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"Is it, maybe because you don't trust me?"

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Third Pov

(Y/n) was currently tossing one of her younger siblings in the air for a few minutes to play, and do the same with the next kid that wants a turn. (Y/n) would sometimes look at Norman, Ray, and Emma on their conversation.

She thought it was best to ignore them for the time being. Especially since they are always talking together about it. But, there was something that bothered her, the fact that they told Ray immediately after they found out the truth, but not even her.

She thought since she was also one of the oldest children, they would tell her about it. But, instead, they told Ray, because they were probably more closer to him than they were with her.

She took one last glance at her three siblings, before walking far away from them.

Meanwhile, Ray, Norman, and Emma were discussing their next plan. "Emma, we should start playing Tag in teams from now on." Norman suggested. "Why's that?" Emma questioned.

"Honestly, most would die if they escaped on their own." Ray said. "Come on, Ray!" Emma whined. "Not to say that they don't have some potential. But we shouldn't let them run solo." Ray said.

"We'll make formations and take off in teams." Norman said. "That way, we'll simulate the real escape." Ray added. Emma looks down and muttered, "The real one...", " I have another idea as well." Norman brought up, catching Ray and Emma's attention. Normans face got a bit serious, "Let's tell Don, Gilda and (Y/n). If we get them on our side, they can be team leaders."

"And what if they turn out to be moms informant?" Ray asked. "Don't worry. I'll basically kill three birds with one stone. Just leave it all to me. I've already made arrangements." Norman reassured.

"Emma," Ray gets Emma's attention, "Listen up. Memorize these formations, there are 100 of them." He said. "Wait, you mean by ear?" She sweat dropped. "You can't do it?" Ray teased. Emma smirked in determination, "Easy peasy!"

It was now time to play tag with everyone, Emma, Ray, and Norman were team leaders. Don was on Normans team, Gilda was on Emma's team, and (Y/n) was on Ray's team.

"The goal here is to not get caught. You have ten minutes. Go!" Ray explained, as both Emma and Normans team ran off into the forest. Ray turns to (Y/n), "Think you can memorize which way they can go?" He asked, earning a silent nod from her.

Ray and (Y/n)'s team ran off into the forest, starting to track down Emma and Normans teams. They eventually catch up to them, but they split off, so they stopped. "Got a plan to catch them both, (Y/n)?" He questioned. (Y/n) takes her coin out and flips it.

Heads

She turns to Ray, "Yeah. I say we should split up too. You go get Normans team, and I'll go get Emma's. If we take at least half, we'll still be a team. Or, if we can make them meet up, we'll catch them there at the same time." She said. Ray nodded, and took half of the team and ran off to Norman. While (Y/n) ran to Emma.

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The game ended, with Ray and (Y/n)'s team winning, since her strategy worked.

"That was so fun!" Phil cheered. "You did pretty amazing, Phil." Emma praised.

"Hey, can we do that again? And this time, I want to be the leader." Don said. "Maybe we should take a break first." Gilda advised.

"Big sis (Y/n)! That was a pretty clever strategy!" Thomas said. (Y/n) looks down at him and nodded as a thanks.

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Emma, Ray, and Norman were discussing about the tag teams. "This is a great idea. I think it'll work!" Emma cheered.

Ray was lost in thought, while star in at Phil. "Emma. What's Phil score again?" He asked. Emma turns to him and thinks about it. "Let's see. He's averaging about 203 lately." She answered.

"Pretty high." Norman said. "When we play tag with sister, and now. He was one of the last left." Ray said. "And on top of that, he and Sherry are always looking for you, too."

Emma does some thinking, thinking about if Phil and Sherry were the traitors, Emma's face turns into a terrified one. "Ahhh! Stop it! I don't want to suspect anyone at all!" She panicked. "You got to start suspecting everyone you dummy! This is life or death!" Ray scolded.

Norman stares at Ray for a few seconds before asking him something."Hey Ray. Are you any closer of breaking the tracking devices. How mich time do you need?", Ray puts his hand on his chin, thinking about it. "Let's see here. About ten days."

"Then let's commence the plan ten days from now." Norman said. "That's when we'll break out of this place. On November 8th." Norman concluded, making Emma and Ray shocked.

