Earth Angel by Caldwell Siri

Author:Caldwell, Siri [Caldwell, Siri]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Gay & Lesbian, Romance Speculative Fiction, Gay
ISBN: 9781594933462
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2013-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

Abby received an incomplete for the first quarter because she was not in class for a significant portion of the marking period and has not caught up on the work she missed while receiving inpatient psychiatric care.

“What is this?” Gwynne thrust the packet at Abby.

Abby glanced at it without touching it, then looked at her hands in her lap. “Nothing.”

“Nothing. Right.” Gwynne tossed the report card onto the floor. “You were in a psych ward?”

“Not for long.”

God, she was only in elementary school. She remembered Abby mentioning something like this, but this was so much worse than she realized. Had Abby even been old enough to understand what was happening to her?

“When you told me you went through psychiatric testing, I imagined a doctor asking you a few questions and sending you home. I didn’t think it was this.”

Abby clasped her hands together and cracked her knuckles like she needed something to keep her hands busy. “Yeah, I don’t like to talk about it. I don’t talk about it, actually. Only with you, I guess.”

“Was there anything wrong with you at all besides the angel sightings?”

“They never said. All I knew was I couldn’t go home until my friends left. They meant the friends in my head.”

Gwynne mentally thanked her own mother for being sane and not panicking about invisible winged playmates. Not that every parent could enjoy playing pretend as much as her mother did, but no defenseless child should be hospitalized for speaking her truth.

“I learned to give the doctors the answers they wanted to hear so they wouldn’t put me on antipsychotics.”

Gwynne’s heart burned with a possessive need to travel back in time and take Abby home with her so her mother could adopt her. Her mother would have taken her in and loved her and told her she wasn’t crazy. “I can’t believe they would do that to a kid.”

“They were worried about me. The doctors thought I might be early-onset schizophrenic and need to be put on medication, and my grandparents were afraid the doctors were right—that I inherited the voices in my head from my mother. At some point my mother had told them the reason she started drinking and doing drugs was to drown out the voices. They reminded me of that constantly, trying to scare me out of following in her footsteps, arguing with each other over whose fault it was that she destroyed herself.” Abby lowered her voice, probably so her grandmother below wouldn’t overhear. “Gramps accused Grams of bad parenting, and Grams insisted there had to be something wrong with his genes, because there was nothing wrong with her side of the family, and it was his bad seed that put her through all those miscarriages and gave them a daughter who wasn’t right in the head and maybe a granddaughter who wasn’t, either.”

“Fun childhood.”

Abby twisted her hands. “Maybe my mother would have taken the doctors’ drugs to quiet her voices, if she’d had the chance.”

“Maybe her voices weren’t real.”

Abby closed her eyes and sighed.

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