Genevieve Anderson, the girl that had been left behind and forgotten.
In a town where everybody knows everybody, meaning that no one goes unnoticed. Nobody just grabs a bag and leaves in the middle of the night, without someone seeing something. No...
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Chapter nineteen - present
"Don't let me, your brother, hold you back. If I was able too move on, so can you. I know you want to hold onto the past, and I do too, but sometimes, to make ourselves happier, we need to move forward, and forget what happened. What happened has made us, but what will happen, is what shapes us"
"Have you seen Eve come back yet?" I questioned Logan, who was sat beside me. I knew he was watching Genevieve like a hawk, and had been since we got back to the place that we had grown up in for a small part of our lives, and I knew, just from the look on his face, that something wasn't right.
I had grown up admiring most of my brothers, rather than finding a best friend in them, and had found that in my little brother Bailey, over the rest of them. The rest of them were brothers, while Bailey had been more than that, which had been since the moment we were born. On the other hand, Logan and I's closeness had come from the time that I had stood up for him, when he was getting bullied for his southern accent.
I had gone looking for him, and found him on the ground, having been pushed down by boys in his year, for the way he spoke. I stood in front of him, as a middle schooler with the confidence of a high schooler, back in those days. "No, she hasn't. Aria has not only taken her place, but eaten her food. I might go look for her" Logan went to stand up, but for once in my life, I felt like this was something that I needed to do myself.
I felt like Ryder and Logan had patched over their relationship with Genevieve, as they had been in the car all day, while Ryder had been on a trail ride with her and actually tried. Bailey was also getting more involved with her, as was Parker. Rocky and G were back to their old ways, only this time, it was 2-1 situation. I had known what it felt like to be berated by Rocky, and then Aria further down the track, and I was seeing it happen to my sister, over and over.
"I've got it" I stood up, not even bothering to say anything, knowing that the attention would be back on Aria if I did. I locked eyes with Ryder whom was furhter down the table, and he nodded at me. I walked towards the bathroom that my sister had never returned from. Something in my gut was telling me that she wasn't in there anymore, but I had to check anyways.
I knocked on the door, and got no sound. A lady walked out, and I asked her if she there was anyone else in there, and she said no. She scurried away from me, and I knew it was my height, and how my face was hooded from the cowboy hat that I wore, inside, much to most people's dismay. I thanked her as she practically ran away, only barely pushing the bathroom, to see it empty, like she had said.
Guilt and anxiety filled my stomach, as I stepped out, and started to wonder what had happened to my sister. I walked back out, retracing my steps that I was hoping that she had taken. It was then, when I rounded the corner to see the table that I had just been sitting at, and I knew what she had seen. She had seen what I was seeing, right now, in front of me.
