Scarlet Curtis 2

We Are Family

Soda wouldn't stop bothering me.

It just turned 10:00 and he wouldn't leave my door.

He kept asking and asking and asking for me to open the door up.

But I just couldn't I was too upset over the fact that I was adopted.

If I was adopted, that means we're not really related.

And if we're not really related, I don't belong here...I don't belong anywhere.

I wanted to leave.

I looked out my window but the fall was to far, and then I looked at the door.

Soda was probably sitting down outside my door waiting for me.

Of course I love him like a brother, but I'm not his sister! That's the point!

I'm so mad at them for keeping adoption a secret for 13 years.

I crawled up into my covers and decided I was too tired to leave.

I slowly let my eyelids close and sleep overtook my body.

It wasn't until a few hours around midnight when I woke up.

The house was quiet, so I easily got out of bed tiptoeing downstairs.

I looked at the boys bedrooms and the front door wondering if I could make a run for it.

I opened the door and could see Darry's old truck.

The clearing of ones throat made me pause and turn around.

When I looked up, it was Dally.

He whispered, "Scar, what are you doing?"

I whispered back, "Nothing, what are you doing?"

He said, "About to stop a girl from running away."

I grabbed the doorknob letting him know I wasn't afraid of running.

He said, "I know your brothers didn't tell you, you were adopted."

I replied, "Yeah, well you didn't either. Neither did any of the gang."

Dally said, "Yeah but Scar, that was to protect you."

I asked, "Protect me? From what?"

He said, "Well, from everything."

I turned towards the door putting one foot out but my body was still in.

Dally had changed from when I was six to now thirteen.

He's fifteen so he's a teenager now and so am I.

Our teen lives are so complicated.

He's grown up to be mean and cold.

He only cares about me and Johnny and if anything happens to one of us he would turn into a monster.

I looked around the house and looked back at Dally deciding to stay.

He grabbed his ears making them wider and filling his cheeks with air.