"Wait, that's so soon
I mean it's fine but--" "Are you crazy?! Conny was shipped two weeks ago. And shipments go out every two months. So we should have at least a month and a half. Weren't we suppose use that time to carefully plan out our plan?" Ray ranted.

"Yeah. You're only thinking that way because Mom is controlling us to think that way. So I say we outwit her." Norman explained. "And if we fail from being too rushed? Then what?" Ray questioned. "We need to escape before winter coat. Once we break the devices, we'll execute the escape plan." Norman said.

"Then, we got over a week to do everything. But, let's tell Don, Gilda, and (Y/n) about the plan tonight."

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(Y/n), Don, and Gilda were told to wait at the Dining room at bedtime so Emma, Ray, and Norman can talk to them. (Y/n) and Gilda were sitting next to each other, as (Y/n) took her coin out and flipped it.

Heads

(Y/n) turns to Gilda, " Do you think they'll finally talk to us on why they're so strange lately?" She asked. Gilda was still looking down in nervousness, "I hope so. We've been so suspicious on them but we've never questioned it." She muttered.

Soon or later, the three older siblings finally come into the dining room. Emma stands in front of the other three siblings, and starts to explain almost everything, with a confused Don, Sadden Gilda, and a blank (Y/n).

"Human trafficking?" Don said in a confusing tone. "Yeah. All of our siblings have been sold off to bad people." Emma lied.

Don then starts to laugh. "Pfft! Hahahahaha, there's no way! No way!" He laughed. "But the walls, the gate, and the siblings who left and never write us letters..." Norman added.

"Oh, come on, now. So what's the punch line? What kind of prank is this?" Don asked, but nobody said anything at all to break it. Don notices and turns to everyone, "You're not saying it's true, are you?" Don asked hesitantly. "It is." Ray immediately spoke up.

"Wait, what about Mom?" Don turn to face Emma. Emma looks down sadly, "She's the one...Who's selling us to bad people." She half lied. Don was shocked by her words. "There's no way Mom would ever do that to us! Take it back, Emma!" He overreacted.

"Don." Gilda gutted Don off. Don turns to Gilda and (Y/n). "Emma loves this house and Mom as much as we do. Theres no way she would lie about that." Gilda said. "Gilda..." Emma muttered.

"To tell you the truth, I did think it was weird. The night that Conny left... Emma and Norman went to the gate, and..." Gilda explained. "You did?" Don questioned, as Norman nodded his head. "Even if you broke the rules, both of you would usually apologize immediately, and everything would go back to normal. But you haven't done that yet." She said. Making Emma surprised.

"Emma, you've been become so serious now. So I couldn't ask about it. Because I was too scared to bring it up. I even talked to (Y/n) about it, and she said that you didn't talk to her about it either, considering she's also the oldest." Gilda then broke down and started crying. (Y/n) then gave her a hug from the side, and brought her head to her chest, rubbing her head comfortly.

Emma immediately rushes to them and started to apologize. "Did you see it? Did you see Conny get selled to those bad people?" Gilda asked, still in tears. Emma was hesitant about what to say, but Norman heated her to it. "Yeah. But we didn't make it in time." He said.

"Okay, but, Is Conny safe?" Don worriedly asked. "I don't know." Norman shrugged, making (Y/n) furrow her eyebrows to Norman and Emma, since they're lying to her and Gilda and Don about everything.

"Impossible. This can't be real!" Don refused to believe everything they've said. "I don't know if this proves much. But for the past few days these are our siblings scores that I had Ray and Emma look into." Norman gives Don and Gilda a sheet of paper that had the other siblings scores, and their shipment date.

"According to this, but kids over six are adopted in order of lowest scores first. Isn't that weird?" Norman noted. "True, Conny's scores are... And Hao and Ceddy..." Don muttered. "It's just like Norman said." Gilda added.

"Don. Gilda." The two turned to Emma, "Let's escape. So that we can help everyone. We can do it, if we work together. Please, help us." Emma pleaded. Don and Gilda started to think about it, but eventually gave in and agreed to help. Emma smiles in relief, and geared up.

