Chapter 13:

Problems

Emma was sitting in her brother's locker room waiting for them to return from their promo that they had to do with Edge and Randy Orton.

Raye was asleep on the couch. The doctor had given her some medication to keep her calm when her brothers where not around. Her soft snoring can be heard over the sound of the tv in the room showing Raw that night.

Emma smiled slightly at the sight of her older sister. After everything that she had gone through, Emma was just glad they got out of it alive.

Raye still had faint scars on her back from her foster fathers beating. She looks peaceful in her sleep. The pills she took would put her out for an hour or so, depending on how many she took. She had taken enough for a half hour.

Emma looks away from her sister and looks back up at the tv. She had turned it down enough so that her sister could sleep but not enough for her not to be able to hear it.

Raye whimpers in her sleep. She is having another nightmare about those days locked away. "Please father, no more. I will be a good girl." She says in her sleep as tears ran down her cheeks.

"Raye." Emma says as she tries to wake her up. "Wake up sis, it's just a nightmare."

Raye wont wake up. She seemed locked in her nightmare. It is mostly the drugs fault, because it still had a grip on her.

"Raye." Emma said again as she shook her shoulder slightly. She started to tear up when she didn't get a response.

Raye groans and her eyes flutter open. She whimpers softly and looks at Emma. Her eyes are unfocused and she looks absolutely scared.

Emma looks at her for a minute before pulling her into a hug.

"Don't let him get me Em." Raye whispers softly.

"I won't let him get you Raye." She says just as softly as tears run down her cheeks.

Raye nods and falls back asleep. She looks more peaceful now.

Emma sighs and runs her fingers through her hair before turning her attention back to the television

Jeff knocks on the door.

"Come in." Emma says as she looks at the door.

Jeff walks in and looks at the sleeping Raye. "She ok?" He asks softly.

"Yeah she should be. She had a nightmare like two minutes ago but I calmed her down." Emma says

"She has been having those less and less." He said and sat down on the bench,

"Yeah and that's a good thing. I just hope they end soon because I don't seeing her like this." She says looking up at Jeff.

He nods and looks at Emma." You ok Em?"

"Yeah. I'm just stressed out because of all this stupid stuff with the retarded people we called our parents. I just don't understand how they could turn out to be so evil." Emma says

"They said they only took care of you two for the money. I guess when you found out, they decided the party was over, so to speak." Jeff said.

"Yeah." Emma said nodding as she put her head on his shoulder.

He runs his fingers through her hair. "Wanna re dye your hair?"

"Yeah." Emma smiled as she sat up quickly. "What color should we do?" She asked excitedly

He chuckles."How about red and purple?"

Emma laughs and nods "Yeah. That's awesome."

******Time Skip********

Raye lays on the bed asleep in the hotel room she, Emma and her brothers share.

Emma is sitting on the other bed with her laptop in her lap. She had her headphones in and she was playing computer games.

Matt and Jeff are out getting food. Raye is out like a light.

Emma grins slightly as she shoots another zombie. She had been so stressed lately, she was glad to have her hair dyed again though. The old stuff was getting kind of old to her.

Raye shifts in her sleep and her shirt moves. Faint crisscrossing scars can be seen on her back. "No mommy, I want pudding legs." She mumbles in her sleep.

Emma of course doesn't hear her because of the headphone in her ears. She was having almost too much fun shooting the zombies on her game to do much of anything anyway.

Ray rolls around in bed and falls to the floor with a thunk and a groan. After a minute of silence, she can be heard snoring on.

Emma hears the thunk on the floor so she pauses her game and takes out the headphones. She looks over at the bed and sees that her sister isn't there anymore so she gets up off of the bed and walks over to the other one just to see her sister on the floor, still sleeping, even though she just fell.

Raye is a heavy sleeper, especially on her meds. Her dark brown hair hides her face and looks like it is going in her mouth as she breaths in and out.

Emma sighs and kind of bends down a little so she can try and get her sister up off the floor.

Raye is light, but heavy at the same time. Her blanket is tangled around her waist and legs like a snake.

Emma starts to try and get her up and right at that exact moment, Matt and Jeff walk into the room.

