Title:Everyone's Family is Cliched

Basic Idea of this Chapter: Jess tells his family a secret. It causes the family to fall apart in more ways then one.

Chapter 3: A Secret Revelaed Too Soon

Rating: PG-13 mild language


So, you love him?'

No.'

So you lied to him?' Her inner voices had been arguing and making her head throbe. She rolled over and stared at the ever falling rain, although it had eased up slightly it still came down quite hard. After they had come home Jess yelled; she yelled and stormed off to her room. Yes, Juliet was willing to admit storming off was kind of childish, but her father had pushed her to far; he told her she should move to the orphanage for all he cared.

Dummy. It's your fault he said that. If you just accepted your punishment for being stupid he wouldn't have said that.' Shut up! She knew sleep wasn't going to happen tonight so she sat up and turned on her television.

Don't talk about her like that! Click. Juliet quickly shut off her tv when she heard Jess shouting.

Don't yell at me. You saw the same thing I saw. A shirt less boy followed her out of a building. Juilet's breath cought in her throat; it wasn't every day you get to hear an arguement between Jess and Rory Mariano. She wasn't in that house talking to him.

Juliet is perfectly capabable of determining right from wrong, Jess shouted his voice wafting through the thin walls, she isn't her mother. His voice had gone lower but more threatining. Juilet judged that because she could still hear them, they weren't to far away.

No she is not Jade. She is spoiled and self-centered, said Rory's bodiless voice. Juliet shook her head hoping she heard her wrong. You should discipline her more.

Before her mind could interpret what her body was doing Juilet flung open her bedroom door; dozens of emotions taking turns showing themselves in her emerald eyes. Self-centered am I? I'll show her.' You are the self-centered one. Rory and Jess's mouths opened to protest the statement before Juliet continued, I'm not aloud at your family get-together's' for your newspaper. I would be to much of a nusence? Ruin your perfect family charade? It's not my fault you have so much influence over Jane and Richie! By know Juilet had awoken Jane and Richie, much to the dislike of Jess and Rory, and, she knew for sure, earned herself a few good weeks of groundings.

Go to your room. If you weren't a member of their family you would think his voice was rather calm, but to the trained ears of Jane, Richie, Juliet and Rory they knew he was very mad.

Would that be this one or the one in the orphanage? Although the annoying voice in her head was telling her to shut her face she couldn't stop. "I hate you. I wish you would drop dead from . . . from-"

"Cancer?" Her father's voice went from powerful and angery to tired and weak. "Well I guess, for once, you will get your wish."

"Wh- what?" No. Surely she heard wrong. Juilet looked from one pale face to the next, she did not hear wrong. Jess Mariano, her father, had cancer. "I- I have to go." She walked to the door and grabbed the keys from the end table on her way out. 'You are so selfish. The least you could have done was tell him you were sad tha-,' Guilty shut it's mouth as the new voice, the one she was so used to, popped back up, more powerful then ever. 'Why should she feel sad? She did absolutely nothing wrong." Rationlization had taken on a new voice. David's voice had become overbearing and with a useless effort she tried not to drive to his house. 'You should not be here. You should be with your father-"
"Oh shut up." Juliet opened her door and, after the fear of running into David's dad subsided, walked towards the door to his apartment.


A/N: Short I know. But I really didn't want to give anything else away and this seemed like a good place to stop. Please if you are raeding this review. Even to just say it sucked. smile1 thanks for the encouragement but if I don't get more then two signed reviews for this chapter I'm not going to continue.