Chapter 29: Just let it be over already

"Why even try Little Lamb? You know it's impossible to get away." He said with a smirk.

I woke up like I do most nights. Sweaty. Crying. Shaking. All because of one person. To be honest I thought I wouldn't have one this night. Somehow Carl had wedged himself into even the happiest days.

What is the happiest day you ask? Well it's the first day before thanksgiving break! Parts of this week made me want to rip my hair out. Some Florian kid even made me trip and fall but thank the Lord for today. Now I don't have to deal with snobby Florian kids, pretending to be someone I'm not, and not hanging out with my actual friends. Well for about six hours at least.

I sat in my bed thinking to myself for the rest of the night. Sometime close to daylight I decided to start being a stereotypical teenager;

being  addicted to my phone. Honestly I don't get what the big hoopla is about phones and technology. Sure it's useful for communication and looking something up and that stuff but other than that it's just a lump of wires.

At the normal time I wake up- well let's be honest, that could be any time- I get ready for the last day of being Regina George. You might be wondering 'really? The last day? How do you know that?' Well I'm glad you asked. With the slapping of my butt it had to be told to Luke about our situation so he said when he and Zack arrive back from their 'business trip' he'll handle it. So yes! It is my last day and I praise Jesus for it a thousand times over.

I go downstairs earlier than I normally do. When I sit down I'm brought to amusement as I see Caden and Sasha talking on the phone. So what it's a little creepy that I'm watching my older brother and his girlfriend flirting and talking. It's not like I have anything better to do.

Out of nowhere a genuine smile creeps onto my face. It's so nice to see a person genuinely in love. Carl and Mom's relationship wasn't really one of 'love'. They just wanted a smoking and drinking buddy and eventually put a ring on it.

I wonder if I'll ever be in love. I snorted out loud. Ha! It is a true miracle that my brothers have even let me have a guy friend.

Turns out when I snorted I did it louder than I thought because Caden snapped his neck towards me and a blush started falling onto his perfectly tan face. Seriously how does he get it like that?

I want it like that.

"Uh, ha ha, uh oops. Sorry, continue."'I say with a blush creeping up onto my cheeks.

He ended the call and rubbed the back of his neck. "So uh-" He started to say.

"Never mention this to any of our friends or family? Got it." I finished for him.

He sheepishly smiled and nodded. In the wake of that conversation, the twins came down. They both had dark, purple bags under their eyes. "Hey are you guys okay?" I asked them.

"W-what? Oh yeah, we're good. Just a late night, that's all." Jesse replied.

Like I said, I'm the Queen of lying. Lies are my special talent and that doesn't just mean that I can tell them, I can seek one out. To my knowledge my guess would have to be either a street race- since that's what my kind of brothers would do- or mafia related. Either one works.

"Well do you want me to hide your eye bags? I mean they are pretty evident." I tell them.

James snorted. "With what exactly?"

"Umm what else? Makeup!" I told them.

They both groaned simultaneously but soon realized if they wanted to look good for the girls it was not optional. Since me and my brothers share almost the exact same skin tone I just added my concealer. The last little blend on James's face was done and I stood back and looked at my masterpiece.

"Perfect."

We walked into school and can you guess who was there? If you guessed high schoolers from Florian High then you are correct! But something was off about it. Everyone was looking at us but not in a good way. It was as if we had just had the biggest secret of our lives written on our foreheads.

The three of us gave weird looks to each other and a ding popped up on our phones. Ding! We  all together glanced down at our phones and I let out a gasp. It was a picture of me and a Florian kid talking.

The picture wasn't clear enough but you could see it was me. But how? I was on my knees, standing up while he was walking away. To someone who didn't know the backstory it would look like I was giving him a blowjob but that wasn't what had happened. It was the day he tripped me and just walked away while I was yelling at him to apologize. They got it in a perfect shot.

Tears started to well up in my eyes as my head snapped to my brothers. Rage and anger came flooding onto their face as they glared at me. Not one they used for the boy who slapped my butt but a scary one nonetheless.

"I-I can explain. It-it's just a misunderstanding. I promise!"

"Lidia. Get. In. The. Car." James uttered.

"We're going home." Jesse stated.

