Chapter 6
Taylor stormed into the room, the door slamming heavily behind him. He threw himself down onto the bed dramatically, arm thrown over his face, muttering something lost to his siblings. Feeling the eyes of Isaac, Zac and Jessica on him, he sat up.
"Well?" Isaac asked.
"Well what?" Taylor replied, knowing already the response he'd get.
"Why didn't you tell us? We've always told each other everything Tay, everything!" the hurt was evident in Zac's voice. Taylor looked from him, to Jessica, her big blue eyes full of hurt and concern, to Isaac, who caramel eyes, like Zac's, showed hurt, concern, and betrayal.
Taylor's voice was soft, "I couldn't."
"That's it?!" Jessica demanded. "You're gonna die, and you weren't ever going to tell us, because you just couldn't!" She stood up, distressed, "What's happened to you? Can you even hear yourself, how ridiculous you sound? How, how… how unlike you."
Zac grabbed Jessica's shoulders. "Jess, calm down." She turned her watery eyes up to meet his, then, throwing one last hurt look at Taylor, ran from the room.
"You could've told us Tay. You know you could've." Isaac said. When he got no response, he continued, "Why would you want to keep this from us? What have we ever…"
Taylor cut him off angrily. "It's all about you! Well I'm the one with…" he sighed heavily, and grabbed his jacket off the bed, still crumpled from when he had lain atop it moments earlier.
"Where're you going?" Isaac demanded.
"Out!" was Taylor's hostile reply.