Unspoken by Hayes Sam

Author:Hayes, Sam [Hayes, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2010-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

MARY

Today I am going to tell Julia everything. Everything.

I test my mouth. Flexing my jaw, I accidentally bite my tongue – a sign perhaps that I should keep quiet.

I need to practise. I take a deep breath when a nurse walks past. I stick out my hand like she’s a taxi. She turns with an impatient sigh and frown. ‘Yes, Mary?’ They all know my name. They say it a thousand times a day. Then her eyes widen and incredulity sweeps over her. ‘Yes, Mary.’ Amazing, she’s thinking. The one that never speaks has, in some small way, communicated. She’s crouching beside me, hopeful, feeling lucky to be the one who finally gets me to talk.

It’s like this, nurse, I begin. If you’ve got a while, I’d like you to listen to a story. I wait for her reaction, but she simply tightens her frown, puzzled now, as if I’m wasting her time. She doesn’t seem to hear me. Please, will you help me? Will you help me tell my daughter everything? It’s not like me to beg.

The nurse says nothing. She just blinks at me, and everything that I want to spill out, everything I’ve ever wanted to confess to Julia crams my head so full that I swear it’s oozing as tears from my eyes.

‘Never mind, love.’ And before she walks away, she hands me a tissue.

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