Halo-Born

Chapter 9

Chapter 9...next chapter is very interesting. A lot better too.

There was no one home in the house. Tammy was off in her bakery while dad was in the lab. I had walked myself home with my spirits drained of energy. It never occurred to me how rude my siblings could be. First I waited twenty minutes for them to walk home with me. Then all they do is tell me to go home and wait. By then all of my friends were long gone. Liam and Brooke drove home with Lucas. If I had known all they were going to do was tell me to leave, I would have taken Lucas' offer to ride.

Of course I didn't. I just sat on the stairs waiting for them. Then they said for me to go. That was it. There were no introductions or goodbyes. No. It was just "we'll just catch up later". If they really were going to catch up, they should have been now. What could they possibly do after school? There were no clubs. Nothing!

I wished that at least they would introduce me to their friends. It wasn't very nice how they would shun me out of everything. I was family too, and I was here to stay. If they truly did want me there, shouldn't they treat me as if I was their full sister? The world could be that cruel sometimes. Often it turned its back against me, but sometimes it would shine with me. My life wasn't all gloom and doom. There were some joys like friends. Apparently I'd never get to know Aria's friends.

I trudged into my room groaning. I wish I could talk to Brooke, Liam, or Lucas. Those guys were amazing. They could talk about anything and still have a decent conversation. It wasn't like me who tried to have a topic that actually made sense. With them, I felt normal. I didn't feel like something inside of me was ripped out of my chest. With them I was whole. Weirdly enough, they seemed just like me. It wasn't just their appearance. It was their personality.

I just fit in there. That's all that mattered right?

The door shut behind me as my feet dragged me onto my bed. No homework and no friends. All I had was a laptop and phone. The phone of course was no use. No numbers. The internet could do me some good. It could give me some social time with my friends back home.

Getting back up, I got my laptop and set it on my bed. Laying back down I opened in and logged onto my favorite social networking site. The first thing I saw was all of the "sorry" notes. Then the "I will pray for you" ones. Then "I miss you a lot". I got sick to the stomach. My friends....my family. They were all concerned, but words on a screen didn't mean much. It meant more to call me or say it straight to my face.

How could I look at all of these without a tear to shed? My best friend wrote a long, strong message about me and my sister. She was practically family. She knew me almost as much as Hope did, yet she was gone. At the funeral, her face never showed up. She never came. The words she wrote couldn't replace the sort of pain I felt when I didn't see her that day.

I logged off and closed my computer. I couldn't do this. I couldn't live life by myself. Aria and Johnny can't just abandon me like I was nothing. I was something, and I would make them know it. Eventually. When they came home.

Tammy came home earlier than dad. She always came at six except for holidays or when she had an overflow of cakes to create. I loved her job a lot. She could be her creative self. She could be the sculptor, the artist, the expert in her own business. I wished I could call her and ask if I could help her out a bit. I liked hanging out with Tammy. She understood me the most out of this family. If she were here I'd be fine with that.

With nothing to do, maybe I should just take a nap and hope that when I wake up Aria would be home. Boredom wasn't much of a friend. Who liked boredom? I kicked off my shoes and let myself sink in the covers. It was dark inside my mind. My eyes wouldn't allow not even one ray of light to come through. I wanted to sleep.