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Kara waited in the street with Zoe and Anna.
Rose had just rang the doorbell and all the girls were anxiously waiting for something to happen.
After what felt like an eternity, Kara watched as the door to the Fit's household opened.
Kara watched from the distance. She could see that it was Mr. Fitz who opened the door. She saw as his face changed from sleepy, to confused, to happy, to sad, back to confused and then back to happy again.
Kara couldn't see Rose's face, but she was sure that she was experiencing the same thing.
Ezra then proceeded to smile and cry and reach out and hug his daughter. He was screaming for his wife to come downstairs, but it was hard to understand him, his words were muffled out by sobs.
Kara adjusted her body so she could get a better look.
"Kara, stay back. Let them have their moment." Anna said when Kara scooted a little closer.
"I just want to see." Kara said, not turning her head away from the reunited family.
Kara heard more sobs come. Aria reacted before Kara could even see her, so she didn't get to see her face.
But Kara saw Aria run out of the door way and into the arms of Rose and Ezra. They all seemed to be crying and a few words were also spoken, but Kara couldn't make out any of them.
Kara watched the family huddled together into a little ball.
Kara could watch them for hours. There was nothing more beautiful than the love shared between family.
Kara felt a tear run down her face. She reached up and wiped it.
She then felt a tap at her side. She looked down and saw it was Zoe tapping her.
"We should go." She said.
Kara looked back at Rose and her parents one more time and then looked back at Zoe. "Yeah, okay."
After seeing this reunion, Kara wanted nothing more than to be with her parents.
"But Rose wants us here for support." Anna said.
Kara turned to Anna. "Look at her." She said, pointing at Rose. "She is exactly where she is supposed to be and with the people she's supposed to be with."
Anna looked over at Rose and her family. Kara watched Anna's face. She was unable to detect the emotion.
Anna looked back at Kara after a few seconds.
"Let's go." Anna said, turning away from Zoe and Kara.
Kara smirked as she turned around and grabbed the back of Zoe's wheelchair. It was silent, with only the sound of the Fitz's excitement, as the three girls made their way back to Zoe's house.
Zoe's house was the same as how they left it. The window was still open.
Kara looked down at Zoe.
"Do you think you'll be able to climb in there?" Kara asked.
Zoe chuckled and looked up at Kara. "No."
"We'll carry you in." Anna said from behind Kara and Zoe.
Without discussing a plan, Kara climbed in the window and looked around. It looked the same as before, and Kara noticed that the door was still locked.
Kara turned back to the window and stuck her head out.
"Okay, hand her to me." Kara said to Anna.
"I have a name." Zoe said sarcastically.
Kara looked at Zoe and faked smiled. "I know."
Zoe lifted her arms up. "Okay, lift me up." She directed to Anna.
Anna grabbed under her arms and lifted Zoe up. You could see the struggle in Anna's face. Yes, Zoe was light, but her cast doubled Zoe's weight.
Kara reached out the window and tried to help Anna. Kara grabbed Zoe's waist and help direct it to the edge of the windowsill.
When Zoe was successfully sitting on the windowsill with her legs facing the outside, Anna stared at Zoe.
"You could have at least tried to help." Anna said to her angrily.
"Okay, I did try. It's hard to move around with an anchor weighing you down." Zoe replied.
"Okay, it doesn't matter!" Kara said sharply. "Zoe, try to turn around. Anna, fold up the wheelchair." Kara instructed.
Zoe managed to get her good leg over the side of the window and half her body turned in the time it took Anna to fold the wheelchair.
Kara watched Zoe as she did this. You could see how hard Zoe was trying. There was sweat on her forehead. It almost looked like Zoe was in pain.
Kara reached her hand out to help Zoe get her other leg in the window, but Zoe stopped her.
"I can do it by myself." Zoe said, shooing away Kara's hand.
Kara put her hand back. She knew how Zoe hated receiving help, but when Zoe made no progress, Kara reached out again.
"Kara, I can-" Zoe began to say.
"Shut up and let me help you." Kara said, grabbing onto Zoe's leg.
Zoe remained quiet while Kara carefully lifted Zoe's broken leg over the window and into the room.
