I've decided against deleting this, as most of my followers are on this so I'm just going to put the proper chapters here. so here's the next chapter.
Chapter 6:
"Hello Aria" my godfather, Joshua Uley said, smiling pleasantly.
"Hi!" I said brightly, I pushed past Leah and tackle hugged him. He laughed at my exuberance. I loved his laugh, it was deep and rumbly. "I haven't seen you in months!" This man, Joshua Uley, was my second father. He wasn't around as much because of his job but he was still Daddy two-point-oh.
"Let me introduce you to Mr. Brown", Joshua said extracting himself from me. Joshua introduced Mr. Brown to me as my father lawyer. I never even knew Toby had a lawyer. Joshua explained that Toby planned this because he knew his days were limited and numbered. He had a will drawn up. A will that now would explain my immediate and impending future.
"Here we go," Mr. Brown said as we settled into the living room. My present family around me. Nate on my right, Leah on the left, Tristan on her left and Mr. Smith and Joshua on the adjacent sofa. Mr. Brown was a non-descript man. Short and balding with mouse-brown hair, he was someone you could pass on the street and not notice.
"The first thing your father left you Miss. Simons is the house and everything in it. It is yours to do as you please." Everyone expected that. I nodded, wanting this to be done.
"The next, of course, are the cars. They are yours as well." I nodded. "As I understand, you are an emancipated minor, correct?" I nodded affirmative and he continued. "He left many boxes of albums that were kept in storage and many odd objects. I would think they'd make sense. Actually there's a rented room full of these objects. I've seen it and he was going to give you the key to it when you turned 18 or in the event of a fatal emergency." I nodded, though my head was through the roof. A rented room full of stuff? I've never heard of this. What was he trying to shield me from? Did he, no I didn't want to think about that. Mr. Brown continued to talk, settling other matters including the rest of his possession, money and who would be my legal guardian should the need arise. My guardian would be either Leah or Joshua.
After Mr. Brown leaves, Joshua approaches me and gives me a big hug. Doesn't say anything nor does he need to. He knows what I'm going through. He just holds me real tight while I try to fight off tears. Soon enough everyone joins in a group hug and I just breakdown. I start crying and sobbing and it's not pretty but it's helping. I'm going to be fine, I'm just gonna have to take it one day at a time. I look at the people around me and realise this is only a fraction of the people I have who are going to go on the journey with me.
Wiping the tears of my face and mentally prepping myself for the arduous task I know is coming up ahead. "Okay, that's enough dawdling. We need to organize the funeral."