Olivia's POV
It takes a split second for me to jump into action. I take my baby girl in my arms and grab the towel from its rack. 'Oh baby... what did you do?" I whisper to her.
"I-I'm sorry." She chokes out through tears.
"shhh. It's going to be alright. I say softly and push a strand of hair back behind her ear.
After her wrists are clean and bandaged, I lead my daughter into her bedroom. The blank, exhausted expression on her face tells me that I shouldn't bother her right now. " go to sleep jess. We can talk when you wake up okay?" she gives a small nod and shuffles over to the bed in the corner of her room. I watch from the door as she pulls the covers back and crawls under them.
As I turn to walk out her small, fragile voice catches my ear. " please stay."
And she doesn't have to ask me twice. I immediately turn around and go back into her room.
she pulls back the covers and then turns towards the wall, desperately trying to avoid eye contact with me.
"jessa I'm not mad at you." I say and start to play with her hair. I've done this every time we lay together since she was only about three. It comforts her.
"thanks momma." She barely mumbles. After a few more minutes her short, raspy breaths are replaced with slow, even ones and I know she's asleep.
As I watch her sleep all I can think of is how blind I have been. I mean, all parents have fears for there children but this isn't one you think of when your carrying a child in your belly. Your terrified of birth defects and of miscarriages. Once there born your scared because there the smallest., most fragile things ever. Your scared you won't be a good mother. Then they grow a bit and you worry about them falling off there bike or not making friends at school. As they become teenagers you worry about what kind of people they're hanging around with. And why they don't want to spend time with you anymore, but still that thought isn't one that crosses your mind.
its hard to believe how blind I've been to this. it was obvious by examining her wrists that this has been going on for a little while now. But if it's the last thing I do, I'll help my baby recover. ( poor liv she blames herself :( thank you so much for the reviews we hope your liking the story so far. please review we are nowhere near finished with this story yet :-) )