Two days went by in silence, mom and dad had not talked a word. Today was Sunday and the deadline for client's art, he woke early in finished his work till mom woke, he informed mom he was going to aunt Nina's house and would come in evening as he has to deliver the art. Nina Hollis was his mother's childhood friend, she was like a second mother to them. Liam got to her house and immediately wanted to talk something very important and sensitive, as she was years older than Liam She knew you Liam very well and his personality. Liam showed her everything and told her every detail to his observations. Nina brought two cups of coffee and started telling him everything she was hesitant at the first but then she started telling," November 14 2003, Lily and her twin sister Sydney both were returning home from delivery the client's painting. Both of them where walking to home, in their there was an abandoned house but today you are something and usual about it a couple came there to live and the lady was pregnant, a week later there seemed to be a conflict between the couple as voices of shouting was coming.
When they checked through a hole in the fence the window was open and everything was clear to them, what the two sisters saw was horrific, the manhad a kitchen knife in his hand pointed towards the lady and the next second the man stabbed the knife in the lady's stomach, Lily jumped and screamed, the man turned and noticed Lily, Sydney whispered to Lily to hide behind the bushes while she ran. The man chased Sydney, she ran and ran until they were out of sight Lily kept hidden. As soon as they were out of sight Lily ran to find help, he saw David and asked for help after some insisting David agreed. With David's help they saved Sydney, when David returned Lily and Sydney were unconscious David carrying both of them in his hands, David returned Lily and Sydney safely and got back home.
After a week Sydney started feeling weird sensations, she started feeling tired, getting unconscious and uncomfortable, vomiting started. Her parents took her to the hospital took some tests done and the results were shocking 'she was physically torchered' there was someone's baby growing inside her, her parents were in a schock they took Sydney to David's house and accused David but then talked to David's parents and got to a conclusion that David will marry Sydney next week. Preparations were made marriage happened you were born but when you were 4 your mom started getting threatening letters about her sister she wrote back asking for forgiveness but when your dad found out about the letters both had a conflict and your parents separated, your mom was pregnant, it was a hard time for your mother your sister Sophie was was but her passion for art was broken slowly-slowly your mom's economic conditions grew better between this it was revealed that David was not your biological father, Sydney didn't believe it so David has come to show proof results should have come till now." Suddenly the phone rang of Liam he greeted Nina and departed, he gave the art to delivery boy and when he got home mom and dad was talking again but a stain once splashed does not remove the stain on Sydney's past won't remove until her last breath.
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The hollow past
Mystery / ThrillerEchoes of the past follow Liam Carter, a 17 year old boy and a part time artist living in a small insular town-Jafarica. Liam has always felt unease with his family, sensing that something is being kept from him and his little sister Sophie. His par...