Victorian House

The Ugly Truth

later that night...

I was curled up in my soft blanket sitting in the family room playing with my cat Tibby, I was really bored because the cable or Internet haven't been hooked up yet, I looked outside through the open window and stared at the clear dark blue sky and the beautiful stars, "wow you never get to see that in the city" I thought to myself, when suddenly I heard clinging keys and the front door slowly open, assuming it was my brother Lewis coming in, thinking I wouldn't notice that hes coming home after his curfew I yelled out "Nice one dofus you better get to bed before mom and dad get home." There was a small moment of silence until I hear a deep voice answer "Why where's Lewis?" it was my dad "Oh shit" I thought to myself My dad was really strict on my brother's and I curfew, because we know if one of us ever come home late we will never be aloud to go out alone, my older sister Farrah had to learn that the hard way. 

Farrah is lucky she's in her first year of collage and got to stay in the city with a roommate, but what my parents don't know is her roommate is her boyfriend, Travis. When my brother and I got the news that we will be moving from the fabulous city to this hideous town, I begged my parents to let me stay with my sister but my parents wouldn't hear it " your sister need to focus on her studies and don't need to be worrying about you all the time" they'd say "yeah okay, study that's what she's going to be doing all the time study" I'd think to myself whenever they would tell me that. 

When both of my parents were standing in the living room, my dad was looking straight at me with a furious look on his face and tapping his feet he looked mad, when ever my dad makes that face wondered if he was really mad or his red hair just made him look that way, my mom however seemed like she had a little to much to drink, she was bringing some bags in from the car, and was smiling "after your father and I finished shopping we went to a dinner and movie!" my mom was wearing black dress pants with a pink blouse and she had her hair up in a pony tail, my mom is a pretty women, she is very petite, had long brown hair, and high cheek bones, she loves getting compliments, for example, when im out in public with her she gets super excited when old Lady's tell her that she looks to young to be my mother, also all my guy friends always wants to come over just to see her, and she go's along with it! my dad on the other hand was tall, pale, and had red hair with a scruffy beard, sometimes when he wears green he reminds me of a leprechaun and he wheres green...a lot.  

"thanks for inviting me" I say sarcastically to my mom, she giggled "Sherrie, wheres Lewis?" my dad asked in a clam tone, I Gauss he wasn't as mad as he looked. "Next door" I answered "I was just going to get him" "Can you get him now? its late" He asked. I gave Tippy one last rub under her neck and I got up, than Tippy ran into the kitchen. I slipped on my DC sneakers, through a sweater on and opened the front door. 

It was warm outside and mosquito's were biting me everywhere. I walked up the steps of the house I saw Lewis was playing outside of earlier in the day, and I expected it to be Marilyn, I knocked at the door, about 2 minutes later a women answered the door as if she wasn't expecting anyone. The women wasn't Marilyn, she was a bit younger."Hello" she said with a southern accent "Hi I'm here to pick up Lewis" I said "Lewis?" she asked "yeah" I answered "Lewis was playing with Keegan and Tyler here earlier, he stayed for supper" The women looked at me as if I had two heads "Keegan and Tyler? im sorry I think you got the wrong house" she said, I was embarrassed. "Oh my gosh! im so sorry I must be!" I was also mad at Lewis for making me do this, this late, he knows he should be home by now. The women smiled and said it was okay "Before I go" I mentioned "do you know which house, Marilyn lives at?" I asked "Marilyn?" The women said in a question she paused for about a minute and than she finally said "I've been living in this house since I was 3 years old and I know everyone on this block! and let me tell you, there is no Marilyn, Keegan, or Tyler who lives on this street." my jaw dropped! "Are you sure?" I asked "two kids, brothers? They have brown hair and a older women she's their grandmother, she got gray hair, I'm sure she smokes" The women shook her head, I started to panic "Maybe the kids don't live with her, maybe they were visiting!" "The only grandmother who lives on this street is Karen she lives in house 349, but I'm pretty sure she has Granddaughters" I ran to house 349 without saying anything else.  

I know it was crazy knocking on people doors, but I had to find my brother! if I came home without my brother I will be dead and I would with ok that since I would feel so bad if anything ever happened to him, I was suppose to be watching him and I didn't. I found the house and all the lights were off I had a sick feeling my brother wasn't there but I went anyways. I knocked on the door and no one answered so I rang the door bell and I took a step back, I looked up into the windows and I saw one light come on upstairs. I took and deep breath and a old man answered the door, he didn't look pleased. "Hi" I said, the man just stared so I kept talking "I was wondering if my brother Lewis was here, playing with you grandchildren" The man stared than I heard a sweet little voice behind him "who's that Charlie?" The man turned around and started to close the door, as he was closing it I heard him say "Just some street punk trying to play some sort of practical joke, Karen." Right at that moment I for sure knew that I was in deep serious trouble and what ever happened to Lewis.  

I will never be able to forgive myself.