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29 - Family Secret

Chapter 29

Katsuro LN, son of Sarah and Dominic LN. Aged 22 years while he lived with his younger sister, YN LN, in Goding.

When he was six years old, his parents brought home an infant girl with soft (h/c) hair and (s/c) skin. They had been gone for two days, but that wasn’t unusual. What was unusual was bringing home a crying baby. She cried in Sarah’s arms, so the woman dumped the infant child in her son’s arms.

Kat was able to calm the infant to the point she fell asleep. Kat had grown used to the feeling of his parents not paying attention to him, and he hoped that this baby girl would get a better chance. He held you in his arms at night and prayed to any god or deity out there listening that you would get a better chance than he did.

Then one night, he heard the conversation that changed his views on both his parents and the infant girl sleeping in a crib in his room. It had been merely weeks since his parents had brought her home. In the living room around midnight,  Kat heard his mother pacing back and forth while arguing with his father.

“I can’t believe this!” Sarah exclaimed angrily.

“You’d have thought that they would’ve called by now.”

“How could they not respond to our ransom? We should have our money by now. Then we can hand over the kid.” Kat snuck to the doorway of his bedroom to listen closer to the conversation.

“We went through all this trouble, you know? Kidnapping the girl, burning the car, killing the nurse. Did we kidnap the right kid? Was this the oldest LN kid?”

“I don’t know. This might be the Miranda one, but… I don’t know…” In absolute confusion, Kat just went back to bed, glancing at the infant in the crib. Within a week, Kat was watching television after school. He was sitting on the couch eating carrots because his father ate all the chips.

The news was playing on the TV, and Kat’s young eyes danced over the television screen. An image of a baby girl who looked eerily similar to the one crying in his bedroom at the moment played on the television.

“Young YN LN, daughter of Rochelle and Hiram LN, has been kidnapped while the LN family of LN Digital Manufacturers while on vacation in (City near Goding), (state). The parents of YN are searching for their daughter. Mrs. LN refuses to give in to kidnappers’ demands. The parents beg any and all witnesses with any information to please-”

The television was turned off and silenced as Kat’s father chucked a half full beer bottle through it. Kat jumped at the sound, and heard you begin crying more. He left the living room as his father began swearing loudly and wildly.

The young boy raced to his bedroom and took you out of the crib, holding you close to his chest. You weren’t his sister, but he didn’t really care. His parents kidnapped you to try and get money from your parents.

And so, they didn’t try to return you. They kept you and raised you like their own daughter. Well, they neglected you like their own daughter. Kat basically raised you on his own with money from his parents. Until, of course, he was sixteen years old and he got a job with a reasonable income.

Overnight, your ‘parents’ packed their bags and disappeared. You were ten years old at the time, and Kat was too scared to find out how you would react when you knew your parents had practically abandoned you both.

Kat took you out to a day at the nearby theme park. Then, you guys grabbed take out at a great restaurant and ate it on the roof of your apartment building. You loved the view of the city below. You felt like the king of the world.

Kat smiled at you while you oohed and ahed at the sights below you. Finally, after dinner and desert, he told you that your parents were gone and they most likely weren’t coming back. To your brother’s shock, you sighed and nodded and didn’t cry. You were always a happy child, even when your parents didn’t acknowledge you for days on end. He expected you to be at least a little upset.

“It’s okay,” you had told him. “You’re more of a parent to me than they ever were, anyway.” Kat nearly cried. He held you close to his chest and hugged you as if you were the most precious thing in the world.

He wanted nothing more than a good life for you, and now you had a chance to get it. A rich asshole showed up and asked you to marry him. Yeah, Kat knew you would be unhappy at first, and you didn’t need to learn to love the jerk anyway. If he had tried anything on you Katsuro would have killed him.

“Hey, Kat,” you said, snapping your brother out of his hazy state. You both sat in the living room of your apartment. “What was it your wanted to tell me?” Kat took a deep breath, trying to remind himself why he absolutely had to tell you as soon as possible.

“YN…” he breathed.

“Yeah?” There was a deafening pause.

“There’s something I need to tell you about Mum and Dad…”

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So, I guess this was a kind of a flash back chapter? And now you know the big LN family secret! Tell me though, how many of you thought it was gonna be that Katsuro was secretly in love with you and this was going to end up being a yandere brother story?

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