a/n:It's been over a week since my last update, don't make me feel worse, read pathetic excuse at bottom of chapter ... here is chapter 5

Chapter 5: Truth

My world had come crashing down around me, everything was to dust.

My house might of collapsed but I wouldn't know, because I was transfixed on my mothers heartbroken face.

My heartbreak turned to anger and before I knew it, or can even help it I was screaming at my mum.

"How could you make him leave like that" I shrieked

Mum tried to open her mouth to speak but I refused to stop screaming everything that had been bottled up for the last month

I eventually stopped, when my voice was too hoarse to speak and I begun to cry histerically.

Mum hugged me, I tried to push her away at first but then I just gave up, fell into her arms and cried my heart out.

"I'm sorry baby, but you must of knew it was going to happen" Mum said softly, speaking through my hair

"But why?" I sobbed

"Wash your face, sit down and i'll get you a glass of water"

I obediently washed my face, the cold water felt good against my skin and I begun to feel slightly calmer.

I sat down at the wooden circular table and quietly sipped on my glass of water.

Mum pulled her chair next to me and took a deap breathe, I listened with anticipation half dreading and half welcoming the truth.

"A couple of years ago your dad and I begun to have some problems, we didn't think much of them at first, we just kind of expected them to go away, of course they didn't and we both begin to throw ourselves into our work ... even more then usual at Khan and yours expense and for that i'm sorry"

"But what did dad do"

"Started spending more nights at D'Jose then he needed too"

"He had an affair didn't he" I asked quietly, a few rogue tears begun to drip onto the table.

"Having not had" she answered a flash of anger sparking in her eyes.

"How long have you known?"

"I guess I always kind of knew, call it intuition"

"What do you mean?"

"It's like ... say ... remember when when your cat Misty got hit by a hover and you didn't know about it but you just felt something was wrong all day till you found Misty in the driveway"

"yeah ... so you kind of knew something had changed with Dad"

"yes, i knew something wasn't right in our marriage"

"Why didn't you make him leave sooner?"

"I didn't want to hurt you and Khan but there was only so much I could take ... he didn't even admit anything ... until tonight anyway"

"Why would he do this to us" I whispered

"Many reasons probably ... we argued a lot, the opportunity was there and it probably gave him some sort of twisted ego boost" Mum answered bitterly

Time came to a stand still and neither my mother or I spoke for some time till a hint of sun begun to filter through the cracks in the kitchens blinds.

My numb thoughts were interruped as mum begged me to get some sleep, I shifted my gaze from my empty water glass and looked mums paled face.

I didn't remotely feel like sleeping, but I also didn't feel like sitting at an empty table staring at an empty water glass all morning.

I made my way to my dark room and sat on my bed, suddenly my whole body ached with exhaustion, so I climbed under the covers and did something I hadn't done in quite some time, I hugged my battered old moogle doll that I had had since an infant.

Then I begun to drift of into an uneasy sleep.

A loud noise coming from the kitchen woke me up, I guessed I had only had several hours sleep and the afternoon sun wreaked havoc on my eyeballs as I opened them.

I rolled out of my bed, blankets twisted around my ankles and stumbled towards the door.

Making my way through the hallway the noise become somewhat distinguishable and I realised it was Grandpa Cid's voice, and he was banging violently on the outside window with his walking stick, demanding to be let inside the house.

Mum was either too exhausted to wake up, or she was had been ignoring him all morning.

I, however was desperately happy to see him, probably more then I had ever been, so I ran outside the house and nearly knocked Cid down with a hug.

Cid never saw it coming because he was too busy nosing through the windows, trying to sense movement behind the curtains.

"Good lord girlie, bout bloody time someone came out here" Cid said, trying to sound angry but failing miserably.

"Sorry pops, we were sleeping" I said sincerley

"Hmph, could of swore I saw someone moving behind those curtains 20 minutes ago" said Cid skeptically

"Your imagination pops" I replied smoothly

"It's wasn't my damn imagination, you youth think your so -"

"POPS" Mum called angrily, stepping out of the house

"There ya are girlie" Pops said pleased

"Why are you are?" she asked coldly

"Wheres that husband of yours?"

"POPS, i don't need a lecture" Mum argued

For the first time pops seemed genuinly confused

"I just came to ask about that funny project I don't like thats going on at D'Jose, sheesh this family has a temper ... doesn't come from my side, my side don't have bad tempers" Cid muttered

"So you don't know" Mum pressed suspiciously

"Know what ... and for god sakes girlie where is he?" Cid whined

Mum groaned and beckoned him inside the house, I went to follow but mum told me to stay outside. I moodily begun to trace my name in the warm desert sand.

I immediently knew Pops had been told of father dearests infidelity when he begun yelling as loud as mum and dad combined.

"Dryd muf meva beala uv clis" Cid shrieked
The low-life piece of scum

"Lyms tufh Bubc" I heard mum yelp
Calm down Pops

Even though I was angry beyond belief at my dad, I still didn't like to hear him abused like that.

