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Telling the truth

Ryan went home. He had borrowed the Cohen's SUV. He had a 15-minute ride ahead of him and he got to thinking about all that Cat had told him. She had told him she was adopted, and that she remember things about her real parents, the way they smelled, the way that they had treated her. He was angry at the world, even himself. Why couldn't he have figured it out before. She was his best friend, and he hadn't known that she was hiding something so big. He arrived at the Cohen's 15 minute later, still thinking about his visit with Cat. When he walked in Dinner was just being set on the table.

"Hey man, there you are, I was about to call the police, no one knew where you were. We called Marissa, and she had said that you had gone to the hospital hours ago. We looked that the time and visiting hours were over and you weren't anywhere to be seen." Seth said to Ryan

"The hospital was nice and let me and Cat talk 45 minutes after visiting hours." Ryan said.

"Well you are here now, so let's go eat, I am starved." Seth said.

They sat at the table eating, Ryan wasn't very hungry but he went along with it. Everyone noticed that Ryan was quieter then usual and they were scared something had happened to Cat.

Sandy was the first to speech. "So how is Cat?"

"She is doing better, they might be releasing her soon, if they don't find something else wrong with her." Ryan said

"Something else?' Sandy asked.

"Yea they said that they found something in her blood stream that could be fatal but they don't know yet, sine they have to run so more tests to determine it, and her parents don't know what it is."

"So it is all a mystery?"

"Yea I guess."

"You seem more out of it then usual, Ryan, is something wrong?" Kristen spoke

"Just thinking."

"Are you sure?" Kristen asked, with concern evident in her voice.

"Yea. I am fine." Ryan responded, before he put a bite of mashed potato in his mouth.

"Come on Ryan we know something is going on. You are quieter then usual and you have a far away look in your eyes, what is going now. We all see it so tell us or mom and dad are going to stay up all night worrying that you are going to do something stupid." Seth said.

"Seth." Both Kristen and Sandy looked at their son with a look of shock. They couldn't believe that he had just said that.

"What." Seth said in you-were-going-to-ask-it-anyways voice.

"It's alright, I was just thinking about what I was talking to Cat about." Ryan told them.

"Do you mind sharing what you talked about, maybe we can help." Sandy said.

"Say that you were to adopted a kid that was at a young age, but they knew that they were adopted, but you, as a parent never told them, until they were older. Say that, that person grew up being beat, made fun of, and treated like garbage. You were the ones beating them, making fun of them, along with all the other parents and kids that knew the person. But one person was that person's friend. The adopted kid never told their friend that they were adopted. But the secret came out and that person knew. What if the adopted kid only stayed for the abuse from everyone else because, that person that was their friend was always there to protect and help that person when they needed it?" Ryan said really fast

"Well I really don't know the question." Sandy said.

"If you were the kid being abused would you stay and lie to the social workers and put up with everybody's crap?"

"Well that is very hard to answer, if that person that was my friend was the only person nice to me I wouldn't, because even the nicest person in the world wouldn't make me happy with every other person making fun of me."

"What is you never knew what nice was unless you were with that person?"

"I would go out and try to find other people that would treat me nice."

"But if you never knew what nice was, even your real parents hated you, would you stay with the one person that made you feel cared for?"

"No, I would go and try to find someone that would care for me like my one friend. Why do you ask?"

"No reason."

"I know that that isn't true." Sandy said, "Are you trying to tell us something?"

"It was just a question."

"No it seemed to be more then that."

"No really it was just me asking a question."

"Ryan don't do this to yourself let us help you." Kirsten said

"I am not the one that needs help," Ryan said as he stood up. "I am going to go to bed, I am tired."

With that aid Ryan left the Cohen's staring at him as he walked out the door to his pool house. They weren't sure what they should do now. Ryan wasn't going to talk about it and no one else knew what he was talking about, so they decided to finish eating and then go and watch the movie they had rented. They asked Ryan and he told them no.

End of chapter

I know this one was kind of boring, but I needed to let you guys know what her past was like since I know it and no one else really does. So the next chapter will be up soon, since I hate leaving a story unfinished, I am going to be finishing this story even if no one reviews. There will be more action in it, and some sad parts in it too. If you don't review than I will update when ever i want to and it might be awhile, if someone reviews than I will get the next one up in the next couple of days, for sure, and if more than one person reviews than I will update probably tomorrow, since the rest of the story is done. But I am going to stop typing now so i can let my kittne run around instead of sit on my lap.

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