Zoe scooted over and allowed Anna to put the wheelchair through the window. Kara the opened it and placed it below Zoe.
Kara helped Zoe get in it by supporting her arms and Anna helped lower Zoe's body slowly into the chair. Anna then climbed in the window.
"Thanks." Zoe said half-heartedly. She meant it, but you could tell that she hated saying it. It would really boost Zoe's self-esteem if she could do these things by herself.
"Your welcome." Kara said back. She then nodded to the bed.
"Need help getting in that?" Kara asked.
Zoe nodded her head. "No, I can do it."
"You sure?" Anna asked.
"Yes, I do it all the time." Zoe said wheeling to the side of the bed.
Kara once again watched as Zoe used her upper body strength to get herself onto the bed.
After three tries, Anna stepped forwards. Zoe looked at Anna as if to say "back off" but she didn't. Zoe stopped trying and allowed Anna to lift her into the bed.
Kara smiled. Hopefully Zoe would start getting use to the fact that she did need some help.
When Zoe was successfully on the bed, Kara asked, "You good now?"
Zoe nodded her head. "Yeah. Thanks guys."
Kara nodded. Anna did too.
Kara looked at the window and then at Anna. "After you." Kara said.
Anna rolled her eyes playfully and walked towards the window.
Kara flicked the light off for Zoe and then proceeded to walk to the window and climb out.
Once out, Kara jogged and caught up with Anna.
"Hey, wait up!" Kara said as she jogged towards her.
Anna kept walking.
When Kara finally caught up she grabbed Anna shoulder and stopped her.
"Hey, what's up with you?" Kara asked as she looked into the face of a emotionless Anna.
"I'm just thinking." Anna answered dully. She tried walking again, but Kara stepped in her way.
"What are you thinking?" Kara asked.
"Stupid stuff." Anna said, stepping past Kara.
Kara looked at Anna as she walked off. "There is no such thing as 'stupid stuff' anymore." Kara called. "Life's to full of danger now for there to be stupid stuff." Kara said.
She noticed that Anna was in a deep daze, and when that happens, she's thinking hard about something.
Anna turned around and looked at Kara. "What?" She asked.
Yeah, what Kara said was confusing, but still it was important.
"What are you thinking about, Anna?" Kara asked again.
Anna lifted her shoulders. "It's nothing important, okay! I'm just really tired and want to go to bed." Anna said in her defense.
Kara gave Anna a 'I don't believe you' look, and kept walking.
When Kara passed Anna, she kept her head up high. "Then let's get you to bed." Kara said when she passed Anna.
Kara kept walking forwards and she heard Anna's footsteps behind her. Kara would ask what Anna was thinking again another time.
The two girls reached the end of the street and they both stopped.
To the left was Kara's house, and to the right was Anna's.
Kara turned to Anna. "I'll see you in the morning." Kara said.
"See you in the morning." Anna replied.
There was a moment of silence between the two and Kara took that opportunity to quickly sneak in and hug Anna.
Anna was tense at first but quickly loosened up and hugged Kara back.
When they broke apart, Anna said, "What was that for?"
Kara shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know where I would be in life if I didn't have you and the others and sometimes I need to acknowledge it."
"Kara you would be perfectly fine if something ever happened to any of us." Anna said.
Kara shook her head. "No. None of us would be the same without everybody else. We're all like a puzzle. If one piece is missing, the overall picture is incomplete and useless. We rely on each other and that's why we were all so mixed up when Rose was gone." Kara spilled.
Anna looked shocked. "We weren't mixed up when Rose was gone."
Kara raised he eyebrows. "With her here tonight we were able to sneak into Zoe's house, got Zoe's wheelchair through the window, carry her out the front door past her parents and get away with it. Plus, we were able to get her back in." Kara said. "When Rose was gone we couldn't focus and we couldn't even drive a car correctly." Kara finished, pointing to the stiches on her forehead.
Anna chuckled and tilted her head a little bit. "Good point."
Kara laughed and held her arms open one more time. Anna accepted Kara's hug.
When they released, Kara said, "Goodnight." And started to walk backwards towards her house.
