Unspoken Truth by Kylen S. Barron

Author:Kylen S. Barron
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2021-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Broken Trust

A few years later, Mom was only publicly reproved, and dad was disfellowshipped for their bad behavior towards one another. Mom’s abuse had been swept under the rug, never to be discussed. Although I am sure the elders were well aware of Sister Evelyn’s abusive and explosive nature towards her children.

As their fate began to unfold publicly within this organization, we were all labeled damaged children from a broken relationship from the gate. In 1980, it was a wrap, and dad would walk away from Mom permanently, never to see or speak with her again, unless it was about DeVone or Diane. They are still minors in school and still living with Mom as she continued to sink into deeper darkness once dad was permanently gone.

By now, LeWayne, myself, and Lorai are young adults and have all moved out. I was working at Strawbridge and Clothier as an assistant in the buyer’s division. Slowly, but with uncertainty, we were all trying to pull together new chapters in our lives as we try to piece together what was left. Meanwhile, two of my sisters are living in turmoil under Mom. If she wasn’t in all-out attack mode where dad was concerned, she made sure their remaining children residing with her suffered both physically and emotionally.

I would get them as often as I could, just to get them away from Mom. There wasn’t anything I could do as far as custody; that was Dad’s call to make. The question was when?

DeVone is now a young teenager, and Mom’s constant bullying her, ridiculing her, hitting her eventually drove her to attempt suicide. When I received the call telling me DeVone had been admitted to the hospital for attempted suicide, I couldn’t have been angrier at Mom. I immediately left my job, headed to the hospital. I didn’t want to see Mom; I would avoid her at all cost to keep from doing to her what she had done to all of us. I would wait in the lobby of the hospital until I could see her leave. Once I spotted her in the hospital lobby, our eyes locked, no words were ever spoken between us as I watched her exit. She stayed long enough for DeVone to ingest the charcoal given to her to bring up the pills she had taken. Still weak, groggy, and sleepy, there was no way she was talking.

It was safe for Mom to leave before dad arrived. I arrived at my sisters’ room, relieved that she was still with us. I sat in the chair posted next to her bed and watched her sleep; I wasn’t moving. I feared Mom would return; there was no way I would leave her. Shortly after arriving at DeVone’s room, dad arrived. He asked, with tears in his eyes, “What happened?” DeVone is waking up; I knew Mom was not returning as long as dad was on the scene.

The tears just flowed with all of us in the room as dad tried to grasp why his baby girl would try to take her own life before calling him.

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