Secrets coming out.

I can't believe this, he has to be lying. There is no way I have a brother, especially one from my father's side. My dad died when I was only just one year old, and by the look of this kid. He look like he's just fifteen years of age, and he looks nothing like my dad. But I have to admit though, we have the same colour eyes.

Ugh, damn, what am I saying. A lot of people has the same colour eyes and aren't related.

"You are lying!" I yell at him, and he cringe from my out burst.

"No, I am not. I am your bother."

"Cut the bull crap, her dad died when she was just a year old." Robyn chime in.

"Haha, who ever told you that is lying. Our father is well and kicking." The little fibber, laugh. Easing my elbow from his neck.

"No, you are the lier. There is no way you are my brother. My father died in Iraq when I was one, he was in the army. And you are what, fifteen years old? There is no way we are related, so state your business with me please. I glare at him. He still has that amuse look on his face.

"First of all, I just turned sixteen a few days ago. And secondly, I am your brother. Thirdly "our" dad," He did air quotes with his fingers when he said the word our. "He didn't die in Iraq, because he never even set foot in the country or in the army. And fourth, I think your mom or who ever you grew up with lie to you." He listed, using his fingers.

"Oh, so you want me to believe a twat that I just met, over my mother? Highly on likely." I snort.

He sigh a defeated sigh, and for the first since our encounter. I see a sad expression on his face, instead of the humor that is always there.

"Look, don't have to believe me. Just know that I am telling you the truth." I suddenly get this weird feeling that he's telling the truth, but that could just be my mind wanting to accept that my father is still out there. From I was little, I always wondered how I didn't have a dad. Until my mother told me that he died, and from that time. I always get depressed every time father's day comes around, or when they hold those father daughter dance at school. Hell, I am even jealous sometimes when I see Robyn with her dad. Or even when my older sister's dad would visit her. Even my own my has a dad, so why didn't I? Sometimes I ask myself that question. And now, this boy is here telling me that my did i still alive. Of course my heart would believe. But I have to be smarter than that, what if it's a trick? What if he just wants to hurt me and Robyn? I would never forgive myself is I let something or someone hurt Robyn.

"Why should I believe you anyway?" I call out to him, as he walks away from us.

He turns back around and pull something from his jacket pocket, and hold it out to me.

"Look at this." I down in his hand and see a picture of a man and a little baby. The baby look like she could be about ten to eleven months old. I took the picture from him to take a closer look, and a loud gasp left my mouth.

"Where did you get this?" I ask, both curiosity and suspicion coursing through my body.

"It belongs to my dad, he never goes anywhere without it. I had to be really clever to snatch it away from him."

I look back down on the picture and a tear run down my cheek.

"Miayana, who is that?" She pointed to the picture in my hand.

"It's a picture of me...and my dad." I told her, sniffing. "My mom has the same exact picture on her nightstand in her room."

"So that mean-"

"He's either telling the truth or he's lying!" I said harshly, turning to look at him.

"I am not lying, look." He took out his phone out of his pants pocket, and scroll through it. "Look." He show me and Robyn the phone screen. "In the picture is a young version of our dad, same dark hair, same blue eyes, same everything. But in this picture on my phone, it's him but older. With a touch of grey in his hair."

I look at the two pictures closely, and for sure Dai, if that is his real name, is right. Is right. In the picture on the phone, Dai is standing with....my father. His hands wrap protectively around Dai' s shoulders. While the one with me in it, I am securely cradled in his arms. A beaming smile on his face as he stares into the camera.

"If you are still having doubts, look at the back of the photo."

I hand back Dai his phone, and then flip the photo and look at the back. There is something written on the back in a very neat handwriting. I stare closer and the handwriting and realise that it belongs to my mom.

Keep this, so she will always be in your memory.

Is what is written on the back. I look at Robyn, and she look back at me with sympathy. Pulling me in a hug, as the water works started to flow heavily.

"So, do you believe me now?" I ask. Shuffling his feet akwardly on the ground.

I pull away from Robyn, and look at Dai, like really look at him. His hair is a nice black colour, silky and smooth just like mine. But his is a little bit smoother, maybe because of his Asian descent. He also has the same eye colour as mine, and through his Asian looks, I can see a bit or resemblance to the man in the picture. A little resemblance to me. Dai is about 5'10FT, not skinny, but not too bulky either. His eyebrows are really beautiful if I may add, and his striaght nose and slightly full lips compliments his other features very nicely.

