Cassidy

03 || Choices

I walked back over to my bed and sat the papers on the bed right in front of my parents. They looked as surprised as I was and I felt like something was seriously wrong here.

How can someone else have the exact same name as me?

As my parents flipped through the papers I noticed pictures that looked very similar to the ones I always take on my phone. That had me in them..but I never took those pictures.

Just as I was looking through them with a sinking feeling in my stomach,Aaron came into the room and took the papers from me.

"You know you weren't supposed to see those" he said. Looking angry.

"Um excuse me?" I said. Blocking him from walking out of the room so he can explain what he meant by that.

"These pictures are confidential. Whoever gave you these has no right to do so. Who was it" he said.

I laughed and crossed my arms around my chest.

"So you come here,keep things like this from me and expect me to tell you anything? Why do you think that would ever work?" I say,feeling slightly angry myself.

He pushed his blonde hair back from over his forehead and sighed.

"Look Cassidy there's a lot you don't know and a lot you shouldn't know for many different reasons. Things like this aren't meant for you or anyone else accept the ones dealing with this specifically. So asking questions about them won't do anything but put yourself deep into a hold that you can't come out of and when that happens nobody can help you. Don't ask me what I mean and don't try to figure it out. Just stay out of it and stay with your family" he said.

I tried to process everything he just said and I didn't notice he had left the room and my parents were gathering my personal belongings for us to leave the room.

"Cassidy honey,come on let's go home" my mom said taking my hand.

We all walked out to the front desk to check out and I realized how many people from my school were in the waiting room.

All of them looking very weak and stuck with a strong sickness. I had no idea what was going on but I will admit it was starting to scare me a bit.

I hate being sick and this..looks way worse than just a sickness.

As we walked outside I saw my oldest brother sitting in the van with my younger siblings and i felt even more worried.

"Carson..what is going on? Why are they out of school?" My mom asked. The way her voice cracked as she said it made me just want to cry.

He looked up and pointed somewhere behind us.

"The school is shut down today. Someone said there's some type of illness going around so all of the schools and most businesses are closed until further notice" he said.

I heard my mom sigh slightly and I felt a bit better knowing nothing bad happened to my siblings.

We all got into the car and started our drive home.