The Truth

" Come on Tim." I said.

" Can't I just keep you to myself?" He asked still laying on the bed. I put my hand on the doorknob.

" You had me for 16 hours." I said.

" So I thought I lost you."

" Well you didn't. Come on I have to go talk to your family."

" They are your family too." He said propping himself up on his arm.

" No there not Tim. The Moores are my family. Your family is the Carrolls."

He sat up and just looked at me with huge puppy dog eyes. He pat the open spot on the bed next to him. " Come on tell me about the." He said and half smiled.

" No way! I have to talk to Matt. I'm dying of heat." I said. I really felt like I was. It was as if I had to go jump in an ice bucket.

" Well your going to have to wait 5 hours until he comes home from school." Tim snickered. Great. Just great.

" Poor kid, he has school." I said sitting down next to Tim.

" Yeah so tell me about your family." Tim said as he pulled me onto his lap.

" What do you want to know?" I asked

" What makes them so good."

" They didn't want me to leave."

" Why did you then?"

" Well Brydon and I…" It hurt to think about our fights and how I'm never going to see him again. " We would get into fights. We would scream at each other and in the end he somehow always made me cry. Decklen, the guy that came here, he is like a big brother and takes care of me, well took care of me. He was ready to kill Brydon after some of the things he said to me. I never let him though."

" You should have."

I pushed his arms off of me. " No1 He's part of my family and I love him. If you cant except him then we can't do this anymore." I said now standing by the door.

" I just don't understand why you can consider him family when he hurt you so much."

" How can I love you after you hurt me? Did you think of that? I'm constantly asking myself that and I never get an answer." I said and left the room.

How can he not understand? Him of all people should be able to. I went back to him after what he did to me. He should be happy I did. Maybe I should go back to the Moores. I want to go back but I can't do that. I would end up killing someone. That would not be a good thing. I went into the living room and saw all my things were just were I had left them. I grabbed the box and sat down on the sofa.

" Ember" Tim said softly from behind me. I didn't turn around. I just looked at the sleek phone in the box. He sat down next to me and put his arm around my shoulder. " Ember I'm sorry. I never should have said that."

" You told me yourself that you never mean it when you say that your sorry. Why should I believe you now?"

" Good point. I shouldn't have said you should have let Deckler kill Brian."

" Its Decklen and Brydon. You shouldn't have said tough's things about them. I miss them as it is and I don't need you hating them. I don't want to have to pick between the two of you but I will if I have to." I said.

" I know." He said. " I'm going to go to let you think now." I just nodded and he went upstairs.

" He only remembered things about himself and you when he woke up." Colleen said stepping into the room. " He would pace about the room and mutter things about being stupid and your name. Peder asked him who Ember was and he cracked. He was so angry with himself but got over it once he saw the papers that we gave him from your town. He saw you went missing and was suddenly fine. I don't want to tell you this but I feel like I have to. The boy isn't very committed I would leave him roadside. You can get any boy you want with your looks and from what I know about your personality."

" He never has been very committed." I said. Colleen sat down next to me.

" Peder wants to find someone for his boys. He doesn't believe me that you're not the one for Tim. So you have two options. You can prove to all of us that you are for him or that your not. During your control lessons is the prefect time to make whichever point you want to make. You want to prove that Tim is not the one for you then learn control first and don't help Tim learn. I know you will learn it first if Tanya was true about your lesson. In that case you will only need one lesson. But do what you want Ember. You're the only one that can make the right choice. I will support you if you wish to stay or go." She said.

" Thanks. Right now I need to think." I said.

She got up. " Peder comes home from work around 6:30." She said then went out the back door.

He was fine after I went missing. I was about to kill myself for him, so I could be with him. I'm glad I didn't. I replayed the conversation that we had in the bedroom. I meant every word of what I said. I miss them so much. I feel horrible for leaving Brydon all alone. I should have stayed. I would have never known Tim was alive and I would have never had to deal with him again. That would have been the right thing to do.