Secret

Chapter 6

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                                                                                                                                                                                       -Flora

The kids all start walking towards Bob's Burger Brunch Rebecca and Jacob are both ahead of Tim and the girl and they're whispering to each other about the girl.

"Do you think she's abused?" Jacob asks

"I'm not sure," Rebecca answers not fully convinced by the fact that the girl's abused.

"Why do you think she has cuts and bruises?" Jacob questions.

"We used to have cuts and bruises all the time when we lived here," Rebecca replies reasonably

"Our parents were neglectful and abusive you know that." Jacob blandly answers

"Her mom probably works all day maybe even till late at night, you know since the girl doesn't have a dad, so the girl probably went outside one day and got beat up," Rebecca answers with logic

"Why is she mute then?"

"She might just be mute; people can be mute Jacob or maybe she doesn't like to talk."

"Okay so why do you think she's so skinny?"

"She lives in the slums remember how skinny we were when we lived here."

"Our parents didn't feed us, Becca."

"But we stole food remember maybe her mom works honestly and they don't steal, it could be why she's so skinny. If you work honestly you don't get much money here."

"Okay even your unusually positive mind knows that's not true nobody works that honestly in the slums. No adult we knew worked honestly here nobody we knew worked honestly, even our parents didn't work honestly, so I doubt her mom would."

"Why do you keep bringing them up can't you leave them at bad parents and end it there, they're already dead you know."

"Well, they're not exactly hard to forget." Jacob states bluntly he's no longer whispering.

"They were our parents they're the reason you're alive" Rebecca exclaims

"I know, but if you have kids, they at least deserve a decent life." Jacob quips

"Well, we have a great life now, thanks to Derik." Rebecca counters

"I won't forget them!" Jacob barks "I'm never going to forgive them for what they did to us they treated us like objects that you could toss away and sell whenever you wanted."

"I thought you didn't know your parents Becca," Tim says innocently

"Well, you thought wrong Tim we knew them well, too well." Jacob huffs as he storms ahead.

Everyone drops the topic and they continue walking to Bob's Burger Brunch no one says a word. The girl walks a little behind as she looks at the scenery in awe.

"Hey," Rebecca says suddenly, she turns to the girl "Since we don't know your name and you can't tell us I'm going to call you Carrie is that okay."

The girl nods her head.

"We never did tell you our names, did we? I'm Rebecca everyone calls me Becca, well except for when they're mad at me or if they're too fancy to call me Becca." Rebecca explains with an outstretched hand