They stare at Emma and a big grin breaks out over Jeff's face. He snickers.

"She ok?" Asked Matt seriously.

"Yeah I think. She kinda fell off the bed." Emma says sheepishly.

"Need some help?" Matt asks as Jeff continues to snicker and hold in a laugh.

"Yeah that would be nice." Emma tells him as she rolls her eyes at Jeff.

Matt elbows Jeff and goes to help Emma. Jeff smirks and sneaks up on Matt once he had set Raye down. He tries to put him in a sleeper hold.

Emma laughs and it startles Matt.

Jeff locks it in."I can always surprise you Matt. Its too easy."

"I don't scare that easy." Matt laughed as he got out of it.

Jeff tackled his brother to the ground and starts to tickle him.

Matt grins slightly as he starts squirming out of the way. Emma sees this and laughs at him.

Raye wakes up and looks at the scene with sleep in her eyes."Pudding?" She mumbles, half asleep.

None of them hear her so they keep on doing what their doing.

Raye gets up and goes to the bathroom, silent as a ghost. Matt and Jeff continue to roughhouse.

Emma watches them and then nearly falls over from laughing so much.

Raye comes back and sits on the bed. She stares into space, as the meds kept her super calm when she took them. She does not seem to care that Matt grabs her leg, thinking it was the end table, and pulls her down. She lands with a thud.

"Oh god! Raye!" Emma says when she hears the thud and realizes that it's her sister.

Matt and Jeff freeze with a look of guilt in there eyes. Raye had landed on her face, but her hand hit her eye, and her eye was bruising fast. She looks at her family with an odd calm look in her brown eyes.

"Raye, you okay?" Emma asks uncertainly.

Raye nods, her eyes unfocused. She honestly looks very scared, but tried to put on a brave face for her family. "I cant see out my right eye." She said calmly.

"Okay well, then...um..Matt, Jeff? Could you go get some ice?" Emma asks as she sat next to her sister.

They nod and leave. Raye looks at her sister and then down to a flash of red she sees on her wrist. "Em, whats that?"

"What? Oh, it's nothing." She says as she tries to pull down her sleeve to cover up her wrists.

"Come on Em, please tell me. I wont tell anyone, promise." She gave her best puppy dog look

"Raye, it's nothing." Emma says as she looks away from her sister's eyes.

"Tell me Em, You know I wont give up." Raye said persistently.

"Raye, if I tell you, you cannot tell anyone. Not even Matt and Jeff." Emma tells her.

"I promise I wont Em." She holds up her pinky, like they did when they where kids.

Emma wraps her pinky around her sister's pinky.

Raye smiles. "Now tell me Em."

"Well it would be easier to just show you." Emma said as she pulled up her sleeves and showed Raye her red and scratched up wrists.

Raye studies them for a second and puts two an two together. "Em, you cut?" She asks softly.

Emma slowly nods her head with tears welling up in her eyes.

Raye hugs her sister." Why Em?"

Emma hugs her sister back and just shakes her head with the tears running down her cheeks.

Raye comforts her, now at a loss for words.

Eventually Emma pulls away from her sister and pulls down her sleeves just as their brothers walk back into the room.

Matt gives the bag of ice to Raye. She hisses as it touches her swollen eye.

Emma cringes slightly and Jeff looks at her closer and sees that her eyes look kinda watery, just like she had got done crying.

"You alright there, Ember?" That was the nick name Jeff gave Em because she was like an ember in a wildfire that never seemed to die.

"Huh? Oh, yeah I'm fine." Emma says kinda brushing it off, hoping that he doesn't notice.

Jeff nods, buying it for now. "Why don't you rest. We can watch Raye for a bit."

"Yeah, okay. Um, so I'll just turn off my computer and such." Emma said as she got up off the floor from where she was sitting next to her sister.

Jeff nods and watches as Emma shuts her stuff down and crawls into bed. Matt is also watching her.

Matt and Jeff both share looks and they look at Raye-Anne

Raye stares back at them. "Yes?" She asks softly.

"Is there anything wrong with Emma?" Jeff asks after he makes sure Emma is sleeping.

