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“Fight for me!” I shouted, trying to get through to her. “I’m your son! Your Jackson! I’m all you ever wanted! Remember me! Please just remember me!”
“Get out!” she seethed from deep inside her, vibrating my entire body. Gripping onto the side of my arms, she tried throwing me off, but I didn’t let go.
I couldn’t.
I wouldn’t.
Not when I’d just had her.
“I don’t know you! I don’t know you!”
“Yes, you do! You made me!”
“Get off!”
“Mom—”
“My name is Bailey! I’m not your mom! My name is Bailey! Get out! I said, get out!”
“NO!” I screamed with everything inside of me, my chest heaving, my heart breaking. “You’re my mom! You’re supposed to love me! Be there for me! That’s your job!” I sobbed uncontrollably, hanging on by a thread.
“Dr. Pierce!” she called out for a man who wasn’t even there. “Get him out! Get him out of here right now!”
“He’s not your doctor! He’s your husband! We’re your family!” I heaved, struggling to breathe in and out. To hold on to whatever I had left of her.
“Jackson, you can’t do this. It’s not good for her,” one of the nurses ordered, grabbing ahold of me. Prying me off her. “You have to go.”
“Fuck you! She’s my mother!”
“Not right now she’s not. You’re making matters worse!”
Tears flooded my eyes, spilling over and rolling down the sides of my face. “How can they get any worse than her not knowing who I am?!”
“I’m sorry, son, but you have to go.”
My fingers held onto anything I could, snatching the heart necklace from my mom’s neck. It was the only thing she had left from her childhood, belonging to her mother before she left her behind too.
“Don’t take me away from her! Please don’t take me away from her!”
I had no control over my emotions, not one.
“Keep him away from me! Keep him away from me!” she repeated in a tone that would forever haunt me. “I hate you! Do you understand me?! I. Hate. You!”
“Son, calm down!” I heard the nurse say over the ringing in my ears.
She hates me.
My mother hates me.
I stopped fighting, the wind knocked out of me. Every ounce of strength, of willpower, of love I had for her…
Was gone.
I watched her lose her mind.
Lose herself.
There was nothing left for me to do.
