Lies My Family Kept From Me

Chapter 9

I read the message again. Dannia, dad, a secret she can't keep it anymore? Eda knew too much? What? I didn't really wasn't getting a grip on what was happening.

"Is everything ok? " Steven asked me.

"Yeah, yeah, I just... got a text from mom, she said I needed to um...take my pills when I got home, that's it, yeah.. that's it." I was really terrible at lying.

"Oh, ok... Does this mean you don't have to leave? I mean... you can stay...right?"

I wanted to say no, I really wanted to see Dean, and talk to him, and tell him about the message and.. and..

"Right?" he asked again.

"Yeah, I can stay." 

"Ok, so... do you want to eat something?"

"I'm not really hungry, I mean...I'm not like starving."

"I see...hmmm... do you like... um... I don't really know what we have here.."

"Its ok Steven, I'm really not hungry, but.. I wouldn't mind drinking something..." I smiled.

He laughed, "I'll go get the coke, you wait up here, you can look at my drawing if you'd like, or just use the computer, It's your choice." He handed me his sketch book and headed downstairs.

I slowly opened the notebook, making sure none of his drawings flew off. I really really liked how he drew, I don't even know why he was still here in his house and not in like a museum or something. Flipping over the pages I came across something that caught my attention. It wasn't the Eda drawing, but something different, something freaky, something like...a picture of me. It looked like my face was carefully drawn with every single feature closely calculated to make this a drawing of excellence. But why was he drawing me?

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I could see the sadness in her eyes, a tear brushed her cheek. She didn't know I was there, watching her, but I carefully analyzed what was happening.

"It's like she gets everything she wants," Eda told Lilly, "and I can't get that, why?"

"Life's like that Eda, we all want something we can't have, and then there's other people who actually get what they want, but they don't deserve it."

"She's a bitch Lilly, who would have ever thought we could have been friends some time."

"Well now you aren't, and I promise things will get better, you will get him, he will absolutely fall for you."

"You think he will?" Eda asked her.

"Of course he will... I mean... why wouldn't he?"

"Because I'm ugly, I'm not a Picasso's art piece, I'm just this girl he will never think of being with, he will always think about her, and no matter how much I try to put them apart, they will always get back together." Tears starting pouring down from her eyes, but she wiped them off. Fury grew in her eyes. She clenched her fists as she opened up her mouth and said "I want her dead."   

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I came back to reality with Steven's footsteps as he came up the stairs. Now that I think of it, Eda wasn't talking about another girl who was with Steven, she was talking about me, and Dean; She wanted me dead.

"I brought the coke," Steven said as he came into the room. He looked at the drawing I was holding, MY drawing, "Ooh, I didn't remove that drawing from the notebook before actually giving you the notebook did I?"