Actually there were 8

She knows more than she lets on

It was 5 years ago. I was still 16. But you knew that already. Vanya was out had like her violin or something at like a pawn shop or something. But it didn't matter I was still at the house. IDK who all was still there or who all was left if anyone. It would probably be one year before Luther left though but dad was still alive until recent. She looked in and saw at least two of our family's comic books sitting out there. A sense of longing and belonging. I didn't want to go with her. I never wanted to around anyone I felt like a burden. 5 was the only one who had known I still had my powers and now Ben was also dead. We had never really been a good loving family never close. I was close with Vanya and Klaus and Ben but then again Klaus and Vanya were outcasts each in their own ways. And I was still close with Ben even after his death. 5 had wanted me to with him show the others we didn't need them let me use my powers. But then he had left without me and I wrote to him everyday at that point it had been 12 years since he'd been gone.

Vanya had asked me to go with her but I hadn't thought she meant it. I hadn't wanted anyone's pity. Even if out of everyone she and Klaus were my best friends for their own reasons. I wish Allison hadn't done that to us. And I knew one day I'd tell Vanya the truth. But I was worried she'd hate me. I couldn't let anyone else hate me just for being me. Had she wanted me to tell her if she knew I still had them? It's not that I didn't trust her or I thought she wouldn't believe me but I knew our powers were taken for a reason. I should've known she hadn't done it just to pity me. Maybe she had actually wanted to spend time with me. She saw a typewriter and got to work. 

She started by telling people who she was and let everyone knew that this was her story. That's how she thought to make the book that ended up with lots of fighting. I read it I thought it was great thought it was relatable. But I was biased I thought I could find it relatable because I could relate to her because we had gone through the same thing. Kind of. She wrote everything I'd been telling you. How we were never a real family. Her book went to many people in many Manella envelops. She talked about how we had been our father's creation. Even mentioned me how I was even his biological child but been born in a much different way yet he had treated me just like everyone else if not worse.

We were family in name but not in fact. She had many lonely long days and nights as she wrote her book and got her photo taken for the back of it. In the end after our brother Ben had died there had been really nothing connecting us. How they wouldn't even stay connected for my sake even though they pitied me for being our father's only real child and how poorly he treated me. She would go to places and read parts of her book to live audiences. According to Vanya we had just be strangers living under the same roof. How I was the only "connection" they wanted to keep around. They had never included people like her or me because we hadn't had powers. Her book was fittingly named Extra Ordinary. We had been told that's all we were. How the only friend she had in the house was myself. The only one that seemed to understand because I had gone through it it same as her. How we had all been destined to be alone. But no one had felt more alone than myself. How they were starved for attention.

Some of this people were reading. Luthor read through it working out Allison read through it getting her hair and makeup done. Vanya spoke the truth but they felt it wasn't fair for her to do that because we hadn't been through what they had but the opposite of that had also been true. They seemed to hate Vanya and pity me. Said we had been damaged by our upbringing. Diego had the cover or whatever pinned to his punching bag as he beat the punching bag senseless. What she said was true and it was bold of her to do. But her pointing it out made everyone upset. How could you or how dare you types of arguments. Yes how dare she speak the truth from an outsiders point of view?! Klaus sitting in a meeting while Ben peeked over his shoulder. Surprised and shocked at whatever it was that Vanya wrote. She said we were haunted by what might have been. But only I knew the truth. In some other reality. My reality that I had made for us as kids that was nothing but a distant dream. As if it never even happened. The only one that knew the truth was 5. Had called her work gutsy. Calling them all out. And yes all of it was true. But it was also all true from my POV as an outsider wanting what they had and her as well. We didn't have powers so we couldn't participate in the same ways they had so she had retaliated by writing the book. Showing the world who we really had been.