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after reviewing everything and many hours of crying to gus about my sister's unfair treatment. we waited for dad to get home. i was shaking. ian even tried to help. we sat at my floor with everything laid out in a timeline order just tryna piece it together.

"so you think she did it?" ian asked and i nodded.

"i may not be a cop but she had a reason to kill my parents and i guess athena was a part of her advantage to get away with murder." i replied.

"thats so terrible. im so sorry, baby." gus said reaching for my hand.

"im just happy that shes innocent. but it makes me even angrier because she died over it." ian nodded.

"i wouldve loved to meet your sister, but my mom wouldnt let me go." he said and that clicked even more.

"wait! your mom hid my sister's letters from me. we gotta find them." all three of us scurried to the room brian was in. we looked through her stuff and anywhere we could find.

"kids! im home!" dad yelled while we rummaged through his room. we found an old box unpacked and found athena's hidden letters.

"venus!" ian yelled grabbing the box and running to my room.

"guys? hey! whats going on!" dad yelled running to my room. we dumped the letters and ripped them open each of us reading one.

"wait hold on, i found something," gus said. he stared hardly at the paper like he was struggling to understand. "it says i had come to the realization that father never hated us. i just knew the truth and he was forced to remember how it happened. i know he regrets what happen with mama's sister and he felt sorry for taking it out on us."

"he cheated on my mother with her sister and that must be why he always seemed so mad. he wasnt mad at us, he was mad at himself."

for so long i wondered why our father treated us like that. it was the guilt eating him.

"guys? whats going on here?" dad asked looking at the work we've done.

"dad, athena didnt kill herself, she was killed too. and i know why," i pointed to all the work and made him come here. "she wrote about it in her notes and she mentioned our aunt. i havent seen my aunt since my mother and her fought. but athena mentions her several times visiting her."

"what are you trying to say? your aunt killed her?" i stood still.

"im saying, dad, she was innocent. i think my aunt killed my parents, framed athena and then got her killed because she was speaking up on it. they treated her unfairly in that place, unauthorized shock therapy, multiple letters shred and remember those times they said she wasnt feeling well? it was a lie."

"venus, im so sorry. is there something i can do to help?" he looked so sad.

"i dont know what to do, dad. im so angry and i have all this evidence, what am i suppose to do?" i asked almost breaking down again.

"you give em hell, ve. i believe in you so much, you got this. we'll help you, we just gotta get this information to the right people." another bulb in my head clicked.

"amanda." he quickly pulled out his phone and began calling her. she picked up and he told her to come over and that he'd explain. she thought i was in trouble so she was gonna come right away.

we read more letters as gus and ian filled in dad on what he missed. he almost started crying.

"i couldve saved her too, we couldve gotten her outta there." he looked so fucked up.

"if i wouldve stayed that day i couldve saved her. it really is my fault. i walked out on my family and got them killed." the guilt never left me, i pushed it aside and now it hurts even worse.

"dont blame yourself, ve, you couldnt have known thatd happen." dad tried to talk me out of it.

"baby, please please please look at me. i need you to know that this is not on you and we will get back the bastards who did this." gus said, amanda knocked on the door as dad rubbed my shoulder before letting her in. i broke down again in gus's arms.

amanda walked in she looked confused until she saw me crying. she rushed by my side as i wiped my tears.

"what happened?" she asked.

"i figured it out, athena didnt commit suicide. she was killed. she knew who killed our parents." amanda looked at my dad as he nodded.

"venus, are you sure?" she asked.

"its all there. just look at it." i said pointing to the mess of papers and documents scattered. ian looked so lost and confused. she sat down beside dad and looked at the information with a twisted face.

"that cant be right. i was assigned this case along with yours," she looked up at me. "they were not allowed to use shock therapy on her because of her age. plus this was before the trial even began."

it all just made me feel worse. i wiped my eyes.

"so youre saying i could be right? that they did illegal things to her and possibly killed her." she looked at me.

"i could get the documents and review it over again. i cant promise anything, venus, but i will do my best." i nodded, my head was pounding and my heart was racing. the inside of me felt like it was getting torn apart.

"what are we suppose to do?" dad asked.

"dont go to anybody, if you are right this was all an inside thing. ill find what i can and ill let you okay, okay? you call me if anything happens." i nodded, she hugged me and took some things with her on the way out.

"i hope they do whats right. im so sorry." ian said and i nodded wiping my tears.

"me too."

for the rest of the night gus held me while i cried to him. id finally let it all out to him he comforted me until i cried myself to sleep. thanks angel.