"Look Jossie, I know you don't want to do anything right now but just remember that you have a sick sister who is coming home from school by eleven today and would need someone to watch her" my mom shouts from the other side of my door.

After I don't respond I hear her walk away and then I open the door for her to see me finally, "when is she coming home again?" I ask my mom who turns around to look at me in shock.

"By eleven" my mom says and rushes to immediately hug me before I decide to run back into my room, "oh my baby you got me so worried"

"I'm so sorry mom" I croak out and hug her back tightly, "I'm really sorry mom"

She pulls away from me and runs her hands through my hair and around my face, "let's have breakfast" she says, "please"

The emotion in her voice makes me nod my head and I follow her down the stairs to our kitchen where she prepares toast and scrambled eggs for me. I eat it and I can tell just how happy she is to see me in front of her again.

After assuring her that I will take care of Adaira and that she should get going to work she gives me instructions on what to do when Adaira comes home and when she should take her meds.

I decide that the best thing for me to do is to watch Netflix and chill while I wait for Adaira. I make a bowl of popcorn and settle myself cozily on my favorite couch and begin to watch.

Around eleven our front door opens and a bustling red head rushes in while babbling a million words per second and it brings a smile to my face because that's something that hasn't changed.

I get up from my seat and walk into the kitchen behind her, "speak slowly wild horse" I say to her and it's clear she didn't see me when she walked into the house.

"JJ" she exclaims and throws herself into my arms and I hug her back tightly, "I missed you"

"I missed you too carrot head" I say and I begin to feel like a horrible person for shutting her out all this while, "I'm quite curious, why are you back from school so early?"

"Because dummy" she says like I'm the dumbest person on earth, "I am done with my exams"

"Oh right" I say and remember the exams that I have in two weeks. How am I going to do that when I can't even bring myself to switch on my phone, "you go upstairs and get yourself a nice bath and then take a nap okay?"

"Okie" she chirps and hops up the stairs

"Remember, no running on the stairs" I call out after her and she just yells that she knows that much.

I stand in the middle of the kitchen and begin to ponder what I am going to do next with myself, finally I gather the courage to switch on my phone and find out what has been going on in the outside world, as I do this I put in an order for a pizza because I am too lazy to attempt to cook anything when lunch time comes.

As soon as my phone comes on it begins to vibrate from incoming messages and notifications. I begin to scroll through my news feed, feeling slightly relieved when I don't see anything bad.

I decide to open the school group chat which I decided to put on mute that day. As I expected there were a lot of horrible things said about me, I scroll through them and tell myself to calm down but I honestly can't.

There's one that really catches my attention where it says that they just realized how pretty Renae is and how I must have bullied her into being her friend and attached to the post was the video where I shouted at Renae to leave me and a comment from saying that I left Renae alone at the party because I wanted to spend time alone with Shaze.

A lot of following comments say that I am the reason why no one ever noticed Renae and that I'm such a horrible person and I deserve to die.

I run up to my room and lock myself in and begin to cry fat tears. I increase the volume of the music playing in my room in order to drown out the sound of the voices in my head telling me mean things.

I hear a knock at my door and I open it to see Adaira looking up at me worriedly, "Adaira, I have a headache right now so I just want to be alone"

"Okay" she says and smiles at me like she understands what I am going through.

"Thank you so much" I say and kiss the top of her head, "I ordered a pizza in case you get hungry, so knock on my door if you need me for anything okay?"

"Alright JJ" She says and hops away

"Don't run" I shout before she reaches the stairs and she smiles sheepishly and begins to walk, "thank you" I say and close the door of my room.

I reduce the volume a little and just lay down on the bed. I don't know when I fall asleep but I wake up when the sky is getting a little dark and also because my stomach starts rumbling and after contemplating whether to ignore it, I stand up and begin to trudge out of my room and towards the stairs.

A scream leaves my lips before my brain even processes what I am seeing, at the bottom of the stairs I see Adaira lying in a rumpled heap with blood coming out of her mouth.

I begin to run down the stairs while screaming her name and begging her to get up, I miss a step and tumble down the remaining steps. Once I hit the ground my vision blurs before it clears and I remember why I was running in the first place. I force my body up and rush for the house phone because I'm scared of moving her incase it makes things worse.

The ambulance arrives quickly and they carefully place her on the stretcher and we drive off to the hospital. As soon as we arrive, the paramedics rush her into the ER and a doctor comes to ask me what happened.

