Never In My Wildest Dreams (Slow Uploads)

Chapter 7 Secrets To Tell

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~Lilli’s POV~

CHAPTER 7 -

“I’m your birth mother’s brother,” he openly stated.

I stared back at him in disbelief, confusion, shock.

“My parents had three kids; the eldest was Scarlet, then Shane, and the youngest is me. Lilli, you and I are relat-”

“You’re lying!” I shouted irately, louder than I’d ever spoken to Scott before.

There was no way what he was saying was possible. My mom said most of her teen years were spent living with Mel and her family because her parents had died and she didn’t have any other relatives. That would mean that she would’ve had to have known about my birth parents, or at least my birth mother. She said she didn’t know anything, and I believed her.

She wouldn’t lie to me, would she?

“No, no, no, you’re lying! My mom said she didn’t know anything! She wouldn’t have lied to me! We are not related!” I yelled out. Scott was shaking his head before I even finished my sentence.

“I asked April not to say anything. I wanted to be the one to tell you- when the time was right, of course,” he finished, unfazed.

“She said she lived with Mel and her family; that would mean that she would have known about... No, there’s no way she would have lied to me.”

“April did live with me and my family from around the time she was thirteen. Her parents died in a really bad accident. Both of our parents were very close and, well, she would have ended up in foster care had my family not fought for her to be with us. She was and still is my best friend,” Mel said woefully.

“She didn’t lie to you about that, but she did know my sister- Scarlet. Your mom didn’t tell you because I asked her not to. Lilli, you have to understand it wasn’t her secret to tell.”

Would she lie to me about something this serious? If she could possibly lie to me about something as important as what he’s saying, then Scott could be lying about this. They could be lying to me right now. Do I even know them as well as I thought I did?

“Lilli, I know you. Please don’t think that way about us. You spent a lot of your childhood around us; do you really think I would lie to you about something like this?” Scott asked me flat out. Not giving me a chance to answer, he continued.

“I’m sorry we lied to you for so long, but I was waiting for the right time to explain everything to you. April and I both agreed that I wasn’t going to tell you before you were thirteen, beyond then it was up to me. There’s a lot you don’t know and I wanted to make sure you could handle it,” he said, almost pleading with me to understand.

I was so angry my blood was boiling. If what he was saying was true, then that meant my mom knew the whole time who my biological parents were- she kept things from me. That also meant he knew all these years and never told me- he, too, kept things from me.

“There’s a lot I don’t know?!” I shrieked. “Whose fault is that, huh?! Do you know what it’s like to question whether or not you really know the people you grew up around?!” I screamed, unable to control my anger. I looked around, taking in my surroundings for the first time. The boys looked stunned, Jess looked close to tears.

“If what you're saying is true, then everybody knew about this but me.  I was intentionally lied to by the people that I thought cared about me! Huh!” I explained, exasperated.