The Honest Truth| Rhett and Link

2: One Year Later....

I sat on my bed, not knowing what to do.

I took out the picture of Mom, Dad, and the tall guy. I could barely make out their faces, the photography was so blurry. I couldn't believe that out of all the photos, this was the one that I decided to save.

It's because it has the tall guy. Kara, don't lie to yourself, you still want to find him.

I nodded.

Remember that promise? The one where you said that you would try to find him and that you will make him adopt you. Don't say a total lie to yourself, you know that you want to find him.

I sighed and put the picture down. I took Raven out of her case and played a concerto by Seitz.

"Kara!"yelled a voice."come here!"

I put down Raven trailed the voice to downstairs, seeing my best friend Alice.

"What's up?"I said.

Alice shrugged."Oh, I dunno, just maybe that I might be adopted!"

I smiled, feeling happy for my best friend."Really? Oh my gosh, that's amazing!"

Alice nodded."I met the person. She's thirty-four and is really nice! She even likes the same YouTubers as me, what are the chances!"

I nodded distantly. Alice and I both loved YouTube itself, but we loved different YouTubers. I liked gamers, even though I wasn't a gamer myself. DanTDM, Markiplier, people like that. Alice was into the duos: mostly Dan and Phil and even more than that: Rhett and Link. I didn't see why she liked the two so much. They sat and talked the whole time, doing not much. Alice showed me a video, and I just found them plain annoying. In fact, so annoying that they were anything but my favorite. My least favorite.

Gosh, if you're adopted by one of them....

I shook my head at that thought.

"What's up?"Alice looked at me with a curious look."You shook your head."

"It's nothing,"I said."I just had a thought."

"What was the thought?"

"If I were adopted by Rhett and Link,"I cringed, and Alice looked at me funny.

"Why do you hate them so much?"she asked."They're amazing."

I rolled my eyes. We always had this conversation."Why do you hate DanTDM?"I asked.

"I don't hate him,"Alice said."He's just not my type of YouTuber."

"Exactly,"I reasoned.

"Except you say out loud that you hate Rhett and Link,"Alice said."Why?"

I shrugged."I honestly don't know. But what I do know, is that I'll miss you."

Alice sort of blushed."I'll miss you too, and Raven, but don't act like we're not gonna be friends anymore. I'm gonna come back and visit. And even when you get adopted, I'll come visit you at your house, maybe you can come to mine. But I'm not even leaving yet, I'm leaving in about two weeks, something like that."

I thought about that. Adoption. I didn't want to be adopted by a random person. I wanted someone that I knew.

Come on, you know you want the tall guy.

He's not a random person.

Yeah, maybe he's not, but maybe he changed. It's not like he's a long-lost friend.

Well, he is long-lost.

Well, you don't know him. He might've changed in the past, what, nine years? It's been nine years. He probably won't even remember you.

Yes, he will.

No, he won't.

Shut up.

I went back to my room. I didn't want Alice to leave. I wanted her to stay. I didn't want to lose another person. Maybe I wasn't technically losing her, but... I felt like I was. I never really thought about what I would do if one of us did get adopted. Somehow, that thought never crossed my mind. I was too busy thinking about how Mom died and how Dad died and the tall guy.

See! Ha! You admit it!

I picked up Raven, playing Vivaldi.

My thoughts were straying from violin, though. I was thinking about Mom, Dad, Alice....

Who was gonna adopt me?