Chapter 8: When People Lie, It's Usually For Your Own Safety
It could be a little white lie atau a lie so giant that anda almost believed him. Remember the time when anda told your crush anda were into all the same things he was into? Lauren remembers a lie like that she once told Andrew. atau the time when anda lied and berkata anda work with the elderly. Simone remembers lying like that. atau the other time when anda mencuri the perpustakaan book just because anda could and then anda lied and berkata anda had nothing to do with it. atau finally that lie so huge that everyone believed you. Sidney did tons of things like that. Each girl did something bad. Something they had no busy doing. Then again, we all have done something so stupid and irrational that it almost out us in harms way.
As they all departed from the library, they all suddenly recalled all of the memories they tried to forget. It just came flooding back to them. It was something they could not control. They weren't very good at controlling their unfavorable emotions.
Lauren Knight mainly thought about Jena and Serena. She never thought her mom had a twin. Then again, she didn't remember anything about her mom. Her mom could have been a murderer for all she knew. It just proves that her mom was taken from her unfairly. She never got a chance to know her. Serena seemed so much like her mother. She just couldn't believe it wasn't her. Lauren had the gut feeling that she was in the presence of her mother. Then it came to her. It was a little blurry but she remembered. The night her mother was lying in that hospital bed. Her father wouldn't let her see any of it, but her mom demanded she should see her baby.
She recalled how her mother rocked her. Even though she was almost two, it felt nice. Her mother said, "This will not be the last time anda see me," She smiled. "I may be gone for most of your life but anda know exactly where to find me if anda ever need me." Then she kissed baby Lauren's forehead and began bernyanyi her song. "Hush little baby, don't say a word, momma's gonna buy anda a pretty pearl and if that pretty pearl doesn't shine, momma's gonna ciuman her pretty girl." Lauren's eyes began to tear but she knew exactly where to find her mother now. She ran halaman awal to find her dad and his skunk bag girlfriend, Katy, whispering little nothingness into each other's ears.
"Oh hey Lauren," her dad greeted. "How was your day?"
"I met mom's twin sister." She berkata as she grabbed the reddest apel, apple from the dapur counter.
"Your mom never had a twin sister. Maybe a brother but never a sister." He stared at Lauren as if she bumped her head and was confused about reality. That was exactly the answer Lauren was hoping he would say. He should know his wife better then anyone. If her mom was still out there atau if Serena was her mom, she was going to figure it out.
Sidney Stone remembered her time with her father in jail. She had to sit at a gray, round meja with him outside. She wasn't allowed to see his cell atau go anywhere near the other cells. Sidney tried to stay calm. Her mother was testifying against him Thursday. Ever since her dad left, her mom has been so happy lately. She baked kue, cookie for Sidney and her friends to eat whenever they came over. She hired a masseuse to massage gran's aching back. She even bought Sidney the new iPhone 4. She wasn't sure she liked the new mom. It was pleasant to see her mom smile every now and then but it seemed so wrong. It was like her mom was smiling for all of the wrong reasons.
A guard escorted her father towards her. He unlocked the handcuffs and left. Her father looked terrible. His hair was uncombed and messy. His eyes had that dead look in them. He had to wear an jeruk, orange jumpsuit. His jumpsuit had stains covering the puncak, atas of it. The knees of his suit was all muddy and dirty and he walked like he was a zombie. When he finally got there, he paused, and then sat as if he was contemplating whether this was a good idea atau not. He showed no emotion onwards his daughter she could have been just another guard.
"Um hey dad," Sidney said. She smiled shyly while fidgeting with her fingers. "How has it been? Are anda . . . okay?"
"I've been better." He started drumming on the table. "Did your mother mention me?" Sidney knew it. Her father really did care about her mom. He did truly cinta her and the girls had made a grave mistake. A mistake they could possibly fix. "Because if she is going to testify against me, she better not look ugly like she usually do."
All hope of them getting together again just flew out the jailhouse window. "Dad, she's your wife." Sidney protested.
"Wife, please!" He leaned back in his fray chair. "She is lazy, dumb, and not very pretty either. I don't want the jury feeling sorry for me because I married that thing!"
Sidney rose from her seat. "Don't ever talk about her like that." Just before Sidney left she turned back towards her father. "You abused her! anda deserve to rot in jail. I will be testifying against anda now, along with gran." It was the first real emotion and it was shock not happiness atau depression. It was full on shock and cockiness.
