Troubling Love

A price to pay.

"Shh, calm down baby girl. I need you to breathe. It's okay." Stefani rocked her daughter back and forth as Sarah cried, unable to catch her breath.

Though the woman was also close to being in tears, she forced herself to get a grip and stay strong for the daughter that now laid in a hospital bed, and the daughter that laid in her arms as she sobbed uncontrollably. "Sarah, baby, please. It's alright. Please don't stress yourself out. You have a fractured leg and wrist baby,  you don't want to hurt yourself even more." Stefani reminded her daughter. Though her daughter didn't care about the painful injuries that left her body painfully aching. All she could ask for was for the girl that laid in the hospital bed to wake up. "I don't care, I don't care." Sarah cried repeating the same statement over and over, furiously shaking her head. "Stop baby, stop. Your going to hurt yourself. Your already weak right now. The fact that you caught your sister as she fell while you have a fractured wrist is astonishing to me because if you would've moved your wrist the wrong way you would've hurt it even more. You need to breathe, Elle's okay, she's okay." Stefani laid her daughters head on her chest but Sarah wouldn't stay, she got up from her mothers lap as she headed for the door to exit the room.

Everything felt so staged, as if this was a dramatic scene that you'd find in a sad movie. But no, this was no movie.

This was someones reality.

A terrible one at that.

Sarah heard her mothers calls for but didn't turn back. She walked down the steps as if she was being chased by a serial killer in the midst of a horror movie. Her leg throbbed with pain but she didn't care. She'd rather get away from this nightmare.

As Sarah approached the parking garage, she sat on the wall of an empty parking space. She dug her hands in her hair as she hysterically cried, the screaming sobs only interrupted by the need to draw breaths.

The girl cried as if her brain was being shredded from the inside. Emotional pain practically poured out of her. From her mouth came a cry so raw that even the eyes of the strangers around us were suddenly wet with tears. They knew that her world was collapsing even if they hadn't known the girl.

The world turned into a blur, and so did all the sounds. The taste. The smell.

Everything was just gone.

"Good heavens child, what's got you so upset?" Asked an older woman that passed by the teenager. Though she wasn't like the others that passed by and stared, quietly showing the girl pity.

Sarah made eye contact with the woman, her heart practically stopped once she did. "Morgan." Sarah croaked out. Morgan looked at the girl, her eyes widened once she noticed who she had managed to find. "Sarah, darling, what are you doing here?" She asked, crouching next to the girl. "And what happened to your wrist and leg baby?" She asked wrapped her arms around the girl. "E-Elle, s-she," Sarah couldn't even speak, her mind was too far gone. "Shh, calm down sweetheart." Morgan hushed the girl as she saw that Sarah couldn't even speak for herself.

Morgan rubbed the girls back, comforting her with her soothing actions, no words spoken. But that was enough for the teenager. She slightly leaned into Morgan as she began to get her breathing under control.

"Elle and I decided to go to Joannes when dad was out of town. And um, Ariana, my moms ex, was there. She was talking about how my mother hurt her, and I guess I couldn't take it anymore, so I left. I ran, and I ran, and one thing led to another, and I was suddenly laying on the ground in an immense amount of pain. I had been hit by a car. I woke up in the hospital, and to my surprise my mother was right there with me. I thought I was dreaming. But I wasn't. She made a promise that she wouldn't ever leave again, and when dad found out that she had Elle and I, he stormed into the hospital and tried to manipulate me into choosing him over her. But I chose my mom. He said that I wouldn't ever be able to see you again and I would never be able to see him again." Sarah spoke out of the blue once she calmed down. "As for Elle. She admitted something that she had done in the past and I was upset with her. I could tell mom was too, but I won't get into detail about it. When we went home, mom convinced me to talk to Elle, so I went over to her room and talked to her. From the moment she opened the door, I could tell something was the matter, but I couldn't exactly pin point it. As Elle began to explain her reasoning I noticed that she was hiding her arm. I caught a glimpse of it and saw that her arm was covered in blood. She collapsed into my arms and I screamed for help, and well, here we are." Sarah explained the rest of her overwhelming story.