Lotus |1| The Umbrella Academy

Nineteen

Chapter Nineteen:

"Will I ever meet my dad?"

Lotus was eight, and she sat across from her mother, watching the women's movements. She was little but she noticed the changes in the her mom, almost all of them.

"I don't think so, flower."

Lotus' nose scrunched, "I don't like when you call me that."

Though of course, the small child didn't know that she didn't have a dad. She didn't know a lot, especially that the women blamed her deteriorating health on the child, her child. The women was doing fine, until Lotus' sixth birthday.

"I think it's nice." A smile grew on her lips. "It suits you."

"Why is my name Lotus?" The little girl asked, twirling a piece of her growing hair around a finger. The women's smile faded, replaced by a hate that had been evolving over the years.

"Your grandmother liked the name."

"Why don't we ever see Grandma and Papa?"

The women stood up, pushing herself off the ratty old couch. Their apartment was beginning to fall apart, everything had holes in it and smelt of stale rain.

"They don't want to see me." She steadied her voice, but in truth they didn't want to see Lotus either. It was amazing how parents told their kids that they'd support them no matter what, only to discard that every idea when a challenge or surprise arose. Lotus had been a very big surprise. "We're doing ok on our own right?"

"Why don't we live with them anymore?"

She was surprised she remembered, considering her parents kicked her out after a few years of having the baby. Of keeping it, even when someone offered to pay a rather large amount for her.

"That's enough of your questions." She snapped, watching as the eight year old stared up at her. "Go to your room, you've had plenty of playtime today."

"But I just started—"

"I said go to your room!"

Lotus frowned, tears welling in her eyes. That had been the day their relationship began crumbling. "I want to finish—"

The women bend over so she was staring into the child's matching green eyes, she grew to hate how Lotus looked just like her. " It made sense though, considering she didn't have a dad to look like. "What did I tell you?"

Lotus kicked the legos in front of her, sending them flying around the room. She glared back into her moms eyes, "Why can't I just play for a little while longer—"

"Stop asking so many questions!" The women yelled, that made Lotus jump. The small girl huffed and stomped off towards the room that they shared. She slammed the door just and tears escaped her eyes, she hated when her mom yelled at her.

Something shattered and Lotus sprang up, gasping as her eyes widened. She was still at the Academy, in a random guest bedroom, the walls unnaturally white.

"There's a family meeting going on downstairs." Klaus stood in the doorway, just as he had done the night before. She rolled her eyes and flopped back down onto the mattress.

"Well then, I'm sure it can carry on without me."

"C'mon." He whined, "You've been spending the most time with Five, you must know things that we don't."

"Your brother's a secretive prick, even when the world is at stake."

"The world's ending in three days." He rambled, "Now we really gotta rush."