Felicity's POV
I'm looking at a photo of our family from when Fran and I were almost 14. It was taken on Affinity's fifth birthday. Fran's friends destroyed all the cake so me and my best friend Alicia had to bake a new one. Mom is usually the baker in the house but she was busy with the guests so we decided to take on the duty. I smile everytime I look at this photo.
There's a knock on my door. I flip the photo and keep it behind me quickly.
"Come in" I yell. Of course it's dad. Viola must've left. Me, Fran and Nity ate some pie in the kitchen and left the three of them to talk downstairs.
"Living room. Now" he says and slams the door behind him. I sigh knowing what's about to come.
I go downstairs and I see Fran sitting on one side of the sofa scrolling on his phone and my parents on the other side looking at the stairs most probably waiting for me.
I go and sit beside Fran. He looks up and keeps his phone away.
"Francis, what have we told you about defending your sister?" mom asks him. He doesn't say anything. If anything, he looks really annoyed.
"ANSWER YOUR MOTHER FRANCIS!" dad yells so loudly that I can hear Affinity starting to cry in the other room. I get up to go check on her but mom interrupts me by saying "I'll go. You talk to your dad" and looks at dad knowingly.
"Francis, go to your room. I need to talk to your sister" dad says once mom leaves.
"Ya like I'm gonna leave her alone here with you" Fran says.
"I said leave. Or is she teaching you to disobey too now?" dad says more calmly this time.
"I am not going any-" he starts yelling but I interrupt him by screaming "Francis" and he stops and looks at me. I'm almost about to give up and start crying right now. But I can't do this in front of them. Not when they think that it's just my way of gaining sympathy from my own brother.
"Go up. I'll be there when we are done talking" I say. He looks at me like I'm talking gibberish.
"I'll be fine, trust me" I say to him once again. He gives me a look and mutters "unbelievable" and storms up the stairs.
"Overacting. Do you guys think us of as the villians in your life Felicity? We are doing all of this to protect you! Don't you understand? We love you" dad yells but not loud enough for anyone besides the living room to be able to hear.
"Stop it dad. I can agree that you'd do this to protect us but if you really loved me, you would've believed me. You would stop hiding me from people because you are worried I might talk something that you don't wanna hear. I've been trying to prove it to you that I did not lie, that I saw what I saw and what did you do, huh? You told everyone in the family that I'm not mentally stable anymore. Well guess what? I am very much sane and in my senses. You are the one forgetting that I am your daughter. Not a project that needs to be fixed" I am yelling byt the end.
"Oh my god, you are still delusional honey" mom says closing the door behind her and walking upto me. "You were at the Hedges' party that night. You were with Nicholas" mom whisper-yells.
"Nick was lying mom. We've been over this" I explain.
"And Alicia saw you leave with him" mom sighs in frustration. She's talking to me like I'm crazy. I'm tired of this now.
"Alicia was drunk. She told you that maybe she saw me leave with Nick and that she doesn't remember clearly because she was too much buzzed" I explain for the hundredth time in the past year. At some point they gotta believe me right?
"Enough" dad slams his hands on the coffee table and I take a step back by the sudden aggresion.
"How many more lies will you create to cover up the fact that you need professional help. We made you see therapists in Sacramento and you couldn't help yourself but tell them your pity story, could you? So your own mistakes have brought you to this. I am repeating what I told you before moving here. You don't get to talk to guests, you don't make friends that are interested in your personal life and you don't go anywhere without telling us first. You're not going to get any professional help here because you can't keep your mouth shut about some things. So one wrong word to anyone and we are gonna send you to a mental asylum. Do you understand me?" he rants and yells.
I keep quiet and gulp down the fact that I'm scared right now and not to mention on the verge of tears.
"I asked you, do you understand me?" dad asks.
"Yes" I say my voice so low that I don't think he heard me but he did.
"Good. Go now" and as soon as he says this I run off upstairs in the speed of a bullet rain. I slam open Fran's door and he's walking nervously near his bed. He realises I'm here and looks up at me. Without saying anything I run and hug him and start crying like a baby. He strokes my hair and lets me cry.
After probably ten-fifteen minutes of just crying I take a step back, keep my hands on his shoulders and say "Thank you for believing in me Fran. Day by day I realise how important your faith in me is to me. And I'm sorry that mom and dad didn't believe you when you told them that you saw Nick leaving with someone else that night. That I wasn't with him and that I was telling the truth" and I start crying again.
He hugs me again and says "even if I hadn't seen him with someone else, I would've believed you Felicity. I would've known that you wouldn't make up what happened to you that night. And I would've have faith in you when you would've told me that Nick lied to mom and dad. God knows for what reason. And trust me, mom and dad are making a big mistake by doing all of this. By trying to fix you when you weren't broken in the first place"
I sniffle, pull back myself and sit on Fran's bed and say "I know. But sooner or later we're gonna have to tell the police what happened Fran"
"We tried in Sacramento remember? We tried telling it to the police, to the therapists mom appointed for you, to our school counselor but no one listened to us. The person behind this, he is a very powerful man Fel. If we go the police, he's just gonna find us again" he explains while sitting beside me.
"You're right. And for the first time in the last year, I can actually see myself building a life here. With the people we've found"
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Hey guys!
Finally a sneak peek of what Felicity has been hiding from Oakland.
Keep reading and stay healthy.
Love, Vash:)
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