Post by SUMMER ROSWELL on Aug 7, 2022 18:43:37 GMT
To anyone looking from the outside in, Summer’s life was perfect. Her parents were never seen by anyone during the day but they passed it off as them just being busy with work which they did from home. Her parents made sure that she and her biological siblings had everything that they wanted but for their adopted siblings it was a completely different story. They weren’t allowed to leave the house, they weren’t allowed to go to school and they weren’t allowed to do anything that she and her biological siblings were. She knew that some of her siblings looked down on the kids her parents had adopted and considered them to be second class citizens but Summer had never felt that way about them. They might not be related to her by blood but they were still her siblings just as much and she loved them. She tried to pass on what she learned at school to Eddie when their parents weren’t around to put a stop to it and she always tried to make sure that her adopted siblings had everything that they needed. She had seen the way they didn’t get enough food from her parents and she had seen the way they were left to freeze whenever it got cold. Summer didn’t understand how her parents could treat them that way and she had tried to confront them about it on a few occasions but she just couldn’t remember what the outcome of those conversations were no matter how much she might try to remember. Either way nothing seemed to change so for as long as she could remember she had been sneaking the kids food and blankets when she could in the hope that it would make even a small difference for them.
More than a few times Summer had tried to talk about it to people outside the family and each time she couldn’t find the words, in fact it was like she wasn’t allowed to say those words out loud. Instead all she could do was carry on like things were normal and dodge questions about her family as best she could. That day she could hear her parents hard at work in the office and even though she had plans to meet up with some friends later right now she was free and after spending some time in her room reading she decided to head downstairs to make herself something to eat. As she passed through the living room she spotted Daniel and a smile touched her lips. “Hey. Mom and dad are upstairs so I was going to make a sandwich, do you want anything?” she asked, wanting to make sure that he didn’t go without.
DANIEL ROSWELL