The silence was interrupted by the sound of a coin flip. Everyone turned their heads to see (Y/n)'s coin in the air, as it fell on her palm, as it landed on heads. "... It seems that I was partially excluded in this confession just now..." She muttered, making everyone jolt.

"(Y/n), we didn't mean to exclude you!" Emma frantically panic. "So you just admitted that you forgot that I was even here." (Y/n) retorted, making Emma panic even more that she ended up forgetting her.

"(Y/n)..." Norman started to speak, "Will you help us too?" He asked, silently hoping that she would accept. (Y/n) looks down, as she look back up. "I don't know... " she muttered.

"What do you mean you don't know. Don't you want to help everyone?" Norman asked. (Y/n) looks down again, with a shadow casted over her eyes.

"Norman, Emma, when you guys went to the gate to give little bunny to Conny, you both were acting real strange. I was thinking if it was best if I should talk to you two about it, or not. And my coin chose for me not to. Then soon, I noticed you two, along with Ray coming out of the forest by yourselves. And with you three telling us, made me add the pieces together. You told Ray about everything the day after you both found out didn't you?" She said, making them surprised.

"I thought it was weird considering that you told Ray about everything, immediately after you guys found out the next day. But you guys ended up telling me and Gilda and Don about it days later. I expected you guys to tell Ray considering that he's the oldest as well, and you guys trusted him on getting the info on the kids at this orphanage. I thought you guys mightve needed my help too, or maybe talked to me about it. You guys have barely talked to me at all ever since. Is it...

Because you guys don't trust me?"

That last sentence caught everyone off. They didn't think that (Y/n) think like that. "I know I'm always quiet and hardly talk at all. I am not as close with the other siblings like you guys. And I know I don't express any emotion at all. I'm always obedient to Moms orders since my choices don't matter to me. I thought you guys would at least tell me things since we're family. Is it because of my obedience that made you all not talk to me as much? Is it because of me not showing any emotion? If you guys didn't want to tell me anything, it's fine. But the fact that you guys were hiding things from us, it... Hurted me. For the first time in a long time, I felt a tinge of pain deep inside when you guys didn't bother on telling me anything. I thought I was gonna finally be accepted into this family, but I guess I was an idiot for thinking that..." (Y/n) said, gripping on her skirt with her voice starting to break.

Everyone's eyes were wide from this sudden confession. Were they neglecting her like that for real? Norman immediately rushes to (Y/n) and held her hands into his own. "(Y/n) please don't think like that. We're sorry you thought of us like that. And of course not! We trust you to the fullest, and we know you care about us. We understand that you don't feel comfortable telling us about your past life and it's fine. What matters is that we're here for you." He said in a panic and sad tone.

Emma runs over to (Y/n) and tackled her in a hug. "I'm sorry, (Y/n)! We're sorry! We promise we'll tell you more from now on! We will support you no matter what!" Emma cried while holding her.

Ray comes down from the shelf, and walked towards (Y/n). He places his hands on each side of her cheeks, and lifted her head up. Ray caught a glimpse of a tiny little tear in her eye, to which made him surprised.

"(Y/n). Not one day has passed since we started to not care about you. Everyone in this Orphanage loves and cares about everyone too. We know you can be emotionless, we know you can be obedient, and for that we can't help but feel worried for you. We want you to make your own choices so you don't end up broken. We want you to be happy, and see you smile for the first time in our eyes. We all love you and care about you, despite you being the way that you are. We love you for being you. And that will never change. The one thing we definitely want, is to see you smile and happy. And... I'm sorry too." Ray brought her head to his chest.

(Y/n) was deeply surprised by this shown of affection from other. Aside from Tsukihiko, (Y/n) was barely shown any love. So this caught her surprised that she was treated this way. She honestly thought that they wouldn't like her for being the way she is.

Ray and (Y/n) broke from the hug. Ray looks down at her hand, to which as holding her coin. "(Y/n), mind if I can see your coin?" Ray pointed to her hand. This got (Y/n) to be confused, but she still handed Ray her coin with no question.

Ray looked at it and gave it a light toss before clenching it. "How about this. If I flip this coin and it lands on heads. Then will you promise that you'll try to follow your heart?" He suddenly said, catching everyone's attention on that.

