unbroken (unexpected series)

Chapter 45.5

        “So Logan is the only one that leaves and comes on the island?” a woman asked. Keeping my head down, hoping they wouldn’t approach me or even speak to me, I sighed when I got my way. Relieved.

        “And Logan is Rainy’s sisters?” the woman sitting with Jack asked. McKenna. I remembered her from… last night? Time seemed to be going so much quicker these days. Before Oakley… it felt like time dragged on, each day the same as the other, but now it felt like there just weren’t enough hours to quench the need I had to be around her.

        “Yeah, Logan is actually part of a crew, they search for missing or kidnapped children,” Jack said, his words, “Oh... wow… he found his sister?” McKenna asked. I had my back to them, but my ears were listening, his sister wasn’t like me, but I still wanted to know the answer to that.

        “Yeah… he searched for her for ten years, never gave up,” Jack answered and my shoulders tensed. The doctors had said I was bad, that my parents thought I ran away, so I wasn’t like Logan’s sister. I was someone that left home, or so my parents thought. So the doctors told me. There’d be no reason for them to come find me or even bother searching.

        That was something I remembered though, the moment when I understood that I was bad, that they didn’t want a bad son.

        “That’s – that’s – wow,” McKenna had no words, without seeing her face, I would still guess that she had a look of wonder there.

        “Yeah, I mean, but that’s family, you know? When someone goes missing for whatever reason you have to look for him or her… you have to get closure any way you can… the pack Logan belonged too, they forbad him from looking for her, but he still did. Formed his crew, and for years they’ve been searching and protecting not just our supernatural kinds but humans as well.”

        Drinking my glass of apple juice, I was in a sort of daze, fighting like hell for Jack’s words not to root themselves in my mind because it wasn’t the same. I was bad, why would any look for a boy that was bad and needed to be punished because he couldn’t learn to be right? They wouldn’t. ‘No one is coming to find you,’ white coat said, and white coat never lied.

        Just as I was about to dash up to my room, I frozen in my spot moving to the side when Gabriel came down the steps, stopping a few below me he turned around, “Hey, your parents… you should go see them, they’re worried about you,” I looked at him blankly, they cared so much that they weren’t here when I woke up? I wanted to snort but that would be rude.

        “Actually…” he said after a moment when I hadn’t said anything, “They were here, but Oakley sort of used her gift on your mother…” my eyes widened, Oakley used her gift on Carla and Tony? Why?

        “They tried to hurt her?” I asked my hands shaking at my side, but I was confused when Gabriel shook his head. “No, they tried to touch you when you were unconscious-”

        “So she shocked them?” I – but she said I had surgery; I lifted my hand to the spot of my head where my hair had been shaved off. Someone had to touch me to do that, and I had brain surgery surely they touched me then too.