The Trip Home
784 Words
She hated being on this road heading back to a place she didn't want to go, a place that holds all her past secrets, heartaches, and pain. But it was time to face it all, to clean up the mess she tried to leave behind, cause it's now hurting her present making her future very unpredictable. It was a miracle she was able to go this long not being home, she loves her family but the pain of it all was unbearable. But she has to be here, her mom is sick and her oldest child was graduating from high school, she has to be here for it because she messed so much of his life growing up.
She just doesn't know how he's going to react to her being here, the last time he came out to see her, things didn't go well. He had a lot of questions about the past that she wasn't ready to face and some of his question opened up problems with her husband and daughters who are now asking question about her past. she knows she's going to lose it all when the truth comes out but she's tired of of living with all the lies.
Pulling up to her childhood home is bring tears to her eyes, remembering her dad, playing in the yard with her sister and her brother but with the good memories comes the bad, she tries to push gather herself and push the memories aside so she can get out the car. As she fix her makeup, Mrs.Sanders comes up to her car.
Hello Mrs Sanders it's me Tonya
Oh my goodness Tonya you got here fast, want you do get on a plane. But honey you should have went to the hospital comes they're still there.
No I drove here, who's at the hospital.
Your mom sweetie, they took her by ambulance, just over an hour ago.
I didn't know, I was coming to visit. Do you know which hospital they took her to
The County Hospital, do you remember where it is
I believe so
Will the emergency is on the right side of the hospital now
Okay, I'll look it up on GPS
Okay honey I hope everything is alright, tell your mom she's in my prayers ok
I will Mrs. Sanders and thank you.
Hi, I'm looking for my mom Mary Jackson
Do who know when she was admitted
No I was told she was brought here over an hour ago
Oh yes she's still here in the emergency, go down the hall to the end and make a right, follow the signs marked emergency and the will give you a pass to go back to see her.
Okay thank you
Mom how did you get here so fast, I feel like I just left you the message
I was already on my way here when I got to the house Mrs. Sanders told me mommy was brought here. What happened?
They think her pacemaker is not working properly, they took her to check it out and see if it needs to be replaced
Oh my she doesn't need to go through another surgery
She really doesn't. So why were you coming here
Mommy told me she wasn't feeling to good and she wanted me to come home, she also told me that your graduation is this weekend and that you wasn't going to tell me, because I wouldn't tell you the truth. So Im here to do just that but first let's go check on mommy ok
Okay
Is your aunt Stacy here
You know she is, snd uncle Jay gets out next month. Big Mommy mad he gave them her address to parole to, she said yes cause where else would he had went.
He shouldn't be on parole, he served all his time
Yeah he served his time he went in for but he got some time add and was told that if he didn't do anything else they will let him out but he will be on parole for a year
Wow it's really been 8 years
Yeah it has, Big Mommy said he only has a few things to do for the one year parole.
Which is?
Attend AA meetings, get a job, and continue therapy
Okay that's not bad
Mom, I know you want to wait to talk about everything but can I ask one thing
Okay go ahead
Is it really your fault uncle Jay went to prison
Yes it is and you'll know how when I tell you the truth about everything, Okay
Okay
And I 'm really going to tell you everything son I mean it
Everything
Yes everything.
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