How could I let this happen? My little sister looked up to me, and now I had made her run away. I hope she's okay. This is all my fault.
I drove to the spots she would go, but nothing, not a trace of Jessy anywhere I went. I drove round on the streets, hoping to see her, but I didn't. The guilt was eating me alive. What if something had happened to her? I would get the blame because this was all my fault. If only I had listened to her, she only wanted to come talk to me. Why did I throw her out? Why did I make her run away?
Night soon fell and I still hadn't seen her. I drove home and found my parnts were already there. I took a deep breath and opened the car door just in time as my front door swung open. Out came my parents closly followed by Robin, Kyle, Drake, Stevie and Shayne.
"Niki found her at the train station." Shayne told me as the 7 of them piled into the family car. I jumped back into my own car and followed my parents to the train station. We all rushed through the doors and saw the twins sitting on bench by the railway line. Aswe made our way over to them the rest of my siblings ame crashing through the doors behind us. We all walked over to the girls and they looked up at us with sympathy in their eyes.
"Jessy, why would you run away?" My mother asked, stroking my little sisters silky, brown hair.
"Beacuse no one loves me." She answered, almost in tears.
"We all love you." My father told her.
"So why do none of you remember my name?" She spat at us.
"Your identical tiwns, it's kind of hard to tell you apart if you wear the same outfit and do your hair the same way everyday." Stevie said. Jessy looked down at her shoes, her feet didn't even rach the floor of the bench.
"But I'm not Niki." She whispered.
"No, your not. Your Jessica Amelia Baker, a wonderful girl who shouldn't worry her family to death." My mother told her.
"But Courtney told me I wasn't wanted."
"I didnt mean you weren't wanted in the family, I meant you weren't wanted in my room because I was trying to sleep. I love you Jess, I don't want you to leave." I admitted. One of my older brothers out an arm around my shoulders but I didn't take my eyes off of Jessy.
After a few moments of silnce my mother finally released Jessy from the tight grip she had her in and said we sould all go home. We all agreed and left the train station as a family. My car got jammed packed with siblings but I was too happy that Jessy was alright to care.
The few days that followed that inccident the house was filled with love. We all helped each other out and talked as a family. There was no shouting or screaming, no fighting or arguing. All peaceful. But peace only lasts for so long. We were soon back to old ways, mixing the twins round and shouting at each other for the stupid things we did. I didn;t mind though, tahts the way I like it, but my parents had other idea's.
"Family meeting!" My father's voice echoed up the stairs. I groaned and pulled my self away from my desk. I trudged downstairs, dragging y feet. I hated family meetings. Some of my siblings came skipping happily down the stairs while others followed my persuit.
I slumped into the free armchair and Robin jumed onto my lap knocking the breath out of me. She followed me round like a lost puppy sometimes. The others slowly made their way in and scattered around onto open spaces on the floor. My father stood up front and clapped his hands to get our attention.
"Okay, Kids, listen up."He yelled over our voices. We all shut up and turned to face him. "Now, your mother and have noticed all of the fighting going on recently."
"Recently?" Stevie scoffed.
"Yes, Stephanie, recently." My father said. He never called her Stevie, he said it was a boys name and she was little girl. That always made Stevie even madder. But she did have a point, we had always argued but they had now only noticed it.
"So, we have come up with a way to stop it all for the summer." My father announced. I had totaly forgot about summer, it was only two days away.
"So what's this brilliant way then?" Jake piped up.
"We are going to spend a few weeks at Lake Yucca." My mother beamed.
"Camp Yucca? Whats that?" Sammy asked.
"You wouldn't emember Sam, you were only about a year old when we went." Charlie told her.
"It's just a run-down cabin by a big lake and we take part in wodsy activities." Shayne said. I could barly remmber the lake, I was 8 last time we went. It was just like Shayne had said. A cabin that was falling down, nad a lake that people did only God-knows-what in.
"Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass." I said, moving Robin off my lap so I could leave the room.
"It wasn;t an offer." He told me, his voice slightly filled with anger. He was still mad at me for the unknown reason.
"I don't want to go either." Jake said.
"or me." Stevie pitched in.
"Yeah, dad. It's not much of a place to spend the summer." Shayne said.
"I want to go." Robin told us all.
"There's my girl." My father swooped Robin into his arms and swung her back and forth.
"We're in." Jessy and Niki screamed at the same time.
"Us too." Drake and Kyle said in unison.
"Not like I have anything better to do this summer." Sammy told us. I still didn't want to go. From what I can remember hated the lake. It wasn't fun at all.
"Looks like we're going to the lake!" My father shouted.
"What?" The rest of us shouted back.
"Your out numbered. Dani as already agreed to come and with everyone else counted for that's 7 who want to go." My father siad proudly.
"Come on, it'll be fun!" My mother backed him up. This was going to be one long summer.