Little White Lie

"I have to give the news to your father, he's going to be so excited!” my new mother-in-law exclaims, making me grimace. No one else needed to know about this little white lie, especially not that man.

"Uhm, I think it would be better if this stays, you know, just between us," I mutter. She makes a motion with her hand to shut me up that reminds me of myself. Oh, no. This woman is just like me.

This is bad.

"There are no secrets in our family, my dear. You'll know soon enough," she lets me know, patronizing me. Elliot still can't speak and I can almost feel the negative heat waves his body is giving off.

With each passing second he gets angrier and angrier at me, and I don't want his mom to leave us alone, but she strokes her son's expressionless face one last time before flying off.

To avoid Elliot's hate-filled gaze, I try to concentrate on observing my surroundings.

It's a big room, almost as big as where I sleep with nine other delinquents, but in this one there are only thre