Raye tenses, but tries to not to act tense. "Everything is fine, why do you ask Jeffro?"

"Because she seemed like she had just got done crying." Jeff said after he looked away from Emma on the bed back to Raye who was sitting on the floor.

Raye looks conflicted as she looks at her sister. Matt can see her struggle, but leaves it to Jeff to find out on his own.

"Raye, if there's something wrong with Emma, you should tell us." Jeff says softly as she kneels down next to her.

"But I promised her. I can't break promises." She said in a childlike voice.

"Raye." Matt says. She looks up at him. "It could hurt her to not tell us though. We're family, we can help." He informs her.

Raye hesitates and goes over to Em. She gently pulls up Em's sleeve to show them the truth.

Matt and Jeff both gasp and Jeff nearly runs over to the bed with Matt slowly walking behind him.

"Don't tell her I told." Raye whimpers and goes to the bathroom. She locks the door, so she can be alone.

Matt and Jeff both look at each other with worried looks before they looked back down at Emma's wrists.

Raye can be heard muttering in the bathroom. She is talking to herself and suddenly it goes quiet. Strangely scary quiet.

Matt looks up and starts to walk over to the locked bathroom door. Jeff looks up at him wondering what he is doing but he doesn't say anything.

Matt uses the key to get in and falls on his butt at what he sees. Raye had downed a near full container of her sleeping pills. She lay on the floor, out cold. "Jeff!" Matt says.

"What?" Jeff yells as he turns towards the door, waking Emma up in the process.

Matt is speechless as she stares at the fallen Raye. "Call 911." He says in a dumbstruck voice.

Jeff walks towards his brother "Why do I-" He doesn't finish his sentence when he sees Raye. He runs back over to the phone and calls them while running back over to where Matt was standing. While he did this, Emma sat up in the bed rubbing her eyes. That's when she realized that her sleeves were pulled up.

Matt looks at Em and blinks as she looks at her rolled up sleeve. "She didn't tell." Matt said as he gently picks up Raye and lays her on the bed.

"She was the only one I told. And I distinctively remember going to sleep with my sleeves down." Emma says as she stares at her arms with tears in her eyes.

Matt does not know what to say as the paramedics arrive and cart Raye away. "I am going with her. Matt, you stay with Em and bring her, ok?" Said Jeff.

Matt nods and watches as Emma pulls down the sleeves of her shirt so no one can stare at them anymore.

Jeff goes with Raye to the hospital. Matt looks at Em with a sad look in his eyes.

"Quit staring at me like that." Emma says softly as she looks up at him with tears in her eyes.

"I am sorry. I just do not want to lose you two. Your my family and family needs to stay together." He said.

Emma looks down at the bed and sniffles, not wanting to see the look of disappointment in his eyes.

Matt walks over to Emma and hugs her. He hums a soft song that he had hummed for her when she and Raye where recovering from the abuse. It was meant to calm her.

It just makes her start sobbing.

He comforts her the best he can. He hopes that this wont be the end of his family.

**************************Time Skip*************************

Emma was sitting in between Matt and Jeff in the lobby of the hospital, waiting on news about Raye.

Matt gets up and starts pacing back and forth. Jeff watches him with a muted interest.

Emma watches him with tears running down her cheeks. She sniffled loudly and put her head on Jeff's shoulder.

Jeff runs a hand through her hair. Matt keeps pacing.

Emma sits there and shuts her eyes, trying to contain the sobs that were just about ready to burst out.

Jeff comforts her, not knowing what to do.

Matt immediately walks over to the doc, wanting to know what happened.

"Mr. Hardy?" The doc says.

"Yeah that's me. How is she?" Matt asks him.

"We where able to pump the sleeping pills out of Raye-Anne's stomach. Right now she is resting comfortably. Why did she attempt suicide?"

"I don't know." Matt said as he heard Emma start sobbing from behind him.

The doc nods. "We can set her up with a therapist if you want."

"It was because of me." Emma all looked at her. "She did it because when she found out about me cutting my wrists, I made her pinky promise not to tell anyone, but she did anyway." Emma sobbed before Matt could respond to the doctor.

