836 CLOSURE

"You guys never treated me like I'm one of you anyway. I can't even remember the last time I felt that I was also a part of this family, until I felt the love from my new family. Candice treats me like her own daughter. She is always there for me when I accompany Mika who is sick."

"We don't know where Mika is being treated, if we knew where she was being treated, we would have definitely come," Lyle said in a defensive voice. "If you had allowed us to come, we would have definitely come to provide support, but you didn't allow us to meet, you don't even want to see us."

Kia looked at her father intently with a look of disbelief, she should have expected this, but it didn't lessen her pain knowing how ignorant her family could be.

"There was one thing you could do, giving me Alia's medical history, but you didn't." Kia reminded them of this.