Max and Craig were taking buses trying to find the location of Max’s father. They came across an apartment building. “This might be the address.” Max tells Craig.
“Finally, It took hours to find it.” Craig said feeling exhausted. The two had to ask around for directions and even got lost two times. Now they found it. The apartment where Max’s supposed father was living at.
“Do you think he will know I am his kid?” Max asked starting to get nervous.
“You brought the letter. I’m sure he’ll know.” Craig answered. “Let’s go inside.” They both made their way inside the apartment building and looked for the apartment number his dad lived at. They found it. Max took a deep breath and then knocked on the door. It took only a few seconds and then a man answered the door. He was looking down at Max and Craig.
“Who are you two?” The man asked. He had his main focus at Max.
“Uhh… I was looking for my father… This letter was sent to my grandpa. I found it in his bedroom.” Max hands the letter to the man. The man took the letter and was taking a look at it. The man looked back down at Max.
“Are you… Are you my son ‘Max’?” The man asked surprised. Max nods. The man’s eyes widen. “You…You look just like your mother.” The man opened the door more. “Come in and let’s talk.” The man lets Max and Craig inside and they both sit down on the sofa. “Is that your friend?”
“Yeah, Craig is my best friend.” Max answered. The man left the living room and went to a bedroom.
Bryan opened the door and looked at Robert, Lacy, and Ronnie. “What are you all doing?” Bryan asked. He looked sleepy.
“Just talking,” Ronnie answers.
“Oh.” Bryan closes the door.
“I just hope that I am not pregnant by Steven…” Lacy thinks to herself.
Max was sitting on the sofa next to Craig. There was a man and a woman sitting across from them. The woman looked just like Max. Just an older female version. She looked young.
“Are you really Max? My son?” The lady asked.
“He showed me the letter I wrote my dad.” The man tells the lady.
“Umm… Why didn’t you just kept me when I was a baby? I don’t understand?” Max asked confused.
“Let me tell you what happened.” The woman said. She began to tell Max. “I was young. A young teenager and your father was an older teenager. My parents were mean to me. Your father’s dad, your grandpa, he didn’t approve of our relationship.”
“Why didn’t he?” Max asked confused.
“He didn’t like her. There were so many bad rumors going on about her that he was one of them that probably believed them. After she got pregnant, her parents kicked her out. Didn’t want her. None of her family seem to care for her. She didn’t end up in child services though. She was staying with me. My dad didn’t approve of her living with us, and then after she gave birth, my dad kicked her out. I was so upset I went outside with her. We didn’t take you with us because we didn’t want you being outside. I was determined to get a job and get a place for the both of us to take you with us. But when we did get a place, my dad wouldn’t let us take you.”
“Grandpa must have been so mad at you. But I don’t understand why.” Max was confused about all of it.
“I think I know why. It’s because my dad, your grandfather was in love with a younger girl. A younger girl like I fell in love with a younger girl. My mom, your grandmother died a little after she had me. I was guessing my dad thought I was going to get my heart broken too, that or he was jealous. I was guessing that’s why. It ‘s just a guess though.” Max’s father explains to him.
“That’s just odd. You got a weird family.” Craig says to Max.
“Max, you have other siblings.” The lady tells Max.
“I do?” Max asks confused.
“Yes, a brother and sister. ‘Louie’ is the boy and ‘Sherry’ is the girl.” She answers. Max’s eyes were widen.
“I have siblings?” Max couldn’t believe it. “Where are they?”
“I’ll go get them.” The woman got up and left the living room.
“I can’t believe that I got siblings!” Max thought to himself. He was excited to his mother and father. He didn’t understand his grandpa very well of why he would get mad and not tell him about them. He felt happy to know that the story that his grandpa told him wasn’t true, although it made him feel different about his grandfather. The woman came back into the living room with a boy and girl. The little girl was small. Max could tell she was very young. Louie, the boy, looked older.
“This is Louie. Your younger brother. He’s 10. Now this one is Sherry. She’s 5.” Max’s mother explains.
“Who is he?” Sherry asked looking up at her mother and pointed at Max.
“That’s Max. Your older brother that I told you about.” The mother responded with a smile.
“Really?” Sherry ran over to Max. “You really my brother?”
“I guess I am.” Max laughed a little. Louie walks away and went out of the living room. “Why did he leave?” Max asked.
“Sorry. He’s just not the type that likes to talk to people.”
Robert, Ronnie, and Lacy had gone inside the house. “I don’t know why I act like such a crybaby. I need to stop it.” Lacy thought to herself. “I know for a fact that I don’t want a baby with that damn Steven! I hate his guts!” Lacy quickly went upstairs to the attic.
“Do you think Lacy will be okay?” Ronnie asks his older brother.
“She’s just worrying about what that Steven guy did to her.”
“You mean when he raped her?” Ronnie asked.
“Yeah, she’s starting to worry and wonder if she’s pregnant by the bastard. I don’t think she is.” Robert responds and went into the kitchen to get a drink. Ronnie follows Robert into the kitchen.
