Living With These Five

Home truths

Recap

There was a figure sat on the bed who turned to look at us. We both stopped dead in our tracks.

"DAD?"

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"What a lovely surprise! I knew your job wasn't real April, you've been pretending to be someone in a maganize for the last year when you'e real been meeting up with her. I should have known. Well look I came here to see you with good intentions of giving you a check for funiture in your house because me and mum have extended our holiday and we go tomorrow but now I see this I don't think you need it. YOU CAN PISS OFF JUST LIKE HER!"

"DAD!"

"Oh don't dad me, I no longer have any daughters"

It's all starting again. He hasn't changed and never will.

"Hazel your quiet. Has a cat got your tounge?"

"No, I've just changed while i've been anyway. I've matured, grown up, call it want you want but i've learnt that I don't need you around and I certainly don't need argueing around me."

"Because you live a perfect life with that spoilt brat of a boyfriend"

"Don't bring him into this! And for your infromation, I don't live with him and he's no longer my boyfriend" Isaid trying to stay calm and not yell back at him.

"Great news but that's not going to help you to come back into our lives! NOW PISS OFF AND GET AWAY FROM US! LIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER WHEN YOUR NOT IN THE COUNTRY!"

"NO, YOU WILL NOT MAKE HER LEAVE! I THINK YOU SHOULD GO!"

"IM YOUR FARTHER I AM THE ONE TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO"

"SO YOUR MY FATHER NOW? YOU JUST TOLD US YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY DAUGHTERS! WHY THE SUDDEN CHANGE?"

"DO NOT BACK CHAT ME YOUNG LADY!"

"IM 20 I CAN DO WHAT I WANT! NOW GET OUT!"

Where's my quiet older sister gone who would stay out of the way and not say a word while dad shouted at me? She used to sit in our bedroom and cry. Always asking me how I could think about talking to Dad in that way. How she could never talk to him ike that. I'm not the only one who has changed and had a grow up. When I left April must have been the one for Dad to shout at because he didn't like anything his children has done. We could never please him.

Our jobs weren't what he wanted us to do. He believed that us girls still had a stay at home and look after the house, while he would go to work. Nothing would change when we found a boyfriend, one that Dad approved of, and form then marry him and look after his house. Dad had set us both on so many dates with boys that were sons of men he worked with. They would never go to plan. Neither of us wanted to be there, so we would find a back exit and go our seperate ways instead, I would normally just walk to Max's and stay there until Dad had said to be home for then walk home. 

"APRIL YOU NEED TO LEARN THAT YOU WILL NEVER MAKE ANYTHING OF YOURSELF AND WHEN YOU COME RUNNING BACK TO US, WE WILL NOT HELP YOU!"

"HAVE YOU NOT LEARNT THAT NEITHER OF US WILL COME BACK WHEN YOU SEND US AWAY! YOU FORCED HAZEL TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY! YOU MADE LIFE HELL FOR TOM WHEN HE NEEDED YOU MOST! THAT'S WHY HE JOINED THE ARMY! THAT'S WHY HE NEVER CAME BACK! HE'S NOT DEAD LIKE YOU WANT TO BELIEVE! HE IS LIVING SOMEWHERE ELSE! MOST LIKELY TO HAVE A FAMILY! GRANDCHILDREN THAT YOU WILL NEVER MEET!"

Tom was our older brother, who protected us from the angry Dad all the time. Until it all got too much for him when I was 11 and at 18 he joined the army to get away from him. Him and Dad would argue worse than any of this after me and April had gone to bed but we would stay awake listening to them argue about what Tom was going to do with his life.

It was heartbreaking when he left. In the middle of the night he came creeping into our room after an arguement with Dad. A bag over his shoulder and sat on the end of my bed and called April over to us. That's how he told us he was going and gave us a piece of paper with details as to how to get hold of him. I still have that note but I never tried to phone him or go looking for him. Dad lead us to believe that he was dead. Killed in action the day after he was first sent out. But there was something in me that knew he was lieing.

"TOM IS DEAD YOU SHOULD LEARN TO LIVE WITH THAT FACT AND GROW UP!"

"Yeah, it really looks like i'm dead!" A voice says from the doorway behind us.

"TOM!" Me and April scream with delight running over to give him a hug. He hasn't changed a bit, well he's aged but he has aged well.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Dad asked, his face had gone pale and he looked as if he was really looking at the ghost of Tom.

"I came to see what the nosie was about because i'm staying down the hall. When I saw it was you lot I knew I had to step in for my sisters sake."

"LIES! YOU ALL ARANGED TO MEET UP HERE! HOW COULD YOU APRIL?"

"Dad, leave!" Tom said forcefully.

Without a word Dad left.

"Was he like this after I left?"

"And before" I murmmered

"I know, but I tried to make it so that you didn't know"

"Where have you been?"

"The Army then I moved to London and started my own buissness"

"Really? How come you never contacted us?"

"I could say the same thing to you pair. I kept the same phone number since the day I left so that you could ring me"

"By the time I was able to have a phone I thought you would have changed your number"

"No worries, at least you know i'm alive" Tom said sitting on the bed, "So what you pair being doing since I left"

April quickly filled him in with her moving out and her job then he looked at me.

"I will have to take you somewhere else. It too hard to tell you here with so many others around" I said picking up my bag.

"Are we going now?" Tom asked confused while April gave me a blank look.

"Yeah" They both jumped up and followed me out of the hotel. Turns out Tom wasn't married with children, just had a girlfriend who was up here for work and he came along as well.

We grabbed a taxi to the hotel and i took them to the suite, I knew that the boys weren't home yet but i messaged Paul to make sure it was alright to tell them.

"So here's where i've been staying since Friday." I said smiling at the hotel room.

"WOW" left the pairs mouth as they looked around the living room/kitchen where the lift came up.

"Let's go to my room and I'll fill you in" i said walking down the hallway.

"Hazel how can you afford this?" April asked.

"I haven't paid for it" I said walking into my room.

"So how come your staying here?" Tom asked still in taken by surprise.

I filled Tom in with what happen between me, our parents and Max and about me moving to LA then filled them both in about One Direction and how I came back to England. They didn't say a word, just sat and took everything in.

"HONEY WE'RE HOME!" Louis yelled from the living room then footsteps got louder as he came in our direction. 

"HEY!" he said joining us on the bed.

"Urm, Hi" April replied. She's never been very good with meeting new people.

"Going to introduce me?" Louis said looking at me.

"Louis, my brother Tom and Sister April" i said, "And Guys this is Louis"

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Zoe x