Hush big Brother 2
A little over a year ago...
Katie and Kendall had finally been freed from the burden that was their father.
They were now happily residing in Minnosida again with Jennifer Knight after quite a crazy adventure, (see Hush little Sister,) and James as well as Logan and Carlos were now in their homes once again.
It wasn't like eleven year old James wasn't happy for those two. Considering their physco father Carson, who would abuse them after he murdered their mother, kept their lives a living hell for most of their childhoods, they certainly deserved what they'd finally gotten after so long. While they were living with Ms. Knight, he was going to his home again after quite some time in L.A.
But he didn't have much pleasent to return too.
His father had been very naughty since his mother got so busy with her job and pretty much never around since he was eight. So he'd been forced to watch his own parent get married to two chicks at the same time, getting royally stoned every night with them, and stick him with Emily and Claire.
It wasn't like he didn't love him. Ever since the first night, he'd been as fiercley protective of them as Kendall was of his little sister. He refused to go anywhere with either wife of his dad unless they both went with him, and most of the time they were forced to fend for themselves while their parents traveled the world.
But when he went to L.A. with his big brother figure, he was forced to leave them behind. And since he couldn't bear to leave them with those three adult physco's, he left them in adoption home for far longer than expected and promised. When he was picked up by the Blonde wife and his father, (whom were halfway sober for once while the Redhead wife slept off a hangover,) he came back to a nasty surprise.
"You got a lot of nerve to put my daughter in an adoption center," the Blonde wife slapped him sharply across the cheek.
"When did you get her back?" he inquired icily, not afraid of this little slut who didn't care or love for her child and never would.
"A couple days ago...dunno what happened to Amy's girl, though," he was left alone with wide eyes and shattering heart. The redhead's name was Amy, and if they didn't know...that meant...
"Jaime!" Claire was suddenly running to him, attaching to his leg and burying her little face in his leg, crying her little heart out as her mother and his father stumbled into the room where Amy was sleeping, "E...Emily g-gone!"
He wrapped his arms around her small trembling form, burying his face in the five year old's hair and letting out a small sob. Emily, his little sister, was gone...and who knew when she'd be coming back...if at all?
In the present time...
James was turning twelve.
Claire was six.
And Emily was eight...but they didn't know where she was.
Even after a little over a year since he'd found out his oldest little sister was gone, the guilt still burned in his heart as if it was just when he'd found out. It was always there in the back in his mind, even if he never showed it to anyone. He'd managed to hide his home life from the other three guys by not inviting them over very much, telling them things were okay, and that Claire was just a girl from next door.
Now they were over at his house to celabrate his birthday. No adults were around now, which made his birthday about ten times better. It'd be better if Emily was there...he remembered sadly of the times they'd celabrate their birthdays with homemade cake and popcorn, sitting in front of the TV, just the three of them, watching old movies and laughing.
Yeah, those were the days...
"They're here, Jaime," little Claire cooed from where she was sitting on the couch, wearing a small striped birthday hat over her ringlets that were the legnth they'd always been, it clean and shiny now as her blue eyes twinkled.
"This is going to be real fun, Claire-Bear," he kissed her forehead gently, jumping down as he strode to open the door, "what's up, fellow hockey heads?"
"BIRTHDAY!" Carlos crowed, tackling him along with Kendall, and the trio went rolling as Logan laughed with Katie as James' plastic birthday hat was ruined forever by their weight.
"Nice to see you three idiots, too," the brunette grunted as somehow's elbow went into his ribs, pushing them off while trying to mess up his now tangled, once perfect hair.
"Hi, Katie," the two six year olds had found a friendship, and now James' secret sister was hugging her only friend.
"I missed you too, Clairey," Katie was being the sweetheart she was, hugging back to her best friend as holding up the two stuffed bunnies they always played with, "let's go play!"
"Yeah!" the two took off into James' room, simply because the guys didn't know Claire had a small closet room of her own that her big brother had given her once.
"Man, that little girl sure comes over a lot," Carlos commented as the four best friends flopped down on the couch, opening the bags of popcorn and jamming their forks into the cake eagerly.
"Do you looooove her?" Kendall teased lightly, and the oldest of the four stuck out his tongue maturley.
"Shut up, she just comes over, okay?" maybe...maybe one day he'd tell them...just not now.
Not on this day.