Sidney felt terrible for speaking to her dad in that tone. She didn't like what he was saying about mom but she had no right. Although, she shouldn't feel guilty about what she said, she did. Her dad may be a scum but he was still her dad and she should respect him. The selanjutnya hari she attempted going back but they berkata he was resting and wouldn't be disturbed. Since then she just didn't have enough confidence to go back.
Faye did what she usually did when she wanted a break from reality. She played some bola basket at the local gym. This was her heaven. She had to train for when she went back to school. She was the bola basket bintang at Glynn Academy. Her teammates voted her MVP since she was a freshman. She made history oleh scoring so many times in one game and being MVP when she was a freshmen until now. She has a reputation to uplift. She always showed a natural talent for sports. Besides playing basketball, she played soccer, baseball, and tennis. tenis was a sport she liked but wasn't that good at it. Don't get me wrong, she was great at tenis but not as good as she was in bola basket and soccer. So that's what she did when the painful memory came flooding back to her mind. It helped a bit.
This was a few days before Marco went M.I.A. He was casually sitting on the dipan, sofa watching the tv. The odd thing was the tv wasn't even on. The remote wasn't even near him. It was over in the kitchen. He just sat there smiling and watching the blank tv. When he heard her footsteps, he motioned for her to sit right beside him. She left the dapur and planted herself on the couch.
He stared at her for a moment. She felt very uncomfortable but berkata nothing. "Faye," he started. "I was here for a long time now. I've lived in this rundown town since I was a little boy. Born in Mexico but forced to live in America when it wasn't aman, brankas enough. I met Jason and we became friends but then Jason started hanging with Sammy."
Why was he telling her this? "Who's Sammy?" Faye asked. She was intrigued but she also knew she shouldn't be hearing any of this.
"The devil in a teenager's body." He seemed a little loopy. Faye didn't like where the conversation was going. "Sammy has a bit of control over me. He knows I like money, that is my weakness. Baby, don't trust me!" That las part definitely scared her. He father was a mess. After awhile he started mumbling some stuff about cokelat and Elvis. This was the moment for Faye to leave so she did. She couldn't have possibly stayed there with her untrustworthy dad.
Faye's memory ended there. She was shocked back into reality when she missed a basket. It turns out that her mother has been looking for her. Her mom, Selena, and Nico came rushing inside. Nico and Selena were both crying their eyes out. They were both 14 but still shared everything. Selena gave Nico a tissue and Nico gave Selena a hug. Very dramatic twins if anda ask Faye. Her mom was uneasy also.
"What's wrong?" Faye asked. She was beginning to worry. The family hasn't gotten this troubled since Marco disappeared and was accused of kidnapping. "Is everyone okay?"
"Your father was in a car accident," sputtered her mom and that's when everything went black.
Jason Rivers' heartache has only began. They had gotten nowhere on the research today which was saying a lot. They worked hard to find some information but everything with classified.mThe only thing accomplished was the finding of three Marco look-a-likes. They didn't even find Simone. His precious Simone was out there somewhere roughen it up with the hardest of criminals atau worse, with Sammy. He couldn't imagine what she was going through. He didn't even want to bring himself to think of it. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if something happened to her. He stumbled into his halaman awal and plopped himself on the couch. Since Simone's absence, Cheryl and Brooke have kept to themselves occasionally running into each other atau into Jason. They learned their lesson to stay far away from him.
"Breaking news, Marco Martinez has come up dead," reported Chad the anchorman. Jason was on high alert now. "Just hours yang lalu he was crushed oleh a speeding black minivan, multi purpose vehicle that was rolling down a hill. It went right over him on his motorcycle. The motorcycle has turned up missing. Marco's body was found oleh the beach. The driver of the car has fled the scene of the crime."
"And this is the same man who is accused of kidnapping Simone Rivers," berkata Penny, the anchorwoman. Every man loved her charm and beauty but Jason didn't focus on. "We have no clue if the girl has escaped atau was left with someone else. All we know is that she isn't dead."
"That's correct," replied Chad. "We have received a video of the girl sleeping in what seems to be a trivial cavelike room. The voice in the background is asking for $1,000,000 and if he obtains the money before Carter Stone's trial then we can have the body. Her being alive is not guaranteed."
