What I Thought I Knew

Family

Sighing she walks out of the bathroom just as her mother finished up her call with Eliza who said she'd be there as soon as she got Mike, her husband, and the kids up. Her mother was in the middle of a text to Lacy, telling her that she needed to come home early from her sleepover with her friend, when she looks up, "hey, they're all in the living room," she tells her a smile on her face.

Kara nods, as she follows her mother out of the kitchen and into the living room where six of her siblings wait for answers, Charlie only telling them they weren't going to believe who was here. Some of their eyes widen when they see her, not wanting to make the assumption but also getting their hopes up. "Karina?," Amy says standing up, almost crying, and not wanting the moment where her mother tells her she's wrong, to come. Ten years of feeling guilty over the loss of her sister. When her mother nods, she rushes forward hugging her, "I'm so sorry," she whispers and Kara wraps her arms around her. The scent of her hair bring back a memory of when she was little, and she was scared of the monster under the bed and Amy telling her the only monster in the room was the tickle monster before attacking her with tickles. She used to look up to her, Amy was her hero and it wasn't until she had hugged her that all those emotions came back.

Stepping back from the hug after a moment, Kara is able to see the shock on her siblings faces, except for Charlie who already knew and Sophie, who watched her with curiosity. She knew it was Sophie since she was clearly the youngest in the room. Her .other clears her throat, "so you guys probably have questions and I'll explain how she came back to us, or well I guess all I know is what the police told me, Karas really the one that knows more." Their mother says and they all nod. Kara rubs her arm uncomfortably as she stands there in front of them all while her mother talks.

"This morning I got a call from the police saying they had found her." Her mother her smiles as she was her arm around Kara, "she had actually came into the police station herself, she had been illegally adopted nine years ago," when. She says this Kara looks over at her confused, she had went missing ten years ago, she had just assumed she had been with her adoptive parents all ten. "She's been living in Grandview this entire time as Kara Evens, just on the other side of town, and last night she went to the police station and told them who she really was."

Rose stands up, "wait she was just living across town this entire time and not once ever tried to contact us?" She looks at Kara accusingly.

"Maybe she tried and they kept her from contacting us, they might of hurt her for trying." Charlie says, still thinking that his sisters kidnapping had to be darker then just an illegal adoption.

"You don't have to talk about me like I'm not here," Kara says feeling slightly offended and becoming defensive. "And I didn't even suspect that I was Karina Thomas until last week," she explains.

Rose sits back down, arms crossed, not buying that she didn't know who she was. Sophie looks at Kara, "so do we call you Karina or Kara? I imagine it would be weird to go by one name and then find out that's not even your name."

Her mother looks over to Kara, not ever thinking about that until her very intuitive, youngest daughter brought it up. Kara looks over to her mother, "I'd prefer Kara, if that's okay?"

"We used to call you Rina," Matt speaks up, saying it as a lost thought, and less as a statement.  When he says that a stray memory runs through her mind, Matt telling on her for doing something wrong. The words "Rina's doing something she's not supposed too," echoing in her head.

Her mother looks conflicted before nodding, "ye, yes that's okay, Kara is fine." She didn't want to be calling her daughter the name her kidnappers gave her, but she couldn't just expect her daughter to forget who she had been for the last ten years.