Hello again guys. If you remember the author's note from the last chapter you'd know that a lot of my stories right now are being finished soon. And at first I just wanted to let you know that I have figured how much is left of this story. It's this chapter, one more, one full playlist and then the epilogue. After this chapter I might be able to get the next chapter up much faster than some other updates.

Other than that I also finished what I did for hate and for what is a human if she loses her best friend as well as a few oneshots. After all, I'm down on two oneshots started but not finished.

I was making a full playlist for this and found out Elena did the song "temporary home" by Carrie Underwood twice. I didn't want that so I'll change it.

This starts off from the POV of Ryan from the glee club.

One week after I and my siblings had found out about her, Cai had asked to meet me at the offices for CPS…

They would yell, they would scream, they were fighting it out

Despite everything that had been going on the last few days. Maybe it would have been easier if someone kept shouting and yelling each other…

Instead everything in the house had been quiet in the house since we found out what Cai had done to our sister. And my room, as well as Mason's especially since we were the ones with our own rooms.

Well, that would be unless I had taken my guitar and played some song I thought suited…

And even though the one I played at the moment I knew I would soon meet Cai for the first time since finding out she was my sister, it didn't feel right once I played it…

She's a scar, she's the bruises, she's the pain that you brought

And it was during the most perfect words after about half the song that I just somehow gave up, stopped playing and put the guitar away. Meanwhile I looked to my watch, since I was the only one of us who had known Cai since before I was going to the social services.

She was a quadraplet, although it wouldn't seem nice- nonetheless frightening if she met Liam, J. J and Charlie all at once. Or anyone for the first time…

It was far too early for me to go and meet her at the social services' though…

"I'm going now."

Right now I tried to get away from my parents as much as possible so I might as well.

"Already?" Mum asked. "But how are you going to get there?"

"I'll walk."

"Now? But it's raining…. And it'll take you… at least an hour to get there."

"I know…. How long should I wait you think? Fifteen years, like you did?"

"Ryan!"

Mum didn't say anything, I would have told dad he didn't have anything to do with this. But he did, all the years since Cai, Charlie, Liam and J. J. were born and meanwhile dad had let her do what she did…

Even if she knew the truth now. How could my parents even look her in the eyes now we knew only one little bit of what she'd been through.

"No, Jay. Ryan's right…"

I didn't stay to listen to anything more. I just went down the hallway, grabbed my jacket and pulled it on while going down the porch steps. I hoped the jacket's hood would protect me some, but by the time I showed up on the social services my hair- and all of me really, was dripping wet.

"I'm Ryan Dunbar." I said in the reception. "I'm supposed to meet Caitlin Romero in…" I looked to my watch. "Half an hour. Sorry, I'm a bit early."

The receptionist looked up at me for a few seconds. I tried to look innocent, but knowing my parents had done the reason we were here I wasn't sure I could act the tiny bit innocent ever again.

"The room with the blue door…." She pointed down the hallway. "…and… would you like a towel?"

"Towel…" I laid my hands on the top of my soaking wet hair as if it would help. "My hair, it's raining…. A towel might be good, yes." The receptionist looked so I had no line after me. Then led me down the hallway and to a cupboard. "Thanks."

"So. You can either go into the room with the blue door, or the bathroom…"

"I'll go into the room with the blue door."

As if I'd forgotten everything I rubbed over my hair with the towel, before Cai was here I'd be looking more like a scarecrow than myself.

There wasn't a mirror in the room but I wiped my hair some, hung the towel around my neck and turned the selfie camera on. Looked at myself and taking in every impression than I ever had cared to do before.

I hadn't managed to watch Cai properly yet and therefore didn't know if we were alike. Were we? Did we have the same eyes or smile? If she hadn't been through all the things she had, maybe she wouldn't be skin and bones and so short.

What was it even that she had been through? I knew there was for more than I knew. I wondered for a second how long there would be in case Cai hadn't asked for a meeting like this. Because I knew she had.

There were so many things that wouldn't even make sense in all of this. Starting by the car crash mu…. Starting with the twins and me… or with mum's whole life maybe…

It felt like since I'd known I hadn't been able to think about anything else. It had only been a week and if I'd never be able to…

I gasped and jumped high when the blue door to the room opened, cai came in along with a social worker that was holding onto a notebook.

"I'll be here in the corner." The social worker said. "I'll be taking some notes but just pretend that I'm not here…"

"Ehrm…" I tried to sit down, she did the same and so did the both of us a few seconds later while I tried desperately to find something to say- she looked as if she was doing the same. "There are police around you, all the time now. Right?"

As if there were nothing stupider I could have said

"Yes." She answered after hesitating for what felt like years. "I think there'll be police or social worker around me day and night until when… Toby's behind bars."

"Toby? Was that the guy who… well… hurt you? And…"

"That's just something I call him by… Yes. He, well. Held me hostage I think it's called… It's kind of complicated…"

"I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable."

The thought flashed by that whether I said anything or kept quiet I would be making her uncomfortable.

"Well… I… I wanted to meet you… I just thought I… I just thought we… I was thinking maybe you could tell me some about your… our family?"

Had someone asked as much as two weeks ago I would have described us as the best. That we were close and always doing things together. That our parents were always there for us no matter what, that we were everything that the best family should be.

Now it took me upon two minutes to think of anything else, and even before I said anything at all I couldn't help but scoff shortly.

"I think that right now, my mum at least has some dream that now her secret's out and the whole family knows about it you will come and live with us and we shall all live happily ever after." I snorted again- I wished I didn't have to talk about mym like this. I knew what my family were like… "Cai. I swear, I didn't have any idea that we were… siblings until this started. None of my, our siblings did neither. And if I would have…. I don't even know what I would have done. I wouldn't be able to speak to them…. I'm not sure if I could ever talk to them again."

"I believe you…" Cai answered after several seconds of hesitating. Then looked down on my phone screen when I showed her a photo of us siblings. "I don't hate them."

Looking at her, seeing her eyes, even though she looked so callous by now I couldn't begin to imagine how she feared me and everyone else after everyone that had hurt her…

"I do."

At the moment I said it I regretted it. What had happened wasn't Cai's fault and therefore I shouldn't burden her with it. I was about to say something more but when Cai leaned her head to the side and looked away from me it was obvious she wanted to say something.

"You shouldn't… I spent so much time… loads of it to hate my parents. Whoever had given me up… I hated it more and more when I was realizing that whatever home I was in there was something wrong… Now I know who they are… I looked at them. And I can't hate them… They're just regular people and I know they didn't wish for me some of the things… I've been through."

I couldn't help but wonder how little or much I knew of it….

"What would you like?" I asked before I had the time to stop myself. "Would you like to come and be with your biological family? With us?" The thought only seemed absurd and Cai hesitated. "I won't tell anyone else. Just… what do you want?"

"Now" Cai breaked and drew for a deep breath before she answered. "Right now I would just give anything to get to stay with Burt and Carole."

Playlist

Broken home- 5 seconds of summer

Random fact

I try to make some sense about who Cai meets first, Ryan instead of those whom she was born with. And even then one and one and not all at once.