Truth's And Lie's

The Truth Hurts

Sitting in the back with your brother and playing rock paper scissors to pass the time, you father looked back at you using the review mirror, “(First/Name) sweetie you never answered my question earlier. How long have you been able to talk to animals?” Your father asked again turning back to the road. Losing that round at the question you dropped your hands “I can only talk to snakes… And I dunno I can just talk to them, sometimes I find a lot of them in the garden but I don't like what they say so I pretend I don't hear them.” You said looking up at your parents as your mom turned in her seat to look at you. “What do the snakes say?” She asked making you shrug and look down “Their lier’s, they say that your not my real parents and that everyone's been lying to me.” You said angrily glaring at the seat, “That's not true! You are my sister and both mummy and daddy are your parents! The storks gave you to them just like they did with me!” Allen screamed tearing up and making both your parents go quiet. “Allie please don't cry I know they're lying!” You said reaching over to hug your little brother to calm him down, as the car pulled into the driveway you unbuckled yourself then your brother as both your parents opened the child lockeddoors, you smiled at him before yelling “Last one inside gives up there desert!” And making a mad dash to the front door causing Allen to scream “That's not fair!” And chase after you. Running into the door you huffed as Allen ran into you, looking back “Dad hurry and unlock the door!” You yelled hearing Allen giggle and drop down making you turn to him as he crawled threw the doggy door making you gasp with a horrified face “That was cheating Allen and you know it!” You yelled lift up the flap to look at the boy spitting his tongue out at you in victory just as your dad came laughing up the steps and unlocking the door with your mom not to far behind. Pushing the door open faster you chased after your little brother threw the house making your mom shake her head “Take it outside you two! I don't want anything broken!” She yelled just as a crashing sound could be heard upstairs then a chorus of “I didn't do it, it was Allen/(First/Name)” then the two of you running down the stairs making your mother sigh and shake her head. “Better go clean that up before the others get here.” Your father said grabbing the vacuum from the closet and heading up the stairs to clean up the mess as his wife went into the kitchen to finish making dinner. Later in your room you and the the rest of your female cousins where dressing up and dancing to old time rock “Still like that old time rock 'n' roll That kind of music just soothes the soul ooh~ I reminisce about the days of old With that old time rock 'n' roll~” You sang along on top of your bed just as your door busted open revealing Jason, Alexis older brother with a squirt gun “Take this! Allen, Max back me up here!” He yelled dousing every girl in the room with freezing water. Screaming at the water you and the other girls charge at them causing the boys to retreat down the stairs. Jumping from your bed you ran after them, seeing Jason pick up both your brother and his younger one to move faster you took a chance and hoped over the banister making your cousins scream. Focusing your magic you slowed your fall and landed safely in front of the stunned boys. Glaring at them as the water dripped off you “That. Was. Not. Funny.” You growled suppressing any magic that could bubble up and out while Jason put his and your brother down when your aunt Elizabeth walked by “What in the world?! (First/Name)? Girls!? Jason Alexander Hughes what did you do to your sisters and cousins?” She asked marching over to her eldest child while running a hand over her swollen stomach. “Oh come on it was just a little prank.” He said hiding the squirt gun behind him. Crossing your arms as your aunt sighed and grabbed the bridge of her nose “Your fifteen Jason, you're supposed to be the example to the younger ones.” She said dropping her hand down to lay on her belly “But you still treat me like a child so why not act like one?” Jason argued crossing his arms just as Alexis dumped to cup full of water on him from up stairs making you snicker as her mother yelled her name “What? He deserved it, do you not see how soaked we are?” She asked just as your mother rounded the corner to call for dinner. “Do I even want to ask?” She said looking between the you and your cousins, shaking you head “We’ll go change. Meet you in the dining room!” You said running up the stairs as your cousins went to change in your room. Sitting at the kiddie table in the kitchen as your parents and the other adults ate in the dining room you giggled at Allen's impression of a walrus with his baby carrots shoved up in his upper lip. Nearly falling from the small table in laughter when Anna grabbed two long piece of lettuce and put them in front of her ears, she sucked in a large breath and did a sad elephant sound making her twin brother shoot juice from his nose making everyone howle in laughter. Snorting you covered your mouth and held your side as your father leaned back in his chair to glance at the children of the family before shaking his head and turned back to the conversion. Taking in a calming breath you took a bite of your food but ended up choking on it due to Ashley poking your side making you laugh as the bite went down. Lunging for your cup and downing the liquid inside to help the lugged food in your throat, you slammed the empty cup on the table gasping making everyone giggle in which made you turn to your cousin and poke her side making her squeak and turn her body in a funny way to avoid your poking, which only got your brother to jab his little finger into your side making you jump and kick the table by accident. “Hey don't get me, get Anna!” You said pointing at the pig tailed brunette who was still giggling and trying to help her brother plug his nose with a napkin. Watching her squeal and jump at the sharp jab to her side Anna turned to get Allen back making you laugh when Max then went for Lauren. Continuing this tasering war until you could hardly breath anymore, you called times trying to regain