What I Thought I Knew

Emotions of After

Just like how on Tuesday the numb feeling went away, Sunday, Kara felt the weight of all the changes in such a fast precession. It had only been two weeks since she had even learned about the existence of Karina Thomas, the girl she was supposed to be. Her entire life changed and it wasn't until she woke up this morning, her body swore from the fight the night before, that she realized how short of a time it had all occurred in. It all seemed overwhelming when she stoped to think about, and she just wanted to take a moment, to breath, to let everything slow down. Everyday,l she learned something new about her family, and yet they treated her like she had always been there.

Tomorrow she would go to a new school, today she would meet the grandparents she had supposedly had her entire life, once again things were moving so fast. It was as if, even life it's self, was trying to rush the process of her becoming Karina Thomas once again. She just needed a moment, so even though lacy had gotten up and hour ago, and had told her breakfast was ready twenty minutes ago, Kara was still laying in bed. Her pillow was over her head as she laid looking at the alarm clock as minutes ticked away. So when the door opened again, she assumed it was lacy again, to tell her to come down for breakfast. "Go away Lacy, I told you I'm not hungry," she calls out.

"I'm not lacy," when they say this she moves the pillow to look at her oldest sister. "Also I came to tell you grandma and grandpa are here." Amy walks over to the bed, sitting down on it, Kara's back to her.

Kara rolls over so that she's looking up at the ceiling and Amy. "I don't want to meet them," she mumbles and Amy looks at her, thinking for a moment.

"Rina, what's wrong?" She says, watching her for the tiniest indicator as to what could be on her mind.

"Don't call me that, and nothing's wrong," Kara says bitterly, wishing Amy would go away, as she pulls the blanket up to cover her face.

Her face softens, then she smiles a bit, laying down next to Kara, "I won't call you that anymore, but I'm not leaving." She then pulls on the blanket, "and share the blanket."

The blanket rips off of Kara's face, messing up her here, "no, Amy, what are you doing, go away."

Amy shakes her head, now laying under the blanket too, "sorry kid, not happening."

Kara huffs, "fine, but I'm not talking to you." She rolls over again, facing away from Amy.

"That's okay, I can talk then, you know, I never really get to tell anyone about things going on in my life." She says and Kara as promised, doesn't say anything. "So works been crazy, I work at a pharmacy and I've been secretly selling pills to pay off my student loans but the drug dealer I've been selling to started blackmailing me and at first I thought it was the end of the world but now we're in love and I'm secretly pregnant but haven't told them yet because my boss is onto me about the pills and it's a whole thing." Amy tells her, hands moving in the are as she tells the story.

Kara thinks for a moment, "wait a minute, you don't work at a pharmacy, you work for a youth center. Also that's the plot to "Addicted to you." Kara rolls back over to look at her sister, who's smirking.

"Huh, I thought you weren't talking to me," Kara rolls her eyes when her sister says this, but can't help the small smile on her face. Amy looks at her a little more serious now, "you wanna tell me what's bothering you now?"

Kara sighs, "it's just too much, last week I went to the police station and I ceased to be Kara Evens the moment I told the police that I thought I had been kidnapped. That was just a week, and since then I've learned that I wasn't even the original Kara Evens, I'm actually fourteen and not sixteen, the boy I had never even considered an option had a crush on me, our parents are divorced because of my kidnapping, rose hates me because I'm the reason she never gets attention, and then the boy I've liked since the seventh grade wants to take a break from me, and I have to go to a new school, also, that's stupid piercing is infected!" She wants listing of all the changes in her life that have occurred in just this week.