The secret life of a goth chick

Chapter 5: The shocking truth

Maria's POV:

After making sure Megan and her weird brother weren't around, I came out of the janitors closet. As I heard got my first period class, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I shuddered as I prepared for Megan to hit me.

"Hey, are you ok?"

I turned to see the girl who helped me, plus two of her friends. The girl who helped me had crazy red hair, up in a ponytail, had brown eyes, and was about 5'7. The other girl also had red hair and brown eyes. She was about 5'7, 5'8 maybe. And the the guy had black hair and brownish, greenish eyes. I could tell of the bat that he was about 5'10. I swear I've seen them before. They look so familiar.

The guy grabbed the girl's hand. "Calm down, Morg. She doesn't know us." He looked to me again. "Sorry about that. My name is Jaden Womack. The girl who you just met is Morgynn Rogers, and the bunnie over there is Abigal Lamont. We call her that cause usually she's wearing a bun in her hair but isn't at the moment. What's your name?"

Oh god. There's no way these people are really my friends. They probably saved me so they could find a way to humiliate me in front of everyone. Whatever. I might as well saver what dignity I have left. I took a deep breath and wrote on a price of paper, "Jessica."

"What's wrong? Can't you speak?"

"No, I'm mute."

"Oh, sorry. So, what class do you have now?"

"Agricultural. With Mrs. Jordan."

"Awesome! Us too! Come on, we'll go together."

The pulled my arm all the way down the hall, heading towards the classroom. After a few classes, I found out we have the same 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th periods together. 3rd I have only the girls in Spanish, 5th is Jaden and Abigail with a free period, and 8th period I have only Jaden in Reading&writing, 1st period is agriculture, 2nd is writing, 3rd is biology, 4th is drama(theater), 5th is free period so we hang in the choir room, 6th we have mixed choir, boys and girls, and then 7th we all have algebra. Since today was a 6th period day, since 5th and 6th were every other day, we have 1st lunch. As I sat down with my food, Morgynn and the others sat down near me: the girls next to me and Jaden in front of me.

"Hey Jessie." They started calling me that 5th period after our teacher, Mr. Good, accidentally called me Jessie instead of Jessica, since thats what I enrolled in as. I haven't really cared since everyone else calls me "goth girl" so I just let them call me that.

"Um, hey." I wrote nervously.

"Just a heads up," Abby started, "Ms. Bronson is an old friend of Jaden and Morgan's parents."

I was a bit confused. "Is she friends with your parents?"

Abigail laughed. "Right, I forgot we didnt tell you. Shes actually my stepmom. My dad married her a few months ago. Thats actually why you might have heard me and these two call her by her first name once or twice."

"What is her name?"

Jaden said the next part. "Shelly Bronson."

Where have I heard that name before? It sounds so familiar. "She sounds familiar. Not cause of her being my teacher and all, but I think she might have been friends with my aunt. Where did she live about a year ago our so?"

"Might be. I'm sure she might be. Wha..." before Jaden could ask the next question, the bell rang for class. "We can talk more about this later. Let's go. Shelly said that she had a surprise to show us or something." After throwing away our empty trays, we headed to the choir room. When we got there, we saw everyone in our class standing outside the classroom. When we got to the door, we saw the teacher standing outside the door. "Great," we heard her say, "everyone is here. Now, for the surprise. We had to redecorate the classroom, which is why you all were in the gym on Friday. But now, here is, a now completed, choir room!"

Ms. Bronson swung open the door and everyone gasped I awe. The room had lights in chandlers I noticed that the walls had a golden color. Instead of risers we stand on when we are in class, there were the steps and some chairs to sit on. One closest to the windows behind it, another a bit below it, and the last one below that. There was a piano on the ground and I saw two men standing there.

"Hey dad! Hey Jordan!

I turned to see Abigail walking up to the guys. Jordan? That name is also familiar. I scratched the top my head in confusment.

The teacher walked in and walked towards the two men. "Hey honey." She gave the older looking guy a kiss and the one Abigail called Jordan a hug and Shelly said, "Hey baby. How's it going?"

"I'm good, mom. This place looks great! Me and Chad were just coming in to say hi."

Who are these people? Why does it feel like I've seen them before? Ok, let's list the facts: The girl is the teachers stepdaughter, her name is Shelly Bronson, who is a friend of my aunt, and she has a husband named Chad and a, I'm guessing a 25 year old, son named Jordan.

Hang on a sec! I have an older brother named Jordan, a stepsister named Abigail, an older sister named Layla, and a stepdad named Chad. Wait, let me try something. I walked towards them and tapped on Shellys shoulder. When she turned, I started writing. When I was done, she read, "Um, Ms. Bronson? I have kind of a personal question for you guys."

"Sure, Jessica. What is it?"

"You can call me Jessie. And, um, do you have anymore kids, like a daughter maybe?"

I could tell that they were upset about the question. Right as I was about to tell them that they didn't have to answer, Jordan said, "Yah. I had two sisters."

Huh? "What do you mean by 'had'?"

"Well, one of my sisters is 21 and she's married. In fact, she's gonna come for a while and stay with me while her husband is out of state. And my other sister," I could tell that he and the others were very upset, including Morgynn and Jaden. Why would they be upset? Hang on. This isn't like how I think it is. Wait. He didn't say what happened to the other one. Jordan took a deep breath and said, "My, uh, other little sister died a year ago in a car accident with her dad and stepmom. She has little brothers too but they survived and are now living with their aunt or something."

Oh my god. Imma try one more thing. "Um, what was her name? Maybe I knew her." Or maybe I am her. But I left that part to myself.

"Maria"

I gasped and covered my mouth. Ohmigod! That's me! And this is my family! I can't believe this! I started to back away slowly, bumping into a table behind me. When I looked, I saw three people standing behind the table. One of the three was a girl with black hair. One of the boys had red hair while the other had black hair as well. Holy crap!! I know two of these guys too! I have to get out of here!  I turned back to Jordan and the others and I ran out of the room and started for the bathroom.