Jeff pulled her into a hug as she wept. The doc sighs. "I can set you all up with a family councilor. Would that be ok?"

"Yeah." Matt said nodding as he looked back over at his sister.

He nods and tells them where to go to see Raye. He then walks away to set everything up.

Matt and Jeff get up and get ready to go where Raye was but then they realized that Emma wasn't following them so Jeff looked back and saw her sitting on the chair with her legs pulled up to her chest while her arms were wrapped around her shins.

Jeff ushers Matt out of the room and goes to Emma. "Talk to me Ember."

Emma just shakes her head and puts her head on her knees. She was afraid to tell Jeff what she thought because she didn't want to disappoint him.

"Come on Em, its ok. Please talk to me."

"I just...I feel like this is all my fault." Emma says quietly without lifting her head up off her knees.

"Its not your fault. Raye just needed help and she called out in the worst way. She is lucky. But hey, we still have her."

"But still...the only reason she did that was because I know she feels like she betrayed me when she told you guys. I know my sister, she doesn't like breaking pinky promises." Emma said while lifting her head off her knees.

"She did it because she loves you. We all love you." Jeff said softly.

"There's a reason I started cutting." Emma says suddenly as she looks up at him.

"What's that reason Ember? You can trust you bro Jeffro."

"Cuz after everything with the stupid foster parents or whatever, Zeke broke up with me. He said that he did it because I needed to sort everything out but what he didn't realize is that he left when I needed him the most."

Jeff's normally warm green eyes darken as he clenches his fist. "I will hurt that boy."

"Jeff, don't worry about it. It's not worth it." She said shaking her head.

"It is his fault this all happened." Jeff said.

"Jeff, don't." She said softly.

"Em, its not your fault he broke up with you. If he did not want to help you through the tough times, he is not worthy of you." Jeff said as he hugged her.

"I know it's not my fault, Jeff. I have reasons behind the whole cutting thing other than just him." She said as she hugged him back.

"What are those reasons?" He asked softly. He is hesitant to break the hug.

"Because everyone left. I haven't talked to any of my friends from back home since everything bad happened." Emma said bitterly.

"Have you tried to talk to them Em?" He asks.

"Yeah I have and every time I try to call them they never answer and when I text them they never text me back." She says quite angrily this time.

"In my opinion, sis. They do not deserve to have you as a friend if they turned their backs on you."

"It's just...I don't get why they did it ya know? They all swore that they would be there for me through everything. Now it just makes me wonder how much they lied about."

"Friends who don't stick by their friends are not to be trusted in my opinion." Said Jeff.

"Yeah." Emma says softly was tears well up in her eyes for what seemed like the 20 millionth time that day.

Jeff just pulls her into a hug. "Let it out, Ember. I wont judge." He said softly.

"I don't think I can cry anymore today. I've already cried so much, it's not even funny."
Emma laughs with tears in her eyes.

Jeff smiles. "Want to go save Raye from Matt's on going talking about himself?"

Emma laughs as she wipes away the tears that had leaked out. "Yeah, c'mon."

Jeff fixes Emma's hair and leads her to Raye's room. Raye seemed zoned out as Matt continues to talk about his career. Matt doesn't notice them either. Raye is pale, but looks to be fine, albeit bored.

Emma and Jeff both grin at each other before she goes to sit with her sister.

Raye jumps slightly and look at Emma. Her brown eyes show her guilt about telling Matt and Jeff. She then looks back at her hands as she fidgets.

Emma studies her for a minute with her blue eyes before grabbing Raye's hand to hold on to it.

Raye looks up at Em. Her face tells everyone that she did not feel like she deserves to be forgiven for telling and breaking a promise.

Emma's eyes well up in tears again and then she suddenly pulls her hand away from her sister.

Raye reaches out for her sisters hand. She wanted to know that Emma forgave her. Tears run down her cheeks. She looks so scared, sad, and lonely. She finally just let the bottled tears flow.
"Why'd you do it?" Emma asks her as she has tears running down her cheeks quite rapidly.

