I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
March 20th-Greg's Point of View-
I went to the wrestling training facility, it's a Friday and every Friday since Caylee married Jeff and left to go on their honeymoon and to move to North Carolina, I go over to Ms. Howard's house to watch Smack Down with her, she demanded to have weekends off and that she can't go on weekend business trips unless if she leaves on Saturday or if it's going to North Carolina. Today, I only had to clean the equipment and the facility, we didn't have any appointments today, and after I got off shift I always go over to Ms. Howard's house, and lately we haven't seen Caylee on Smack Down since her match with Candice about a month and half ago, we both think she broke her bone or something, but she didn't call because she didn't want to worry Ms. Howard, we're guessing. I locked up the building since I was the only one working at 7 since the place closed at 5 tonight. I climbed into my car, I drove over to Albertson's picking up a 2-liter bottle of soda, Ms. Howard can keep the rest of it for next week or to drink during the week and I bought us some snacks like chips and cookies. I then got back in my car driving over to Ms. Howard's house, I climbed out grabbing the bags and I walked up to the front door, I unlocked the front door with the house key Caylee gave me back when she was a Senior in high school and was in wrestling training, she gave me one because she would be home alone late at night often and alone a lot on weekends, and if I got any weird texts or if she called me screaming or something, I would be the contact person and I would be able to get in, Ms. Howard let me keep the key for her sake as well since I was practically the only man she knew besides the guy that taught Caylee to wrestle and some co-workers, but she didn't trust them as much as me. I walked into the house shutting the door behind me with my foot.
"Ms. Howard, I'm here and Smack Down is about to come on!" I yelled throughout the house, Ms. Howard wasn't in the living room, dining room or the kitchen. I set the bags and soda down on the dining room table and I slid my keys into my pocket. "Ms. Howard?" I asked loudly, maybe she isn't home, but yet her car was in the driveway, maybe she's in the bathroom. I walked back to Caylee's old bedroom, she wasn't in there, I went to Caylee's bathroom, she wasn't in there and Ms. Howard's door was shut, I knocked on it. "Ms. Howard, it's Greg." I said, no response, and I turned the doorknob opening the door to see Ms. Howard conscious and blood streaming out of her wrists. "Oh my god Ms. Howard, what did you do?" I yelled as I ran up to her, and she had a blade in her other hand.
"I cut myself, I want out of this misery, I want my daughter back." Ms. Howard said as I went and grabbed a towel from her bathroom and tightly wrapped it around her wrist trying to stop the bleeding.
"Cutting yourself or trying to kill yourself isn't going to bring her back. Hold this." I said in a demanding manner. I pulled out my phone dialing 9-1-1 in my phone.
"9-1-1 emergency, state your emergency." The operator said.
"My friends mom tried to commit suicide, she cut her wrist and it won't stop bleeding." I said as I paced back and forth, she told me to put pressure on it with a towel or something and try to keep her conscious as the ambulance would be on the way, I gave them the address. "Ms. Howard, someone is on their way, it's going to be okay." I said as I held the towel tighter on her wrist.
"Sorry Greg, you were always like a son to me ever since I met you. You were so nice." She said as she rubbed her other hand over my cheek without the blade.
"It's ok Ms. Howard, let's just get you better okay." I said as I heard sirens coming. "Hold this tightly to your hand as I go let the nice paramedics and EMTs in your house." I said as she tightly grabbed the towel and I ran out to the front door letting them in, they went into the bedroom putting her on a stretcher and rolled her into the ambulance, I followed behind them to the ER, I parked my car and ran in, they told me to take a seat and someone will call me back when she's ready for visitors. 'I should go call Caylee and tell her what happened, I should wait until the doctor comes out and tells me more.' I thought, I waited in the waiting room for a half hour when a doctor came out.
"Party for Ms. Howard." He said, I jumped up and walked over there.
"How is she?" I asked.
"She's okay, she lost a lot of blood, but we had blood in stock that matched hers and was able to get her a transfusion, we stitched the cut up to prevent further bleeding. She's been calling for her daughter and going on about her daughter leaving her, do you know where her daughter is or what she's talking about?" He asked as he leant against this counter.
"Her daughter, Christina Lee, graduated high school last June, she joined WWE wrestling, she started going on tour the day after her graduation, she got married in December to this guy that lives in North Carolina, she decided to move out to go live with him in North Carolina." I explained.
"You might want to tell that to the psychologists, they are in her room trying to get to the bottom of things." He said as he led me back to her room, the doctor called them out of the room, I explained it to them again, and they nodded.
"So?" I asked.
"We think she might be experiencing Empty-Next Syndrome, we think maybe all that was slowly getting to her and eating away at her, and she was suddenly realizing her baby girl doesn't need her anymore. We would like to keep her in the hospital for a couple more days until she heals and then we would have to put her in a prohibition institute for a few months to offer her counseling and keep a close eye on her, is there anyway you could get a hold of Christina?" The one psychologists asked.
"Yeah, I was going to call her, but I wanted to wait until I got all the information." I said.
"Right now will be the best time, tell her to get here ASAP." The other one said, I excused myself and walked out to the front of the hospital pulling out my cell phone dialing Caylee's number, she picked up after the third ring.
"Hello?" Caylee asked.
"Hey, am I interrupting anything?"
"No, I'm just chilling backstage in the women's locker room, what's up?" She asked.
"Before I tell you, go find a nice place to sit down in a dark hallway or outside or something." I said as I heard her excuse herself and walk out the door.
"Should I be worried?" She asked.
"Just tell me when your somewhere safe." I said as I heard a few bangs in the background.
"I'm ready, I'm in a dark hallway in the darkest corner, what's up?"
"Alright, I don't know how to tell you this, I might as well tell it from the start. Ever since you married Jeff in December, your mom called me and invited me over to her house to start watching Smack Down with her every Friday so we could see you and she'll have some company with her instead of being alone. Well, tonight when I went to your house, your mom attempted suicide by cutting herself on the wrist. I called 9-1-1, she's in the hospital, she's fine now. They think she's suffering from Empty Nest Syndrome, after she gets out of the hospital, they want to put her in a prohibition institute to keep an eye on her and get her therapy, they want you to come down here ASAP to meet them." I said blurting it out, I could hear a pen drop because she was so quiet. "Are you still there?" I asked.
"Yeah, I don't believe this, are you sure it was my mom? I mean, she was fine a few months ago." She said as I could hear her sniff, and I know she was wiping tears from her eyes.
"Well, it's true, I'm so sorry Caylee, I'll stay at the hospital until you get here."
"Thanks Greg, if it wasn't for you my mom would probably be dead. I'll be on a plane to Texas ASAP." Caylee said.
"No problem, just be safe, I don't need you getting hurt or trying to kill yourself."
"Well, killing myself won't happen, getting hurt is a different story. I'll call you back later telling you my flight information and when I land, my car should still be at the airport, so I'll drive over there."
"Alright, see you when you get here."
"I love you Greg."
"Love you too Caylee, as friends, I know." I said as I heard her giggle a little before she hung up, I hung up my phone and I just stared out into the dark sky with stars glistening, that was hard to tell her, I wonder how hard it must be telling someone that a love one died, Caylee's going to be a horrible wreck when she gets here, but I did the right thing. I stood out there looking up at the sky thinking about numerous things before I decided to walk in and go back to Ms. Howard's room, I sat on the one chair, Ms. Howard was asleep in her bed, now it's just the waiting game.