Clash of Hearts (Wild Hearts, Contemporary Romance Book 2)
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Robbie started to speak, but suddenly the tears were streaming down his face. He tried to hold them back, but he just couldn't do it. “Oh, Aunt Kay,” he said. “Oh, I miss them so much. I miss my dad, I miss him so bad, and I miss my mom. I know I'm going to see her when we get to your house, but like you said, that isn't her anymore. I don't know how I'm going to handle that; I don't know what to do.”
Aunt Kay reached over and took hold of his hand, squeezing it gently. “You know what? I was just as overwhelmed the other day when they told me your mom had woken up, and I needed to come and take her home. When they said that she was just a little girl in her mind, I didn't know how to deal with that. I mean, that didn't make any sense to me. She was a grown woman, just like me, how could she be a little girl again? I didn't get it. But I went and picked her up, and I took her home with me, and I figured out pretty quickly that, while she wasn't the sister I grew up with anymore, as a little girl in a big body, she's quite a delightful person to know. Yes, we have to accept that the Linda we knew is gone. Your mom is gone, and she won't be back, and I'm so sorry about that. But this Linda that lives at our house, she needs our love and our support, and sometimes she needs us to smack her fingers so she doesn't hurt herself or someone else. She's a part of our lives, now, and we've got to deal with that.”
“But she isn't my mom,” Robbie said. “My mom was a grown-up, not a little girl who looks like a grown-up. What if I—what if I can't handle it, what if I panic or freak out?”
Aunt Kay squeezed his hand again, and glanced his way, smiling softly. “I'll tell you what I think you should do,” she said. “I think that you should watch Anna with her. They play games together, and they color pictures and watch TV together—yeah, I don't know how to tell you this, but we seem to see a lot of cartoons on the TV. But seriously, just watch your little sister with her, and it won't be long before it dawns on you that Linda is like having another little sister. I know it's going to be hard on you sometimes, looking at her and remembering who she used to be, but you've got to understand that this isn't something she did, this is what happened to her. She didn't run out on you, Robbie, she didn't abandon you. She got taken away, and it wasn't by her choice.”
Robbie turned and faced forward, looking out to the windshield at the road ahead. Even though he was only 13 years old, it struck him that looking through the windshield was a fairly accurate metaphor for the position he found himself in life. He could look ahead all he wanted to, but there was no way to be sure of what might lie around the next bend. Life was never going to be the same again, and that was the only thing he could be certain of.
He had Anna, though, and he knew that she needed him to be strong for her. Well, doggone it, that's what big brothers do, right? Big brothers are the strong ones that little sisters can lean on, can cling to, when the world tosses and turns them and flips completely upside down. Big Brothers want to help you get through life when life just plain sucks.
He needed Anna, too. Now that the world had gone crazy on them, they would have to depend on each other. Anna, because she really was a little girl, would probably be the one most involved with their mother, who now thought she was a little girl. Robbie, on the other hand, had been thrust into the role their father used to play. He would have to be the strong one, the disciplinarian, the one who planned for the future and figured out how to take care of the family. Sure, they had Aunt Kay, but they weren't really her responsibility. Anna, and now Linda, as well, were Robbie's responsibility. He knew that, down deep in his heart, and if there was one thing he would never do, it was walk away from his responsibilities.
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