Ray flips the coin pretty high, as he immediately caught the coin and covered it with his other hand. (Y/n)'s eyes shake in horror, wondering what the result was gonna be. Was it actually gonna land on heads?

And it turns out to be heads.

Ray smiles softly at the result. "It looks like it came as heads. Here." He gave (Y/n) her coin back. As he immediately grasped her hands together. "Remember (Y/n). It may be smart to use your brain all the time. But it's always best to follow your heart. Please consider that." Ray said.

(Y/n) was genuinely surprised by this. "H-How did you manage to make it heads, Ray?" She asked. 'I know Ray enough that he doesn't cheat at all. But I still can't help it...'

"I guess it was by a chance. If it was tails, I would have keep flipping it." Ray simply said. "I agree with Ray. You should always follow your heart, (Y/n). We'll be more than happy if you speak and smile more." Emma smiled. "Same here. We want you to follow your heart. Do what you think is right." Norman added.

(Y/n) felt something that she couldn't express in her heart. From her best friends/siblings words and kind heart. (Y/n) felt a glint of hope in her eyes.

"So, (Y/n). Will you help us? We might need your help the most." Emma said, walking up to her. (Y/n) gave a silent nod, to which made Emma and Norman happy.

"We'll explain more later the next day. But it's getting late." Ray said, before leaving the room, with Norman and Emma behind him. Don and Gilda went ahead of (Y/n), while she was still processing what happened.

'Follow my heart? And do what's right?'

(Y/n) walks up to the door to hear Ray telling Norman on why he and Emma had to lie to them. (Y/n) can't help but still feel betrayed by them, since she does not like liars. (Y/n) looks down at her coin behind clenching it tightly.

'I'll do what's right then.'

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Later that night, it was late as everyone was asleep. Gilda and (Y/n) then slowly gets up from their beds, while carefully not making a sound, out of the room.

Emma on the other hand, heard them. As she cautiously got up and followed them by tip toeing. Emma can clearly see the green-haired and the (H/c)-haired outside of Sister Krones room. "I've been waiting for you two, Gilda, And (Y/n)." Emma was really shocked to see them enter Sister Krones room.

Emma quietly walked and pressed her ear on Sister Krones door, listening to their conversation. "We can talk now. Can't we?" Sister Krone said in a sickly sweet tone. "About the issue, right?" Gilda murmured.

Emma was gritting her teeth about what Gilda or (Y/n) was gonna say. (Y/n) slowly looked at Gilda's expression, as it starts to anger a bit, (Y/n) can see that Gilda is struggling on what to say. "Well there isn't an issue! We appreciate you checking up on us so much but there isn't anything to worry about." Gilda finally let it out.

Sister Krone is definitely tell she isn't exactly telling the truth. "Are you sure? I can't help but be concerned." She said "concernly", "We feel better now. So please, stop worrying about us, goodnight." Gilda and (Y/n) bowed as they were about to leave, until Krone stopped them.

"I see. Emma told you two everything, then?" Sister Krone unexpectedly spoke, stopping Gilda and (Y/n). Sister Krone walks up in front of them, "Am I right, Gilda? (Y/n)? She told you both all about it didn't she?" She asked. (Y/n) can see panic in Gilda's eyes. They gotta say something as a cover.

"Aww, too bad. I was hoping we could've become such good friends." Sister Krone said dramatically. Until she moved her crazed face closer to them. "So who else knows? Norman. Ray. And?" Sister Krone tried to pressure Gilda by saying who knows the secret, but (Y/n) did not like it one bit.

Sister Krone puts one of each of her hands on both girls cheeks, "I'll let you two off the hook if you cooperate with me. Let's work together." Gilda was shaking from Sister Krones confrontation, (Y/n) slowly looks down to her empty hand where she would usually have her coin in. She starts thinking of what Ray told her. 'Follow my heart...Do what I think is right...'

She clenches her hand as (Y/n) smacks Krones arm away from Gilda's face. Both Sister Krone and Gilda were surprised by her action. (Y/n) was a bit hesitant on what to say, but she carefully looked up at Krone and spoke. "I'm sorry, Sister Krone. But Gilda and I are fine now. Me and Gilda recently had a fight with Emma but we are alright now. You don't need to worry about us anymore, we're still growing. So let us deal with it." She muttered, but loud enough for Krone to hear.

