The Last Snow: A Mother's Love

Kuza’s POV
March 2nd

“Alright, everyone’s here, correct?” Craig asked, as we all made our way into the ballroom.

“Yup.” Danny replied, as we all filed in around the huge table.

Once we all got settled in, and started to quiet down to some extent, Chris stood up at the end of the table.

“I just wanted to say a few things before Danny and I leave to get Bella tonight. First off, thank you to every single one of you. We never thought things would have gone how they have, and never thought we’d have to make such a huge change and move out here to the middle of nowhere, Colorado. I think I can speak for all of us when I say I never could have realized how wrong I was when I originally thought this was going to be easy. I really appreciate how much work everyone’s put in, and I believe because of of that it will definitely pay off when she’s back.” Chris announced.

“Do you have anything you wanted to add?” He asked Danny.

You could tell he thought about it for a good minute or two, and then he raised his glass in the air.

“Cheers to Bella.” Danny cheered.

Everyone followed suit and raised their glasses.

We all took a sip, and small talk ensued after that.

I was in a small conversation between James and and Tony, when Balz spoke up.

“Sorry to be a party pooper, but we still haven’t talked about what happens when Bella actually gets here? Are we going to hold up a big ass welcome home sign...or just leave her alone?” He wondered.

“That’s a solid question.” Kellin agreed.

“I’ll deflect to you, Tyler (B.).” Chris said, nodding his head in Tyler B.’s direction.

“You know I can’t read her mind, right?” Tyler chuckled.

“Yeah, but if anyone could, it would be you.” I told him.

“True. All I can say is that a welcome home sign would be the worst fucking idea in the world. We need to almost act like she wasn’t gone, even when you get her to sign that contract which could probably take up to a week and bring her back here, she’s not going to be able to just jump in to everything. So I’d say just kind of hang back, and kind of slowly introduce her back to everyone all over again.” Tyler B. explained.

“So TJ might be able to mend their broken relationship.” Craig joked.

“In theory, yes.” Tyler responded.

“That sounds good, you’ll just have to keep us up to date as to what’s going on when you get back to the house.” Balz said.

“Of course.” Chris agreed.

We spent at least another hour just chatting, and then we started to wrap up as we knew Danny and Chris had to start heading out in order to get to Bella early in the morning on the 4th.

We all gave them our well wishes and goodbyes, helped them gather some things for Bella to travel in the car comfortably, and then they were on their way off to Bella.

“You okay, Burgess?” I asked him, as I noticed how nervous he looked.

“Just a little worried.” He admitted.

“Relax, there’s nothing any of us can do about it right now. We’ve all done as much as we can for now.” I assured him, breaking out two beers, one for him, and one for me.

“Thanks.” He said, taking it and chugging a fair amount of it.

“You’ve done all you can do, now the ball’s in her court.” I said.

He took one more swig of his beer, and started to walk back towards the ballroom.

“I guess so.” He sighed.

“Go get some sleep so you don’t have to stress yourself over it.” I suggested, walking with him.

“Yeah, that’s not a bad idea. See you tomorrow.” He said, making his way down to the other house.

I groaned and threw my head back.

I was just now realizing that this was actually going to be more stressful than I imagined, the not knowing of what was going on was enough to drive everyone a tad bit crazier.

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Kylie’s POV
March 3rd
9 pm

Tonight marked the fifth night of Taylor coming and picking up Bianca for Bella.

To say it was the most horrendous event either Gaia or I had ever witnessed.

Bella was screaming so loudly it felt like all of the glass was ready to shatter. Her sobs could be heard across the whole house, and they just shook her body violently.

I had to shake those images out of my mind, before they drove me insane. Thankfully, she came back around around the end of the third day. She started to talk and eat again, slowly allowing her to become herself once more.

Taylor was giving us updates and those were thankfully a calming force to see that Bianca truly was ok. He was just waiting two weeks to get her back to Bella’s mom, just so that incase any surprises popped up, we wouldn’t have Bianca with someone who might not have all of the knowledge of the situation like Taylor did.

As if that hadn’t just drained me emotionally and physically, tonight was going to be even worse for Gaia and I.

Chris had texted us about 5 hours ago letting us know that we had to have Bella ready for them by midnight. Which meant slipping some sleeping pills into her tea.

It made me sick to think that we were just handing her over, but unfortunately in this situation we all had to cover our own asses, and this was the only way Gaia and I could finally get a blank slate to start over, and completely end our communication with them.

“Come on, we’ve got to get this over with. Just rip the band aid off.” Gaia stated, coming into the kitchen.

“You do it, I can’t.” I whispered, pushing the mug over towards her.

“Fine.” She sighed, pouring some hot water into Bella’s mug.

She crushed up a few ambien, that would help keep Bella asleep for a while, and stirred it so that it dissolved,

Finally she put some honey and lemon in it to hopefully hide the taste.

“Hey, what’s up?” Bella whispered, popping her head into the kitchen.

“I got you your tea.” Gaia said.

“Thanks.” Bella replied, carefully taking it.

As Bella sat down at the table and started to drink it, tears started to form in my eyes.

She was such a beautiful and intelligent young woman, and I knew that she could do anything she put her mind to.

And I was now a part of taking that away from her.

That was a lot to take in.

I ran over to her and hugged her tight.

“Don’t ever lose yourself Bella, don’t let them take that away.” I sobbed, holding on to her even tighter now.

“What?” She slurred out, obviously already feeling the effects of the large dose of ambien.

“Stay strong, dear.” I cried.

“No, no...can’t go.” She whispered, going to stand up, but failing and falling to the floor.

Her eyes closed and it was clear she was asleep, my hope that it wasn’t too much ambien for her.

“It’s ok, one day she’ll be alright.” Gaia choked up, tears coming to her eyes too.

“We just have to get her into bed and then get the hell out of here.” I said, internally freaking out.

She helped me bring Bella up to the upstairs bedroom, and we both let each other say our last goodbyes if you will to her.

I went first, and then waited in the car for Gaia to come out.

She came out about thirty minutes later, and got into the seat next to me.

“Let’s go.” She said coldly, holding her head in her hands.

I started up the engine, and through my now blurry vision from crying made my way down the road.

“Bye Bella.” I cooed.

Notes

Uh oh.