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I ran the brush through my hair once again until it was silkly straight , I was dressed in the beautiful red gown mom had gifted me earlier today as a birthday gift.

Since I didn't want a party I decided to hang out with Lyn and Clarissa, we will first have a little celebration, grab some drinks..., then have a sleepover at Lyn's house.

I took a glance at the wall clock, I still had about ten minutes to go.I didn't receive any threat messages all through out yesterday neither have I heard anything from Hayden since that night he spent in my room...

"mom..dad..I'm leaving " I called out making my way downstairs.

I met them in the living room discussing in low tones, mom's face was quite pale...

"mom what's wrong?"she turned to face me looking quite startled.

I stared from her to dad , something wasn't right.

"is something wrong?I just said I was leavin..."

"Y...you can't leave " Dad said swallowing hard, he looked nervous about something...like very nervous.

My brows drew in confusion, why were they behaving so strange?could something bad have happened?, I was just about to ask when a knock sounded from the door .

"um..I'll get that"

"you can't " mom voiced out ,stopping my movement.

Okay...now I know something was truly wrong...

"sweetie....why don't you go upstairs to your room for a while "

"m..mom?"my voice was laced with doubts

"Now!no more questions!"Dad yelled leaving no room for arguments...

I slowly made my way upstairs to my room, what was going on?I paced about nervously..

What could be wrong with them?Why were they looking and even sounded fearful?

I couldn't just sit by ..i needed to find out.

I made my way downstairs searching my gaze around , the living room was empty .I heard voices coming out of dad's study and slowly made my way over.

The door was slightly ajar, a very familiar voice stopped me right on my tracks

Hayden's?

The hairs on my body stood at it's ends.

How could he know my parents?And they also appeared to know him.. ?

What was going on?

They were so engrossed in their arguments that they didn't hear me enter..

"We've kept this secret from her for all her eighteen years ,we can't just tell her now that we aren't her real parents ...."mom spoke

I stood motionless like a mannequin, it felt as if a bucket of ice has been dumped on me.

They weren't my parents?

No...No...It couldn't be true, I must have heard it all wrong....