It could be a little white lie atau a lie so giant that anda almost believed him. Remember the time when anda told your crush anda were into all the same things he was into? Lauren remembers a lie like that she once told Andrew. atau the time when anda lied and berkata anda work with the elderly. Simone remembers lying like that. atau the other time when anda mencuri the perpustakaan book just because anda could and then anda lied and berkata anda had nothing to do with it. atau finally that lie so huge that everyone believed you. Sidney did tons of things like that. Each girl did something bad. Something they had no busy doing. Then again, we all have done something so stupid and irrational that it almost out us in harms way.
As they all departed from the library, they all suddenly recalled all of the memories they tried to forget. It just came flooding back to them. It was something they could not control. They weren't very good at controlling their unfavorable emotions.
Lauren Knight mainly thought about Jena and Serena. She never thought her mom had a twin. Then again, she didn't remember anything about her mom. Her mom could have been a murderer for all she knew. It just proves that her mom was taken from her unfairly. She never got a chance to know her. Serena seemed so much like her mother. She just couldn't believe it wasn't her. Lauren had the gut feeling that she was in the presence of her mother. Then it came to her. It was a little blurry but she remembered. The night her mother was lying in that hospital bed. Her father wouldn't let her see any of it, but her mom demanded she should see her baby.
She recalled how her mother rocked her. Even though she was almost two, it felt nice. Her mother said, "This will not be the last time anda see me," She smiled. "I may be gone for most of your life but anda know exactly where to find me if anda ever need me." Then she kissed baby Lauren's forehead and began bernyanyi her song. "Hush little baby, don't say a word, momma's gonna buy anda a pretty pearl and if that pretty pearl doesn't shine, momma's gonna ciuman her pretty girl." Lauren's eyes began to tear but she knew exactly where to find her mother now. She ran halaman awal to find her dad and his skunk bag girlfriend, Katy, whispering little nothingness into each other's ears.
"Oh hey Lauren," her dad greeted. "How was your day?"
"I met mom's twin sister." She berkata as she grabbed the reddest apel, apple from the dapur counter.
"Your mom never had a twin sister. Maybe a brother but never a sister." He stared at Lauren as if she bumped her head and was confused about reality. That was exactly the answer Lauren was hoping he would say. He should know his wife better then anyone. If her mom was still out there atau if Serena was her mom, she was going to figure it out.
Sidney Stone remembered her time with her father in jail. She had to sit at a gray, round meja with him outside. She wasn't allowed to see his cell atau go anywhere near the other cells. Sidney tried to stay calm. Her mother was testifying against him Thursday. Ever since her dad left, her mom has been so happy lately. She baked kue, cookie for Sidney and her friends to eat whenever they came over. She hired a masseuse to massage gran's aching back. She even bought Sidney the new iPhone 4. She wasn't sure she liked the new mom. It was pleasant to see her mom smile every now and then but it seemed so wrong. It was like her mom was smiling for all of the wrong reasons.
A guard escorted her father towards her. He unlocked the handcuffs and left. Her father looked terrible. His hair was uncombed and messy. His eyes had that dead look in them. He had to wear an jeruk, orange jumpsuit. His jumpsuit had stains covering the puncak, atas of it. The knees of his suit was all muddy and dirty and he walked like he was a zombie. When he finally got there, he paused, and then sat as if he was contemplating whether this was a good idea atau not. He showed no emotion onwards his daughter she could have been just another guard.
"Um hey dad," Sidney said. She smiled shyly while fidgeting with her fingers. "How has it been? Are anda . . . okay?"
"I've been better." He started drumming on the table. "Did your mother mention me?" Sidney knew it. Her father really did care about her mom. He did truly cinta her and the girls had made a grave mistake. A mistake they could possibly fix. "Because if she is going to testify against me, she better not look ugly like she usually do."
All hope of them getting together again just flew out the jailhouse window. "Dad, she's your wife." Sidney protested.
"Wife, please!" He leaned back in his fray chair. "She is lazy, dumb, and not very pretty either. I don't want the jury feeling sorry for me because I married that thing!"
Sidney rose from her seat. "Don't ever talk about her like that." Just before Sidney left she turned back towards her father. "You abused her! anda deserve to rot in jail. I will be testifying against anda now, along with gran." It was the first real emotion and it was shock not happiness atau depression. It was full on shock and cockiness.