Anna smiled and did the same. She walked backwards towards her house and faced Kara.
"Sleep tight." Anna said sarcastically.
"Don't let the bed bugs bite." Kara said, finishing the rhyme.
Anna laughed and turned around and Kara did the same.
Kara walked the short distance to her house. She turned her head towards the direction that Anna was walking. She was just a little spec in the distance.
Kara turned back to face her house. She reached in her back pocket and fingered around until she found her key.
Kara grabbed it and pushed it into the lock to her front door. It clicked and Kara turned to doorknob. She pushed the door open and it made a loud squeaky sound.
Kara stopped opening the door immediately and shut her eyes. She put her ear to the little crack in the door and listened for any movement on the inside. When she heard nothing she slowly opened the door. Kara never remembered the door being this squeaky, but then again, it was dead silent and Kara was trying to be silent so everything just naturally sounded louder.
When the door was wide enough for Kara to slip in, she did so and quietly closed and locked the door.
Kara turned around and began to tiptoe to the stairs. Halfway up the stairs, Kara heard her mom cough.
Kara pinched her eyes closed tight and prayed that her mom wouldn't wake up and bust her.
Now at a slower pace, Kara began to tiptoe up the stairs again.
With Kara now being at the top of the stairs, she stared down the long hallway. To get to her bedroom, Kara had to pass her parent's bedroom.
She began tiptoeing once again along the hallway. She was extremely quiet. As Kara passed her parents room, she noticed that their bedroom door was cracked open.
Kara put her eye to the crack and stared inside. The moonlight lit the room slightly and Kara saw her parents sound asleep.
Kara brought her head back and looked back to her room.
She took one step forwards and stopped. Kara looked back at her parent's room again.
Kara then remembered Rose and her parents hugging and crying. As she thought of this, Kara felt a longing for her parents, so without second guessing it, Kara opened her parent's door.
She looked at the bed. Her dad on the left and her mom on the right. A small gap separated them.
Kara then slowly crawled onto the bed and scooted her way in-between them. The bed shook a lot while Kara did this, but her parents seemed to be in a deep sleep so she didn't think that they would wake up from that.
Kara lay down on her side and faced her dad. He was facing Kara and she stared deeply into his face.
Kara tried to point out all the features she got from her dad. She definitely got his nose. And even though his eyes were closed, Kara knew that she had his eye color. And soon, Kara would have the same scar.
Kara continued to stare at her father. She noticed his sleep pattern. One deep breath in and then a short, hard breath out.
She started to count his breathing and when she got to twenty something, Kara began drifting off into a deep sleep.
Seconds before she drifted off, Kara felt an arm wrap around her body. She recognized it immediately as her mother.
Hanna wrapped her arm around Kara and then grabbed Kara's hand and squeezed. This let Kara know that her mom recognized that it was Kara she was holding onto.
The whole grabbing of the hand and squeezing was a thing Hanna did to Kara since she was a kid.
Kara would always have nightmares so she constantly slept with her mother and father.
Hanna would say, "Nothing is going to hurt you if you're in my arms." And then wrap her arm around Kara's little body and grip her hand. And every once in a while, Hanna would squeeze Kara's hand to let her know that Hanna had her, and Kara would squeeze back to let her mother know that she was okay.
Kara felt the warmth of her mother's hand and smiled.
Kara immediately squeezed back and feel asleep.
Kara woke up to an empty bed and the sunlight in her face.
She shielded the sun from her eyes and stretched. Kara looked at the clock. It was almost noon. When she noticed this, Kara shot up from the bed. She despised sleeping in past ten.
Kara ripped the crumpled up sheets off her body and stood up. She looked at herself in the mirror.
Her shoes were still on. She had crawled into bed and didn't even bother to take her shoes off.
Kara scratched her head and yawned. She turned to the closed door.
Her parents knew that Kara hated sleeping in this late so why didn't they wake her up? They usually do.
Kara walked to the door and before she even opened it she knew why.
She heard muffled yelling.
Kara opened it a little and listened.
"Why wouldn't you tell me about this?" She heard Caleb say in an angry tone.
"I didn't feel like it was important!" Hanna responded.
