Safe wings

Chapter 8:

We walk back outside hand in hand. Uncle Austin looks at me and then at Matt. He smiles.

"Okay lovebirds." he teases.

I giggle and lay my head on Matt's shoulder.

"Your just like your mom" Aunt Sierra says.

"How so?"

"Your so pretty and amazing."

"Thanks?"

"Hey Babe, I'm gonna go in for a second okay?" Matt asks. I nod and he goes inside his cabin. A large truck pulls up and a boy with beach blonde hair and jeans and a fitted shirt gets out. He has green eyes.

"Hey Josh!" Aunt Sierra says.

"Hey aunt Sierra! Hey uncle Austin!" he says in a deep southern accent.

"Aunt? Uncle?" I ask.

"Honey this is your long lost older brother, we wanted it to be a suprise."

"Three years before you were born mom left me at our grandparents." he explains.

"Your my brother?" I ask.

"Yeah" I begin to cry and I hug him.

Matt comes outside and sees me crying and sees Josh.

He runs to me and glares at Josh "who the hell are you and why is my girlfriend crying?! get the hell away from her." he growls.

"Look tough guy, I'm her brother now get away from my little sister!" he says. They are both nineteen.

"Brother? I don't think so." Matt says.

"Matt!" I say I grab his arm as it's too late, Josh's fist connects with his jaw.

"JOSH!" I yell.

"Who is he?" he asks.

"That's my boyfriend! God! I really wish you would hold off beating him up until he does something that deserves getting best up by my older brother!" I hiss.

I kneel beside Matt.

"You okay?" I ask.

"Yeah, I just need some ice."

"Josh get me ice now" I say.

Josh walks to the house.

"Matt I'm so sorry, he was just defending me."

"Since when did you have a brother?"

"I didn't know, but my mom had him three years before she had me then she have him to our grandparents."

"I'm sorry for going off on him."

"It's okay you didn't know."

Josh comes back out.

"Hey sis, there's someone on the phone for you."

"Mmhm." I say then stand and run to the house.

I answer the phone.

"Alexis?" the woman says. I instantly recognize her voice.

"Mom?"

"Yeah."

"I thought you were d-dead" I say.

"Nope."

"Why would you leave me? I've been beaten!"

"I-"

"Shut up there's no excuse leave me alone! You'll never be my mom!" I scream. I cry and yank the locket that was my moms from my neck. I throw it into the horse field.

Matt walked to me and saw the tears all over my face.

"What's wrong?"

"She's not dead she left me! She hated me" I cried.

"No no it's okay." he hugged me. Josh walked up.

"I'm so sorry. I- I thought you would want to talk to her."

"Thanks Josh but she hurt me so much." I said. Matt hugged me and Josh moved toward me.

He opened his arms and Matt released me. Josh instantly hugged me. "I'm so sorry." he says.

"I'll be okay guys. I think I'm just gonna go riding."

I climb over the fence and walk to Veto. I jump on his back and begin to ride through the woods. In a few minutes I get to a small tree that has a branch for me to lay on. I think of everything going on. Then I think.

"Why are you so stupid! You were never wanted" I yell at myself.

Slowly I pull out my pocket knife and bring it to my wrist. I slowly make a small cut. As the blood flows out I begin to cry.