"I don't really know what happened" I say and feel tears threatening to break loose, I take in big gulps of air to try and calm myself down and my blurry vision keeps getting blocked, "I just came out of my room and met her at the foot of the stairs with blood coming out of her mouth"

"Did you touch or move her?" he asks and starts jotting things down on a note pad

"I didn't, I only called out her name and she didn't respond" tears begin to come out, "is she going to be okay?"

"We will have to run some tests to find out" he says in a bid to reassure me, "how long has she been passed out?" he asks and I can't even answer.

"I don't know, I had fallen asleep in my room since morning so I don't really know" I say and begin to worry even more.

"Is there anything more we should know like if she has allergies or is on medication?"

"She has CIDP" I say and a grave expression crosses over his features which he masks quickly

"You're bleeding from your head" he says finally and then calls for a nurse to have me checked.

I dial my moms number immediately and she says she's on her way, I also call Flinette who also says she is on her way and I shouldn't worry but be calm.
I try to think of ways to get myself calm but it doesn't work and my vision becomes more blurry. I bring out my phone and dial Renae's number.

"Hey" I say as soon as she picks

"What do you want?" she responds icily.

"I'm at the hospital" I say and my throat begins to feel chocked, "please come"

"I'll be there in ten" she says and cuts off the call.

I sit back in the hospital bed that a nurse escorted me to after dressing the minor gash on my head from me tumbling down the stairs and assuring me that I will be okay and my test results will be out very soon.

"Josephine" my mom says from the door of my room and I can tell she is extremely worried, "what happened to you?"

"I fell down the stairs" I say and try to swallow back the tears that are threatening to break loose, "the doctors said that for now I am fine till they get the test results from the MRI scan they did"

"Thank God" my mom breaths out, "what about your sister?"

"She also fell down the stairs" I say and the tears begin to roll down my face, "I don't know how long ago it was when she fell because I fell asleep but when I woke up and wanted to check on her I found her at the bottom of the stairs limp"

My moms face pales immediately and I hear gasps and look up to see Flinette and Renae in the doorway.

"You fell asleep?" my mom croaks out, "how could you when I asked you to watch over your sick sister!"

"I'm sorry mom" I begin to sob and Flinette takes my mom's hand and leads her out of my room so she can calm down. Renae walks to my bed and sits by the edge and gives me a hug while I begin to cry and feel like a horrible person.

A nurse walks in frustrated and tells Renae to not allow me cry because the extent of my injuries have not been found out yet and my emotions play a big role on the road to recovery.

It's not until the next day that we are finally informed by the doctor that Adaira slipped into a coma because of the Epidural hematoma she suffered from when she fell down the stairs.

The doctor informs us that even if I had found her on time it wouldn't have changed much because most people with this type of injury remain conscious, but most become drowsy or go into a coma from the moment of trauma, and that is exactly what happened to Adaira. They also told us that because of her CIDP her body stopped functioning so her brain shut down.

I remain in the hospital for a few more weeks because according to the doctors I am suffering from an Intracranial hematoma which was why I was becoming drowsy and my vision becoming blurry. I was given immediate surgery and the blood that entered my brain was removed successfully and that I would have to see therapists because sometimes the side effect of an Intracranial hematoma is mental and emotional changes.

I wrote my final exams for that semester in a hospital bed with my mother not speaking a word to me and my baby sister in a coma.

*

"And that Micheal is my story up till this point" I finish and clean the tears that had begun to fall down my face, "that's why I'm the way I am right now"

"I'm so sorry" Micheal says and I can tell he is saying it sincerely, "but you don't have to keep blaming yourself for what happened to your sister because it wasn't entirely your fault"

I let out a cold laugh, "Oh, believe me it's all my fault" I say and sniff back the tears, "if I hadnt been so blind to the signs around me that told me she was no good and would end up causing me so much pain then I probably wouldn't be here now"

"Who?" Micheal asks, "the same person that warned the Kevin guy about you?"

"The one and only" I say and feel anger boiling up in my throat.

"Do you know the person now?" he asks and I nod and wipe a stray tear with the back of my palm, "who is it?"

"Renae fucking Adams"

AN
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Finally, the end of the flashback into the cause of it all. I'm feeling quite satisfied, so satisfied that I might be willing to give an extra update next week 😎

Anyhooo, the real drama begins now so stay tuned for more drama behind the popular table 😌😌

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