your breath. “Times! Times!” You panted, leaning back in your chair you heard your mom call “Kids your grandpa Thomas is here, come say hello!” Making you jump from the table and run to meet him in the living room, “Grandpa!” You screamed running into him with a hug and looking up at him as the rest of your younger cousins and brother pushed him onto the couch with an oof- Hearing the front door open and close you were the first to leap at the man who took off his shoulder bag in a hug “Uncle Robert! I thought you couldn’t come because of your patients?” You asked as he hugged you back and rustled your hair “Yeah well I got time off to come see my family. And I see in less than a couple of weeks we’re going to have another addition to the family?” He asked looking as his older sister who was rolling her eyes and rubbing her stomach while Mathew her husband scratched the back of his head with a smirk on his face. “And I see you haven’t found a wife yet? Robert you better find someone soon or you'll be too old to have kids of your own.” Your mother said picking up Allen and kissing hours cheek to make her point. Hearing him huff with an eye roll. “Yeah well I'll just take (First/Name). She's the nicest child every and I'm sure she'd love to live in London with me. Wouldn't you (First/Name)?” He asked reaching down to tickle your sides making you bend back and jump out of his grasp giggling. Before you could answer your dad scooped you up “Yeah that's not going to happen she's our little angle if you want one you gotta make one.” He said kissing your cheek before putting you down. Sitting next to your grandfather while your family started to bicker about marriage and kids you turned to smile at the old man next to you. “How's my gumdrop doing this year?” He asked giving you a side hug and smiling as the rest of your cousins split to go do their own thing. Smiling more “Ive been great! I'm going to a new private school and meeting a lot of awesome and wondering people! And I finally got (Enemy/Name) back for being so cruel to me and Allen!” You said happily thinking back to your friends and Dana making him nod with a smile “Well that sounds wonderful! And since you my special little granddaughter how bout I give you your Christmas card now hmm?” He asked bending over his large stomach and into his bag for the card. Smiling at the hand painted holiday card you leaned on him and opened the card to read the note but gasped at the money that fell onto your lap “Grandpa! This is a lot! You've never given me this much before?!” You said getting the other adults attention “Dad! How much did you give her?!” You mother asked as you nearly put them money back into the card “Oh just a measly hundred pounds? I gave every grandchild the same amount there's no means to make a big deal (Mother's/Name), (First/Name) darling run up stairs and put it away for now.” Your grandfather said patting your back. Looking back for only a few seconds before following orders you ran up the stairs and opened your door surprised that neither Ashley or Lauren was in there. Walking over to you lockable music box you took the money out and put it in smiling at the card and placing it next to the hand made box. “Why wasss it ssso loud downssstairsss?” Triton asked coming out of his hiding spot under your pillow turning and laying down next to him. “Grandpa gave me more money than he normally does. And my mom and dad said he shouldn't waist his retirement money.” You said before yawning blinking back the tiredness you smiled at the snake coiling next to your head before shutting your eyes for a small nap. Waking up a few hours later you glanced at the clock on your nightstand reading 1:30 am. Tasting bitterness in your mouth you got up with a yawn and rubbed your eyes. Quietly walking down the stairs to get a glass of water you stopped short of entering the living room because of the quiet voices coming from the dining room. “(Father's/Name), (Mother's/Name) if your really telling the truth about (First/Name) actually having magical abilities you can't stall this anymore. You said so yourself she's heard the truth from garden snakes telling her that's she's adopted.” You aunt Lucia said a bit worriedly, frozen in place you looked in the direction of the dining room as the conversation continued “How are we supposed to tell her that we found her as a year old baby in an alley on our way home from the hospital after the death of Benjamin?!” Your father said sourly holding his forehead as your mom made a sorrowful gasp. Pressing your lips into a thin line as your eyes burned with unshed tears “(Mother's/Name) honey, I know you thought of (First/Name) as a merical child after Ben, but please you don't want to scar her later on. She should know and get a chance to find and meet her real parents.” Your grandfather said quietly trying to calm his now crying daughter. Silently crying yourself you turned and ran back up stairs to your room. Closing the door behind you, you let out a gasp and slid down the door to sit on the ground. Waking from his sleep, Triton turned to you before he slithered over to you “What's the matter (First/Name)? Why are you crying?” He asked going up your leg to look at you better on top of your knee. Fiercely rubbing your eyes to stop the falling tears as you shook your head not wanting you repeat what you had heard your parents say "I'm fine Triton you don't have to worry." You whispered feeling the back of your thoat burn and him sliding off your leg, to go up your arm looking at the red bellied snake as he squeezed your arm to try and comfort you. You hiccuped with a small smile bring your arm closer to kiss the reptile on his head. Using your sleeve to wipe away the rest of your tears you stood and went back over to your bed and hid under the covers with Triton still tightly wrapped around your arm falling back asleep.

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Ok sorry for the sad chapter on Christmas Eve...I had to work and it was really slow so I wrote another chapter. But with this the plot thickens what shall the reader do now that she knows that her life up till now wasn't as true as she thought? And how will she act from here on forth with her adoptive family?