My birthday was a coupled days away, Veronica was texting me to make plans for Saturday to celebrate. My dad was going to be out of town for my birthday, so we planned to celebrate it today before he leaves for his business trip. I started getting ready, I was going to miss school to hangout with my dad and maybe my mother. She said she will try to come, but I know she prefers to not be close to my dad, at least for now.

I walked out of the house and got into my dad's car, "ok so I got a whole day planned for us and your mother will join us for dinner in the afternoon." He said kissing my forehead and driving off towards the mall. The whole day he took me shopping, and took me for a manicure and pedicure and played arcade games until it was time for the dinner reservation. When the clock hit 6 pm we went to Logan's Roadhouse to eat, my mom was already there and she brought other people with her.

I looked at our table from afar. It was mom and two other guys with her, I looked at my father confused and his face seemed to drop, before putting on a smile. I smiled back at him and the waitress sat us at our table. It was an awkward silence, I looked at the two guys in front us, one was around my age and the other one around my parents' age maybe older. I inspected them more closely. I realized he was wearing an engagement ring and mom had hers still, but dad wasn't wearing his. Me and my mom locked eyes, I was starting to feel worried and thinking that a divorce wasn't all that was happening.

"Are we going to stay silent for the rest of the dinner or are you going to tell me what the hell is going on." I spat out, looking at my mom, she was avoiding eye contact with me ever since I entered the restaurant.

"Sweety, there is something I need to tell you, this may be the wrong time to tell you this, but the guy sitting in front of you is your half-brother and this man is his father and my...."

"Your what mom, your lover," I replied sarcastically rolling my eyes. I wasn't surprised about her having a new man, but I was shocked about having a half brother. My dad was looking down, I knew he was hurt more than I was. I introduced myself to t my half-brother and ignored the man and my mom, and started walking out of the restaurant. My dad tried stopping and I told him I just needed to get some air. My mom was calling my name out until she eventually stopped, or more like her lover stopped her.

As I was walking out of the restaurant, my eyes were starting to swell and tears were coming out. All I could think about was why me, why me and why now. My phone kept vibrating from my parents messages telling me to come back inside. I turned off my phone and started walking further away from the restaurant to a nearby park. I kept looking up to the night sky and tears coming out when I bumped into somebody.

I was about to apologize, when the person said my name. "Fay, are you okay." It was Lawrence he sounded concerned and was starting me. I started to wipe my tears away and put on a smile, when he suddenly hugged me, he stroked my hair and just muttered "shhh, it is going to be alright," with a soothing and calmed voice. By then I couldn't stop the tears from flowing and I just buried my head closer to his chest, I felt embarrassed for crying on him when I just met him.

We stayed in that position for awhile, at least until I had stopped crying, and he then walked me to a bench and put his jacket on me. We stayed quiet, you could just hear me sniffling and a few footsteps from people. Lawrence was about to talk when we were interrupted by a loud booming voice calling out to Lawrence. When the guy noticed him he walked over to us, he started to talk to Lawrence until he noticed me. When I saw him clearly I noticed it was my half-brother, he must have not recognized me with the jacket and it was pretty dark outside too.

"Oh Gene this is me friend-" I interrupted his sentence saying i already met him before.

"You are my half-sister right?" he asked. I nodded my head and Lawrence looked at us confused, and I decided to avoid eye contact with him. He continued to talk, scratching his head "you know, you should have not run off like that, you made everyone worried" I scoffed and rolled my eyes, an awkward silence was arising until Lawrence decided to speak up.

"Ummm Gene it was nice seeing you man, I'll see you later." I looked at Gene and told him I wasn't going back to the restaurant and I was staying over at a friends house. Then Lawrence got my hand and started waking, waving goodbye to Gene. I was dumbfounded of where we were heading then Lawrence asked me if I wanted to stay the night, I agreed I knew it was too late to ask Veronica or Ashton to stay over at their house.

Once we arrived, at his house he walked me to his room and gave me some clothes so I could shower. I smiled and thanked him, once I got out of the shower I walked into his room, I had put sweatpants and a shirt on his bed for me to wear. Then I decided to put on a sweater instead and wear the shorts I had under my skirt. I walked to the kitchen. He was pancakes he looked at me and smiled "you look really cute in that sweater." I blushed and got a plate of pancakes.

We walked to his living room and he put some movies on, I knew he wanted to ask about what just happened, but I wasn't ready to tell him yet. The rest of the night we ended up binge watching Criminal Minds and laughing, until eventually falling asleep.