"What is your game here, what are hoping to accomplish? How did you find me, how did you figure out my secret?" I spat the questions at him without stopping to take a breath.

"Hey, hey slow down. I will answer all your questions, but not here."

I totally forgot that we are still in the alley way, anyone could have been listening. But can I still trust Dai, sure his story makes sense but I don't know him. But for me to get answers, that's a risk i will have to make.

"Fine, let us go back to my apartment." I suggested, or more like demanded walking away from the other two.

We are finally back at my apartment, Dai instantly falling in love with Pug, who started barking aggressively when he saw Dai enter though the door. But instantly he started to wram up to him after he gave him a few dog treats he had in his hoodie pocket. Pug, you traitor. And by the way, who carries dog treats in their pockets? He doesn't even have a dog. I have seen Molly since I got back, I guess she is curled up asleep in my closet in one of my fur coats.

"So, let's get talking." I said to Dai, as I sat down on the couch beside Robyn. Dai who was giving Pug a belly rub, stop and came and sat down on the love seat that is beside the right side of the couch.

"So which question do you want to ask me first? Go ahead, I am an open book." He smile that cheeky smile of his.

"How did you find out about me?" Is the first thing that slip out of my mouth.

"I have know about you from I was two. I saw dad looking at you picture one day, and I ask who you were. He said that you were my sister that died when you were ten months old."

"Hold up, wait a sec. Did you just said that I died?" I ask, not believing what I just heard. Why would he think that I died?

"Yep, he said one day receive a call from your mother telling him that you died from your appendix that burst."

I really need to have a serious talk with my mother, why would she do something like this. First she told me that my father died, and then I am hearing that she told my father that I died. What is up with her and people dying? What was her motive?

"I never knew that your mom was so .....cold, vile even." Robyn said, can't believing what she heard as well.

"Yea, he said he was so devasted. He cried that whole entire year. He still cries up till now, every time he looks at that picture. And he doesn't go anywhere without it." Dai said, a far away look on his face.

'So sad.' I hear Robyn said in her mind. And I ball my hands in fists, still can't come to the terms that my mother lied to me like that.

"So anyways he told me about you, and I have forgotten you over the years. You know being a kid and everything, and you were died so what is the point of keeping the existence of you anyway." I glare at him, and he just laugh it off. "A month ago, I heard about this girl dressed in black. She saved a woman from getting mugg, then over the span of the weeks I had starting to hear about her unbelievable saves. Than I heard about that she saved that top shot lawyer guy, and she revealed her name as Insight. I got intrigue, and I wanted to know who you were."

"Why, did you want to know who I am?"

"I am getting to that part." I Dai utter in annoyance, about me interrupting him. "I wanted to find out who you were because I..." He took a deep breathe. "I have some unexplain issues of my own. So I started to follow you every time you went to help someone, but I still didn't know your true identity. Until one day, you were walking down Main Street, opposite to me. You were looking down on you phone, and then you held your head up for just a minute. And everything you know, everything you did. From past to present and future, just flowed right into me. Oh man I was so shocked, that i almost peed myself. My died half sister that I never met was, no is Insight. Highland City's own superhero."

My mouth flew open, and in my peripheral vision I can see Robyn gwaking at him in disbelieve.

"Ah, earth to the girls in the room." Dai fan his hands in front of our faces.

I snap out of my shock state, and look Dai dead in his eyes a d ask the question on the tip of my tongue. "Dai, who are you?"

He gave a sigh of fustration and sank back down in the chair. "My name is Dai Hesketh, I am half Thai half American and any other descent our dad is from. As you know, I am sixteen and I love food. I am a half nerdy and half jock. I was named after my, sorry, our dad. Daison Hesketh. I am a Scorpio and I have abilities just like you." Anything el-"

"Wait, did you just say that you have abilities just like me?" I ask, jumping from the couch.

"Yes, I found out a month ago. A little bit before my sixteenth birthday, and around the same time you got yours." He told me.

What in God's name is happening here. How can this be, did Dai and I got our abilities from our dad. Did my mom knew about this? So many questions are going through my mind, it feels like it's going to explode. The worse part about this situation is that I can read Dai' s mind, only thought in the room belongs to Robyn who has so many questions going through her mind as well. And Pug, who wants Dai to give him more treats and rub his belly.

