It's All a Lie

Chapter 10-Story Time

Avia's POV
Ceciley slowly opened the door. Mom and dad quickly walked over to the other bed,trying to avoid our eyes. We sat there in silence. No one said anything. We were all staring at the floor.

"You kids are probably wondering why-"

"Why you guys hate us." Gavin said finishing mom's sentence. She nodded her head.

"We never intended for it to get this far. We-we just thought it was the right thing. It was,how do I put it,so addicting doing that."

"Addicting? We're not drugs for you to get addicted to! We're your children,that you are supposed to gaurd with your life,but you're addicted to beating us?"

"It just felt,good being in control."

"Well it didn't feel good for us. Can you guys just tell us why you started that." I said looking down again.

They sighed and took a deep breath.

"Okay. Do you remember when Brock got that stomach flu,and we had to bring him to the hospital." We nodded our heads. Brock had eaten spoiled mac and cheese,and the next day he was pooping and vomitting everywhere. I think he even threw up on my new slippers.

"Well when we rushed him to the hospital,the bill came out to be more than we expected. We starrd thinking if you kids kept getting sick,it would've taken all the money out of our pockets. That was one."

"So? We went from the kids sharing one bed to having a huge ranch in Idaho now."

"I know that,but still. Anyways while at the hospital,your mother and I got a special phone call. A movie director had seen our vlogs,and he was casting just your mother and I for a special role in a movie. It was gonna be shot in London. We would have to stay there for at least a year."

"Why didn't we go!" Emmi asked.

"The directors didn't want four kids running around the set while we tried to film a scene! We said we would think about it,and a few days later,mom found out she was pregnant with Daxton. The director wouldn't accept us then. We were so angry! Kids,we turned down the roles of a lifetime for you. Yea,for you."

"That's still not a valid reason for you to starve us and do all of that for years. Why didn't you guys just go! It probably would've been better without you two here!" Gavin shouted at them.

"Will you please just listen? We're not done." Mom said finally saying something. I folded my hands in my lap and said,"Well? We're waiting."

"Look we didn't wanna tell you this..."

"Too late,you agreed to tell us everything. Spill." I said looking straight into mom's eyes.

"Your dad and I just got married. Of course,life hwas hard as a newly wed couple. Our parents said we were on our own,but we still had enough to get through,just the two of us. Eventually,our jobs just couldn't pay enough,and we had to look at our options. Youtube had just started,so I decided to make some of those videos. Of course,a Youtube executive saw and sent me an email. They said they needed something called 'Youtube's First Family' and we knew that if they offered that to us,we would need to have kids. Your mom and I could barely even get Malachi,and how were we supposed to deal with kids? We wanted to be free from that. But as soon as he mentioned the pay,we were on board. Our paychecks per month were larger than our paychecks combined. And so,the Shaytards channel,was born."

"So you're saying. You never wanted to have a family or even start Youtube?" They nodded their heads. This just took it to a whole new level. We were unwanted,they didn't even want us,they just needed us for the money.

"And when we were offered to go to London and we couldn't because of you kids,it just got us thinking. We had four unwanted children,of course it made us furious. Because of these children,we had to turn down a once in a lifetime opportunity!"

"I don't get it,we have plenty of relatives who could've taken care of us,why didn't-"

"Remember,they didn't want a moody pregnant lady on the set." Mom said with a very small smile.

"When we first started,we weren't too extatic. But when the producer brought you guys to us-"

"Brought us?" I asked standing up. I looked at mom and she had tears about to roll down. "Mom,what do you mean by 'brought us'?"

She was now crying like Kim Kardashian.

"Gavin,A-Avia,Em-yo-you guys are-"

"You guys are adopted."