Full Summary:
Kleopatra Raviana Stamlin has always loved to travel. Since she was two-years-old, Kleopatra has traveled all over the world with her father, a talented and renowned doctor. Now her mother has asked that she get to know her half siblings during the school year. How will the Camden kids deal with another sister they never knew existed? How will Eric react to finding out that Annie was married, had a kid and gotten divorced before meeting him? How will Kleopatra react to hearing tha she has seven half siblings? And how will the Camden kids and Kleopatra get along? And will Kleopatra be able to keep her pets with her?
Kleopatra Raviana Stamlin:
Since I was two-years-old, I have been living with my father. My mother divorced him because she couldn't handle being a mother and a wife at the age of sixteen. My father was twenty-five when he met my mother. He took responsibility of his actions and even though my mother was only sixteen, they still got married. My father told me that my mother was just too young and that she didn't know what she had gotten herself into. It didn't matter to me because I was with my father and we were traveling all over the world.
When I was twelve-years-old, my father and I were in India. My father travels for his job. He's been a pediatrician and pediatric surgeon since he was twenty-four. I have had so many people come up to me and tell me that my father is their savior. They always invite us over for dinner or prayer. My father and I are very religious but we don't have a specific religion. We have celebrated every religion in the certain countries we've traveled to. We celebrate the religion of the country that we are in at the time. Not only is my father a pediatrician, I have started rescuing animals.
My father doesn't mind because I'm old enough to take care of myself. We still live together, (same house), because it's cheaper but I'm moving out soon. My fiancé, Ravi, has a condo in New Delhi. My father approves of Ravi because we've been dating since I was sixteen.
Ravi was seventeen and I was sixteen. We met when I journeyed back to India to see Lala, the Indian Elephant I had rescued from poachers when I was fourteen. I stayed with Ravi the whole time I was in India. We got to know each other pretty well. Ravi always told me that he wanted to travel just like my father and I do. He also knew that my mother lived back in the states but that I never kept in touch with her since she basically abandoned us. At the age of twenty-seven, I've traveled to nearly every country in the world. I've been to the US, but I never stayed there for more than a month a time.
My father got ahold of me a few weeks ago and told me that my mother had gotten ahold of him and asked if I wanted to get to know her. I told him that I would give it a go for a month or two, but if I didn't like it, I was leaving. He told me that I didn't have to stay but that I might stick it out for the school year and get to know my half siblings. Knowing that I had half siblings kind of made me mad. I felt like I had been dumped so that she could get married a few years later and have more kids. More then likely, she didn't tell her new husband and family about me.
So here I am, packing stuff up to take with me. Ravi said he's coming with so that I don't feel that unwelcome. His parents said that they would take care of the condo while we were gone since we had plants that couldn't go without water. We would be taking the kids with us though. Now when I say kids, I mean all the animals that we adopted because they couldn't be released back into the wild. The two that could never go back into the wild due to one being blind and the other being deaf went with us everywhere. Selna, the chimp was deaf and Solon, the Siberian tiger was blind.
My father said (and we knew as well) that we might have difficulty getting the animals into the states but they couldn't be left alone and nobody else knew exactly how to take care of them. So they came with.
Ravi knew how nervous I was to be meeting my half siblings and seeing my mother for the first time since I was two. He also knew that we might not be welcome due to the fact that we celebrated every religion we had ever come across. We would just have to wait and see what was going to happen.