"I see. So it was my misunderstanding. I apologize." She apologized with a smiled. But she soon then comes leaning to both of the girls ears. "If you two think Emma is lying to you both. Feel free to talk to me." She adviced.

(Y/n) slowly takes her hand and grabbed Gilda's hand and dragged her outside of the room. "Sweet dreams you two." Krone said before closing her door.

(Y/n) and Gilda carefully gets into the room and to stay quiet, until they see Emma in front of them. "Emma..." Gilda muttered, before she tears up and wobbled to Emma and cried in her embrace.

(Y/n) was eyeing Emma especially. Since she is still keeping an eye on Emma since she is still lying to Her, Gilda, and Don.

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The next day, at night, after Norman and Emma explained the purpose of tag teams, (Y/n) was currently cleaning the dinner table, before Norman caught her attention.
"(Y/n), mind if we talk?" He asked, earning a nod from her.

(Y/n) sat down while Norman stood in front of her. "I got a question. We are suspecting that there possibly might be a spy working for mom and the demons, and if they are, and they're guaranteed to living for giving bits of information..." Norman tried to speak more, but (Y/n) beat him to it. "Are you perhaps saying that this possible traitor won't get shipped out because they are spying on us?" She questioned, earning a yes from Norman.

"Would you take them with us? Or leave them behind?" Norman asked, giving (Y/n) a moment to think. "I... I guess I'd take them." She answered, making Norman surprised a bit. "Even if they didn't want that?" Norman questioned again. (Y/n) nodded at his question. "As much as my brain is saying it's best to leave them since they back stabbed us. I think it's best to take them. I mean, they are still a living person, and if everyone here ends up escaping, then that persons life might not be guaranteed anymore." She said.

"And um... Also, my heart is also sorta saying that I should believe in this traitor. I may not forgive them for spying on us, but they are still family. The majority of you all grew up here together, even after I joined this orphanage, I still consider everyone as family. I never had this much family experience even in the outside world. So, what I'm saying is, I'll definitely not forgive them if they don't want to escape alive with everyone, and just because they did a bad action, doesn't mean their bad as a person. I'll make sure everyone in this family is safe and alive." (Y/n) concluded.

Norman was beyond shocked by her words. His expression changed into a smile. 'She really is starting to speak from the heart.'

Norman smiled more at her before walking and embraced her in a hug. "I'm glad you would say something from your beautiful heart. And remember (Y/n), you're part of our family now. You must include yourself if you want to escape with us." Norman said, before releasing the hug.

(Y/n) watched Norman leave into the hallway, before she thought to herself if she should follow Norman or not. She personally couldn't decide on this one cause she felt like she knew why Norman asked her that sudden question. (Y/n) takes her coin out, 'Heads to follow him, Tails not to.'

She flips it.

Heads

She then takes a deep breath before slowly following Norman down the hallway, to which lead her to a room where Norman and Ray was. Her breath nearly hitched as she covered her mouth with her hand as she looks through the room from the small crack of the door.

"No rope?" Ray asked, receiving a No from Norman. "Okay then. Then it's Don." Ray confirmed, with Norman nodding.

(Y/n) knew for a fact that it was not Don. Since how could he if he recently found out? (Y/n) didn't know why, but even though she also suspects a certain someone, her heart won't stop beating in suspension.

"Actually the traitor is you, Ray." Norman concluded, and (Y/n) can see that Ray is shocked by this. So was (Y/n).

'I had suspicion on you Ray since day one... But why though?'

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Holy Mother of god! I've been raised from the dead! Hewo everyone! I'm back now and a bit better than ever. School started for me about a month ago, but the work has been dragging me down and I'm having more family issues to the fact it doesn't motivate me, that's why I stopped writing for the past 2 months. I wanted to finish this cuz I started to rewatch Tpn and I missed writing this so I decided to finish this chapter.

I'll soon write the next one later today after school ends, cuz I would say the next chapter has tea. But it depends on how much I write. But anyways, I hope you guys at least enjoyed this. Have a good day!