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"Kyra come on, stop playing around and tell us" Cheyenne said looking over at her sister. She could see she was nervous and had a hard time getting things into the open.

Kyra sat in front of her family fidgeting. She wanted to say something but her didn't know how. She wondered why it was so hard to tell them. Suddenly she realized that if she did tell them, she was scared that her mother would completely see her in a whole know way and wouldn't love her. Like she had expressed to her mother when she moved out with her dad.

"You know what" Kyra said trying to weasel her way out of this 'family discussion'.

" I really need to think about this, so" she said getting up from the chair "you can all stay here and I'll be back in a couple of minutes" she said as she walked up to her room.

"She's stalling" Reba turned to Brock

"I know Reba, I don't understand why she can't just tell us" he said as he threw his hands in the air and shrugged. "Oh I got a headache" he said as he rubbed the side of his head with his fingers.

Meanwhile upstairs.

Jake had followed Kyra into her bedroom and stood at the door.

"Hey" he said in a low voice trying not to scare her.

"Hey Jake" she said relieved it was her brother.

"Can I come in?" he asked in his lil' accent he picked up from his mom.

"Sure, I guess" she agreed he walked in slowly toward Kyra who sat by the window in her chair he decided to sit on the carpeted floor propped up against her bed.

He just looked at his sister amazed how different they both are, but no matter how much she teases him he still looks up to her. He continued to stare at her until she glanced at him and said "what?"

"Can I ask you a question" he said with his ten-year old voice full of curiosity

"Okay" agreed not knowing where this is going.

"Why is everyone mad at you? What was going on downstairs?" he asked confidently looking into his sister's eyes.

"nobody's mad at me Jake, everyone is just. Worried that's all" she tried to sugar coat the facts from him.

"Worried? Why?" Jake asked confused.

"Cheyenne told mom and dad about something I did and they aren't . . . Happy with me"

"What did you do?"...Deep down inside Jake really wanted to know what was going on.

"Well" Kyra said as she came and sat face to face with Jake on the floor.

Jake gave his full attention to her.

"Sometimes people get sad, and sometimes the people who get sad have a heard time getting happy again. So they do stupid stuff to make themselves feel better, but in the end it makes them feel more sad." She tried to explain in a way a ten year old could understand.

"What was the stupid thing you did?" he asked her straight forward.

"I ... would hurt myself" she said telling her secret to her baby brother knowing he may understand or not understand completely.

"Where?" his questions now resulted in one word phrases. He knew it was getting where his parents tried to get to earlier. Known as Kyra's big secret.

"I don't think I should tell you, Jake your too young for this"

"I am not too little" he fussed "just tell me where Kyra, please" his voice evened out into a worried plea.

"Ok, on my arm" she told him shamefully. "What did you do on your arm?" he said low almost like a whisper.

She pulled back her sleeves and presented half dozen scratches. Some were red and healing a few looked fresh.

Jake looked shock at what his sister just showed him. "Why are you doing that" he said with a choke in his voice and tears forming the glazed his big brown eyes.

"Because, I got sad, so sad, I couldn't get happy again, and this was the stupid thing I did". She looked up at Jake and saw two tears running down his cheek, it made her cry too, she realized that what her mother had told her downstairs was true and that it wasn't just said for a guilt trip. What she had done did hurt someone, and right now it was her little brother.

"You are going to tell mom about this right?" he said wiping the tears out of his eyes.

"I'll have too, but I'm afraid too" she said as she got up and sat down beside him and pulled him into a hug.

"But, your never scared" he said as he looked up to her

"That's what you think, but I do, I'm scared she's never going to love me the same way again" she said with a sigh trying to keep the tears in. "she wont look at me as Kyra, she will see me as someone else".

"Don't say that Kyra" Jake said as he took his tiny hand into hers.

"No matter what you say, mom will always love you, even if you don't believe her, and I will too" he said giving it a squeeze he continued "hey, whatever happens happens right?"

"Right"

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