Wait, there is one person's mind I can read that might give me some answers. My mom's.

' Mia, do you think he's telling the truth?' Robyn ask in her thoughts.

"There is only one way to find out." I lean next to her and whispered. "So what is your special ability?" I ask Dai who has a boyish grin on his face.

He cringe with a sheepish smile on his face before answering. "It's more like a curse and a gift in one." He wring his fingers nervously.

"Come on, it can't be bad as reading minds." I said with a laugh.

"I wish I could read minds. I have this weird ability, I can just look at people and see what they are seeing, know what they know, and go through what they have been through. Oh, and I can I get premonitions. And Robyn,

"Yes?"

"I am telling the truth. You and Mia have a one sided mind link coversation about believing me." He said with a cheeky grin.

Robyn mouth drop open, and he ease from his chair and close it. "You don't want flies getting in your mouth do you." He laugh.

"How did you know that? I thought you said that you couldn't read minds." I narrow my eyes at him. "And, why can't I read your mind?" I told my arms, not breaking eye contact with him.

"Like i said, I can read people. And the reason why you can't read my mind is because I am immune to your ability, just like how dad is immune to mine." He mutter the last part.

So my theory was right, we did share the same trait because of our dad. I really need to talk to my mom now.

"Rob, can you please keep an eye on him?"

"Why, where are you going?" Robyn questioned me.

"I need to talk to my mom, I need to get some answers from her." I told her, taping my right foot impatiently on the hard wood floor.

"Ok, no problem."

"Thank you so much." I hug here, then grab my keys and hurry out the door.

Half an hour later, I am barging into my mother's house and shaking from anger and nerves. On the bus ride to her house, I have been recapping what I have found out today. And I can't believe that my mom had been lying to me all my life. I am also nervous with what she might also share with me.

"Mom! Mom! I need to speak with you right this instant!" I yell from the living room. I hear footsteps quickly coming down the stairs.

"Miayana keep it down before you wake Jayden." She said shushing me.

So my cousin is here, my mom always babysits his son when he is in town and have to go to work. And if she's busy, I will do it. But today I do care, I want answers and I want them now.

"Why didn't you tell me that my dad is alive, why did you lie to me about him dying in Iraq?" She had a book in her hand, and it slip from her grip when she heard my out burst. "Mom look at me, why did you lie?" Tears running down my face. "You like to me that he died, and you lied to him that I died. Why did you do it?" Answer me!" I yell, when she said nothing.

"I didn't lie to you Miayana." She turn to face me. "You have been acting strange lately."

I can't believe she is standing her denying everything, when her thoughts are betraying her right this very instant.

'How did she know? Did Daison find her? Oh my Lord.'

"Mom, please don't deny it." I roughly wipe a tear from my cheek.

"I-i am not denying anythin-"

"Yes you are, and my father didn't find me. My younger sixteen year old brother found me. He even gave me this picture that dad carries around everyday." I started to break down, sobs rocked my body as I fall to my knees. My mom walk over to me and take the picture from my hand and look at it for a while, then she turn it and look at the back. A shakey hand went to her mouth and covered it.

' This can't me true.'

"Well it is Mom, and I want to know why you lied." I sniff loudly.

She walk over to the long black leather couch and sat down, patting the space beside her. I got up off the carpet covered floor and went over to sit beside her. I can see the tears glistening in her emerald eyes before they fell to her cheeks. She tuck a strand of her dark brown hair behind her ear.

"Where do you want me to begin?" She ask sniffing.

"At the begin mom, and I want the whole truth."

'Ok. I met your father in our senior year of high school, he went to Highland City prep for boys and I went to Highland high school. We met at a party, and from then on we started talking until it became something more. After high school we broke up and went out separate ways, and I met your sister's father in college. After college, your sister was born, and her dad and I got married. Four years later, we got a divorce and a year later I reunited with your dad. He started dating and two years later you where born. Things were going good, great even. I had a job that I love, you know how happy I am being a pharmacist. And he had his dream job."

"What was his dream job?" I ask curiously.