"Ra fyc sayhd du fyed ihdem Neeka fyc 16"
He was meant to wait until Neeka was 16

"Fryd tevvanahd fuimt uv y vaf suhdrc uv syta?" Mum said bitterly
What different would of a few months of made

"You should never of married him, you should of stuck with Mishaai, didn't I always tell you that? Mishaai wouldn't do something like this" Pops growled in Spiran

"Vydran, I really don't want to hear this right now" Mum said quietly, emotion starting to seep into her voice.
Father, I really don't want to hear this right now

"What was meant to happen when I was 16" I thought furiously, what else were they keeping from me?

Obviously they thought I couldn't be trusted, I thought hastily, so I decided to eavesdrop when mum and pops finally stopped yelling.

"Ruf yna oy taymeh' fedr ed ymm" Cid said as sympathetically as the crusty old man could manage.
How are ya dealin' with it all

"I just ..." Mum started, before bursting into tears.

My stomach cringed as this happened, It had all suddenly become vividly real as mum begun to cry. Dad cheated on mum, this isn't a dream. Mum is crying.

It broke my heart

"Ruf puid oui kad yfyo vun y vaf tyoc, ku ib du dryd meddma ruica uv seha eh dra Suuhvmuf yht e'mm kad Pnudran du cdyo rana yht gaab yh aoa uh dra ouidr?"
How bout you get away for a few days, go up to that little house of mine in the Moonflow and i'll get Brother to stay here and keep an eye on the youth?

Between my mothers sobs I heard her cry out a strangled yes ... and then my stomach cringed again.

Brother was coming here, need I say more?

It was selfish of me to be thinking of that right now, but I couldn't ignore the terror being stuck into my heart as I thought of the irresponsible fashion disaster that was my uncle.

Then I heard my mother begun to cry harder and suddenly Brother coming was pushed to the very back of my thoughts.

I stopped eavesdropping through the flywire door when I noticed a dishivelled looking figure make his way towards the house.

Khan looked a wreck with his messy hair and he was holding his head like it had been attacked with a hammer.

When he found out about dad his headache was going to get a whole lot worse.

"Khan" I called out

"You could of told me you were leaving last night sissy , walking home by yourself was stupid" Khan said with a scathing glare

"Sorry, but you were too pre occupied with being a drunken chocobo" I snarled

"No need to get fiesty ... don't tell dad either" Khan added quickly

"I'm not going to waste a trip on D'Jose on that" I said coldly, turning my back on him and opening the flywire door.

"Why would dad be in D'Jose -" Khan started, didn't finish his sentence

He stopped in the doorway, confused by our crying mother and our grandfathers presence.

"Where is dad" He whimpered, it was amazing how much a 16 yr boy could sound like a child.

"Ya fathers a cheating loser whos abandoned his family for his secretary down in D'Jose" Cid snarled, gripping his walking stick.

"VYDRAN" my mother yelled

FATHER

Another arguement between Cid and mum broke out, but I don't think Khan noticed it, he stared at the floor crestfallen as his world fell to dust.

I had never seen anyone so pale, his usual tan had now become a pasty brown.

Then he walked to his room and quietly shut the door ... we didn't hear from again until later that night.

As sympaphetic as I was feeling towards my brother, him bouncing a blitzball of his wall for several hours in a row was beggining to get on my nerves, especially when his room was next to mine.

Mum had left for the Moonflow a few hours ago and the house was completely silent except for the banging that occured every five seconds.

It was almost a relief when I heard a hover pull up, almost.

I reluctantly walked to the door to let my uncle and a strange woman inside our house.

Brother looked ridiculous as usual, with his dyed mohawk, eccentric makeup and odd choice of clothes.

The woman with him who would probably be his girlfriend had a peaceful sort of air about her, she extremely long chestnut hair and large wide spaced eyes ... and like Brother she had a very odd taste in clothes. She was neither beautiful not ugly.

"Neeka!" Brother shrieked in a high pitch voice, then he engulfed me in a large hug. Suddenly I was grateful for his presence and felt slightly bad about not wanting him to come.

"Neeka this is Fshea, my girlfriend" He added in his loud accented voice.

"Hello little one ... where is the other?" She asked calmly, she had a soft, floaty kind of spaced out voice.

"Yes! where is the Khan?" Uncle Brother asked eagerly.

"KHAN" I called

No answer, but the banging of the blitzball against his wall ceased

"Brothers and ... Fshea are here" I added

There was still no answer, now I was convinced he was ignoring us because the banging of the bliztball started again.

Brother walked to Khans bedroom door, Fshea trailed behind him.

"KHAN OPEN THE DOOR" Brother yelled

"Open the door little one" Fshea added sweetly

"Leave me alone" Khan replied coldly

"KHAN" Brother yelled.

I felt like banging my head against the wall as Brother became increasingly angry.

This was going to be a long couple of days.

A/N: Sorry this took about a week for a update, school started again and I've come home too tired, with too much homework to write ... but it's Friday night and I've finished this chapter. Not really an original thing Gippal did, but it suited my plot the best. Next chapter will be called "Visiting Day", you may be able to guess what it is about ... all i'll say is that we will finally see someone elses point of view on the whole thing, guess who? lol. Remember Review!

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