The Secret Child

It had been a few days since the young child, Samuel was introduced after his mother died. He still didn't understand the concept of death and thought his mother would come back.

It was a typical morning today and Sam woke up when he could smell his new 'stepmom's' cooking which he was sharing a bed with his oldest half brother (you) since there wasn't any extra bedrooms or bed. He changed quickly and ran downstairs for food.

Seth, one of the sons who was 14, was sleeping until he could hear some noise. He was glad he didn't have to share a bed with the young child that recently moved in. Everything was tense now and he wanted to stay away from it.

Mary, the faithful wife was cooking pancakes for the morning. She was cooking a smaller portion of pancakes for the child.

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Upon feeling his younger brother waking up Jack (the oldest son at age 15), who had already woken up but decided to stay in bed a while longer, got up and made their bed after Samuel got out of their room before going downstairs as well.

The only persons still in their rooms upstairs were their father and Seth.

Sam headed downstairs and saw the woman he as told to call 'mom' but he didn't want to. He sat down at the table waiting for the food to be serve. Soon his plate of pancakes came with syrup and whipped cream which he happily ate, making a mess.

Seth decided to get up still in his pajamas as he sat down and thanked his mother for the pancakes. he glanced at his new brother, Sam, who was messily eating.

Mary served Sam and Seth the plates of pancakes, Sam's portion being much smaller.

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Jack was about to start eating his breakfast but his mother asked him to go wake up their father Edward that was most likely still in his bed sleeping, tired from yesterday's work that kept him up later than usual.

Once in Edward's room Jack went to his father's bed and shook him lightly "Dad, come on, breakfast is already served and mom needs help with Sam that's making a mess out of his".

"All right, I'll be down there soon" answered his father while yawning out of tiredness.

After hearing this Jack went back downstairs to have his breakfast. His father soon followed.

Little Sam ate happily as Mary told Jack to go and wake their father up for breakfast.

Seth watched in amazement on how messy this five year old was so much that he got distracted from his food. "Seth, eat." His mother told him which he nodded his head and began to resume eating. "Morning dad!"

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"good morning everyone" said Edward,
"Sam, stop making a mess of your breakfast and eat it before it get's cold." he scolded.
"So, what will we be doing today ?" he asked his wife and the kids.

Jack meanwhile sat down and ate ignoring his younger brother's mess.

The child pouted and he leaned closer to his plate so he wouldn’t make a mess. The child began to eat and not playing with the bunny shaped pancakes. Soon he was done and he wandered off to the living room to play. However he saw the trophy case of his older brother. He walked over opening it and he grabbed a tall glass. However soon here was a sound of breaking glass! A prized earth shape trophy shattered everywhere.

“Well I need to go to the store and Sam come back, I need to clean your face-“ She was cut short by the sound of shattering glass and she got up worried. “Samuel?” She said casting a worried glance at her husband.

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Edward went to the living room to see what happened only to find Samuel surrounded by broken glass, the door of Jack's trophy case open, and then he realised that all that glass came from the glass-made earth shaped trophy that had been awarded to Jack for winning his school's Science Fair earlier this year which was apparently lacking in the trophy case.

"Mary sweetie,hurry up and come here, I think you need to see this, also, bring a broom as well as something to pick broken glass from the floor" Shouted Edward that was so worried his son could be hurt he even forgot about what that broken glass was before it broke.

(I'm not from the US so I don't have a clue when these science fairs happen, although I know you people up there have christmas in the middle of the school year, contrary to my christmas that is in the first half of the summer hollidays.)

Jack also went there hoping it was not what he thought it was upon hearing the sound of glass breaking, he then became so angry, while at the same time being so scared of the reaction his father would have if he hit Samuel that he went up to his room to cry and try to calm down alone.

Little Sam stood in the mess seeing Edward discover the big mess. He heard Edward shout for Mary who came running in with a broom. He saw the mess had been cleaned up but he decided to accuse his stuffed animal. “Daddy, Mr. Cuddles did it.” He lied pointing to the stuffed rabbit that sat on the couch. He didn’t think he would get in trouble at all and he innocently smiled. He couldn’t find Jack at all who had left upstairs.

Seth noticed his brother was quite upset so he walked up to to the shared bedroom. “Jack are you okay?” He asked knocking on the closed door.

Mary came running in. “Oh my dear!” She gasped noticing the trophy was broken. She began to clean the mess and soon the glass shards were. “Honey, check Sam for any cuts.” She told him and she took the glass to put it in a double bag.