when do you think she'll come out?" "no Idea but I hope it's soon" "me too."  It was silent for a while until Jacob came in "Morning" he said cheerfully "Morning" Amy and I said flatly "whats with the depressed looks?" "we were just talking about Hailey" "ok that doesn't mean you should look and sound depressed" "what ever granddad." A couple minutes later I hear a door open and shut up stairs followed by footsteps, We all look toward the stairs and see Hailey coming down. I jump up "Hailey?!?" I said "are you coming to eat with us?" She didn't answer, she didn't even look up from the floor, so I stepped in front of her "Hailey, whats wrong?" I ask, again no answer. She pushed past me but I grabbed her arm "Hailey. What is going on, why are you acting like this?" 

Before I could register anything Hailey turned and decked me in the jaw. I let go of her arm, stumbling back and tripped on a chair and fell.  Hailey looked at me for a second before running back up stairs, tears falling down her face. I watched as she ran wanting so bad to run after her, but knowing that wasn't an option. I stood, rubbing my jaw, and sat down in the chair. "are you alright Ty?" Amy asked "yeah I'm fine" "what was that?" Jacob asked " I don't know, but I'm gonna go find out" I said standing "oh no you aren't" Amy said  "your gonna leave her alone and let her work this out on  her own, now sit back down and eat." I sighed and sat back down Amy put a plate in front of me, then handed one to Jacob, after everyone had their food  we said grace and began eating. The whole time I couldn't help but think of Hailey.

Another week passed and not a word from Hailey. We were all worrying, Amy even admitted that maybe she couldn't work this out on her own, but anytime we tried to talk to Hailey she ignored us, she  also kept the door locked so we couldn't go in. 

"what are we supposed to do now?" Amy asked as her, Jacob and I sat in the kitchen Friday morning "I don't know" Jacob said "but we need to figure it out before something happens to her." As they talked about what to do about Hailey I sat there quietly caught up in my own thoughts about how to get Hailey back to her old self. 'how are we supposed to fix this? shes locked herself in her room for almost two weeks now and refuses to talk to anyone.' I thought 'she's probably scared to death, and feels like she's alone. She probably thinks she has to face this alone.' that's when I realized 'Hailey doesn't need someone to talk to her, she needs someone to take her hand and walk with her and to help her get through this.' 

At my revelation I stood and headed toward the stairs. "Ty where are you going?" Amy asked "I'm going to see Hailey" "but we already tried to talk to her" "I didn't say I was going to talk to her."