Hello everyone. I'm sorry for all of these long author's notes. But this should be the last one. I'm sorry for not updating in months, now I just want to let everyone know that almost all of my stories are ending and when they have, the only ones left will be this one and How they ended up in care. Which will give me more time to update these two.

Although, right now I'm trying to update all of the stories ending. Even though, after this was updated last I put up, then finished a story I wrote for Epilepsy awareness that was called "For what is a human if she loses her best friend" and now, these are the ones that are getting finished.

-The search for a family (finished)
-I still love you
-A light in the dark
-Game on!
-What I did for hate (finished)
-We're coming home
-When I returned
-I won't go away
-Buried deep within
-The moment I needed the most
-For what is a human if she loses her best friend (finished)

So as you can see I've already finished some. I've also finished some Oneshots. The story when I returned is a sequel to the first story I shared on here, and when I've finished it there's only a oneshot left and then that whole series will be finished.

So for now, to finish some stories this one and how they ended up in care will be left not updated for months at the time. But then that'll change. And I will have more time to work on and update these.

"You're a truuuuuuue friend…"

It was Saturday, in between the two weeks glee club were doing friends week, as usual by now I and Lex were together, this time at my place since mum and dad were going for wherever trip until Sunday.

We had been trying to find one right song to use, but ended up pretty much laughing non-stop since she came here two hours ago.

Right now, singing a song from Hannah Montana my belly muscles were cramping worse than ever and Ariel was watching us back and forth as if she wondered what kind of crazy creatures, she had to spend her time with…

Oh well, she had done that pretty much since we started laughing but anyway.

"Oh my…" We couldn't finish the song, laughing so much and it took several minutes before Lex started talking. "Hannah Montana? Well. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. I was just…"

"Looking for a song that's kind of… deeper."

It wasn't even funny really. But we both just cracked up. I hadn't laughed since Jonah died and just laughing like this just made some part of me feel better.

"Hey girls."

"Mum?" She came into the room. "Can't you knock?" Mum just glared at me- not that she had done much else for the past few months but it still worried me when she turned from me and towards Lex.

"You know… Alexandria, right" Lex moaned, but nodded. "Leah has told us- me and Abram, much about you. And we've met you loads. But it feels strange we know so little about someone we meet so much and someone who Leah spends so much time with… So… We are leaving soon but while my husband is getting ready, I was wondering if maybe we could use that time for us to tell us more about yourself." I gave Lex a meaning look, but she didn't answer it.

"What do you want to know?"

"Why would you even know by such a short, plain nickname when you were given such a beautiful name?" Lex shrugged.

"I don't know. I never thought Alexandria suited me. I've been Lex for as far back as I can remember…" Lex made a pause. "None of my biological siblings go by their full names neither."

"Biological? I knew you were adopted, but I don't know anything about your biological family…" I rolled my eyes at her.

"Mum, that's a bit private, don't you think?"

Mum only glared back at me. And even though I could see it bothered her Lex gave me a meaning look that she'd keep answering.

"My parents' names are Brian and Kathryn." She answered slowly after hesitating some. "I also have an uncle named Wyatt… to say that our dad and uncle hated us probably doesn't even say half of it. They killed my sister and tried to kill me…" For anyone who didn't know her- including mum Lex would seem as calm as a rock but I could see in her eyes, almost her thoughts playing like a movie…

"So what…"

I didn't let mum finish that question. She and Lex didn't even know each other and she was taking it too far.

With that, I had had enough. I wasn't going to just sit here and watch my mum give Lex a downright interview about who she was when Lex obviously wasn't the one at fault. And I got up without a word, grabbed mum's shirt and pulled her out of my room and closed the door behind us before I turned towards mum

"What is it that you have against, Lex mum?" I asked and I couldn't help myself to sound angry. "What did she do to you?" Mum looked weirdly at me. "What is it? Why can't you just act… normally when she's around?"

"I just don't want to give her the chance to hurt you. I don't know what her parents did but…"

"Lex isn't like them. And she's not going to hurt me." All of a sudden dad was standing right by us and seemed ready to go. "Just a minute... If anything is going to happen it will be you hurting Lex with all the questions about her private life, that you didn't have any right to ask from the start."

"Edna, Leah…" Dad interrupted, even though he obviously didn't know half of what was going on. "You talking to each other like this won't help. Let's just cut it here, you can do some thinking while we're away and then we can talk more on the phone." For, for a certain half a minute I and mum only stared at each other.

"I don't want Lex staying here overnight when we're not home, anymore."

"Well, that's fine. Then we'll just go to the Hudmel's house for the night since they actually care not to judge me for what you do…."

Without waiting for an answer, I turned back to my room, went inside and slammed the door behind me.

"I know I'm lucky, I always have my parents that will be there for me in everything…" I made a pause, and couldn't help but imagining everything Lex had been through… "Sometimes they just make me crazy and I wish they didn't."

"That's okay." Lex said as if she'd read my thoughts. "I know I've been through… things that you haven't. But there are a lot of kids who have it worse, lots worse. Does that mean I shouldn't be able to complain?"

I didn't answer, whatever could be worse than what Brian and Wyatt had done to their daughters…

For several minutes, maybe even an hour we were just still. None of us said a word, we were both scratching Ariel and she was obviously liking it very much because she seemed half asleep.

Lex laid down along the short side of the bed, then almost made me jump when she started speaking all of a sudden.

"Wouldn't that be a point with the theme Mr. Schue has made for us, friends are really like our family, and family are really our best friends." Lex said, but it sounded like she said it almost as if she wasn't thinking about it really… Lex then frowned and sat up, then turned towards me again. "I was thinking about it already when Teeghan made that song about music…"

Teeghan POV

I was an only child, but I would never have expected to love having a big family as much as I had…

By now I could barely remember sitting on that bridge. And before I even knew about it the Jacoby's had moved in with us, two parents, two four-year-old's and one six-year-old, into our mansion…

If someone would have asked me a year ago how I would like this I would probably have hated it and wanted to have it any other way except for this.

Christmas had been the best part of the past few months. But during the two weeks Glee club was doing friendship-songs came as a close second. The twins loved singing, as much as I did and would be singing in front of me- loudly and falsely and absolutely certain it was sounding beautifully.

Maybe it did even though they didn't get a tone right…

Better in stereo… They sang, as usual in front of me, dad and their parents. …Better in stereo, I'm up with the sunshine…

And there was nowhere else I'd rather be.

Maybe I could bring these along with me to school and show everyone who my real, best friends were…

Playlist
(Leah/ Lex) True friend- Hannah Montana
(The twins) Better in stereo- Dove Cameron

Random fact

When I started "secrets revealed" (the story about Lex, I also started a story called "Scarred for life" (this one has later been deleted) and too another couple of stories (Sisters in arms and you can't stop the beat) I was quite new here and didn't care to make any research about anything. I always imagined an alcoholic being like Lex's dad, and it's afterwards that I have learnt and realized that's not the way it is.

If I could start the story again I probably would. I'm just not willing to start over a story that's so long and both this and the story about Lex.

Even though I feel kind of bad for the alcoholic, abusive, hateful dads I made.

There's quite a few different things going on in this chapter. But the friendship week will go on and you'll see more of it during the next few chapters.