Home Torn by Tijan

Author:Tijan [Tijan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Tijan
Published: 2016-12-13T18:30:00+00:00

The drive to St. Francis didn’t seem as long as her prior visit. Marge was at the front desk and after one swift glance, she produced the same blank name tag and black marker with a smile. Dani filled it out and went in search for Phyllis on her grandmomma’s floor.

Phyliss stood and walked around the counter. She folded her arms over her chest and regarded Dani with reluctance. “I don’t know if she’s up for a visit, Dani.”

“What do you mean? What’s wrong?”

“She’s pretty weak and down right now. She’s been bedridden for the last three days.”

“Is she sick?”

“She’s not ill, but it’s part of her mental illness.”

“What does she have?”

Phyliss smiled. “You wouldn’t understand it if I just gave you the clinical term. Your grandmomma gets real sad at times and real happy at other times. You got her on a downward cycle last time, but now she’s fully at the bottom. It might take a while for her to come out of it.”

“I thought there were meds for this stuff.”

“There are.” Phyliss nodded, “But sometimes the meds aren’t enough.”

“What about therapy?”

“Your grandmomma won’t do therapy. She says its hogwash. Truthfully, I just think your grandmomma don’t want to talk about some stuff that happened in her past.”

Dani accepted it, but she asked anyway, “Can I see her? Just for a little bit?”

“I wouldn’t want to see my grandmomma as yours is,” Phyliss advised her. “But, if you’d really like, I could see if she wants to see you.”

Dani nodded. “That’s fine with me.”

“Okay.” And Phyliss gave her another smile that shot right through Dani. It was as if she knew something that Dani didn’t, that she knew all the hopes that Dani had yet to realize herself.

The humming lady sat in her usual spot from before.

She stopped humming once Phyliss was gone and stood to shuffle her way to Dani.

Dani held still, stiff, as she raised a finger and poked Dani’s arm.

She shook her head, hummed, and poked Dani again.

Dani didn’t say a word.

After a third poke, the lady turned and shuffled back to her sitting spot. She shook her head and went back to humming.

“What’s your name?” Dani asked.

The humming stopped and she gazed over.

“Clarissa,” she said clearly. And then hummed.

“What are you humming?”

“I’m not humming,” Clarissa clarified. “I sing in my head.”

“Why don’t you sing out loud?”

“Because they wouldn’t understand.”

“What do you mean?”

“The voices. The angels. They wouldn’t understand.”

“What wouldn’t they understand?”

“The angels are dead, but I’m singing about live folk. I can only sing in my head so that the angels don’t get mad.”

Clarissa glanced down the hallway and went back to humming. The volume rose a notch as Phyliss rounded the corner.

“She said you could come in for five minutes, but that’s all she has in her.” Phyliss nodded and they both turned down the hallway.

Outside of Sandy’s door, Phyliss knocked once and poked her head in, “We’re coming in, Sandy.”

Dani heard a creak and a rustling of bedsheets before she stepped around Phyliss and saw her grandmother.

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