It's All a Lie

Chapter 8-We're Family

Gavin's POV
"Honestly,Avia your plan seems much easier. And it would be more believable if it was a livestream. Maybe,we'll have the other phone on Capture as a backup." Ceciley said. "But,to help you,I could set the livestream up to a projector somewhere in Vidcon." I liked the idea,but I had no idea how she could do that.

"But how are you gonna do that?"

"Don't under estimate me Gav,I have connections." She said with a wink.

We all looked at each other and smiled. We might actually be free today.

"Okay,I'm in. When is this plan going into action?"
"Tonight,once your parents get back,I'll make sure to keep updated on Periscope so I know when to turn it onto the projector." We nodded our heads. This might actually work!

"Ok,but now we need someone as the bait..." This was the hard part. We didn't want any of the kids to get hurt,but we had to.

"I would love to take your guy's place,but honestly,the viewers would just think dad is just playing around with us. This really breaks my heart...but it has to be one of the smaller kids." I said looking down.

"Gav,it's okay. I would've taken your place,but we know I can't..." Ceciley said looking at me and putting her hand onto my shoulder.

"I'll do it." Emmi said standing up.

"No! Emmi I'm not letting you get hurt again. I'll do it." Avia said standing up as well.

"Please Avia,I'll be more hardhitting since I'm the youngest girl,and maybe I'll be able to tell them what mom did to me." Avia hesitated,before answering.

"Fine. But you have to at least let me take some of the hits,I'm not letting you pass out again." She said giving her a hug. I stood up and joined them,but all of a sudden,Brock came running in.

"Why are we hugging?" He said grabbing onto my legs.

"Because bud," I said looking over to Ceciley,"we're gonna be free in a few hours." I said looking into his eyes.
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"Okay,what if instead,I say that I accidently broke dad's laptop?" Avia said grabbing his laptop,ready to slam it into the floor.

"Whoa whoa whoa,let's remember,we're trying to get a few bruises,not die Avia." I said as I grabbed the laptop and hid it somewhere.

"There,we can just say that it broke,when it really didn't." I said.

"Oh,and mom hates when her makeup spills." Emmi ran into the bathroom to grab her makeup bag. She dumped everything onto the floor. Grabbed her mascara,nail polish,foundation,and creams and spilled it all over the tables,carpets,and windows. She smiled so big,like she was so proud at what she'd done. Avia's face suddenly brightened. She ran into the master bedroom,and came back out with one of mom's dress' and dumped it near the makeup spills.

"Perfect." She said as she smeered her lipstick on it.

By now,mom's expensive makeup and dress was ruined,and dad's computer,filled with six years of footage,is now "destroyed". But hey,they deserved it for ruining our lives.
I looked over at the clock,it was 7:45. Few more hours till they're home."

"Hey why don't we just log onto their Periscope account through my phone." Ceciley said going onto the appstore.

"One problem,we don't know their password."

"Yea we do. I looked in dad's computer and I saw the password." I quickly logged in,and just like that we were in.

"Yes! Now we need some kind of a story."

"Hm,let's say..." Avia began thinking,but Emmi already had a plan.

"Let's say,we were playing dress up in the living room,and we accidently tripped,and all the makeup spilled over. Then,the dress got ruined,so we just left it there. And before we could clean the mess up,they came."

"That works for mom's stuff,but what about dad's computer."

"We were watching Youtube videos on it,then we accidently knocked it down onto the kitchen floor,and it got smashed?"

"Or we could say the window was open and I accidently tripped again and it fell backwards out the window." I laughed. "Yea I guess that works."

We just had to work out the little kinks. How we would be filming and how they shouldn't notice us. Ceciley's phone was a six,so it might've been easily concealed. Ceciley would be taking our iPods so she could use it on the projector. Technically,it's Ceciley's phone,so mom and dad don't have the right to take it away,but we have the right since we had permission.

"What if Gavin pretended he was on the phone with someone,but he was really filming the whole thing?" Emmi said grabbing the phone and demonstrating.

"Or he could just hide behind the sofa like mom and dad used to do to us when they secretly filmed."

"Maybe I'll just do both. I'll do the pretend phone thing if I need a different angle,and the hiding sofa thing at first." I said as I hid behind the couch.

"Can you see me like this?" I was on the camera making sure the angle was right. In the frame,you could see everything,the dress,the makeup,and most importantly,they'll see mom and dad get frustrated at us.

"Move a little more to the right," I moved over just a little bit,making sure everything was still in frame,"perfect! I can't see you or the phone!"

"Great! Now how do we tell dad about the computer?"

"I'll tell him,throwing the computer sounds like something I would do." Emmi said. Avia shrugged and we continued talking about the plan.

"Ok guys,I'm gonna go set up the projector,text me through iMessage,when to begin. Your parents should be here in a few minutes. Good luck." Ceciley said giving us all kisses,a few tears,and hugs. Ceciley walked out,and we were on our own now.

"I love you guys." Avia said with tears starting to well in her eyes.

"I love you too. Remember,we're family." I said pulling everyone in for a group hug.
"Can we pray,hoping this'll actually work." Emmi said folding her arms. We all folded our arms,and said a prayer.
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We heard small talk in the hall and sounds of a phone vibrating. Avia looked in the peephole. "They're a few feet away!" She shouted and she got in her position. I began the livestream and texted Ceciley "Go." And people began flooding into the livestream with comments saying "I love you!" "Please notice me!" Seeing people join made me think this might actually work.

I quickly made sure everything was silent,and I hid making sure I wouldnt't be seen. The only thing they could hear was my breathing. I saw Avia and Emmi grab paper towels and they clutched each other's hands.

As soon as we heard the footsteps reach the door,they immediatley ran into the middle of the floor pretending to clean the mess.

The door knob turned to the right,here we go.

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Cliff hanger! Yeeessss!