"Hun?" Sharpay asked coming into what had previously been her father's study, then Ryan's, and now Harmony's. Harmony looked up from the desk.
"What?" She asked rather stiffly not looking up. She was busy and didn't want to be disturbed.
"You should go to bed." Sharpay responded softly.
"I'm sorry but I can't sleep. It probably has something to do with the fact that I had been lied to my whole life. Not to mention the person who raised me was a murderer and let her brother go to prison for life because of it." She responded back irately.
"I'm sorry. We did what we thought was best." Sharpay responded going over to the chair in front of the desk and sitting in it. Harmony sighed loudly when she realized that her aunt wasn't leaving anytime soon. "You really should go to bed. It's four in the morning."
"You should go to bed too. It's one of your last times sleeping in that particular bed." Harmony replied finally looking up. She noticed that there were tears rolling down her aunt's face. "What's wrong?" She asked forgetting for a moment who she was asking or remembering that she had raised her.
"You still don't know everything." Sharpay replied grabbing a tissue from the box on the desk. "I'm sorry that you never knew your dad or your mother, but I believe what I did was right. They cheated. However, there's another person that didn't deserve to die." She sniffed, grabbing yet another tissue.
"It was you wasn't?" Mrs. Bolton screamed at Sharpay as she burst into her house.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Sharpay responded as she carried a sleeping Harmony to her bed. "I'd also appreciate it if you didn't yell at me in my house, especially when I have a sleeping five year old."
"Okay, fine. Put her to bed and then let's talk about this." Mrs. Bolton replied as she folded her arms across her chest and waited for Sharpay to come back from putting Harmony to bed.
"Let's go talk about this somewhere else." Sharpay said getting her keys. "Harmony won't be waking up anytime soon. She sleeps like her father."
"Ryan didn't sleep soundly." Mrs. Bolton replied furious that the person in front of her had killed her son.
"I know. I don't believe Ryan was her father." Sharpay said as she ushered Mrs. Bolton out the door.
"What? You don't mean that -" Mrs. Bolton started to say, but was cut off as she was hit hard on the head with a vase.
"Now if I remember correctly, your husband is currently on travel. I think you hit your head pretty hard against the kitchen counter when you slipped on some water you spilled on the floor." Sharpay responded as she put Mrs. Bolton in the car and drove to the Bolton Residence.
Harmony put her head down on the desk. Way too much to handle within a twelve hour period. After a few minutes of listening to her aunt sniffling, she finally lifted her head off the table to look at her.
"Are you telling me that I'm not even blood related to you?" She asked putting her hands in her hair.
Sharpay wiped away a tear before saying anything.
"I thought at the time that you were Troy's daughter. Now, I'm not so sure." She said looking Harmony in the eyes. "I thought that we could get DNA testing done." She replied smiling a bit.
"Where's my mother?" Harmony responded. She didn't want to think about who her father was at the moment.
"I'd rather you not know that. I'll tell the police when I turn myself in tomorrow." Sharpay responded quietly looking at her lap.
"What?" Harmony asked surprised. She thought that her aunt was just going to let them find out once they read her article.
"I don't want you to get in any trouble by not telling them before you publish it."
"Oh…." Harmony replied, not really knowing how to reply to that.
"Can you promise me just one thing? Will you please visit me? I would really appreciate it. I will understand if you don't though also. I know what I did isn't forgivable."
"I-I-I don't know." Harmony replied surprised.
"Okay. Goodnight Sweetie." Sharpay replied getting up.
"Wait." Harmony said, making Sharpay turn to face her.
"Can I have a hug?" She asked softly. She didn't know why she asked.
"Of course!" Sharpay responded smiling and rushing around the desk to get to Harmony.
"I love you Harmony, you really have no idea." Sharpay cried into her shoulder as she clung tightly to her.
"I think I do have an idea Aunt Sharpay. I love you too." Harmony replied, crying and clinging just as tightly.
"I really love your father too, whoever he is." Sharpay got out between sobs.
Second to last chapter right here! Thanks to all of those who have been reading and reviewing!
