"For endangering your daughter, I can't trust you taking her home. We found cuts, and we found bruises, now I don't know whether these are self-inflicted or not, but quite frankly, I have reason to believe it could be one or the other, or both," Elliot said quietly so Ali wouldn't hear.

Olivia also gave the valid explanation of why they were doing this.

"This is arbitrary! I'm calling my lawyer!" Mr. Laos said.

"Brian, watch over Hallie and Ali all right?" Elliot said.

"Yeah, alright, don't worry about it," Brian said sympathetically.

Hallie looked in shock, but Ali didn't seem to care. She was in the corner of the room crying.

Once Elliot and Olivia went out of the room abruptly, Brian made a notion to Hallie to come by her sister and he went also.

"Ali, are you okay?" Brian asked.

"I---It's always like this! They—they always fight! And they're always mad at me," Ali said crying.

"Hey, it's going to be alright," Brian said as he put his hand on her shoulder.

"Ali, don't worry about it too much, it's not that bad. You always make such a big deal of things!" Hallie said.

"Shut up! All you do is be the perfect angel to them, but you know they hate you too!" Ali said and she started to get violent.

"Hey—hey girls, let's break it up," Brian said he gently took Ali's hands away from Hallie. He wasn't concerned from two thirteen year old girls, so he remained quite calm.

"Are you two okay with each other?" Brian asked.

"We're fine, I'm just a little pissed at her," Ali said.

"Okay, take a deep breath and relax." Brian instructed. Now it was Hallie's turn to cry.

She ran out the door crying.

"Ali, stay here, I'm going to go find your sister, please, stay." Brian said as he walked out the door determined to find Hallie and talk to her one on one without Ali getting angry again.

Anger. He thought. Abuse is very possible, but she is also a teenager, I'll find out.

"Hallie?" Brian called her name out. Nobody answered.

"Sweetie, it's ok, it's just me, come out, we can talk?"

Nothing.

Finally, he decided to go outside and look around. Once outside he looked around. He noticed Hallie holding her legs in the corner of the building.

"Hallie." Brian slowly approached the girl. She looked up, but only for a minute, before she buried her head in her hands and started to whimper.

"Hallie, what's wrong?"

"Ali, she is always nice to me, we never fight, twins are suppose to be nice, it's just--, why is she like this?"

"I don't know, what happened to her was horrible, but Hallie, she is going to take time to recover." Brian explained.

"Mom and Dad never blame her for anything! It's always me! All she does is sit there and watch!" Hallie cried.

"Watch what?" Brian asked alarmed.

"Ohh, nothing, just please, forget it."

"Hunn, I won't forget it, tell me what you mean by sit there and watch?"

"Nothing." Hallie muttered as she got up off the ground. She sniffled, wiped the tears, and looked at Brian.

"Can we go talk to Ali about this too?" she asked.

"Yeah, whatever you want." Brian replied, getting up also.

He soothed his arm around Hallie's shaking shoulders and led her back up to Ali's room. But what a surprise they got when Ali wasn't there.

"Where is she!" Hallie screamed.

Brian pulled out his cell phone and dialed.

"El, it's Brian, Ali's gone missing—what I left her for a second---fine I will look, see you in 10---bye."

"Hal, Elliot's going to come help us look for her."

All Hallie could do was nod. But she had a secret, she knew where Ali was because it was all part of a plan.