"Not important? Hanna, that's as important as it can get!" He yelled back.
It was silent for a while. Kara wondered what they were arguing about. They barley argued so when they do, it's serious.
Kara hated when they fought.
"The thing that hurts me the most is that you relied on Kara other than me." She heard Caleb say.
Now Kara was extremely interested. She was part of the reason why they were fighting.
She opened the door and stepped out into the hallway. Kara guessed that they were in the kitchen so she sat at the top of the stairs where she wasn't visible.
"You weren't home." Hanna said in a depressing voice.
"She is a kid and you are an adult. She shouldn't have to go through that." Caleb said even more angrily.
"I volunteered but she insisted!" Hanna said back, also with anger in her voice.
"I know, okay. You still should have told me. I would want to know if you had a suspicion." He said more calmly.
Kara replayed the last few sentences over again in her head. She had a suspicion on what they might be arguing about.
"I'll tell you next time." Hanna said quietly.
"There won't be a next time." Caleb said back.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Hanna asked. You could hear the hurt in her voice.
Kara perked up and listened some more.
"I mean we won't be stupid enough to not be careful." Caleb responded.
Kara heard her mother release a big breath. Kara also released a breath.
It was silent once again. Kara wondered what they were doing.
Kara calmed down a little and was a little less tense.
"Oh crap!" Kara heard her mother say rather loudly.
The outburst made Kara jump.
"What?" Caleb said with concern.
"It's almost twelve; we forgot to wake Kara up!" Kara heard her mother say. She then heard movement.
Kara smiled to herself and remained in place. It wasn't worth getting up and pretending to be asleep.
Kara heard the footsteps get louder as her mother approached.
When Hanna turned the corner and saw Kara sitting at the top of the stairs, confusion grew over her face.
"How much of that did you hear?" Kara's mother asked with embarrassment in her voice.
"Enough." Kara responded.
Hanna sighed as she made her way up the stairs. She stopped and sat next to Kara on the top stair.
Kara turned and looked at her mom. "Was that about the pregnancy test?"
Hanna turned at looked at her daughter. "Yeah." She said.
"How did he find out?" Kara asked.
"He found it out this morning when he was looking over the footage from the flash drive."
"I forgot about those stupid cameras." Kara said, looking down.
"Yeah me to." Hanna said, she chuckled.
Kara looked back up at her mother and noticed that there were tears in her eyes.
Kara grew confused. "Mom?"
Hanna looked down as the first tear fell from her eye.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Kara asked.
"I'm ashamed." Hanna answered.
Still confused, Kara asked, "Why?"
"I should have told him about that stupid test right away." Hanna said. "I was scared he would leave or something."
Kara laughed really hard. "Why would he leave?"
"I don't know it's just something I wonder about." Mrs. Rivers replied.
"You and dad have been through so much together, a little fight now and then won't change anything. You can't erase the past, there is no way he would forget about it. And you lying about something shouldn't affect it either." Kara said.
"But this was a big lie." Hanna said, sniffling.
"Oh, come on, you're not perfect. And I'm sure lying isn't new in your relationship." Kara said.
Hanna chuckled. "Your right."
"So you have nothing to worry about." Kara said, reaching for her mother's hand.
Kara grabbed it and Hanna accepted it.
Hanna wiped her stray tears away.
Kara watched her mother and squeezed her mom's hand.
Hanna looked back at her daughter as she squeezed back.
Kara smiled and leaned into her mother.
"I love you so much, mom." Kara said.
"I love you too." Hanna said.
Kara closed her eyes as she felt the warmth of her mother's body and the constant beat of Hanna's heart thumping on Kara's back.
Anna walked up to her front porch.
She left the door unlocked when she left so she went straight to the door handle.
She opened the door slowly and silently. She walked into the house making no noise at all.
Anna closed the door and turned the lock, again making no noise.
Anna turned to the dark, quiet house. She could barely see. She outstretched her arms and began feeling around, praying that she would make no loud noises.
Anna would have used the flash on her phone, but it was missing. Anna passed out when she got in the car with Dylan and woke up phoneless.