“But you don’t know that. What if she is?” Ronnie asks.
“That wouldn’t be my problem.” Hearing that made Ronnie felt awkward.
“Robert, do you like Lacy?”
“Why are you asking me that? There’s no such thing as love.” Robert had gotten a soda out of the fridge. He left with it into the living room and sat down. He opens it and takes a sip, then turns the TV on.
Max discovered a lot about his family. He was so happy to know that they were okay. It was getting late and he knew he should be home. “I need to get home.” Max tells his parents.
“You mean, go back to your grandpa?” Max’s dad asked.
“Yeah, I didn’t tell him that I came here looking for you all. I should have, but… he probably wouldn’t of let me. I can come visit another time. Please don’t tell grandpa that I been here yet.”
“Oh.” Max’s mother looked down. She seemed upset. She took a deep breath and then looked back at him. “It was nice seeing you. You seem well and are being treated good. Please come back another day.”
“I promise.” Max hugs both his parents and then left.
“We were there for quite a while. When you going to tell your grandpa that you went to visit them?” Craig asked Max.
“I am unsure. I don’t want him getting angry. But I am so happy that my parents are okay.” Max said as they both were walking together now. “Is your dad still getting help?”
“Yes. I heard he’s doing better and soon we can visit him. My grandparents are making sure my dad gets help so he can take us back.” Craig looks down. “But what if my dad just does it again?”
“I don’t think that will happen. Your dad loves you and your little sister. Right?” Max asks.
“Dad has been a wreck since mom left and what his brother did to Sabrina and me.”
“Do you remember your mom? Was she nice?” Max asked Craig.
“Yes. She was really nice. She seemed to cry a lot though and I never understood why.” Craig responds.
“Oh.” Max had gone home. Craig followed him.
It was early in the morning, Katie woke up. She got out of bed and was getting dressed. After she got dressed, she was brushing her hair. “I like that Robert guy, but how do I get him to like me?” Katie thought to herself. Katie was on her way to school. Her mom was driving her to school. Her mom also stopped and picked up Madison to drive her to school.
“I feel like an idiot.” Madison tells her friend Katie.
“How come?”
“Because, I have to be put down a grade. I feel like an idiot because of it.”
“That doesn’t make you an idiot, just because you don’t understand. You’ll learn. Don’t worry.” Katie was trying to cheer her friend up.
At school, Katie was sitting at her desk staring at Robert who was sitting in front of her. “I like Robert. He’s so… handsome…” Katie thinks to herself as she blushed red. She couldn’t help but stare at him. She had a crush on him for some reason. “He probably wouldn’t want to date a girl like me.”
At school for Madison, she was having an awful day. She was staring at her piece of paper. It was her test she just got back. Her math test. The score was terrible. She got a 60% on it. “I can’t believe I failed this.” Madison thought to herself. She wanted to rip the paper up and never look at it again. She didn’t even wanted to show it to anyone.
“So, how did you do?” Bryan asks Madison. She blushes a little and looks the other way.
“None of your business.” She said rudely.
“I got a 75%. I think I did terrible.” Bryan says and laughed a little. Madison looked back down at her paper and then was putting it away in her folder and back into her desk.
“A 75% is way better than a 60%. I did terrible.” Madison thinks and felt like she wanted to cry.
School had ended. When school ended, Madison was driving home with her uncle. “Now Madison, what did you get on your test?” He asks her. Madison didn’t respond.
“Come on, it couldn’t be that bad.”
“I don’t want to talk about it.” Madison said as she looked out the window in the backseat.
“Your mother was hoping you would’ve of did a good job on this test. You studied, didn’t you?”
“I did, but I didn’t do so good. I couldn’t remember everything, okay?” Madison just wanted her uncle to stop talking about the test to her. She knew she did terrible. She studied, but when she looked at the test, she forgot everything she studied about.
Robert, Ronnie, Lacy, and Bryan had gotten home. When they got there, Bryan started to watch cartoons as he finished his homework before he got out of school. Robert and Ronnie were in their bedroom. Lacy was in the attic with her mom.
“Lacy, I bought the test. But I don’t think this is necessary and I don’t think you’re pregnant.”
“It’s better to check than not.” Lacy said taking the test from her mother. She then left the attic and went to the bathroom. Feeling nervous about the whole thing.
“Do you think Lacy is pregnant by that Steven asshole?” Ronnie asked Robert.
“Not a chance.” Robert responds and was looking through his backpack.
“Are you sure? Sex equals babies. Rape is sex. Forced sex.” Ronnie says, but Robert didn’t want to listen to it.
“Ronnie, stop worrying over something that isn’t happening. She isn’t pregnant.” Robert pulls his homework out of his backpack and was just looking at it. He didn’t feel like working on it.
“I know, but a part of me wonders if she is.” Ronnie left the bedroom. Robert sits his homework on the bed and then sits down on the bed on the other side.
“I don’t want her to be pregnant.” Robert thought to himself.