There.In.That.House <a creepypasta survival story>

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Could this be some sort of diary or notebook that belonged to Cody?

I flipped through the notebook, noteing different times I remember. All these events, I remember well. These seem to be from the old house, and the one before that. None are from before we ran from our original home....

One paper fell out of the notebook. It looked like a slightly yellowing page of a former notebook, one smaller than this notebook.

It interested me, so I picked it up, and began to read.

Mother came up to me today and asked me to go to her room. I believed I was in trouble, so I quickly went. But I wasn't in trouble, Mother explained where I came from. It really explained why I don't look like Aubrey, or anyone else here.
When mother and father first, uh, attempted to get a child, they thought mother was infertile. Desperate to continue the family line, they adopted me.
Indirectly, mother told me I was adopted, but I really didn't care.
It explains a lot, like why I look and even act a little different than the rest of the family...

The paper continued, and I kept reading. Why? I know it explains a lot, but why didn't Cody, or even mother tell me?

... I wanted to tell Aubrey badly, but somehow, I couldn't. How would he react to know that his only sibling, isn't really his sibling?
I guess I could follow mother's example. When he comes to an age where I think he will understand, I will tell him.
But if I did explain myself to Aubrey, how would he react? Would he hate me? I only want the best for him, but I don't want him to be scared of me, or avoid me.

Cody.

I would have never hated him, even with news as awkward as that.

And he carried his word to the grave. His dying wish was for me to learn this. Now I know.

I checked the date again. Six years ago.

Cody learned this when he was ten, while I was only eight years old. He kept his secret for that long, and remembered?

I will never forget you, Cody.

I flipped through the rest of his book, finding different times we went through, but in his point of view. One more page, though, interested me.

Aubrey told me of how mother died. But as well as sad, I feel guilty.
Mother has told me many things in private. She told me, that ever since Aubrey, father, well, I will put it as that he dislikes me. I never quite understood, father had told us before long ago that he loves us both.(though Aubrey might not remember, he was just a small toddler then)
Yes, father shows favoritism towards Aubrey, but I don't think he would be hostile towards me.
But he killed mother, Aubrey had told me. He killed her, because she still cared for me, unlike father. Sometimes, I imagine what would have happened if I were the one who woke up in the night mother died, and not Aubrey.
I wouldn't be here, now. That's for sure.
But now mother isn't here, and father has the ability to end my life. Aubrey can't protect me, both of us know that. He's always been petite, and he's only twelve. If he rebelled, father might just murder him, or carry him to his room to leave me unprotected. Not to mention I always knew Aubrey was afraid of father.
I can't stay here, I must leave. I'll bring Aubrey along, because he will panic if I were gone in the morning.

How... How did he know all this? I am surprised by what he wrote here, I can't quite take it all in.

Mother and father were fighting over Cody.

Father had favoritism towards me.

Father was planning to murder Cody.

And why on earth am I the only person in my own family who does not hate another family member?

Why?