Tied with blood

CHAPTER 1-Angie

*FOUR DAY EARLIER*

THE TRUTH: FAMILY LIES

I am just going up the stairs. Usually I don't feel this bad.I don't even know why I am upset. I got everything a girl would want,

a wealthy family, I lost

weight and my sister is the IT girl in my school, which makes me popular, I'm athletic, people think I'm pretty (totally disagree), ?and I'm known as the 'kind one' when I am being compared to my brother and sister. So why am I in such a bad mood?

I dismiss the thought and climb the stairs as fast as I can with my body pumped up from the treadmill running.

I run up to a whole heap of my 'used to be' family's faces staring at me.

Confused I turn around to make sure no one was behind me.

" There's a storm coming" mother says grimly, staring at me "Okaayyy...we will stay inside then" I say confused. We have had at least three storms a week this month, why were they freaking today??

" This one is different there is going to be a tornado..." I wait for her to continue.tornado in a storm...is it me does it seem normal for a tornado to be in a storm??

She doesn't. Answer I mean. I stand there feeling like an idiot,with everyone looking at me weirdly.

Does everyone here know something I didn't??

Just as soon as I open my mouth to excuse myself, mother opens her mouth and continues. " The tornado's eye is aimed on our city... our street."

"How do you know mother?" "The news.."

" The news was wrong yesterday.. said we'd have flooding here..it didn't"

I say confidently, and go sit down on our leather settee and feel the leather soak my body weight in I close my eyes and lean into the settee :nearly' raking me to dreamland . I didn't realise that there was tension in the air until I felt relieved that my feet didn't have to hold the awkwardness I felt. "The bible said so too....Angie ...the world is going to end" I jerk my eyes open and glare at my mother. how could she believe that just because a stupid dumb book said that!!!! Ok ok ok its not that stupid....I believe in god too....just not in a book. "Mother we have had this conversation before we left our old home.......just leave it alone. And if we are in danger...why aren't we running away??"

"God will handle the matter, but I know god would never forgive our family if we don't tell you the truth" Grace ( my older IT GIRL sister)

I look surprised at her, she's not known for giving in. "What have you lied about???" I spit out coolly. I wince at the sight of my 'used to be' family's faces looking hurt. I coweredly face down, trying to look interested in the ugly cream carpet which was laid practically everywhere in the house.

"W..we..we are n..n...ot your p.p..parents, w..w.w...we had t..to adopt you when you p..p..p.parents died in a c..cr..car crash...w..when you were one" Mother spits out before bursting into tears.

This cant be true...noo....its probably a joke. I start laughing my head off." good one guys you nearly had me there"

tears stream down my face of laughter, I Slap my thighs till they armored and sore...I look at Grace and Adam (my brother) and realise they went laughing. Usually they wouldn't be able to hold in their spires laughs and giggles. They should be on the ground right now laughing, rolling around and shouting with joy. They weren't doing any of that right now. I feel my face freeze up as I realise the truth.

That's why I didn't have tanned skin like them, that's why I had my light bronz-y brown skin. That's why I have a mixture of natural brown, black and

redd-ish maroon in my hair instead of brown-blond honey coloured Hair sprouting from my scalp. That's why I wasn't a natural math genius like them, or algebra or science....

I turn walk to the door and run...run from my past...from the blood I thought I 'was'. I hear them following me, screams shots filling ny ears with pain, it's a good thing they aren't as athletic as me.

I run towards my truth, my real blood: away from the fake lies and faulty family bonds: the fake blood.