don't forget about me | ethan cutkosky

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i'm currently writing this on august 30th and that means that i'm now 15!! thank you all for the kind comments and messages wishing me a happy birthday, it means a lot! a lot of you have been wondering what i got, so here it is. 

in november (2014 of course) my mom and dad bought my friend and i one direction tickets and im seeing them on september 8th (the first day of school and i get to leave before last period hah), redid my whole bedroom, and bought me the new one direction perfume. from my grandparents i got the maze runner series, my brother bought me a 24 case thing of arizona iced tea (i have an undying love of that stuff nobody understands) and my aunt, uncle, and cousin gave me $50 and a starbucks gift card and my older sister got me something that i have no clue what it is because i have to wait until september 5th to get it when she comes to visit so i'll let you guys know what it is when i get it lmao and my friends are giving me my presents next week so yeah!

again, thank you all for the birthday wishes! i love you! 

oh yeah this chapter could contain sexual touching but nothing too extreme so if you aren't comfortable just skip over that part lol 

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Taryn-

"I have a sister?" 

My mom and dad nodded, handing me the letter. 

"She wrote it for you, but just addressed it to us. We're sorry that we hid this from you for so long Taryn, we just didn't know how to tell you."

I ignored them and got up with the letter and hand and walked back up to my room and sat down on my bed, pulling the blankets up over my legs and adjusting my pillows so I could sit up comfortably. 

My shaky fingers opened up the paper and I began reading. 

"Dear Taryn,

Hey. So if you're reading this then mom and dad have probably told you that I actually exist now, surprise! I don't know how they told you, but I hope you aren't upset. 

I know that you're five years younger than me, meaning I was almost five when you were born. The reason why you never knew about me was because when I was born, mom and dad didn't have a lot of money as it was. They were both paying their way through their last year of law and medical school and didn't have a lot of time for me. I was always at Aunt Kelly's house.

When mom and dad finally graduated, they bought a small, but nice house and we lived there for a while. They had bills piling up from University, and other bills for the mortgage, hydro, water, all that. Even though they had diploma's, it was hard for them to find lawyer and doctor jobs so they had to each take on two jobs while trying to find the one job they went to school for. 

One night, I remember being down in the living room by myself. Mom and dad had been tense and anxious all day and I didn't know why. Then I heard yelling. "How are we supposed to support another one when we can barely support the one we have now?!" I heard mom scream. 

I was so curious to know what they were talking about, so I went upstairs and thats when they told me. 

Mom was pregnant with you. 

They thought by the time you were born that they would have good paying jobs so they decided to keep you. But when you arrived a month earlier than expected, they weren't prepared money wise and only had enough money to support one of us. So they chose you. 

I was sent to an adoption centre because Aunt Kelly already had her hands full with Kelsey and had no time for me. 

I spent two years there, and finally I was adopted, but then passed around from family to adoption centre and ended up in California when I was eighteen and decided to stay there and be on my own.