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Lennox typed her homework onto her laptop before saving and printing it. She glanced at her open door and noticed the corridor was empty, she got out of her chair and made her way over, double checking she had saved her work. She passed her brother's bedroom, where Ryder was on the phone, to his new girlfriend no doubt, and continued down the stairs into the kitchen. The kitchen was empty too, which was a relief and Lennox grabbed a sandwich from the fridge that she had made earlier. She stuffed it into her mouth and stealthily walked back up the stairs and slipped into her bedroom. No one had noticed her, this was very good. Her Aunt Mel was watching tv in the lounge and was also most likely yelling at their male nanny, Joe. Her Aunt and Joe argued a lot, very loudly, but Lennox knew that deep down, they cared for each other more then they would admit. She shoved her homework into her bag, crumpling it up in the process and decided to continue on her blog.

Later at school, she handed in her homework with a sigh of relief. Its over. She thought, I never have to worry about it again. She skipped lunch today, because she wasn't hungry, also the school lunches were disgusting. Joe picked her and Ryder up from school, like everyday, but no one said much on the ride home. Ryder was busy texting, again, probably to his possessive girlfriend who took up all of his time, not that Lennox cared that much anyway. Lennox sat at the back, chewing on her fingernails and refusing to reply to any of the conversation starters that Joe had come up with. When they got home, she stormed past her Aunt, who for some reason was home from work early, and ran up the stairs to her bedroom. She shut the door as loudly as she could and flopped onto her bed, exhausted. She could still hear Mel and Joe talking though, and she strained her ears, keen on listening.

"I'm worried about both of them," Mel was saying, there was a pause before she continued (probably having a sip from her wine glass), "I mean Lennox barely talks to me these days and Ryder spends all his time with his girlfriend."

"I know, me too, I think we should talk them, maybe spend a little family time together," Joe replied, sounding concerned.

Wow,Lennox thought, they are actually agreeing on something for once.

"I don't think that would be a good idea, you know what Lennox is like, she won't talk to us if we ask her to." They then went back to their normal arguing and Lennox stopped listening.

It was something that her Aunt had said that kept bothering her, "You know what Lennox is like," it was as if Mel was talking about something more then her not talking to them. She was a problem, something that had to be fixed. Overcome with stress and confusion, Lennox went to sleep early that night, forgetting about her dinner. She woke two hours later, by her Aunt shaking her gently and whispering, "Sweetheart, dinner's ready, Joe made your favourite!"

Lennox yawned and stretched and muttered something like, "OK, will be down in a minute," and stumbled out of bed. Despite of skipping lunch that day, she still wasn't hungry and she managed to force a couple of bites down her throat. There was no conversation at the table today, which was very strange since Joe and Mel normally always were arguing about something at dinner time. Instead, Lennox looked around the table and noticed things she had missed before, such as her Aunt giving Joe these longing looks, whenever he wasn't looking. Ryder wasn't even with his phone tonight, he was looking at his plate, playing with his food and staring into space, all at the same time. Joe was oblivious to the looks that Mel was giving him and he munched on his food noisily. Finally the silence was broken when Mel said through gritted teeth to Joe, "Do you have to be such a loud chewer?" Joe retaliated and their sarky comments went back and forth, like usual. Lennox realized she had to talk to her Aunt and ask her what was up with the looks she was giving Joe. She wasn't prepared to give up easily and she cleared her throat loudly, as this was the first sound she had made to either of them all day, they immediately stopped yelling at looked at her expectantly. "Aunt Mel?" She asked, her voice shaking slightly from lack of use, "I have to talk to you, in private."

"Of course, Sweetie!" Aunt Mel replied brightly, trying so hard to hide the happiness in her face. She glared at Joe as if to say, see I was right! Then she got up and Lennox followed her into the lounge.

"Aunt Mel, I need to ask you something, its not about me, its about you… and Joe," Lennox proceeded, slowly waiting for her Aunt's response.