Raye gets a pad of paper and a pen off her table trey and started to write because her throat was hurting her. She then hands it to Em. 'I did it because I don't want to lose you, little sis.' it said.

"But you swore you wouldn't tell anyone Raye. You pinky promised me. You never break those, so why did you this time?" Emma asked as she cried.

Raye underlines one part of her sentence.'I don't want to lose you.' is what she underlined. She then wrote. 'It would be the Seth Masters incident all over again if I lost you.' She was referring to the time a boy had tried to keep Raye from Em and he had ended up in the hospital when Raye had learned of what he was doing.

"Don't you dare bring Seth into this! He has nothing to do with this!" Emma said as she cried.

Raye stops and looks down at her hands. She did not know what to say. She looks so small and scared.

Emma shuts her eyes and sniffles. Then she opens her eyes and looks at her sister. "I just don't understand why you had to tell. It's not like I was gonna let it get as bad as it got the first time. It was supposed to just be my little secret." Emma says as she tries to keep all the other tears in.

Raye is silent. Her body is shaking with silently sobs are she cries.

Matt and Jeff both exchange glances as they both realize that this isn't the first time Emma cut her wrists.

Jeff motions for Matt to meet him in the hallway.

Matt follows him out and leaves the girls alone in the room.

"She told me what caused all this." Jeff said.

"With Emma cutting?" Matt asks.

"Yeah. It was her former boyfriend and friends." He said coldly.

"Wait, what? How? I thought her and Zeke were still dating?" Matt asks surprised.

Jeff leans on the wall. "They aren't. From what she told me, after the incident, they broke up and her friends stopped talking to her."

"That's so wrong. Obviously they weren't her real friends if they did that. And I have a bone to pick with that boy."

Jeff nods. "If we are going to make him pay, the girls must not know. Emma did not look happy when I told her I was going to hurt him."

"Do you think we can keep something like that from them though? I mean, they could find out and hate us for it." Matt tells him.

"They are good at finding out things when they put their mind to it. Just like us, huh?" Jeff said with a smirk.

"Yeah, just like us." Matt says laughing.

"We could send some of our wrestling buddies to do it secretly." Jeff said.

Matt nods. "You know, Emma probably didn't look happy when you said you were going to hurt him because maybe she still loves him."

"She looked pretty pissed when she told me what happened. I doubt there is anything left of that relationship." Jeff said as he studies the floor tiles.

"Okay, well then...maybe she just didn't want to get you worked up." Matt said shrugging.

Jeff stares at Matt blankly.

"What?" He asks

"Why would she not want me to get worked up?" Jeff asks.

"I don't know. Maybe she just didn't want you to get involved." Matt tells him before walking back into the room.

Jeff calls out that he is going to get some food. Raye is asleep and looks semi-peaceful in her sleep. Matt looks around for Emma.

He sees the bathroom door shut and walks over to it.

"Em, you alright in there?" He asks after he knocks.

"Go away." Emma says with her voice sounding as she had been crying again.

"I can't Em. We are family. Can I come in?" He asks.

"No." Emma says from where she's sitting up against the bathroom door.

"Come on Em. I am worried about you and Raye. I don't want to lose either of you."

Emma takes a shaky breath but doesn't say anything. She didn't know how much longer she was going to last through all this.

"Em? You ok?" He said in a worried tone.

"No." Emma says she shakes her head, knowing that he couldn't see.

"Tell me what's wrong. I promise not to judge." Matt said.

"Everything." Emma says as she cries. At this point, she was leaning on the bathroom door, with her legs pulled up to her chest and her arms wrapped around her shins.

"Jeff told me about Zeke and your friends and I agree with him. They don't deserve a wonderful and sweet person like you Em." Matt said as he sits against the other side.

"I just wish I could go back in time and erase every bad thing that happened. It's not fair! Why does everything happen to us?" Emma cried.

"I do not know Em. But I can tell you this. Life will always throw things in your path to trip you up. But the true test is if you can get back up, dust yourself off and race on." Matt said as she stares at the ceiling.

"I miss Zeke." Emma cries out again. "I'm not ashamed to admit it either."

"I know you do. And who knows, maybe you might get back together. But until then, look ahead, not back."

