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It was silent as we sat at the dinner table. I was nervous as hell and I kept looking at my father who hasn't said a word. Only focused his attention on the food mother made.

"Hey can you settle down. You're making a lot of noise with your chair silly." Regina giggles as she holds my shoulders. I didn't even realize I was shaking and that was something new.

"Sorry ." I mumbled as I took a bite out of my corn.

I saw my fathers brother , Uncle Rob typing on his phone and I gulped as I look over at mom who looked like she was ready to finally break the awkwardness. "So Regina how's college. Are you eating healthily?" Mom asks as she takes a sip of her wine.

"Slow down on the wine dear." Father whispers as he kisses her cheek.

"Oh ! College yeah it's going great! Yeah I love it so much , especially the students . Everyone's just so kind." She smiles as she licks her lips . She looks down at me with a soft smile.

That was one thing about Regina . She was always cheerful and not once did she not smile.  It was actually rare to see her upset ."How's school for you? Do you have any friends?" She asks , her brown eyes beaming and I bite my lips nervously .

"I have associates." I simply reply as I look at the time. It read eleven and I was more than happy to leave and get some sleep.

"That's great! Mom do you think we can come here again?" She asks as she looks to her mother , her eyes glistening.

"You're an adult now. Come whenever you want." She smiles and then Uncle Rob wipes his mouth before speaking.

"How are your grades Kai? You're studying to get into York University with Regina correct?" I nod my head softly to Uncle Rob and I began picking at the meat on my plate.

"May I please be excused sir? There's a test tomorrow and all." I speak as I look to my father. He looks my way with a glare. I just felt so uncomfortable at this table . All I wanted to do was talk to Jay . It was already a bad and stressful day.

"No . I actually have something to say ." He stands up and walks to the counter , grabbing some papers. " Me and your mother haven't discussed this with you yet because we weren't sure. As you know your mother can't have anymore children so we decided to adopt a child. Well a teenager." The smirk on his face was evident and I only felt horror.

They can't be serious. They're gonna bring another child to suffer what I've been through?

"Are you fucking mute? Did you hear what your father said?! Are you gonna be like this all the time with your brother ?" My mother yells at me and I bite my lips looking at her. She was drunk indeed.

"Oh I'm sorry. It's just so much information. I'm happy , s-so happy." I pull out. I didn't want this. I didn't want another child to go through what I've gone through. This just wasn't fair . Wasn't fair for that boy. "What's his name and w-when is he coming?"

"Aren't you the eager one?" Mother says as she takes another sip from her wine. Father only takes the drink from her.

"He'll be here tonight actually. That's why your family is here." Then I hear the door ring and I flinch slightly. "Oh he's here. That was fast."

Regina looked at me briefly before getting up and holding my hand. She walked me to the door and my father opened it. "Ah Suzy . Nice to see you again." Father says as he moves out the way. I see a woman walk in and then a teenaged boy walked in. He looked awful. Like he just got out of a cat fight.

"Suzy!" Mother smiles as she pulls the lady in a hug. Suzy hugs mother back and then they start to talk.

"Well everyone ,please let's have seat in the living room." I brought my shaking legs to the couch and sighed as I watched everyone sit down. If this was a better situation I would say that I wouldn't care if they adopted a child.

God I feel so bad. Hopefully he'll adapt to the lifestyle. That's all I can really say.

"Hello again Liam." Father greets the boy as he looks at my father.

"Hello ." He says , almost a whisper I could barely even hear him.

"This is my daughter . Her name is Kai." He says to me and I look over to see Liam looking at me with a soft smile. He looked uneasy and I would be to . We're strangers to this boy.

"Looks like I'm gonna be your new sister." I sigh softly as I felt bored of the situation. "Father I have that exam tomorrow. Can I please go now?" I practically beg as I fill myself growing more and more tired.

I knew I'd probably get another beating but I didn't want to be here. He glares at me as he nods his head. "Let's talk about the exam after school ." I knew what that meant.

"Of course." I run to my room , closing the door behind me and inhale deeply . I don't know why but it's hard to breath. Why can't I breath? Come on Kai fucking breath!

DING.

I look to my phone and see Jays name appear. I sigh as I can feel my heartbeat going back to its normal pace. Dude you said you were gonna be on today , lol what happened? I smile as I walk to my bathroom.

Can we talk?

Then my phone immediately rings up and I laugh as I answer it. "What's up?" He says and I play with my fingers.

"My father he um. He adopted a son. I don't know what to do now Jay , he's gonna get the same torture as me and I'm scared." I close my eyes not wanting my tears to fall.