Anna continued to wonder aimlessly around her house. She went to turn down the hallway that led to the stairs but Anna misjudged the distance of the hallway, so when she turned to face the stairs, she hit the wall.
Anna shot back quickly and grunted. All these noises she made were rather loud, so Anna rubbed her forehead and listened for noise. She heard none.
She released the breath she was holding and ran her hand along the wall until it ended and the stairs began.
Anna made her way up the stairs extremely slowly. Her parent's bedroom was right at the top of the stairs and they always kept their door open, so even the little noise could wake them up.
Anna managed to make it to the top of the stairs making no noise. She put her hand to the wall again and began to walk. Her room was the first door on the left.
Anna felt the door and reached for the handle, but before she could do so, a bright light blinded her.
Anna shielded her eyes and looked at the silhouetted figure.
"What are you doing?" Brendon asked
Anna put her hand down and put a finger to her lip. "Shh." She said.
She walked across the hall and pushed Brendon into his room. Anna got one last look at her parent's room to see if they were awake.
The little light from Brendon's room gave Anna enough light to see that both her parents were both fast asleep.
Anna then walked into her brother's room and closed the door.
"Could you be any louder?" Anna said, annoyed that her brother spoke.
"Where were you?" He asked.
Anna crossed her arms and looked away. "Out." She answered. For some reason, she didn't want to talk about Rose.
Anna watched as Brendon got up and walked towards the door.
"What are you doing?" Anna asked, blocking the door.
"I'm going to go wake up mom and dad and tell them you snuck out." He said matter-of-factly.
Anna grabbed his shoulders and pushed him back. "No!" She said kind of loudly.
"Why shouldn't I?" He asked. "You obviously snuck out."
Anna stared at him. "Remember when I talked to mom and dad about your dyslexia. They were mad at me and I knew they would talk down to me but I did it anyway because you were scared."
Brendon stared at Anna.
"Well, I'm scared right now, okay, Brendon. So do me a favor and shut your mouth." Anna said sharply.
Brendon gave Anna a displeasing look and sat down on his bed.
"Could you please just tell me what you were doing?" Brendon asked.
Anna took a deep breath out and grabbed the chair from Brendon's desk. She dragged it next to Brendon's bed and sat in it.
"Where you with Dylan?" He asked.
Anna smiled, she was about to answer when Brendon opened his mouth again.
"Please tell me you weren't with Dylan."
Anna scrunched her eyebrows. "You don't like Dylan?" Anna never even remotely thought that Brendon wouldn't approve of him.
Brendon shook his head. "It's not that I don't like him, it's just that if you snuck out to be with him and didn't come back 'til almost one in the morning and your scared for me to tell mom and dad that you snuck out makes me think that you were doing something with him that you shouldn't be doing." He said.
Anna smiled. "I didn't think you cared."
"Of course I care about you. I don't want Dylan to hurt you in anyway and you sneaking out for him isn't good for you right now. Especially with this whole A thing that's going on."
"How do you know about A?" Anna asked. She had never told Brendon about A.
"You and your friends are pretty loud when you're here. And also…" He got up and walked to his sock drawer.
Anna watched him open it and grab something from it. He turned around and handed Anna her phone with a guilty expression.
A brand new, un-cracked screen replaced the broken one. Anna stared up at Brendon.
"You were the one who took it?" She asked in shock.
"I took it to the phone repair shop to get the screen fixed while you were in the hospital and when they gave it back this curiosity took over me and I looked through some of your texts." He admitted.
"Brendon!" Anna whisper/shouted.
"I'm sorry. I was curious and those texts confirmed the suspicion I had on this person stalking you. You, Rose, Kara and Zoe are always talking about this person and I was concerned so I thought I'd take a look and…"
Anna sighed. "Your right, this anonymous person who goes by the letter A has been harassing me, Zoe, Rose and Kara."
"Is that what you were doing? Were you dealing with some A business?" Brendon asked.
"No. Kara, Zoe and I were actually with Rose." Anna admitted.
Brendon's eyes grew wide. "Rose?"
Anna put her hand up and scratched her head. "Yeah, she came back and she wanted to talk to us about why she left, which actually had to do with A."
"Where is she now?" Brendon asked.