"I can't help it though. I just keep looking back on all those happy memories and I miss it. I miss so much. Sometimes I just wish that it was still happening so I could just be happy again."

"You can be happy even in the shadow of sadness. You just have to find that spark again."

Emma just shakes her head and leans her head back on the door. She was so tired of all the crying because it made her feel weak.

"It's not my fault. I want you to repeat that out loud Em." Matt said.

Emma shakes her head slightly and shuts her eyes. She sniffles slightly and looks at the bathroom floor.
"Come on Em, say it." Matt says in a pleading voice.

""It's not my fault." Emma says softly to herself, but Matt doesn't hear her.

"Em, please say it. It will make you feel better."

"It's not my fault." Emma repeats, but louder this time. She just does it to make Matt happy though.

"It would make me happy when you finally believe that. Now please let me in."

Emma sighs and slowly stands up and unlocks the door so that Matt can get in and then she scoots over away from the door and sits down again.

Matt slowly opens the door and looks in. He walks over to Em.

She doesn't look up at him while he walks over, she just stares straight ahead.

Matt sat next to her and draws her into a hug. Tears dripped from his eyes and landed on Emma's head.

Emma feels the tears and then more tears leak out of her eyes.

"I don't want to lose you or Raye. You guys are my family. I don't want my family to be broken again." He said softly.

Emma doesn't say anything she just hugs him tightly.

Matt just hugs his sister.

Jeff walks into the room and doesn't see Matt or Emma so he calls out for them.

"Jeff." Matt says from the bathroom.

"What are you guys doing in here?" Jeff asks when he walks to stand in the doorway.

"Trying to comfort Em." Matt said softly.

"Why? What happened? He asked.

Matt quickly explains everything.

"Aw Ember, c'mon. None of this is your fault and you know it." Jeff says as he leans on the doorway watching her.

Matt watched em to see what she would do.

Emma doesn't really do anything, he just hugs Matt even tighter.

Matt hugs back and looks at Jeff with a look that said, what now?

Jeff just shrugs slightly, not knowing what to do either.

"Em?" Matt said softly.

"What?" Emma asks softly. She didn't take her head off of his shoulder or let go of him though.

"Why don't we make a deal?" He said softly.

"Like what?" She asks just as soft.

"How about this. We promise to always be there for you and Raye and you two have to promise not to break up this small family we have by leaving." He says softly.

"We're not gonna leave Matt." Emma says.

"Promise?" He asked.

"Yeah I promise." Emma says as she nods her head slightly.

Matt smiles and gets up. He extends his hand to her.

Emma takes his hand and they all walk out to where Raye was sleeping on the hospital bed.

Raye is just waking up. She points to her throat as if to say,'thirsty.'

Jeff goes over and hands her a glass of water and then sits down in the chair next to the bed while Matt pulls up the other chair and Emma stands behind them with her arms crossed over her chest with tears in her eyes again.

Raye sips her water and looks at her family. She looks at Em and clears her throat. "Do you forgive me?" She says in a raspy voice.

Emma nods slightly and Raye looks slightly happier.

*************************Author's Note***************************
*Pulls Angel in behind me.* lookie who came back readers.

*laughs* Well Heartbreak girl, they can't see me if I'm behind you.

Oh.*Moves out of the way.* I guess your interested again?

Oh yeah. I started listening to Skyscraper by Demi Lovato and the ideas just came flowing out of me.

Will you stay with the story until the end or abandon it again?

*laughs again* I plan on staying until the end.

Promise? *Feels the readers staring at both of us.* Do you feel that?

*laughs loudly* Yeah I promise and yes I can. The readers are staring at us.

I hope it is a good kind of stare. I hope they are not mad at us.

I don't know. They might be cuz we haven't updated in like forever. So maybe we should go now before they start a riot.

*Peeks out the door and is hit in the head with a stick. Closes the door* too late.

Ah okay, well then we gotta go find another way out. So this is WWE-Little-Angel saying peace out peeps! *walks out trying to find another way to leave*

Heartbreak Girl has left the building. *Leads Angel to a trap door to escape.*