A Bump In The Road (Brooklyn and Bailey)

#25

* kamri's pov *

" Kamri, look at my picture! I drew it for you! This is me, and this is you, and this is a cactus! I just learned what cacti are at school today, they sounded kind of cool!" I smiled at Paisley's newest piece of art, she's gotten so much more creative in the last couple of weeks.. I guess being in hospital with not a lot else to do does that to a kid. By school she meant hospital school, she's in kindergarten level there and seems to be enjoying herself.
Dax has been going to school too, he's told me about a couple of friends he has made there; a boy named Alex and a girl, Jenna. He's come pretty far aswell, with lots more smiles and just overall enjoyment of life.

Rylan got sent home four days ago, she's staying with our neighbors who have kids too, and is starting back at regular school next week. She told me that our house was up for sale, I don't know what to think. Meaning dad has gone completely awol.. as has the demon we're forced to call mom. Honestly, I don't care where the hell she is, I stopped caring for her the second she got too invested in herself.

Bailey's doing senior year: hospital  edition. They got her seeing a therapist for a few weeks to check on how she was handling all of this, and think she should be able to go and stay with one of her friends in around a week, she also wants to get a job so she can eventually get an apartment for us to stay in so we can all be together.
Brooklyn got put on the psych ward.. they diagnosed her with severe PTSD and psychosis. I haven't seen her for two weeks.

As for me, I'm a sophomore in hospital school, and its actually not too bad. I made a friend named Hudson and he's really nice. Even though I was cleared of injury before everyone else, Dax and Paisley wanted me to stay here, and I needed a psych evaluation too. They cleared me (yay!) but we have to sort out some form of living arrangement before they will discharge Paisley, Dax and I. We would stay with the neighbors too, but they only have enough room for Ry. I told them that whatever they had to do, they had to promise to keep Dax and Pais together. Social services were pretty brief about saying yes, so who knows if they will listen or not.

* mindy's pov*

So. I left the kids to fend for themselves. And currently have Shaun tied to a chair in a room in this old, deserted motel. Who knows what's gonna happen there.
The annoying viewers were asking a lot of stupid questions, so I of course had to make a statement implying that I cared. To cut a long story short, we were on the news and I had to bribe the press and the cops to keep my part out of it. I mean, yeah, I should have been arrested and whatnot, but that's why I sold the house.. some idiots will actually be bribed by me. And that hairstyle stuff is over now. I mean, why would I want to e x p l a i n how to do things so o t h e r p e o p l e could like benefit from that? WHO DO THEY THINK I AM?!!!!

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hi.
i have been sooo bad at updating for a very long time & i don't know when i will update after this. i have had a lot of stuff happen semi-recently, and i am just sorry if this book is not good enough for you all. i will probably end it in the next couple of chapters if i get around to writing them, and i just wanted to apologise anyway. if you're still reading this, it means a lot, so thank you, and i hope you're all okay, and stay strong :)