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Authors: Mercy Amare
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from the same person who has been messaging you girls. They told him if he didn’t drug you, they would kill his two year old sister,” the detective tells me. “He is in trouble for putting a ruffie in your drink, but he will most likely get off with probation because of the nature surrounding it.”
I cover my mouth with my hand. “Oh my God. Poor Carter.”
If I was in Carter’s shoes, I would have done the exact same thing. I would do anything to protect my family.
“That will be all for today,” Detective Condie tells me. “Just… keep an eye out for suspicious people. If you suspect somebody is following you, don’t stop your car, and call 9-1-1. We don’t know what this person is capable of, but we don’t want to find out. I fear that you and your friends won’t be safe until this person is caught.”
Camping.
An unplanned accident.
Every year, we go on this camping trip together. All of us leave our cell phones behind and we set up a couple tents by the lake. We’re only about half a mile away from our house. It’s great, because none of us are texting, or checking social media. It’s bonding time… I’m also glad to leave my cell phone behind, because I’m scared I’ll get more texts. As much as I don’t want this person to have power over me, they do. I have zero control over this situation and I hate it.
While Trey, Jace, and Thayer set up the tent, Hailee and I sit out in lawn chairs.
“Being a girl is awesome,” Hailee says.
I laugh. “Amen, sister.”
“You’re really lucky, you know. You have two guys who adore you.”
“What do you mean?”
“Jace and Trey. Well, three if you include Thayer, because he adores you too,” she says. “Jace is crazy in love with you. Trey is your twin and your brother, so he’s like super-protective of you. And Thayer, well he loves you in the way that nine year old boys love their brother’s girlfriend.”
“Trey adores you too,” I tell her. “He’s your big brother. And I’m your big sister. So you have two of us to look out for you.”
“Yeah, but next year I’ll be a freshman. Finally, as I’m going into high school, you two are graduating. Nobody will be there to look out for me,” she says. “Besides, it’s different. You and Trey are so close. I’m just the annoying little sister. I was an accident.”
“You were not an accident.”
“Yeah, I was. Mom told me,” she says. “She said that Dad only wanted one girl and one boy. They got it on the first try. I was just an unplanned accident.”
“It doesn’t matter, Hailee. You’re my little sister. And I’m glad that they had an accident . You’re the best kind of mistake,” I tell her. “I love you and wouldn’t trade you for the whole world. I know Mom feels the same.”
I start to say so would Dad, but I can’t. It’s not true. Her existence is why my dad isn’t here. I mean, I know it’s not her fault. It’s my mom’s fault. Hailee didn’t ask to be born, and I would never want her to feel like she was to blame. It was all my mom. And my dad. He should have just divorced my mom. Instead, he took the coward’s way out and killed himself.
Which reminds me — I have to talk to Trey this weekend. I can’t let him hear about this from anybody else. I just wish it wasn’t going to break his heart.
My mind goes back to fifteen year old me — when I first learned that my dad committed suicide. I didn’t want to believe it.
“It’s not true!” I yell at Daisy. People in the store turn to stare at me, but I don’t care. I can’t let Daisy get away with this kind of shit anymore. She always lies to me. I usually just let her, but this is different. I won’t let her lie to me about my dad.
“I’m not lying,” she says, looking me straight in the eye. “Your dad committed suicide because he couldn’t deal with the fact that Hailee isn’t his biological child.”
Daisy never looks me in the eye when she lies. She does this thing
I cover my mouth with my hand. “Oh my God. Poor Carter.”
If I was in Carter’s shoes, I would have done the exact same thing. I would do anything to protect my family.
“That will be all for today,” Detective Condie tells me. “Just… keep an eye out for suspicious people. If you suspect somebody is following you, don’t stop your car, and call 9-1-1. We don’t know what this person is capable of, but we don’t want to find out. I fear that you and your friends won’t be safe until this person is caught.”
Camping.
An unplanned accident.
Every year, we go on this camping trip together. All of us leave our cell phones behind and we set up a couple tents by the lake. We’re only about half a mile away from our house. It’s great, because none of us are texting, or checking social media. It’s bonding time… I’m also glad to leave my cell phone behind, because I’m scared I’ll get more texts. As much as I don’t want this person to have power over me, they do. I have zero control over this situation and I hate it.
While Trey, Jace, and Thayer set up the tent, Hailee and I sit out in lawn chairs.
“Being a girl is awesome,” Hailee says.
I laugh. “Amen, sister.”
“You’re really lucky, you know. You have two guys who adore you.”
“What do you mean?”
“Jace and Trey. Well, three if you include Thayer, because he adores you too,” she says. “Jace is crazy in love with you. Trey is your twin and your brother, so he’s like super-protective of you. And Thayer, well he loves you in the way that nine year old boys love their brother’s girlfriend.”
“Trey adores you too,” I tell her. “He’s your big brother. And I’m your big sister. So you have two of us to look out for you.”
“Yeah, but next year I’ll be a freshman. Finally, as I’m going into high school, you two are graduating. Nobody will be there to look out for me,” she says. “Besides, it’s different. You and Trey are so close. I’m just the annoying little sister. I was an accident.”
“You were not an accident.”
“Yeah, I was. Mom told me,” she says. “She said that Dad only wanted one girl and one boy. They got it on the first try. I was just an unplanned accident.”
“It doesn’t matter, Hailee. You’re my little sister. And I’m glad that they had an accident . You’re the best kind of mistake,” I tell her. “I love you and wouldn’t trade you for the whole world. I know Mom feels the same.”
I start to say so would Dad, but I can’t. It’s not true. Her existence is why my dad isn’t here. I mean, I know it’s not her fault. It’s my mom’s fault. Hailee didn’t ask to be born, and I would never want her to feel like she was to blame. It was all my mom. And my dad. He should have just divorced my mom. Instead, he took the coward’s way out and killed himself.
Which reminds me — I have to talk to Trey this weekend. I can’t let him hear about this from anybody else. I just wish it wasn’t going to break his heart.
My mind goes back to fifteen year old me — when I first learned that my dad committed suicide. I didn’t want to believe it.
“It’s not true!” I yell at Daisy. People in the store turn to stare at me, but I don’t care. I can’t let Daisy get away with this kind of shit anymore. She always lies to me. I usually just let her, but this is different. I won’t let her lie to me about my dad.
“I’m not lying,” she says, looking me straight in the eye. “Your dad committed suicide because he couldn’t deal with the fact that Hailee isn’t his biological child.”
Daisy never looks me in the eye when she lies. She does this thing
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