"He had always wanted to be an illustrator and artist, which he accomplish both. He had his own art studio, that he partnered with a friend. I always thought that you get your drawing skills from him." She smile at me. "So anyway, things were good. I was happy, he was happy. He was a great dad to you and a great stepdad to your sister, in generally we were happy. I promise that he was going to propose to me on Valentine day, but things took a turn for the worst and he started to act weird until be became distant. He started to come home at all hours of the nights, use to have restless sleep. I tried to find out what was wrong with him, but he just push me away telling me he wanted to keep me and you and your sister safe. This continued to happen until one day he didn't come back. You were ten months old then, and he took that picture with you a week before he disappeared. I was devastated, I thought I did something wrong. I even thought that he was seeing someone else. Two weeks passed and I didn't hear anything from him, I called his parents, friends and everyone close to him but no one saw or heard from him. Three months had past, and one night he came back. You and your sister was spending the weekend at my parents house, I was so mad at him because of something one of my friend said to me. She had said that she saw him with another woman, so I was enraged. I felt that he betrayed me. So when he came back and tried to explain, I didn't listen and when he asked for you I told him that you died because your appendix burst. He was so devastated, and my heart bled to tell him the truth but I g

harden my heart. And from that day, I never saw him again. When you started asking about him, I couldn't tell you the truth so I lied. I told that he was a soldier in the army, and he died fighting a war in Iraq. Just like how I told him that you died from your appendix bursting." She hiccuped as she tried to control her sobs.

"So how come no one ever told me that he was alive?" More tears falling from my eyes. And I shakily try to wipe them away, but the just kept on coming.

"Because I lied to them too. I told them that I received news that your dad had died. That he had secretly joined the army, and died on duty. Mia, I am so sorry." She cried, not trying to stop it anymore.

I sat there trying to process everything she had said. When did my life get so complicated? Why is she crying anyways? She didn't even listen to him when he tried to explain why he was missing. She and my sister and some of my other relatives has treated me like I was an outcast, when my mother had been the snake under the grass the whole time. She lied to my dad that I had died, when I was so very much alive. She lied to me, when I was lacking a father figure in my life. How could she sit in front of a one year old and lie to them like that. How could she see a divasated father and let him leave thinking that his first born and only child at that time had died. She cause pain and heart break. Yes he had broke her heart first, I don't give him points for that. But she said that he said was protecting her and my sister and I. She should have listen to him, let him explain and not kept me away from my father.

"Even with that lie, you and everyone else treated me like I was an outcast. You and sister dearest made my life a nightmare sometimes, you all made me feel like an outsider. You made me the Villian!" I yell, and my mother cried harder. "You be little me, always picking up and looking out for your first born, your prize possession. And never me. And nobody cared about how I was feeling on the inside. But I don't care, something amazing happened to me. And I am using it to do good, and you know what. I feel good about it, and now I am going to track down my father and ask him what happen all those years ago. Something you were afraid to do." My mom didn't say anything, she just cried. "I guess we are done here then." I get up off the couch.

"I never thought of you as a Villian or an outsider, and I am sorry if I made you felt that way. When I had you, it was one off the happiest day of my life. You were a offspring of me and my first love, and I will love you until the day I die." She said, stopping me from moving.

"So how come you always tell me that I am a nuisance, that I am mischievous every time I tried to help? Please answer that."

"I am sorry if I made you feel that way, but you never back down from a fight. You are so stubborn just like your father. I know that you are doing the right thing, but you don't have to fix everything. You don't have to get involve, it's better to keep your mouth shut sometimes." She dried her tears.

"I am the only one that can't keep their mouth shut? At least talk for the greater good." I laugh humorlessly.

"Are you talking about your sister, don't I always scold her."

"But you always defend her against me. Like that time when I was watching Dashmore for her. Everyone knows that he doesn't listen to anyone, and he always hide from people and everyone get scared. Well that day I did, and I called his mother to tell him to behave. But no, instead she started stressing and almost burst a blood vessel. And you all blame me."

"No we didn-"

"Yes you all did. You remember what you said to me that day, you said if she dies, if you die it will all be my fault."

"Honey I am so sorry, I shouldn't have said that-"

"No, you shouldn't. You all ran like headless chickens and no one cared about my feelings." I cried, angrily scrubbing the tears off my cheeks.

My mother opened her mouth to say something, my phone started to ring.

"Hello?"

"Hey Miayana." Robyn voice came over the phone.

"Hey Robyn, what's up?" I ask, trying to make my voice sound normal.

"Dai, just said there is a robbery is about to take place at the Highland City bank. We need you."

"I am on my way." I told her.

"Ok, but are you ok?" She ask suddenly sounding worried, I guess it's because of my voice.

