Breaking the Curse by Ally Campanozzi

Author:Ally Campanozzi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Small Press

He smiled as he read the poem; it was so true. She was everything to him—and she always would be.

Sylvia

Sylvia was suddenly extremely aggravated. It had been several weeks since she had talked to Johnny about their mother and not one letter had come and he hadn’t come with their father to Parent Weekend. He wouldn’t answer when she called his cell. It was starting to really hurt her that he had let a girl come between them. She was on Level 4 and would have a home visit coming up this month. Johnny never answered her letters; the only time she was able to get ahold of him was when their father gave him the phone when he was at home. He acted like it was no big deal!

It wasn’t that Sylvia didn’t like Runo; she did. But when their father told her they spent every waking hour together it made her jealous. What had she done wrong to make Johnny ignore her letters? If he only knew the struggles she was dealing with, she thought he might respond differently.

She talked to her therapist, Dr. Allen, and he told her that he wanted to have a family therapy session with Johnny, but Sylvia refused. She was too afraid. Sylvia’s intentions weren’t to come between Johnny and Runo; she just wanted her brother back. She didn’t care if Runo was around; that wasn’t the problem. Runo wasn’t the problem—they’d had a great bond in the psych ward in Texas, and Sylvia had not met a girl as cool and as sweet as Runo in this program. If there was any girl Sylvia wanted in her brother’s life, it would totally be Runo.

She just wished her brother would have participated in her stay in this program. She wanted replies to letters and phone calls so she knew he still cared about her. She hoped that when she was on her home visit all three of them could spend time together without her being the third wheel.

She had met dozens of girls in this program with all kinds of issues. She had come to understand her bipolar disorder and had been put on a medicine called Lithium for her mood swings. She would sometimes still get depressed, but she had learned to get through the bouts without getting suicidal. Now she couldn’t figure out why she’d tried to kill herself that day Johnny found her at three in the morning. The only reason was she had felt that her despair and depression were killing her and she didn’t have a way out. That had to be it. Nothing traumatic had happened in her life besides her parents’ divorce—and her mother’s addict ways, of course.

She hadn’t spoken to her mother at all, and frankly, she didn’t care to. It was a Sunday morning and they always got mail after breakfast. She sat in the corner expecting nothing but letters from her father. But low and behold, there was one from Johnny!

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