Thanks for your review anniefan hope this answers your questions:

Annie and Eric were having an affair and Eric left his 1st wife to be with Annie.

Matt's twin, Danielle, will appear in the story line very soon.

And your other questions will be answered in the story line very soon…I promise.

When I saw the sun start to come up I crept from the attic down to the back porch. I sat down on the step and tried to forget everything that had happened in the last week, but My mind was running so fast I ended up lost in thought of my brother.

Flashback:

I was sitting on the floor in my brother's room waiting for him to come home from work. It had been almost three months since dad had left with our brother and sisters. I had a few questions to ask about why we were still here and I had learned better than to ask my mom. I didn't like it when she cried and every time I mentioned my dad, she would cry and say that it hurt too much to talk about.

When my brother walked into the room he greeted me with a hug and said," Hey, What do you need?" I said," Can I ask you some questions about dad?" He said," Always," and sat down beside me. I asked," Why did daddy leave us?" He said," Daddy fell in love with someone else and he decided he wanted to be with her more than he wanted to be with us." I asked," Why did he leave us?" He looked away from a minute like this was one question he didn't want to answer. I answered for him," I knew I was never daddy's favorite and that I was an accident, but why did he leave you?" He answered me as he hugged me," Because I told him I wouldn't leave. That someone had to take care of you two and if he wasn't going to do his job, I would do it for him. So I stayed here with you and mom so I could take care of you." I said," But you had to leave school." HE said," It's all worth it in the end. As long as we're together."

End of flashback

My dad had never wanted me. They had never planned on having any more children. My arrival had put a strain on their marriage. Daddy left mom when he found out she was pregnant but came back because he missed everyone and said he would work it out… but then he met Annie and she gave him a reason to leave, an escape. Not to say I didn't have a good life. I didn't have everything my brother and sisters have but I had enough, and I was never short on love.

Lucy walks out of the Garage apartment and up to the back porch where I'm sitting alone. She sat down beside me and said," What are you doing out here alone?" I said," Thinking." She said," You know you can talk to me if you want. I'm always here for you." I said as I got up and walked back into the house," No you're not, my brother was though, and my mom." I walked back up to the attic and shut the door. I started moving the boxes myself. I stacked them up so the sort of made a wall that had a tiny place you could squeeze through in the far corner of the room, and about three feet of space between the wall, where the door was, and the boxes. My things must have gotten there some time while I was outside because they were stacked near my bed. I started to unpack my things and lay the out around the room. I threw the blanket that had been on the bed when I got there onto the floor to make it like a mat. I threw some pillows I had brought from home to make a little pillow corner. I sat the lamp from the night table on the floor over there and then pulled my lamp out of my box and sat it down beside my bed. For my fourteenth Birthday, my brother had gone with me to pick out fabric and ribbon and my mom had helped me make a comforter for my bed and a matching lamp and pillows. I made my bed up and turned the lamp on. I pulled out the last box and opened it. This was filled with what were now my most prized possessions. I pulled out the framed picture of my brother, mom and I and sat it down under the lamp. I sat down on the bed and pulled one of the pillows into my lap and laid over and cried. My life was so not was I was expecting. My mom and brother were gone and now I was living in a house with a dad who never wanted me, a step-mother who stole my family, and a brother and sisters who had left with my dad by choice." I just wanted things to be like they were. I wanted time to go back and the accident to never happen so everything would be the same. I would do anything just to make things they were. I didn't care that we didn't have fancy clothes or a expensive car. We had each other and we had chosen each other over all else. We were a family. But what was I now… an orphan…this family had never wanted me.

The more I thought about it the more I realized everyone had said something to me but Danielle. Danielle had always taken care of me when I was little. I remember her sleeping on my floor when I was scared at night and rocking me to sleep when I was sick, but she hadn't said a word to me.

I heard a knock on the door. I yelled out," Who is it?" I heard a quite answer," Danielle." I squeezed through the space and opened the door. She stood there and asked," Is it okay if we talk?" I said," You can talk all you want. I don't know if I have anything to say to you." I turned and walked through the space and Danielle followed. She said," Your stuff came. I like your bed spread." I said," Mom made it." I sat down on the floor in the pile of pillows. She sat down beside me and said," I'm sorry about your mom." Not this again. Why do they all say sorry about my mom…? I said trying not to yell," She was our MOM! Why does everyone keep saying my mom, my brother? What changed that made us not your family anymore. You walked out on us; we never walked out on you. We were never going to walk out on you." I started to cry. She started to hug me but I pushed her away. I said," You were my sister and you left me because dad had money and mom didn't. Do you have any idea was the last eleven years have been like? Do you? Mom did everything she could to make sure we were safe. Our brother dropped out of school, got his GED, and joined the military so that he could support me. He gave up his whole life so that I would have a chance at a normal life." She said," I know, and I'm sorry. But we are still a family. We are still your family. We have the same parents and the same brothers and sisters." I said," No we don't. We stopped being a family when you walked out when I was four. I was raised by a single mom in the project and I had one brother who made sure that I never walked home from school alone and that I didn't get shot in drive-bys. You lived in a big house in the suburbs and you had a mom and a dad and brother and sisters and you were happy. You never went without food. You never went hungry." Danielle didn't say anything for a long time. Then she asked as tears rolled down her face," You were hungry?" I said," Mommy tried, but sometimes it was just to much. Sometimes we went without so we had a place to live. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to survive, but you wouldn't know about what it means to sacrifice something."