The Truth Hurts

I walked into my house setting down my keys as I walked by the counter."Mom I'm home."I yelled out to nowhere in particular. No answer. Huh, that's weird usually she wanted to know how my day was. "Mom?" No answer. "Hello. Are you home?" Nothing. Okay something's up. I ran upstairs to her room an opened the door half expecting not to see her in there. "Mom are yo-" I walked in to see her crying her eyes out. "What happened?" She looked up at me with a far away look in her eyes. "N-nothing I'm just...."She said trailing off. I walked over to her and wrapped my arms around her. After my dad left my mom was devastated,and she would always start crying at the most random times. "It's okay,mom. Everything is going to be okay." I looked down at her and she was looking at me with her big green eyes. "I'm so sorry,Lynn,but I -" she was cut off by the doorbell ringing. " I'll be right back" I said as walked out the room and back down the stairs. When I opened the door I saw my step sister, Lena , standing there looking a little embarrassed. "Le,what are you doing here?" I asked a little confused. She never came over because she wasn't really related to us and she didn't really like me. "Hey, I was wondering if I could tal-""Lena,what are you doing here?" She was cutt off by someone behind me asking her that a little harshly. I turned around to see my brother staring at her with mad expression on his face. You see, my brother was very overprotective and rarely let me leave the house after I came home from school. Why,I have no idea. "Lane,be nice." I whispered to him, jabbing him in the side with my elbow. He flinched and looked down at me with a glare. "No,Lynn,I will not 'be nice'." He said turning his head to give Lena a glare. "Answer the question."e told her in the same harsh tone. She sighed, looking between the two of us. "I take it your mom hasn't told you?" I gave Lane a questioning look wich he returned. "What are you talking about?" "I think you should let her explain." She said pointing behind us. Whalen I turned to look my mom was standing there with some papers in her hand. "Mom,what are those papers for?" "There for your father. He's gonna need them if he's taking custody of you." She stated with no emotion in her voice. My vision was now blurring and my heart clenched in my chest. "What?" Me and my brother almost screamed at the same time. "You're both going to live with your dad and his family." This can't be happening to me. I was a good person, right? "No,no,I wanna live with you mom not dad and his b-""Watch your mouth young lady!" My mom yelled at me. "Bu-" "No your going to live with your dad and that's final." She said sternly. I looked over at Lena who had a simpathetic look in her eyes,then to my brother,and he was staring in space with a glare. I looked back at my mom again. "Why?" I asked my voice shaky. "Because I said you are, now don't argue with me." I gave her an exasperated look then it turned into a glare. "Fine." I said simply and ran upstairs to my room ignoring the calls I got from my brother. I walked in my room and slammed it shut sliding down against it. How could this be happening? I can't think of anything that I had done wrong. So why did I have to move in with my dad all the way across the state. I thought everything was going fine with my mom. She had told me when my dad moved away that if I got in trouble than I would have to leave Orlando and go live with my dad in Miami. But I don't recall getting in trouble. I started crying because I'd I left here then that means I have to leave all my friends. That's not all though, if I leave here I won't be able to come back and visit because my dad doesn't visit now and he surly won't change his mind. I was so deep in thought that I didn't realise the pounding on my door. " Lynn, open this door right now." Lane said sounding really mad and annoyed. "Go away, Lane." I yelled back but he just kept pounding on my door. I groaned I frustration and got up pulling my door open. "Why is it such a big deal that we have to move in with-" "The big deal is that we have to move across the state to go live with our dick of a father and his b*tch of a wife without a reason. Not to mention our step sister who hates me. And we won't be able to visit here if we do move." He gave me an exasperated look . "Dad is not a dick." I groaned and try to shut the door but he caught it and walked in my room and closed the door behind him like he owned it. "Lane,get out." He smirked at me. "Now why would I do that when I just got in here?" "Fine I'll just go in your room." I told him smugly and with that I was already down the hall. "Lynn,no!" He said with something I could only make out as nervousness. But it was to late, I had already walked into his room, and what I saw was more than enough to make me angrier than I already was.

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There were boxes everywhere and the room was almost empty, it looked like he already knew about us having to move. I just stood there in shock staring at the boxes. "Lynn, are you okay?" I turned my head to look at him with a glare. "You knew."I asked him. I could tell he was afraid of my reaction because he had stepped back a few feet away from me. "You knew!!" I said again my voice rising. "You knew yet you still didn't tell me. I thought you were someone I could trust." "I am!!" He said. I dryly laughed at him. "I'm leaving."

I walked out if his room and down the stairs. When I walked by the living room my mom stopped me. "Were are you going." "Out" I said with the harshest tone I could muster. "Don't talk to to me like that." "Well you know what I not going to talk to you like it's all rainbows and unicorns." "Don't get smart with me either." "Then I won't talk to you at all because believe it or not I don't like to be at friendly terms with a liar." I told her, my breathing hitched in my throat.

I was shocked because I never talked to my mom like that. But she lied and I'm too upset to think."Excuse m-" "Bye" and with that I walked out of the house and down the street. I don't know what I just did but it was not good, but my adrenaline was high and it wasn't going down anytime soon. I don't get why I had to move from my moms house all of the sudden. Maybe she just got tired and took advantage of my dads offer to take us, but that just wasn't like my mom, she wouldn't just get rid of us, would she? That thought made me shiver and walked faster.

Maybe my dad had bribed her to give us to him, like we were some kind of animals.that son of a- "Lynn?" Someone said then I heard foots, and I just realised I had my eyes closed. When I opened them I saw my best friend,Sadie, looking at me with a worried look. "What are you doing out here why don't you come inside?" I looked around and saw her house to the right. "Su-ure." "Hey, what's wrong?" She asked when we were inside her house. I looked down "Sa, I have to tell you something and you're not going to be happy." "Did you finally have enough and kill Lane?" I smiled. She used to have a huge crush on him and I guess some feelings never change. "I don't know if its the fact that my mom doesn't want us anymore or......" She turns pale and look like she was about to cry. "She wouldn't, would she?" "Yes, and she did." That's when all hell broke lose. "I'm gonna have a stern talk with her."Oh god, that was never a good thing to hear. The last time she had a 'stern talk' with someone, it was her ex and let's just say he's not gonna have no baby's. If your wondering, he cheated on her. I just gave her a warning look. "Please don't, it'll just make things worse. I already told her off. She gave me an exasperated look then, she squealed with joy. "Finally!" She groaned out, I looked at her dumbfounded. "Oh, dot give me that look you know very well why I'm excited." I smiled at her, glad someone agrees with me, but then my smiled dropped into a pout. When I move, I won't have anyone like Sadie to cheer me up like this. "I have to go." I told her, then she stopped right in her tracks, turning to look at me. "You can stay here." "Um, I have to go home and pack my stuff." "Oh, come on just one last time before you move." "Okay, fine."

We were sitting on the couch watching the end of pitch perfect, again. Then the door burst open and in stepped, Cameron, my other best friend. "Hey, Lynn your brother told me what happening in a few days, so I decided I was going to take you bitches out." He fist pumped the air and came over to Sadie and I, sitting down in between us,and then taking one of each of our arms and pulling us off the couch. That's how our night started until, something very surprising happened.