Sidney felt terrible for speaking to her dad in that tone. She didn't like what he was saying about mom but she had no right. Although, she shouldn't feel guilty about what she said, she did. Her dad may be a scum but he was still her dad and she should respect him. The selanjutnya hari she attempted going back but they berkata he was resting and wouldn't be disturbed. Since then she just didn't have enough confidence to go back.
Faye did what she usually did when she wanted a break from reality. She played some bola basket at the local gym. This was her heaven. She had to train for when she went back to school. She was the bola basket bintang at Glynn Academy. Her teammates voted her MVP since she was a freshman. She made history oleh scoring so many times in one game and being MVP when she was a freshmen until now. She has a reputation to uplift. She always showed a natural talent for sports. Besides playing basketball, she played soccer, baseball, and tennis. tenis was a sport she liked but wasn't that good at it. Don't get me wrong, she was great at tenis but not as good as she was in bola basket and soccer. So that's what she did when the painful memory came flooding back to her mind. It helped a bit.
This was a few days before Marco went M.I.A. He was casually sitting on the dipan, sofa watching the tv. The odd thing was the tv wasn't even on. The remote wasn't even near him. It was over in the kitchen. He just sat there smiling and watching the blank tv. When he heard her footsteps, he motioned for her to sit right beside him. She left the dapur and planted herself on the couch.
He stared at her for a moment. She felt very uncomfortable but berkata nothing. "Faye," he started. "I was here for a long time now. I've lived in this rundown town since I was a little boy. Born in Mexico but forced to live in America when it wasn't aman, brankas enough. I met Jason and we became friends but then Jason started hanging with Sammy."
Why was he telling her this? "Who's Sammy?" Faye asked. She was intrigued but she also knew she shouldn't be hearing any of this.
"The devil in a teenager's body." He seemed a little loopy. Faye didn't like where the conversation was going. "Sammy has a bit of control over me. He knows I like money, that is my weakness. Baby, don't trust me!" That las part definitely scared her. He father was a mess. After awhile he started mumbling some stuff about cokelat and Elvis. This was the moment for Faye to leave so she did. She couldn't have possibly stayed there with her untrustworthy dad.
Faye's memory ended there. She was shocked back into reality when she missed a basket. It turns out that her mother has been looking for her. Her mom, Selena, and Nico came rushing inside. Nico and Selena were both crying their eyes out. They were both 14 but still shared everything. Selena gave Nico a tissue and Nico gave Selena a hug. Very dramatic twins if anda ask Faye. Her mom was uneasy also.
"What's wrong?" Faye asked. She was beginning to worry. The family hasn't gotten this troubled since Marco disappeared and was accused of kidnapping. "Is everyone okay?"
"Your father was in a car accident," sputtered her mom and that's when everything went black.
Jason Rivers' heartache has only began. They had gotten nowhere on the research today which was saying a lot. They worked hard to find some information but everything with classified.mThe only thing accomplished was the finding of three Marco look-a-likes. They didn't even find Simone. His precious Simone was out there somewhere roughen it up with the hardest of criminals atau worse, with Sammy. He couldn't imagine what she was going through. He didn't even want to bring himself to think of it. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if something happened to her. He stumbled into his halaman awal and plopped himself on the couch. Since Simone's absence, Cheryl and Brooke have kept to themselves occasionally running into each other atau into Jason. They learned their lesson to stay far away from him.
"Breaking news, Marco Martinez has come up dead," reported Chad the anchorman. Jason was on high alert now. "Just hours yang lalu he was crushed oleh a speeding black minivan, multi purpose vehicle that was rolling down a hill. It went right over him on his motorcycle. The motorcycle has turned up missing. Marco's body was found oleh the beach. The driver of the car has fled the scene of the crime."
"And this is the same man who is accused of kidnapping Simone Rivers," berkata Penny, the anchorwoman. Every man loved her charm and beauty but Jason didn't focus on. "We have no clue if the girl has escaped atau was left with someone else. All we know is that she isn't dead."
"That's correct," replied Chad. "We have received a video of the girl sleeping in what seems to be a trivial cavelike room. The voice in the background is asking for $1,000,000 and if he obtains the money before Carter Stone's trial then we can have the body. Her being alive is not guaranteed."
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