Chapter 5 Lynn's Situation on The Other Side

Xaiver POV:

Ok I guess one of us is gonna have to tell her or the coffee table is gonna coming flying at us in about thirty seconds. I basically give Javier a look telling him I'll do it. It might come out a little easier coming from me her brother. If, nothing else because she knows Javier's opinion of Lynn isn't exactly in the highest regards and everything might come out wrong and set her off more than now. I took a deep heavy sigh and decided to turn and face Tyra my big sister and dreaded every thing that we just showed up after nine years of no contact and just decided to lay at her feet that we need her help to deal with and clean up. If I could have just let her be and let her decide to come back on her own and but we didn't have a choice and that makes me feel even worse than I did when she left.

I decided now was the time to spill everything. I took another deep breath and began " Here's the deal Javier and I had to set up Brandon and Eric in apartment apart from the rest of the club and out of the way from any other trouble that might be around. This, has been working for almost seven and half years now." "What, Why? Why aren't or weren't they with Lynn and Steve? What happened and what did they do to my other little brother's that you and Javier had to get them a place to live and for so many years?" Tyra explodes before I could say any more and now she was up and pacing in a square around her seat that she had been sitting in. This was something that is unique to her most people pace back and forth in a line , or a circle and Tyra always and I mean always paces in a square usually in equal step for each side. this, made me smile and I thought silently well that hasn't changed in all these years. But I'm still gonna assume it's still not a good sign when it happens. I shake my head and reply " Ok, Ok Queenie ... Can you please take a deep breath and let me finish and explain the major parts that we know and when you see them, they can be the ones to go into details. Brandon and Eric did graduate high school, and both are going to college. Brandon as you is in his Junior year and Eric is in his freshman year. Mainly, because Brandon was twelve years old and Eric was ten years old when you left. Well, when you left Lynn got super upset and started blaming dad for everything from how independent and what she called (disobedient) you were, from Javier for having the wrong friends and not what she considered a proper education, to Steven for being friends with dad because you know they grew up together. And Steve was to be partially blamed because he always supported your relationship with dad and helped to keep your routine normal even when you were with her. Any way, about a year after you left. Lynn had already been diagnosed with what everyone likes to call manic depression which is medically called (MANIA). You already knew that she was manic depressive, but it gotten times worse over that first year. During that year a lot of things went down. Like I said before, the boys can tell you how they ended up coming to me and Javier and all the nitty gritty details of it. All you need to know is Lynn and Steve are now divorced, some how Lynn supposedly ended up with full custody of the boys. But, not six months later she flipped her lid and through the boys out. Claiming that they were plotting against her and trying to kill her and that they were just as uncouth and disobedient as you were and they didn't deserve her love and to live with her. That the thirteen- and eleven-year-old boys deserved to live on the streets and what ever happened to them was every thing they earned and that was them paying their debts that they had accumulated for their evil doings."

I had to stop and take a deep breath and to stand up and walk over to Tyra and grab a hold of her to make her stop pacing because by this time she was practically running in a square and cursing every deity she could think of. Once, I got a hold of her and made her stop and to look in my eyes. Her eyes we're bright red and filled with tears that hadn't fallen yet. With that one look I knew that the one thing she hadn't said was that she was instantly blaming herself once again for everything that all her siblings have gone through since she went a way to help figure out what she wanted to do with her life. Like I said before I feel extremely guilty for just showing and doing this. And, NO I don't Blame Tyra for leaving and trying to figure herself out. I mean most sixteen-year-olds don't grow up with half the pressure and responsibility that she had thrown on her since she was four years old. Normal teenagers run away just because they don't like the rules their parents have. She ran because she felt she didn't even know her own self. She only knew who Lynn and TJ wanted her to be. I mean let me say something, wouldn't you run away if you had people demanding that you follow two completely different paths? Wouldn't you run away if all you knew was doing everything you were told by two different people for two completely different paths and you never knew what having a life outside of all that was, only allowed to certain people as friends and who was considered appropriate company to be around in certain people's opinion because well only certain characteristics are considered appropriate. So, after all that imagine being a sixteen-year-old female, the only girl, the oldest out of six on her dad's side and the oldest out of three on her mom's side, the oldest out of basically eight children between two parents and everything got set on her shoulders and none of her siblings. Now, wouldn't you do the same? And would you blame her?