The Misunderstood

The beginning

Josea's pov

I can't really remember how it all started, but I did have some memories . The blurry ones from playing with friends, the funny ones from punishments, the sad ones from having to move.

But, I never forgot the most painful memories from overhearing arguments between my mum and my siblings, they were always worse than the last, I mean I was a pretty nosey child especially me being the last of four.

You see being a single mum is something that isn't easy at all especially when your first kid is older than your last by 17years, my mother was a particularly very strong woman. She had been in and out of three marriages, with each and everyone of them falling apart.

The first lasted enough for her to have two kids out of it, ended due to some unreasonable thinking on her part, he remarried and died some years after.

The second one well, was something alright. This new man treated her with no respect at all, she had one kid with him while he went around sleeping with other women and having girlfriends here and there. Unfortunately he died due to some reason I don't even want to know.

Then she had me. Your probably wondering about my dad too right, but so am I. I don't even know what he looks like, whether he's alive, what he does for a living or how they even met.

But one thing was sure I didn't share my dad with anyone of my siblings. Your probably wondering how I knew all of this, I did say I was a nosey kid, anyways I met my real dad for the first time when I was in grade 4, he told me he was sorry, made some promises to see me again and disappeared without a trace.

I had never felt so betrayed all my life, I cried my eyes out asking God what I did wrong but I didn't get an answer, everytime I went to school and saw other kids with their dads' I always felt left out and wouldn't stop crying.

When I turned 9 my mum got married again. Your probably thinking what is wrong with this woman yeah I thought so too.This time it felt like utmost betrayal from both my mum and the man she was getting married to. He was my best friend's dad at the time.

I was never comfortable with the union, I mean my loyalty to my friend at the time was strong, my mother warned me to stay away from her that she might want to hurt me, I could never believe it, I planned on speaking to her when we met again but we never did.

I heard from my mum that she and her mother with her siblings had moved to another state. I felt miserable at the loss of my friend and at the heartbreak my mother might have caused her's, considering how they were once friends.

After the marriage things started changing uncontrollably......I mean, I used to sleep with my mum in her room before but I suddenly had to move out and sleep with my sister in her room that she shared with my brother since my mum had gotten married.

There were nights I couldn't sleep, especially since my brother liked to switch the lights off before he slept, my brother had his bed nearest to the switch, or the nights when both of them weren't back from work yet and I was alone in the room.

I and my other sister didn't really get along so well, so we preferred to stay out of each other's way or better yet lives, she had a room to her self.

She was in grade 9 at the moment and 14 at the time.....she had her own shit going own and well we were okay with just saying the occasional "hi's"and "Hello's", let me be fr we didn't talk.

Anyways back to the changes, he started talking shit to I and my siblings especially Audrey, he always had something rotten to say about her and I never appreciated the comments, well none of us did but, my mum never said anything she just hung unto every word that came out from his mouth.

Gradually our family began falling apart at the seams, everyone saw it except her.
She ignored everything that looked wrong and the things he did that hurt us and continued to live in what she called her happiness.

It wasn't until Audrey came home from school with a note from her school to have her take a pregnancy test and the results came back positive that she did finally start paying attention.

A heavy silence blanketed the whole family that day when the results were released.....well everyone was devastated at the news but she seemed most annoyed at my sister claiming that she had brought so much shame upon our name.

They decided to keep it a secret and to let it stay between them they didn't want me to know anything about it yet but, my curiosity was always one step ahead.

I found out on my own, I became confused at the fact that Audrey hadn't gone back to school since she came home for her supposed "treatment" and I didn't want to ask my mum because she always said I asked too many questions.

It happened to be one afternoon that my sister had come home from her regular visits to the hospital that I sneaked into her room to look through her bag to see if I could find anything, that I saw the scan and I read through it and it confirmed that her baby was healthy.

I was shocked but I had to leave her room before she found out that I had been there. I escaped to my room just before she got out of her bathroom and I remained there until my mum came home, I didn't mention a word about what I had seen and I just kept seeing what I had read again and again in my head.

The next day my mum called for a family meeting where she told me what was going on and she left I and Audrey to talk in the living room. Time passed and none of us spoke to the other, I eventually walked out of there to get some fresh air on our porch.

Remember how I said the man wasn't helpful one bit, well he started putting suggestions in my mother's head that they should send my sister out of the house to go and live with my grandma or to have her abort the baby but, my mum strongly disagreed with him and said she would have the baby and she would continue to live with us.

James wasn't happy about my mother's reluctance to carry out his notions and became harsh towards her and actually that was just the start of their problems.

First chapter finally completed, please like, share, comment and vote.
If you notice any typos please feel free to point it out in a subtle manner and if you have tips for me as a beginner I would really appreciate your input. Bye