Types of Fracture – Chapter Two (Amelia POV)
Closed Fracture: The skin is not broken, although the bone ends may damage nearby tissues and blood vessels. Internal bleeding is a risk.
It doesn't matter if you think your fracture is secret. It can still hurt those around you.
When I started cutting, that's what it was: a glorious secret which, although it could sometimes cause me sickening pain, could only ever hurt me. Or so I thought.
Walking in on you and seeing all that blood, I realised that somehow, the fracture I had tried to keep closed within me had still affected you. You were bleeding all too literally, and it was my fault. And then Dad found out: he found the hidden stash of my stolen goods; the cause of the fierce acidity that had wrecked the plumbing in our house; the ladders of scars on my arms. And before I knew it, he was bleeding too. Then, all he had to do was tell Mom, which by God he did, and this supposedly safe and hidden fracture was tearing at all of our lifes.
But I guess, as usual, I'm completely focused on myself. Or so my parents said when they found out. In fact, I bet that everybody has their own problems – their own breaks which they think are bandaged and contained. I bet that's how my parents started arguing. My mother thought that her stupid lawsuit would only hurt her in the worst case scenario, but it hurt everybody she'd ever known and loved. She likes to compare it to an open fracture, one that will quite obviously damage so many people. I disagree. She never suspected a thing.
So, the moral of that story? Fractures are never completely safe and stable. Even when it seems like everything will stay in its place, like you can only ever hurt yourself, it's all one big cruel deception.
A/N: The second drabble is complete! This one was a lot harder to match with a situation, but I figured it out after I'd flicked through the book again.