"Hey hey calm down okay? Fuck . Why would your father just up and randomly adopt a son it doesn't make sense.. Listen to me Kai. You're strong . God I wish I was there."

I laugh as I look up at my ceiling . I wish you were here too.

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It was morning and I got out of my bed only to stopped when I see mother and father standing above me . I flinch as I coward back in the corner of my little bed. As I said before . They were indeed psychos "That was one fucking stunt you pulled last night." Father laughs as he throws me off of my bed. I whimper as I hit the books near me.

"You could at least be a little bit nicer to your new brother. Are you like an idiot or something ?" Mother sighs as she slaps me and I cry out as she hits a bruise on my lip.

"I'm sorry." I knew this would happen yet I decided to go against father and mother.

"You're a piece of shit you know that right? The only reason I adopted a boy was because a fucking daughter is useless. You have no means to me." I look up at him and I hold my chest. What's this pain in my chest?

"I'm sorr-

"Shut up. All you ever say is sorry." Mother chuckles as she stands up from the chair and walks to me. "Your brother is gonna start school today. Show him whatever he needs. Alright?"

"I understand." I didn't really have a choice . They both smirked as father held his temples.

"Your brother is the new face of the family. He's gonna run my company and you're not gonna be anything. All I need is for your worthless ass is too get to college." They both retreated out my room and I run to my sink coughing up more blood. I look in the mirror and wince at my appearance.

Fuck. What nonsense were they sprouting?

It took a couple of minutes for me to shower and fix my bruises . When I walked out of my room I saw Liam looking at me. He was taller than me and looked way different than he did last night. "What are you looking at ?" I speak as I pass him. I run downstairs and head to the fridge.

"Good morning Liam! Did you sleep well? Was the cushion good ? Was it hot or cold?" Mother bombers with questions and I grab a water bottle and stuff it on the side of my bag.

"Everything was fine. Thank you ma'am."

"Pshhh call me mom . Or Gina if you're not comfortable with that yet." She smiles as she pushes a plate of food in front of him.

"Okay." He said as he began's to eat . I didn't get to eat. All mom left for me was a bar and a water bottle every morning. He looks my way with a puzzled look and I found myself looking away. I feel jealous. Why couldn't I be born a boy?

"Alright time to go." Father says as he fixes his tie. Failing miserably and mother is quick to help him.

Acting so lovey lovey. It was absolutely disgusting. I walk outside and wince at the hot sun burning my skin. I hop in the car and mom was fixing Liam's hair . I only scowled at her acts. I hate it here.

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We finally arrived to school and I sighed as I pulled my phone out. Jay I hate it here. Can't wait till I'm done with college and then I'm off to California.

Same here. I laugh as I ruffle my hair. "Your boyfriend?" Liam speaks as he follows behind me .

I blush shaking my head. "N-no." The looks around us looked like they were looking at me but they were staring at Liam.

"You don't really have to help me. I've already been here before anyways." Liam says as he looks at me. I send a raised eyebrow his way and he smiles as he starts walking in a different direction.

"If he says so." I shrug slightly as I make my way to Economics. I see that delinquent there and he was tapping his foot on the floor and gazing outside.

I take my seat and pull out my notes to study. " Sorry about the other day. Anyways I wanted to show you something I can't get it right." He merely says as he pulls out his essay. I look at his part and read through it.

Wow. This guy writes so beautiful and so neat . It made me jealous. He used the right terms and he even use great pronunciation. "Wow Luca this is great. Your part is absolutely right on topic and it's neatly written but there are a few errors , you see France money is different from American money so instead of saying dollars you'll say euros."

"Oh you're right thanks." He says as he starts to work on his essay. I pull my essay out and hand it to him.

"I've already done my part . You wanna look at mines?" I ask and he gradually takes it.

"There's no way I can beat this. This is good ." He grins as he reads over my paper. He hands it back to me and sighs .

"I didn't know this was a competition." I eye him and he looks at me before chuckling.

"Oh sorry I like to be competitive with everything." He grins once again as he starts working on his work. He doesn't seem like such a bad person. Maybe a good delinquent?

The class started to pour in and my eyes widened when I see Liam walking in with his schedule in hand. He walks to the teacher and hands it to him . They talk for a brief second before telling him to sit in the back.

Right

Behind

Me.

I'll just pretend that I don't know him. Yeah that's good. Then I feel a tap on my shoulder and I flinch turning around. "Hi." He speaks and I bite my lips nodding my head. "I don't really know what this class is . Your father signed me up for it and said that it would be good to take this class."

"Economics." I whisper back and face the front.

It's not that I don't want to ignore him or anything it's just I didn't want to be apart of him. I'll tell him later on that I'd prefer if he didn't talk to me at school.

It's only safe .

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