"Her house. She's with her parents." Anna answered.
"We need to tell dad. He was part of her case; he would want to know right away." Brendon said, standing up.
Anna reached out and grabbed Brendon's arm.
"No, stop." She said.
He turned around and gave Anna a questioning look.
"Let her have this night with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fitz will call the police and let them know Rose is back when they are ready."
Brendon looked down at the ground. "Okay." You could hear the disappointment in his voice.
Anna tried to change the topic. "Did you ever get the results back on your Dyslexia?"
He sat back down and looked at Anna. "Yeah. When we were at the hospital for you, they gave me my results back."
"And?" Anna pressured.
"It came back positive." He said rather sadly.
Anna gave Brendon a sad look. "I'm sorry."
He smiled. "I'm kind of happy actually."
Anna continued to stare. She was confused.
"I finally have a reason to why school is so hard for me. Now I won't feel so stupid." He said, answering to the confused face Anna had.
Anna now smiled too. "I'm glad you see this as an answer instead of an obstacle."
"Oh, it's an obstacle, but it's one I can deal with." He said.
Anna smiled and looked at the clock on the bedside table. Her eyes opened wide when she realized that she and Brendon had been talking for almost an hour. The realization made Anna yawn.
"You tired?" Brendon asked as she yawned.
Anna nodded.
"Go to bed. I'm done questioning you. And I won't tell mom and dad where you were." He said.
Anna smiled and hugged her brother.
"Thank you." She said.
He rubbed up and down Anna's back. "Your welcome."
When they broke apart, Anna walked to the door. She turned around before she opened it and said, "Goodnight." To her brother.
"Goodnight." He said back.
Anna opened the door slowly and crept across the hall to her room. When she got there she opened the door quietly and closed it.
She threw her shoes off and flopped into bed. She didn't even bother changing her clothes.
She closed her eyes and began to drift off to sleep, but the familiar text tone sounded from her phone.
Anna blindly reached her hand over and reached for her phone. She squinted one eye because of the brightness and stared at the text.
Goodnight, Bitch.
-A
Anna groaned and went to delete the message. As she went to delete the text, she saw all the previous texts she got from A. One of them stood out to her:
'Yuo'er mnie now
-A
It was hard to read, but it said, 'you're mine now.' And the letters were all mixed together. It was written in a way that a dyslexic person would write it.
Anna shook her head and cleared the thought from her head. Brendon did not have anything to do with A.
Anna turned her phone off and rolled over. She immediately fell asleep.
Anna woke up in the morning soaked in sweat and out of breath. She sat up and looked around her room, now bright with sunlight.
Anna took deep breaths and tried to think of what her dream was about. She could only remember small bits of it:
Brendon and A.
No. Brendon as A.
For some reason, that stupid text was getting to her head. Anna ripped the blanket off her body and got out of bed. She put on a tank top, shorts and she put her hair in a ponytail. She was still extremely hot.
Anna walked downstairs and found Brendon sitting at the kitchen table eating cereal.
She looked for her mom. Anna's dad was always gone on weekends, but her mom was always home.
"Where's mom?" Anna asked.
Brendon looked up from his cereal bowl and looked at Anna.
"Work." He answered.
"On a weekend?" Anna asked, grabbing a bowl from the cupboard.
"Yeah. She wants to try to get promoted to manager." He said, passing the box of cereal. It was cocoa puffs.
Anna began pouring the cereal into the bowl. "Manager?" Anna questioned.
Brendon nodded his head and took another bite.
Spencer's job was stressful enough. She worked in a big insurance corporate office. Being a manger would be hard for her.
"Won't that be stressful?" Anna asked, grabbing the milk from the fridge.
"Yeah. Plus she would probably have to work on weekends." Brendon said.
Anna poured the milk and grabbed a spoon and sat down across from Brendon.
"Can she handle that?" Anna asked, taking her first bite.
"Mom is a Hastings." Brendon said. Of course he used the classic Hastings line.
"I don't think she'd like it." Anna admitted.
"Oh come on. Mom loves this kind of stuff."
"Yeah, but weekends? Wouldn't she rather be with us?"
Brendon took his last bite and looked at Anna. "Of course. Mom just likes a good challenge."
