Truth

Chapter 4

(Hope's POV)

As soon as I had said those words, I burst out crying again.

'Hope, pull yourself together for god's sake!' I thought.

"Well Hope, it's nice to know you remember me." A voice from behind me said. I spun round, and saw her. I was seething, angry that she had the guts to ring here and break in.

"Alex, how the hell did you get in here?!" I shouted at her. "I thought you were still in prison for murder!"

"Hope, there are things your mum and dad haven't told you, and I am here to tell you them. Nothing else, I promise." She replied. "Also, you left the back door open."

I glared at Bethany and Alyssa, and they had guilty looks on their faces.

"If you want to tell her anything, you have to tell her with us in the room," Alia stated, getting up from her chair.

"Fine. Hope, it wasn't me who murdered your parents. Also, don't you remember I have a twin? I wouldn't kill your parents, they were my auntie and uncle! I loved them. You're my cousin, and it was Amelia who killed them." I saw tears in her eyes.

"You're my cousin? I thought I didn't have any family left. You're not on my family records."

"Then you only just skimmed it." She said, truth in her voice. "Go and get it, I'll show you."

I looked at my friends, who were all staring at her. They then looked at me, and I nodded, to show that I was going to get the file. I gave them a look saying: 'Watch her' and walked out of the room. I used the time to get the file to think. To be fair, she did look quite a bit like my mom. 'But that doesn't mean she is your cousin!' A voice in my head said, and sounded a lot like my dad. I walked into the room and grabbed the file. At the age of 10, you were allowed to check you file, but most of the important stuff you weren't. I went out and within a minute I was back in the kitchen. I dropped it in front of where Alex was.

"OK, Alex, show me." She opened the file and flicked through it.

"Right, it should be......Wait, where is it?" She asked. Right where she said it should have been, there was a rip in the page, and no names.

"Well, it looks like somebody doesn't want you to find out about yourself." She said simply.

"Wait, Alex, why did you ring?" Rowan asked.

"What do you mean I rang? I don't have my own cell phone and-" she was cut off by a scream by a person outside, which sounded like Samantha's.

"What did 'I' say?"

"That you would find Hope soon, and VERY soon."

"That wasn't me. And if it wasn't me, it must have been Amelia. And that means...." We then heard Samantha scream.

"ALIA! I'M SORRY FOR WHAT I SAID, PLEASE HELP ME!!" She screamed. We all bolted for the door, Alex too.

"Now, where is your little friend?" Somebody snarled.

"Who do you mean?"

"Hope." I took that moment to open the door and said:

"Here. Don't hurt my friends, they didn't do anything. And not Alex, either." I said calmly to the person that looked EXACTLY like Alex, much that I nearly called her Alex.

"Alex? Why I she here?" she asked. "She should be in prison still!" She said with a smirk.

"Actually, I got let out 3 weeks ago!" Alex exclaimed, stepping out of the doorway. "Now, I think you should tell Hope the truth about what happened to her parents." She said.

"Never because YOU killed them!"

"Liar! It was you and blamed me because I looked like you! You never liked Auntie Maria and Uncle George did you?"

It seems that siblings fight more that friends.

"Guys, shut up!" Alia said from inside.

"Wait, who's there?" Amelia asked, worried that it was the police.

"Only me, Bethany, Alia and Alyssa!" Rowan exclaimed, stepping out.

"OK then. And Hope, I'm going to kill you now so you can join your parents, something which I should have done when I killed your family." Amelia spat.

"No!!" Alex shouted and ran forward to protect me, but ended up being punched in the face and out cold.

"Run guys, I don't want you getting hurt like Alex." I said, sadly.

"Oh, so letting your little friends get away so they don't see me kill you?" Amelia asked. My friends looked at me, and ran behind the house.

"I. Will. Not. Be. Killed. By. Someone. Who. Killed. My. Family." I shouted, surprised by my anger.

"Oh really? Well then, I'm just going to have to prove you wrong!" She said, pulling out a knife.

"You may think you are smart and clever, but you'll never kill me after what you have done." I exclaimed, kicking her as hard as I could in the chest, surprising her. She dropped her knife and fell over, hitting her head in the process. I quickly grabbed my phone and dialled 911.

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"Excuse me miss, Miss Alex Townsend is ready to see you now." The nurse told us.

We were in the hospital, given that Alex had badly bruised her jaw from the punch and fall. Amelia was in jail for murder, and Alex pardoned. Me, Alia, Rowan, Bethany and Alyssa all walked in.

"Hey guys,"Alex said.

"Hey. Alex, you do realise you have a massive bandage round your head? It's actually quite funny!" Bethany said, stifling a giggle.

"I know and my head's really itchy and I can't make it stop!" Alex replied. "Oh, and where is Amelia?"

"Where she belongs." I said. "In prison."

"I'm glad she is. Seems a bit mean, but she's crazy; got put into a mental hospital but when she got there, she was back to normal. So they let her out, claiming she was absolutely fine. As soon as she got out, she went mental again and ended up killing our parents," Alex said, crying. "And Hope's."

"All right, visiting time is over!" A cop shouted.

"Bye Alex!" We said altogether.

"Bye guys... And Hope, have you checked your file?" Alex asked me.

"No, not yet. I'll do it soon. Bye!" I replied, leaving the room.

"Sir," I asked the cop. "Do you think I could look at the relations list in my file? It's because in the care home one it has been ripped out!"

"Yes, what's your name?" She replied.

"Hope Elizabeth Grady."

"Fine, I'll only be a few minutes."

I waited and counted the seconds. What, i was bored! She came back just after 1 minute.

"OK, I've only had permission to show you the list, nothing else." She stated.

"OK!" I exclaimed. She left the room, and I opened the small book. I scanned it, and I saw the names of the living relatives.

It said 2 names:

Alexandra & Amelia Townsend - Cousins

I dropped the book. No, all my living relatives are dead!

'Hope, the records do not lie.' The voice said again.

I blacked out.

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