Calista Perez is a sweet and caring 16-year-old who puts everyone's feelings before her own. She can read someone like a book, she can feel people just by looking in their eyes. She knows how people feel because she's been through it all.
Elijah Hay...
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"CALLIE, WAKE UP!" my twin brother, Alex, screams in my face. I shoot up while head-butting my twin. "Oww," My brother drags out. I glare at him as I pick my phone up from the table beside my bed to look at the time.
"Oh my god, you're so dumb" I close my eyes and take a deep breath. Alex.¨ I say calmly. "Callie," he says, slightly confused. "It's 2 in the morning and I woke up because of my dumb ass brother screaming in my face!" I yell half asleep if you couldn't tell I am NOT a morning person.
"I just wanted to tell you about Gabi's home." He says with a playful pout. "Really?" I question with excitement as I jump out of bed. "Yeah, she's downstairs." He watches me with a smile as I run downstairs to look for my big sister. I go to the living room when she's not there. I run to the kitchen. I immediately jumped into her arms.
Gabi wraps her arms around me tightly and smiles. "Hey, kiddo." Gabi is mine and Alex's older sister. Even though there's a 4-year gap, we've always been close, especially after Mom passed. We pull apart and we have the biggest smiles on our faces. "What are you doing at home?" Gabi is always working. So Alex and I can stay with her and Caleb and not go to live with Dad again.
Four years ago, when Alex and I were about to turn 12, our mom died due to Leukemia. Our dad was destroyed, he couldn't live without mom. So, he turned to drugs and alcohol to help him cope. At that time Gabi was in college. So it was only me, Alex, and Dad at the house. Me and Alex tried to help Dad, we tried to stop his addictions but he was too far gone and too addicted.
He started hitting me and my Alex. After 2 years of abuse, Gabi came home and saw him hit us. He always favored Gabi. She had a boyfriend of 4 years. He said we could stay as long as we paid him rent. Ever since she got us out, we haven't thought about going back... Until today..
As soon as I say that, Gabi's smile drops. "Oh I-uh, I got fired." she says quietly, looking at the ground playing with her hands. "What.. What happened?" I say worried. Her voice is breaking and her eyes are watering. Me and Alex look at each other quickly and turn back to Gabi to see her sobbing. We ran to comfort her. We all know what's going to happen when Caleb finds out she got fired. "I-I'm so.. sorry guys" She says quietly but we heard her. "It's okay Gabi. Don't apologize for something you can't help" I say with my eyes watering but, I do not dare let the tears fall. She can't see that I'm worried or she will feel bad.
Me and Alex help her up and give her the biggest hug. Not letting go until her cry's stop and her breathing is normal and even. We break the hug and we go back to our rooms because it's almost 4 in the morning.
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I woke up to yelling and crying. I quickly jump out of bed and run towards the loud sound of Caleb and Alex yelling and Gabi crying. "What's going on!" I yell over the loud yelling and they all turn to me. "Caleb's kicking us out because Gabi lost her job." Alex says with his eyes on Caleb. "W-What.. y-you can't. " my voice breaks. Everything I was thinking since I woke up went away. The one thing I thought would never come back. We have to move back to Florida. We can't go back to Florida.