"Yep, I am good. I am on my way."

I hang up the phone and put it in my pocket and then turn to my mom.

"I have to go."

"But we aren't finish, I want to know if we are ok?" My mother said getting up off of the couch.

"I am sorry Mom, but I have to go."

"Mi-" But Jayden woke up upstairs and started to cry.

"Jayden is awake, you should go attented to him. I have to go." I take one last look at my mother and ran out the door.

At the Highland City bank, a robbery is going down. I quickly put on my suit and look for an entrance to entered the bank without being seen. I walk around a corner and came up to a glass window and door, where I see about four mask guys in black and hostages on the ground.

'Come on dudes, hurry up. Remember the guns aren't loaded.' The guy closet to me thought.

A smile broke out onto my face, that gives me and advantage and now one will get hurt. I spotted a vent over on of the tellers desk, and a brilliant idea popped into my mind. I run from the window just as the police sirens started blaring. On the rooftop of the bank, I slip through one of the vents and follow the line to the teller area. And just as I thought, a perfect entrance. I remove the vent cover and jump through it, startling everyone.

"Woah, it's that hero. Insight!" One of the burglar yelled.

"Oh man, I told you that we should have hurried this along." The guy whose thought I had read earlier said.

"I am not afraid of a little girl!" The biggest guy shouted and the other guy flinch back. I guess he is the boss.

"Let these people go!" I yell, confidence flooding my voice.

"After they finish giving me what we came here for." The big bad boss snared.

"Come on boss, let us go right now." The same guy said to his boss, but he just shrug him off.

"You should really listen to you friend here, or he could be your lackey I don't know." I taunt him with a smirk. "Or maybe your...lover."

He drop the duffel bag he is holding and charge at me. I duck, and did a back kick which send him flying into the nearby wall. Another one came at me and I gave him an uppercut, throwing him into his partner that was coming at me on my right.

"Who is next?!" I yelled. The guy that seems to be afraid of me, came running up at me with what looks like a baseball bat?

I backflip over his head and did a roundhouse kick, and front flip. Wrapping my legs around his next, then flip him over. Landing him on his face, knocking him out.

I a draw string from my utility belt, yes I got a utility belt now. And tie the guy's hands behind him. His boss came at me again and I did a jab, then a cross, then a left hook and lastly a low kick knocking him back in the same wall and he hit his head and became unconscious. I jump in a defensive motion, and then I realise that the robbers are all down. I straighten up myself, and I look around at the hostages on the ground.

"It's ok everyone, the police are here. You are safe now." I said to them.

A security guard got up first and went to open the door alerting the police.

"Oh thank you so much." I middle age man in a grey suit came up to me. I read his name tag and saw that he is the bank manager.

"It's no biggy, I am just doing my job." I said to him.

He smile greatfully at me, people started to circle me, and their thoughts fill my head. They are all praising me on being a good and brave hero. And all the positive thoughts brought a smile to my face.

"Well folks my work here is down. I will leave the rest to the police." I salute the officers and went out the same way I came in.

I can see reporters piling up, and I jump off of the roof without being notice. They are always asking me for an interview but I always refuse. Maybe I will grant them their wish one day, but not today. I run to a secluded part of the bank and slide down the wall, as sobs rock my body. The events of the day finally talking a total on me. I cried and cried, feeling weak and defeated. I don't know how long I have been there, until I felt arms around me. I look up and saw that it is Robyn, she embrace me tightly in her arms as she rock me from side to side.

"Hey, it's ok. I am here." She whispers smoothly.

"And you have me to now big sis, I will always be here. I will always have you back." Dai said.

I smile up at him through the tears.

"Thank you guys so much." I sniff.

"Don't mention it, now let's go home." Robyn pull me up off the ground. And look around to see if anyone is watching, before she pulls me to a shiny black SUV.

I got in the car and saw a man about in his early forties around the steering wheel.

I gasp, when I remembered that I am still in my suit. Who is he, won't he notice that I am Insight and that Robyn and Dai knows who I am. Robyn got in beside me and Dai got in the front passenger seat.

"Don't worry your pretty little head sis." Dai said turning to look at me. "You can trust Marcus, in fact he knows who you are and also knows my secret. You are in safe hands, just sit back and sleep."

I stop worrying and did what he said, resting my head on Robyn's shoulder. Letting the sleep take. Feeling drained and vulnerable.