Scarlett's secret ~ (Finding A Home)

chapter 7

I'm so glad that you see it as in the past. But it is not good to keep things bottled up and it's not very healthy. My mate Caleb said as I look right at him. My name is Caleb and I am one of the people that your stepdad called to help find you. We are not here to judge you in any way, we just want to hear your side of the story. We would really love to hear what you went through and how your life was living with your grandmother. We really need to know when the last time you actually had a checkup done.

Please Scarlett tell us everything about your past I really want to know it really hurts me to admit as your brother that I really don't know that much about you and I know that from the time you've been living with us even to the time moving here you haven't been treated really well and we understand why you were so withdrawn enacted the way you did it wasn't because of attitude but we misjudged you I can also say we are very sorry and I am very sorry. Scarlett please forgive me for not being a better brother to you and I'm hoping that you can open up to me. I want to change things I want to know more about you and have a better relationship with you.

I went back against my chair and brought my feet up on the edge of the chair next to my butt and let out of breath of air I turned around and looked at my brother and said, all I ever wanted was a relationship with you too. And I will admit that I did blame mom because I figured it really was her who was turning you against me. And I am sorry that I just heard when now I understand from your point of view why you was annoying me. Just so you know my past ain't all that good and yes my grandmother was a b****. She wasn't a kind person and she was very prejudiced towards shifter people. She really believed that shifters should stay with their own kind.

I will tell you my past but I do not want sympathy. I don't want people to judge me and I want people to stop talking about me saying that I'm ungrateful when I'm really not. I just want people to get to know me regardless of what I am. All I've ever wanted is for people to like me for me.

The father's back I can remember is when I was 2 years old it was around the time that my father had passed and some guys in uniforms showed up at my grandmother's front door I didn't really understand at the time of what was going on and then we went through the services things wasn't really explain to me back then. My father had left me a will and I didn't really understand it because I was only 2 years old at the time but my grandmother did and from there on she was mad and she took it out on me A lot of it was because she was a very older lady and she didn't want to raise a child especially a child that came from a shifter parent. She treated me unkindly and as I grew up things changed and not for the better.

When we got back home she told me that my father was no longer around that he was dead and my mother didn't want me and that this was her home and I was now a guest and I was going to have to earn my keep regardless of how old I was so at 2 years old he gave me my first chore which was to keep the house tidy. From there it went on until I was around 3:00 she put me into school and I locked it because it gave me time to be away from her but nobody wanted to be my friend and I got bullied a lot.

He became a daily routine that I would get up when my grandmother would unlock my bedroom door I had a certain amount of time to get up to get cleaned up and be ready and standing by the front door if I wasn't there she was screaming holler at me until I got it right from there she took me on to school and in school people make fun of me they call me half-breed they didn't play with me and I didn't have any friends even the teachers didn't really like me I went to a public school.

You see my grandmother made sure that the school knew that my mother was a shifter and I was a half breed it was told to me so much and it made me feel like because my mother was a sister and I was a half-breed that people saw me as a disgrace or disgusting. But as I got older but I was still three almost four when my grandmother showed me the CCTV footage of the day that I was brought into the world and was at the hospital she made me sit down and watch it and she told me so many things honestly I can't remember all of it but my mother was a shifter and that she did not want me she had a choice and she chose to give me up it wasn't just saying the camera but there was also audio so I heard everything that was said and of course over the years I watched that video more than once and as I got older I understood more. Some part of me even as a small child had resilience against my mother because she didn't even give me a Fighting Chance.

It wasn't until I was 6 years old that I learned that I had a brother there was a part of the video recording that my grandmother blocked out it wasn't until I ended up finding a second copy of the recording that I learned about my grandmother blackmailing my mother about signing over the full custody right or she was going to have my mother's other child taking away from her.