2: Fallacy (A Study of Deceit and Secrets)
noun
1. a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.
Very few people understand me. And by that, I mean it in a literal sense: Very few people understand me when I talk.
I speak the way that my father speaks—Yellowtail. I have a different father from Sour Cream, my half-brother. He talks normally.
How I wish I could talk normally, too. Then I would tell everyone in Beach City of the chaos behind the curtain that I live in every day.
My family looks almost perfect from the outside. Yellowtail looks caring. Instead he's absent most of the time, and has a secret lover he brings onto his boat during his fishing travels.
Mother, the beautiful Vidalia, is the only person that knows about his lover besides me. She drinks to forget.
Sour Cream gets high and parties to escape the tension. He doesn't know about Yellowtail's secret life, only that he and Vidalia have been fighting. He just wants the fighting to stop. If only he knew. I won't tell him, though. It's something he must find out for himself.
And it's my job to be the carefree, childish Onion. I'm the glue holding things together. I keep all of their secrets.
It's all a façade, our family portraits. The perfect family within them doesn't exist.
I run and hide from the things I see and can never tell.