My Invisible Friends (Imaginary But Real)

The Truth Comes Out

July 6

Ms. Dolly could tell this morning that I was more mad at her than I already was. I was laying on the bed and she kept telling me to scoot over because she had to tell me something, and she said, "It's not about Joseph." That made me wonder if it was about Brennan. The guy who Brienna and Life told me was Karilee's actual father. Can you believe that?! Ms. Dolly and Brennan had Karilee and then I guess Ms. Dolly set it up where we would find Karilee in Missouri. She didn't have a name until I named her, so at least her name is actually Karilee.

When I wouldn't acknowledge Dolly, she said quietly, "You know, don't you?" And I just knew what she was talking about. Brennan, Brad's brother, dated Dolly a few years ago. And they'd had a kid.

But Dolly didn't have time to talk to me because it was time to go to drivers ed. Marina, Madeline, Anabelle, and I had to learn to drive and Mrs. Biggs, Ravanna, and Ms. Dolly took us, but when we walked in after the grown ups left, we found out we weren't in the right place and it was a different company that was teaching us to drive. So the adults had to come back and get us and we went home because the drivers' instructors always pick up the students from their homes. Each one of us had a different instructor. I had a lady named Carolyn, and she was really nice. We practiced in the church parking lot. We practiced in the same place Marina, Madeline, and Anabelle were practicing. We worked on parking and turning. It wasn't too bad but we have to get our permits and practice before we get our drivers' licenses.

When we were done, we went to the house and that's where Marina showed me and Madeline the video. It was of Lynn.

Lynn was dancing to this music and she had a lot of makeup on and some weird feather attire that was black, which she stripped off, revealing a white slip. Then she took that off and all that was left was her bra and underwear. The ending was of her looking at the camera with a bare back, and we were so shocked that Lynn would do something so... Miley Cyrus-like. (Sorry to offend Lynn by saying she looked like Miley Cyrus but come on!) Lynn did that to show Ms. Dolly that since Dolly called her a slut, she was going to act like one. Marybeth put it on YouTube when Lynn put it on Twitter. As if the day wasn't dramatic enough, Brienna had been talking to Brennan after getting his number and she finally got him to come to the house! Ms. Dolly was at the store (my friends had gotten her to leave by telling her they needed some things from the store, by orders of my twin sister), and Brennan showed up while Ms. Dolly was gone. Madeline was telling me not to open the door because she didn't know him and she said it could be a murderer!! But Bri had told me what Brennan looked like and when he looked in the window, I knew it was him. He was really good looking. He had a full head of dark hair and he looked like he'd just shaved. Also, he was kind of muscular.

Brienna had been telling my friends to stall him from seeing Karilee until I came back in the house with Rebel. I needed to see his reaction when he finally saw his little girl!! Brienna and I were ESPing and Brienna was telling our friends what to do by texting them what I wanted them to do. See, even when she's on vacation, she can still boss everyone around. Haha!

Brennan apparently didn't think his daughter was even here, and he thought one of his brothers (none of whom he had spoken to in years) had her. But when he saw her, he picked her up and sat down with her. He was crying a little and Anabelle and I almost started crying. I mean, he was reunited with his little girl after two years! Then Ms. Dolly came home and she was bawling because she had seen Lynn's video. She didn't even notice Brennan at first, and when she did, she nearly fainted.

I was so tired and laid down for a bit and Justin started kissing me but Ms. Dolly made him get out so she could lay next to me and talk to me. She told me what really happened when Karilee was born. She did have Karilee with Brennan before they were married. And she couldn't take care of her, because Brennan's awful brother Bryan was threatening to kill Karilee and Brennan because he hated Brennan and wanted to be with Dolly, and he didn't want Karilee because she actually belonged to Brennan and she reminded Bryan of him. Bryan was always an arse, and he forced Ms. Dolly to marry him and she only did that to save Brennan and Karilee. Not that Brennan needed to be saved because he had already left so Bryan wouldn't be able to kill him. Ms. Dolly let her mom take care of Karilee and her mom couldn't take care of her all the time, and she gave her to her sister (Dolly's aunt). Well, that aunt lived close to Missouri and when we went to Missouri last summer, and Dolly stayed home, Dolly was on the phone with her aunt, crying and begging her to bring Karilee where my friends and siblings and I would find her. When Ms. Dolly found out we were going to that waterpark, she told her aunt to take her and drop her off there. Ms. Dolly just had to see her little girl again. (By the time she was telling me this, she was sobbing into the pillow.) So when we brought her back home, Ms. Dolly didn't want us to know she was her daughter and she pretended to adopt her because she wasn't sure what we'd think of her if she told us Karilee was hers and she hadn't told us the truth, so we didn't know Karilee was actually hers. When she brought her back to Bryan and wanted to see if he would actually want to keep her with them, he was still an arsehole about it and then all the stuff happened between them and he got thrown in jail. Ms. Dolly didn't think she would ever see Brennan again and she dated his other brothers, Brant and Brad, but they just weren't right for her. You know, maybe whenever she cried, claiming to miss Brad after they would break up, she was actually missing Brennan. Oh my gosh, it all makes sense now!! She and Brad would fight all the time and she would get mad at him for no real reason, maybe because she needed an excuse to cry. She would say she just missed Brad but maybe she was picking fights with him whenever she needed to cry over Brennan so they'd break up and she would be able to cry. And she would distract herself with Joseph. That's my guess. But now that she's seen the video, she's pretty mad at Joseph for raping Lynn and for making it look like Lynn was the one making moves on him.

Ms. Dolly and Brennan were cuddled up on the couch and it was so cute! Karilee kelt getting out of bed, and they couldn't get mad at her because they were so happy and I know Brennan was happy to have his daughter back. I can't say Joseph is too happy though. He was bothering Mrs. Meredith, telling her he liked her. She was hitting him and shoving him. They looked like children. It was so funny.

Xoxo~ M