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Jake sat in the living room while we sat in the small kitchen drinking coffee, "my girls are ok" she smiled as tears once more slipped down her cheeks.

I sat for ages, listening to Clara explain everything again but this time to Veronica, I was asked several questions along the way but nothing big, she kept looking at our faces as if she'd never seen them before, "you are identical" she laughed as she reached her hand over to our chins and squeezed them as if we were dolls.

"Duhhh" I giggled,

"No I mean, you've both had full 18 years to change the way you look or cut your hair but you look the exact same except that Vanessa has highlights" she explained.

"And that Vanessa restrained on getting a nose job" Jake called from the other room making us all laugh, "You're beautiful just the way you are" Clara smiled.

"Why didn't you try keep us? Even if we would have had a bad childhood" Veronica spoke up changing the conversation with a snap of her fingers, "she's explained it Veronica" I Whispered harshly, not wanting to sound rude, "no it's fine you deserve to know" she said.

"You already know that your father left and I was to mind you on my own, my parents weren't on board at all and didn't agree with the way I had planned to raise you two, which was to take one day at a time." She explained as I watched Veronicas shoulders tense up. "And as much as i hate to admit it, my parents were right, I couldn't afford to feed you guys and I couldn't even go to school most of the time because I didn't even have enough money to send you guys to daycare" she sighed, I examined the fact that Veronica was listening very carefully, "I began to think about my future and your future and neither looked good"

"So? You could have turned it around" Veronica interrupted, "it's not that easy sweetie cause trust me I would have in a second" Clara smiled sympathetic as she placed her hand on top of Ronis but she pulled it away and placed it on the opposite side of her coffee cup and took a long awkward sip.

"One day one of you guys caught a bug and I couldn't even afford to bring you to a doctor so that was one of the many reasons, Steven, your father lost contact with me and I pretty much fell into a depression, my parents disowned me and my siblings wouldn't speak to me. There were several times where you guys would cry in hunger and you would weigh the same as when you were first born, I couldn't get diapers so I used clothes for a while which I would just clean over and over again. I was too young to feed you myself So milk from the fridge was the best I could do but you reacted badly to it so formula had to be added to the shopping list. I realized one night that I was basically torturing you Guys by trying to keep you to myself which was beyond selfish so I had to do the right thing and give you guys to a family that would feed you, change you and care for you in ways that I couldn't" she explained as even more tears stained her cheeks but Veronica wasn't having it and knocked her chair over as she got up in anger.

"You mean she went to a family that would love her and feed and care for her whereas I was dragged around the country and when the day finally came where I was adopted I cried even more at night knowing that I would most likely die in that psycho lady's house from starvation" she shouted, "I was bullied to the point where I begged my social worker to let me drop out to find my mother which the woman who adopted me told me you were dead" she cried with tears streaming down her roses cheeks, "my life wouldn't have been as bad as it is now" she stormed out of the room and locked herself in the spare room.

I ran after her but I was too late, the door wasn't gonna open for anyone, "leave her in there for a while, she needs some space" Clara explained to me so I made Jake leave to go somewhere else to shop or something so I could take the chance to FaceTime Karen.