The Unhidden

Chapter 7

We finish our conversation with Tyler Gnorsik and I leave happier. I look at Harold "my dad was the best."

"You already knew that Caroliena."

"I know but it felt different."

We go to the car and drive to moms work. When we get there it looks the same. We park the car and go in the building together. I go over to the desk "hi I was wondering if I can go see my moms old office?"

"Name?"

"Caroliena Williams."

The secretary looks up "Julianna's daughter?"

I smile "yes that's my mom."

"Come on we never moved anything from her office, we didn't let anyone take it over."

I look at Harold surprised. "Really?"

He shrugs. We get to my moms office. I open the door the secretary leave us. Moms office looks the same and I almost start crying.

Harry looks at me "what's wrong?"

"I haven't been in here since I was younger."

"Really?"

"Yeah, before my mom died." He pulls me into a hug because my eyes start to water.

"It'll be ok Carol. I'm with you I won't let anything happen to you ok?"

I nod and I wipe my face. I look around my moms office. It is the exact same as it was before she died; her desk has been cleaned off and wiped off of dust, the pictures of all of me and my parents. I don't see any pictures of Lauren. It's like they never given birth to her. I wonder why there's no pictures of her.

I go to her desk drawers and I find all of her papers. I look through them and I start crying with each word I read.

My sweetest daughter Caroliena we both love you but you probably live with your sister Lauren. She's not apart of this family anymore, why you must ask is because she has been disowned from us. She didn't like you anymore because we spoiled you. She had the choice to live with us or be kicked out. She was 20 you were ten months. She had put you through so much and your father and I got tired of it, her boyfriend you most likely hate right now has been hitting you. Lauren didn't want to believe us so we kicked her out. This is why she isn't in our lives.

I put the letter back and I close the other drawers. "Can we leave?"

Harold nods. We lock the door to my moms office and go to the lobby. We get to the desk and I say bye. We leave and drive to his house.

Rebecca and Constance are there when we get to the house.

We go to the living room.

"When is your dad getting back from work?"

"At about 10:30pm, but I can call him if he's not busy to drive here for a few or I can drive you to the station and call him so he knows that you need to talk to him."

"Can you drive me there because I really need to talk to him."

Harry nods and calls his dad. When he gets off the phone "come on he's on his way back to the station and he said to meet him in his office."

"Ok."

We leave and drive to the station, on the drive we talk.

"If you don't mind, why do you need to talk to my father?"

"I need to talk to him because well my parents knew of Justin hitting me when I was a baby and I don't know what else they did besides kick Laurie out."

"He hits you?"

I look at him "I thought your dad told you."

He shakes his head when we pull in the police station "my dad only told us the basics, he didn't tell us that Justin had hit you before."

"Oh Justin has hit me and Lauren doesn't believe me her sister. But whatever I'm going to file a complaint against him and Lauren for not doing something about it and kept me in danger."

Harry parks the car and we walk in the station "that's not right."

"At least my parents did something about it when they were here."

"Yes they did."

We walk up to the desk and a lady with brown hair sat at the desk.

She looks up "hi, Harold your fathers not in yet."

"We know he told us to wait in his office until he gets here."

"Ok."

We walk to his office and wait.

Chad walks in ten minutes later "I'm sorry for making you two wait."

"It's ok dad."

Chad nods and looks at me "what do you need Caroliena?"

"Um...I want to file a report of abuse for the past 16 years."

"Ok what for?"

"My sister Lauren and her boyfriend, Lauren for her keeping me in a situation thats not good for me, and Justin her boyfriend for abusing me for the last 16 years. I just found out from my moms office that Justin was hitting me since I was born. My parents told Lauren which was 20 but she didn't believe them so they kicked her and her boyfriend out of the house. Once they had died and I went to Lauren's to stay there he started up and has been hitting me since."

"Ok" he quickly writes something down "do you have the papers with you?"

"No there still at her office."

"To file the report I'm going to need that copy."

"I can get it tomorrow after school."

"Ok then but I will tell the board to add extra security to your school and home, ok."

I nod "thank you so much."

I hug him and he does too. "No problem Caroliena."