Anna shook her head. "I don't think she'd like it."
"She wouldn't like it, or you wouldn't like it?" Brendon said in a snooty tone.
Anna stopped the spoon halfway to her mouth and stared at Brendon.
"I would handle it just fine." Anna said loudly.
"Are you sure?" He said mockingly.
"Of course. I'm a Hastings." Anna said, mocking him right back.
He smiled and got up from his seat. He went over to the dishwasher and he put his bowl in it.
Anna then heard her phone buzz. She must have left it over on the counter.
"Who is it from?" Anna asked Brendon. He was right next to it.
"Zoe." He answered.
"What does it say?" Anna asked, taking another bite.
"If you want me to read it, it may take a while." He said, picking up the phone.
Anna extended her hand and Brendon walked towards her and handed her the phone. She had forgotten for a moment that he was dyslexic. And the reminder put the text back on Anna's mind.
Anna looked at the text from Zoe.
Do you think we should go check on Rose?
-Zoe
Anna thought of a quick reply.
No let her come to us. Give her some time.
-Anna
Anna pushed send and put her phone down. She stared at Brendon, who was loading a few dirty dishes into the dishwasher.
She thought about the possibility of him being A.
It was impossible. He had just found out about A.
Unless he was lying.
Anna cleared that thought. He wouldn't lie to her.
She thought about all the A incidents. She tried to think of a time when Brendon was around.
She couldn't think of one. That still doesn't mean he could have anything to do with A.
Her thoughts then went back to the text. A could easily be framing him, or A could have just randomly scrambled the letters. But why would they do that?
Anna continued to stare at him. He turned around and stared at Anna with a questioning look.
"What?" He said after staring back for a few seconds.
"I want to try something." Anna said, coming up with an idea. She got up from her seat and went in a drawer and grabbed some blank pieces of paper and a pen.
She sat back down and patted the seat next to her. Brendon caught on and sat down.
Anna wrote some sentences down on the pieces of paper. She handed the first one to Brandon.
"Write what you see." Anna said handing the paper to Brendon.
He looked at the first sentence which said 'This one is mine.'
He wrote down, 'Tihs oen is mnie.'
"Okay now this." Anna said, giving him another piece of paper that said, 'You're going to love this."
He squinted at the paper.
"Don't try to read it just copy what you see." Anna had to remind him.
Brendon rolled his eyes and copied it down. 'Yuo'er gonig to loev tihs.'
Now nervous, Anna handed the last piece of paper to Brendon.
It said, 'Come here now.'
Brendon quickly copied down, 'Cmoe heer nwo.'
Anna closed her eyes and snatched up the three papers from her brothers hands. She was was a bit angered.
Confused by the sudden movement, Brendon asked, "Okay, what was that for?"
Anna couldn't just flat out say that she suspected he was working for A, so Anna quickly thought up of, "It's for a school project."
Brendon lifted his eyebrows. "A project about me?"
"A project about your dyslexia."
Brendon now seemed a slight bit angry. "Well come get me if you need your little Guinee Pig for another experiment." He then walked up to his room.
Anna felt guilty at first for using him like that, but she needed to see if her theory was correct. She also couldn't tell him that she was testing if Brendon was the psycho hurting her Zoe, Kara and Rose.
Brendon gave Anna a huge clue, and now she was questioning if Brendon might have a small part of the A creep's work.
He wrote down 'Yuo'er, mnie and nwo', just like the A text Anna had gotten the other night.
"Yuo'er mnie now
-A"
Anna looked at his writing. She wished she still had the note Rose had gotten from A. She would be able to see if the handwriting was similar.
Anna took the papers up to her room and tucked them away in a secret spot only she knew of.
Anna then walked back out into the hallway to Brendon's room. She was about to knock on his door to talk to him, but she backed out. She wouldn't ask him about A right away.
Anna would have to keep a close eye on him.
AN: Okay, so that was chapter 26.
I hope it held some interest.
Also, I'm going to try to have Brendon in the story more. I realized that I have kinda been leaving him out so I brought him back with a big theory around him.
Remember to review!
See you next week!
-Jessica