They both lead me- well more like carried me- out of the school. I was a mess. Rightfully so in my opinion. We sat in the car and all I could say was "I promise! I promise! I swear on Jesus Christ I didn't do it!" While choking up on my own words.

The house was quiet, not a peep since Caden had gone to work and the others were on their 'business trip'.

"James call Caden, I'll call Zack and Luke." Jesse demanded. I have never ever in the time I've been here have seen Jesse get that serious or that mad.

Within eight minutes of James calling Caden he appeared, not knowing what it was but knowing that he called a family emergency meeting. Jesse had told Luke and Zack and they said they'll get on the plane immediately. It'll take them about five hours to fly back but knowing them it'll only take three.

Caden saw me and although he was one of the distant brothers, he ran up and hugged me. I don't know why or how he knew I needed a hug but that made me feel 23% better.

"What happened?" He mumbled into my hair.

"I promise, I pinky promise I didn't do it. It-it's lying!" I choked out a sob.

He shushed me and started to caress my hair. We stayed like that for what felt like an eternity. He sat me down on the couch while James and Jesse were both pacing, waiting for the oldest boys to come back home.

"Okay will someone tell me what this is about!" Caden finally shouts after fifteen minutes of the Twins pacing.

"It's best if we tell you all at the same time." Jesse grumbled.

"Of course you are. Well then, if we're going to be waiting we at least need some tv or something." Caden said as he pushed the on button on the remote. A playback of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving played and I let my mind calm down and watch the movie.

After about two movies Luke and Zack came busting through the door. Seeing them made me cry all over again. God I'm so stupid! Nothing, and I mean nothing can go right in my life. People always say life is hard but never how hard it is.

Zack instantly saw my puffy, red face. "Oh Chica." And he hugged me much like Caden did.

"Okay now that we're all here how about telling us what the hell is going on and why the frick our baby sister is crying?!" Caden demanded.

"Okay well I guess I'll tell you from the start." Jesse said.

"Yes that would be quite helpful thank you." Zack commented.

Ignoring the rude remark Jesse began to tell the story. "We were walking into school when all of a sudden we get a ping and we look down at our phones and we see Lidia-," he could barely finish the sentence but eventually it comes out in a breath, "we saw her giving a Florian Prick a BJ."

I started crying harder and repeating the last words I had been earlier. "Lid-Lidia? Is this- is this true?" Zack said depressingly.

"No! No it's not! That bitch tripped me and I was getting up after picking up my books and was yelling at him to apologize while he was walking away!" I defended myself.

"Well it looks pretty clear to me what's happening." James stated, accompanied with a glare.

"Well James you weren't there! I didn't do anything! Do you really think I would do such a thing?" My voice cracked.

Luke had been silent the whole time while staring at me. Feeling his intense stare I finally glance up at him. "Well? WELL?!," I  yelled at him, "Do you think I did it!" I screamed.

"No, no I don't Lidia. I do not think you did it."

I gasped with relief through my tears. "Really? Thank you! I swear it wasn't what you think!"

"I know Lidia, I know." Luke said while patting my shoulder.

"Well then, what was it?" James barked out.

"That kid had walked into me and made me trip and fall and drop my books. That was it!"

"Are you sure?" Jesse said.

I can't believe this. I honestly can't believe that he just said that. That any of them said that. I have been living with them for two months, they should trust me. I trust them. My heart feels like it's been shattered. It's way more painful than Carl has ever been.

"You-" my voice cracked, "think I'm lying? I might've only been apart of this family two months but I would never do something to harm this family's reputation!"

All of their faces softens when a realization finally passes over them. Not when I said I didn't do it, they had to look at the facts and go off those.

"If you believed for a second that I did that then you guys aren't the brothers I thought you were. See you at dinner." I said harshly.

I walked outside to my tree. I really need to ask Luke to make it a treehouse or something. I'm so done with crying. So done people controlling my life. Most of all I'm just tired of this. My life. All the freaking shit going on. It's like people just want me to kill myself. I mean it wouldn't be that bad? I could go up into Heaven, my brothers wouldn't have another person to feed, this burden that people call my life could end.

If only.

So there it is! Poor, poor Lidia. I hate Florian kids! What do you think happened?  Well as always I hope you like it and don't forget to vote, comment and obviously like :)