unbroken (unexpected series)

Chapter 2

A/N: Not Edited.

Chapter 2 - Bumblebee (Oakley) POV

I hear talking, dad… Uncle Grant… and an incessant beeping, and all I can think in sadness is: it didn’t work. I did everything right, why was I still alive? Yes you are Oakley, you’re still alive, because you have people that care for you, I couldn’t heal you right away, it’s too soon. The voice says and once again, I know just how just how crazy I am, not that I’d tell anyone…  you aren’t crazy, I’m you Oakley, I’m protecting you, safeguarding us.

Muddled, in the most defeated voice I’ve ever heard my father speak, he answers Uncle Grant, “Sarah’s mother thinks this is just for attention…” someone sighs, but Uncle Grant answers, “Pat… one minute later than we were and we wouldn’t find Oakley the way we did, we’d have found her dead. This wasn’t some superficial cutting, attention seeking stunt, Oakley was trying to get away, and I’ve told you-”

“What am I supposed to do here Grant? Its only getting worse… six years and she treats Amelia and Sarah worse than when I first brought them around. Sarah just wants to be a mother to Oakley and Ben-”

“They had a mother-”

“She left-” There’s a harsh sigh, “I don’t know what happened, but I’m willing to bet that Oakley knows more than she ever told us, but how could she even bother to come forward when all you’re doing is pushing the memory of her mother away. I told you six years ago, and many times before now, Oakley isn’t interested in Sarah being a mother figure. She doesn’t want her mother to be replaced or forgotten, and because of that I’m betting that when she was a child and said she knew nothing, it was a lie. She knows-”

“Norine took most of all her things, she left her wedding ring on the table with no note-”

“Pat, Oak wants to talk, you can see it, but she won’t if she feels you aren’t listening to what she has to say. She doesn’t want you to dismiss her feelings, she wants you to hear and actually see what she’s been saying for the last six years. You’ve let others judgment influence your perception, I know you were hurt when she left, but Oakley doesn’t display signs of a child whose mother left her, it’s more compatible with a child whose mother died Pat. And for six years, she’s heard Sarah, her family, most people talking about her mother in the worst ways, a mother that as far as Oakley knows, loved her, loved you and Ben. And you’ve let Sarah try to replace that, you threw away her things, but you have to see it? Don’t you? You wanted to make Sarah secure in her position as your wife, but-”

I don’t mean to make a noise but the talking is hurting my head, I groan, my eyes flutter open and shut when the lights blind me.

There’s some shuffling, “We turned the lights down Bumblebee, you can open your eyes again…” Daddy says and blinking, I see the bright lights are gone, the light no longer so harsh, I try to focus, on Daddy, “How are you feeling Bee?” they look at me warily, afraid.

“So tired,” I mumble, my whole body stiff, but I don’t say that I’m sad, angry that they came to help me, that I’m here when I didn’t want to be found. I should’ve done it somewhere else, hid.