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Chapter 2

She slowly looked up to see Tom's eyes staring hard back at her. Tom took a deep breath.

"Say that again", a hint of anger behind his normally so gentle voice.

"I'm your sister. Maddy." She looked down and began to play with her hands. "I found a photo of you and dad, when you were a baby, it had your name." Maddy paused and looked up. "When I searched for you, it came up with an old article. None of it made sense, except the part that mentioned this place," she raised her eye brows referring to the hospital, "I had to try, to see if you were here." With that, Maddy waited for a response.

"Is this some sick prank?" The feeling inside Tom was indescribable. He didn't know whether to feel happy he had a family or betrayed they clearly hadn't wanted him. "Did someone tell you I was adopted, huh? So you thought you'd come in here with a sob story pretending to be my real family?" His voice was getting louder.

"Sob story, what?"

Tom's personality had completely changed within the last 5 minutes. "Did you really think I'd fall for something like that? Off a child!"

"No, you've got it wrong", Maddy began, "They don't know I'm here, I came looking for you…"

"Oh and here we go with the long lost brother story", he mimicked, laughing slightly. "Let me guess, they want a big family reunion but they thought it would be best sending you in to warm me up first, hm?"

Maddy's temper was rising. "I just told you they don't know I'm here." Her voice went lower, with a hint of sadness, "Dads not even around."

Tom's voice became sarcastic again, "Aw, is he next on your reunion list?"

"He's dead", bluntly replied Maddy, looking straight at Tom. She sighed. "I came here because I need your help…my big brothers help", she added cautiously.

"No." His voice sharp, "don't call me that, I'm not and never will be." Tom stood and turned his back towards her.

Maddy felt let down. "Please?"

"Look", he turned to face her again, "I don't want a big family reunion where we hug and say sorry, and most importantly, I don't want to play happy families." He said with a finishing tone to his voice.

"Believe me", Maddy tucked her hair behind her ear and looked into Tom's eyes, "Were far from a happy family."