When Splice was 13, Robert had made amends with Splice's mother but not without an agenda.
Robert began to send calls to Bommy that sounded like... Alicia.
Random calls to get Bommy to turn to him for comfort.
Robert calls Bommy, saying in the voice of Alicia, "You are an abomination, you are nothing, you are making babies with Robert, you scum!"😠
Bommy paused. She had just picked up the phone and never said a word, but this came out of "Alicia's" mouth. Bommy was flabbergasted, which is a comedic word meaning highly shocked.
Bommy was confused, so freaking confused. Bommy asked, "Are you, my real mother?" "Alicia" yelled. "Your real mother came from Mexico, not France, so no." Bommy was both heartbroken and extremely confused. There's not much Bommy can say because this needs to be clarified.
Just the fact that "Alicia" was so... ABUSIVE in her words suggested to Bommy that "Alicia was spending too much time with Robert." Bommy states after hanging up on "Alicia."
Splice noticed Bommy was hanging out with Robert, and Bommy would either vent to him or rant.
What displaces shock in Splice is that Robert is always sympathetic. Splice was like, "He's ROBERT. HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE NICE, AND HE'S INSANE."😳
The REAL ALICIA was feeling a sense of giant boulders hanging around her chest because her daughter, whom she had taken care of for over a year, was rejecting her and calling her all kinds of names because her husband would pretend to be her, and make her daughter go against her!
Alicia would try to convince Bommy that she never made those statements, "I care about you!" Alicia said as she stood on the front patio on the second floor of their house while Bommy was rockingSplicee, hugging and cuddling her.
Alicia shouted in anger, "I raised you. Why do you think I would send you those nasty phone calls? As Bommy felt betrayed. Bommy had feelings and just wanted to be known as a human being. Someone with dignity.
Bommy said, "I think it is best if you ask Robert why." in a calm, decisive voice. Alicia bragged about how "You are the only angel I had. You have been good to me!" Alicia ran out of the patio and to her car and drove off.
Bommy decided "to let her lie" and not really disrespect her anymore because she did take care of her for a long time, and honestly, it'd just be awkward to bring someone farther from you that you want to be close to you.
Splice THOUGHT the WHOLE SITUATION WAS SUSPICIOUS. Splice was confused. Splice wanted to figure out, "What was going on?" Splice whispers in shock under her breath.
WhenSplicee was 14, Bommy finished things. Robert had destroyed Alicia's and Bommy's relationship for good. Alicia never spoke to Bommy; Bommy only talked to Robert as he manipulated her into unethical crimes like genetically modifying her DNA, making her...
In 2022, Splice played with Legos, and Bommy combed her hair until a clump fell out into her comb.
Bommy looks at the long brown thin, brittle, and mangy hair in her diamond-encrusted comb with a sharp metal pick at the bottom tip.
Bommy shouted, "MY HAIR!" Bommy cried as she yelled toSplicee, "Go to the store and buy me a wig; my hair is falling out!" As Bommy cried, feeling uncomfortably close to a science project than a human.
With her hair gone, Bommy felt like Bommy was becoming more inhuman, mainly because Bommy was born through "Scientific methods."
If Bommy were getting cancer while not being born through "Scientific methods," both simultaneously, Bommy wouldn't feel this way.
Splice went to the store alone as Bommy cried like someone had killed her pet animal.
Splice came home and saw Bommy crying on the floor and was left with two strands of hair on her head.
The serum Robert gave her to make her hair shiny so he could sell it on the market caused her hair to fall out, and Bommy thought it was just a juice Robert was testing out. After all, Robert wouldn't tell her because she feared the worst for her hair. After all, Bommy prized her hair's beauty. After all, Bommy didn't want to wear makeup because Bommy thought it would mess up her skin, so Bommy thought if Bommy made her hair up and made it look beautiful, then it would enhance her beauty instead of makeup.
The next day, Bommy wore this wavy, blonde, beautiful, voluptuous wig.
She pulledSplicee into a closet, and Splice was happy as Bommy yelled, "I have a secret!"
Splice asked, "What is it?" In whispers as Bommy adjusted her new wig.
Bommy said, "First, I'm getting a GED," Bommy excitedly jumped for joy whileSplicee was thinking about all the nice things she would be able to buy since Alicia was no longer sending them $2,111 a day; then Bommy awkwardly said, "...and second, I'm... I'm going to teach you how to vent about your problems!"
Splice asked, "Wait, what?" Bommy calmly satSplicee down on the floor, saying, "Sometimes, when you just want to vent to people, they always tell you to --"
You see a flashback of Robert yelling at Bommy to
"Oh, Bommy, Suck it up!" Then we go back to the Present day, where Bommy says, "...and...!"
Then You see a flashback of Robert yelling at Bommy to "Get over it!"
Then we go back to the Present day where Bommy says, "...and never offer any real help or comfort, they say...!"
Then You see a flashback of Robert yelling at Bonnie, "Let me slap you!" Then we go back to the Present day, where Bommy says, "...Or just tell you to continuously suck it up until one day you just shut down on them and never tell them your problems and just pretend to be happy."
Splice asks, "Alicia or Robert?"
Bommy confessed, "From Alicia, it was well-intentioned; from Robert, it was to get me to --"
Then You see a flashback of Robert yelling at Bonnie to "Shut up!"
Then we go back to the Present day, where Bommy says, "...Well, you know, get me to be quiet. I stopped venting to my mother because she was getting too emotionally drained, and sometimes when you keep venting and using someone as a vent object, you can't always vent to them; they have... LIFE, they have- They're busy. She's a doctor. She has to help those people because it's her job and life for death. I can understand her telling me to suck it up because there's not much I can do now. I know Robert's true intentions, so I don't like to talk about how I feel about him telling me to suck it up; it's just too awkward."
Splice asked, "I'm 14. I may not be free forever. I mean, I have homework and school, but you can just come and vent to me! You already use me as a comfort teddy bear. Sucking it up isn't that bad. Sometimes, you have to suck it up and move on with life. Even if you still feel sad."
Bommy said, "That's why I wanna teach you this. Listen, Let me teach you how to privately VENT."
Splice asked, "How?" Bommy said, "Well, you can pray, you can fear that you might bother God, but he's never bothered by it. He can easily keep you from doing it too much to keep it from making you spend so much time in a closet that you end up neglecting all the important things in your life!"
Splice asked, "I already do that!" Bommy said, "At First, I didn't feel like I could vent to God... I usually went into a closet all by myself. I didn't want to bother anyone, so I used the walls as a sort of... Ear, when it had no ears. Honestly, I felt like some of the things I would be venting about were so stupid, so I just told myself. Who wants someone to hear something seemingly stupid or not worth anything to vent to other people? I mean, it's okay to vent to yourself but still..."
Splice asked, "I understand." Bommy said, "Whenever my parents would tell me to suck it up, I usually try to hold it in, and I sometimes broke down in private, so I decided, if I were going to break down in private, I would just vent it all in private."
Splice asked, "Are you okay...?" Bommy said as tears rolled down her soft cheeks, "I am; when I figured out I had a form of depression, I told my dad... Robert never really wanted to talk about it, I tried to get over it, but it was like... I couldn't. I guess because depression is, like, this thing that your brain forces you to feel, and you have to find some way to maneuver your brain to stop, and I just wanted to be able to maneuver my brain to stop. But, of course, I didn't know how; when I went to my father to help me, he refused to."
Splice asked, "Why did he... Well. Never mind, are you okay? Are you alive? Let's play." Splice pulls her out of the closet. Splice ran around playing with her outside.
To be continued.