Joel Pimentel's little sister

Chapter 8

'why do you have a picture of me and my brothers AND my sister?!' Joel says
'why did you take it with you?' Jackson asks
'because... I don't know' I say

What now? Now he knows, I think.
They all look at me, what am I supposed to say? I don't know anything, my parents should tell.

'Alicia, how did you get this picture?' Joel says looking me straight in the eyes
'the girls, your sister, do you remember her name?'
'of course, Alicia, just like you, why?'
'because.... because I'm..' I got cut off by my dad.
'because she knows her!' He quickly says

I look at him confused and mad, why did he do that, what is the matter with him?

'what? Dad! No! I want him to know and you don't have anything to say about it!'
'I am..' And again but this time because my mom dragged me out of the room.
'you are not going to say that you are his sister Alicia!' My mom says
'why not?! You know I wanna meet them and you can't forbid me!
'we can' 

I turn my head and see my dad, he grabs my arm and pulls me into their room and he lock the door.

'let me go!!' I yell, but they ignore me

*other room*

'she knows my sister?! Can Alicia ask her if I can meet her?' Joel says
'no, they had a fight and don't talk anymore' dad says
'but... does she still has her number? Maybe I can text her, I really want to see her again, we all do, even though my parents gave her up we miss her, a lot, every day we talk about her and how she would look like and how her life would be or what it would be if she was still with us, I wish that she would come back and live with us again, I remember thing what we did together when we were little, like when she... never mind you don't care, if Alicia don't talk to her it would be impossible to find her, even my parents couldn't' Joel says
'wait what? Your parents wanted her back even after they gave her up?' Mom says
'yes, they traveled years to find her but without success, even now, they want to but are afraid she doesn't want to come back because of the whole thing and that she wouldn't understand why thy gave her up' Joel says
'if you will see her ever again, what would you do or say?' Jackson asks
'I don't know, I just would be happy that I have my sister back'

Joel holds the picture and smiles at it.
Jackson looks at his parents with a look like: get her.
Everyone is silent, then Jackson stands up and walk through the door.

'what are you going to do?' Everyone asks
'get Alicia' Jackson says
'no! She can't! Dad says angrily

Everyone looks at him shocked.

*back to Alicia*

I sit on the bed waiting, thinking.
What would they have been talking about? Did they send Joel away? Does he even want to know me?
I have so many questions, I hope I still can see him and say that everything my parents told him is not true, I'm sure they told bad things like I don't want to see them.

The door goes open, it's Jackson, he looks like he is sorry but for what, what happened in there?!

'hey, uhm.. I tried to get you but dad forbid me' he says
'what happened, what did the tell him?' I ask
'Joel is gone, he didn't tell where he was going' he says slowly

I stare to the ground, whatever happened in there wasn't good.

My parents won't let me out of this room till we go home, who knows, maybe I will never see him again.