My Love; My Life: Slipping Through My Fingers

Alone pt. I

*sorry this is late, I had writers bloc & I apologize if it is that great*
*pic of Austin, now Tina*
*Prologue/Invisible: Beetlejuice the musical-dialogue at the beginning does not apply*
Setting: a grave yard, a young woman stands before her mother's grave, and Bay watches from a the tree branch that her grave lays beneath...

You're invisible when you're sad
Clocks tick and phones still ring
The world carries on like mad
But nobody sees a thing

Whispering behind their hands
Lost for kind words to say
Nobody understands
And everyone goes away

Grownups wanna fix things
When they can't it only fills them with shame
So they just look away
Is it being greedy to need somebody to see me and say my name?

Seems when you lose your mom
No one turns off the sun
Folks carry on like mad, that's that
You're invisible when you're sad

"You're as beautiful as young woman as you were handsome as a young man," Bay calls out to them from the tree tops, "no one will know you were a male at yer new school," she tells him, "but just in case they do..."

"Brace myself fer a whole lot of ugly, comin at me from a whole lot of stupid," they finish for her knowing that all too well the world around them change everyday, they also know that it doesn't mean everyone in the world changes with it

"So, what new name have ya chosen fer yerself?" Bay asks as she disappears from the tree branch above and reappears next to them, like the cheshire cat

"I didn't wanna stray too far from the name you gave me," she tells her mother, "so I decided to play around with my given name of "Austin" I took out the 'us' in the name and put the 'a' at the end..."

"Tina," Bay says softly with a smile, "it suits you sweetheart."

"I'm sorry if I was a disappointment to you and dad as a son," Tina tells her

"I've told ya once dear heart, and I will tell ya again," Bay says with a sigh, "yer not a disappointment ta us and whether yer Austin or Tina ya never could be. It ain't matter ta us if yer a boy or a girl," she tells him, "as long as yer you."

"Things just seem so lonely since you died mom..."

"This is the first time y'all've been ere since Bobbi came inta the picture and started controlin y'all-ain't it?"

"I use ta say I was goin ta Carl's-but stoped when it was discovered that she had started checkin up ya see if we're lyin..."

"I'm so sorry baby," Bay sighs out, "she'll be gone soon-I promise."

"I don't wanna go ta school."

"Y'all'll be fine," she says with a reassuring smile, "ain't nobody ever truly as alone as they think they are."

"I'll be singled out at school, I just know it."

"Have a little faith"

"Will you always be here?"

"..." she remains silent for a moment at this question, "no," she says quietly, "not always...one day, I will go; one day I will go and not come back-"

"But-"

"It's just how things are."

"When?"

"When the time is right...when I've played the part I needed ta."

"What part is that?"

"Whatever god tells me it is," she says quietly, "and whenever he says it's done."