A/N: Previously: I do have family out there. I can feel it. I do have family and my best bet on finding them was in the small town of Forks, Washington.
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Thanks to Kyrra- my Fairy god mother!! Love ya! xo
It has been one month since the fateful day at Officer Banks' office, when I lost my parents and every sense of identity I ever had.
My name is Kaitlin Elizabeth Alice Masen- Roberts, I was adopted by Dr. Harold Roberts and his wife Katherine Roberts. They were lovely, amazing parents. I couldn't have asked for a better family. They always treated me as their own- so much so that I didn't find out that I wasn't theirs until after they died. I have had a good life. My parents were very wealthy, and I guess you could say I had everything a girl could want, nice house, hot car, and a loving family but I don't think I've ever really been happy. I think to some extent my parents knew that- I always felt lost and out of place here. As if I was running away from something, like there was always something missing in my life. until five days ago, I had no idea what that might be.
Today was the day I would escape this place. In a few hours, I would be flying off to Forks for the exchange program. Where I would live for 6 months, and go to school. I was going, to dig up my past, and find out exactly what happened 17 years ago. When Officer Banks told me about my birth parents I got the feeling, he wasn't telling me the whole story, but I guess how could he, he probably has no idea what that was. I just got the feeling that Forks was the answer to all of my questions. Where is my father? What happened to my mother? How did she die? What were they like? Do I have any living relatives?
"Kaity, the limo's here. You ready to go?" I heard my caretaker's voice come from behind me. I had lost track of time, my flight was in two hours. I got up, closed my suitcase, and made my way downstairs. Preparing myself to go back to the town where it all began.
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Starring out the window into the green-ness that surrounded me, I had a feeling I wasn't gonna be to fond of Forks. I guess I was too used to the sun in L.A., but I had to keep my focus, I was here to find my family.
Before I knew it, the taxi had stopped in front of an old style, Victorian house, the type you'd expect to see in a small town like this one. It looked very cozy and beautiful. A young couple stepped out of the house and made their way to the cab, a teenage girl who I assumed was Louise- my host sister, trailed behind them.
"Hi Kaitlin? I'm Jessica Newton - your host mother. How are you honey?" The woman said to me without really looking at me, she seemed too pre-occupied looking at the suitcases that her husband was unloading. She seemed very peppy; I smiled and shook her hand.
"Hi, thank you so much for welcoming me into your home."
"Oh nonsense! Come on in out of the cold." She said still looking at the bags. She turned to face me then and I was startled by her reaction. She quickly dropped my hand and stepped a way from my slightly. It was as if she'd seen a ghost.
"Oh my! Bella?" she said sounding scared.
"I'm sorry. Who?" I was confused.
"I'm sorry, you just look a lot like an old friend of mine… sorry would you excuse me?" she sounded flustered. She ran off to her husband and pulled him back to where I stood.
"What is it Jess?" Mr. Newton said sounding annoyed.
"Mike look…" she said making him look at me.
"Oh my god! Bella?" He said also looking slightly scared.
"My name is Kaity- well Kaitlin" I said trying to keep calm. I was quite confused.
"Kaitlin, what'd you say your last name was?" Mr. Newton asked me.
"umm.. Masen, well that's my biological last name, but I've been known as Kaity Roberts for the last 17 years. Why?"
"Uhh.. No reason. Why don't you come on inside and make yourself at home? Louise, take Kaity inside." Mrs. Newton said, forcing a smile.
"Hi Kaity, I'm Louise." Louise said as she guided me into the house.
"Hey, thanks for this.. umm. What was that about?" I asked her as she took me to a bedroom in the top corner of the house.
"Uhh.. don't worry about it, my parents are a lil weird. Here this is your room. Dad'll bring up your bags soon. I'll leave you to settle in, come down to the kitchen when you're ready though, mom made pancakes."
"Thanks."
Once I was alone I dug my birth certificate from my bag and had a look at the names under mine. The ones I never really focused on before- I had thought about my birth parents but I hadn't really wanted to see their names because I knew. It would mean nothing to me- they were just names to me. I don't know why, but for some reason I wasn't surprised to see that my mother's name was Isabella Bella Swan… Then it hit me- The Newtons knew my mom.
I quickly changed my clothes and rushed down to the kitchen. I had to know what they knew.
"Mr. Newton? Mrs. Newton?" I called as I entered the kitchen.
"Yes, Kaity is everything ok?" Mr. Newton called from the lounge room, where he and his wife were looking through an old book, what looked like a high school yearbook.
"Mike, she looks exactly like her!" Mrs. Newton said, pointing to a picture.
"Mr. Newton, did you know my mother?" I blurted out, not sure how else to word it.
"I'm sorry?" he sounded confused.
"My birth mum, Isabella…" I hesitated, but before I could continue, he finished my sentence.
"Swan?" pain crossed his face.
"I knew it! You had to be Bella's daughter! You just had to be! I mean the resemblance it's uncanny!" Mrs. Newton jumped up from the couch, tears running down her face.
I stood there frozen. I knew this place would have answers for me but I never dreamed of how quickly I'd find them.
Mrs. Newton pulled me to the couch to sit next to her.
"We went to high school with her dear. She was one of my best friends." She started telling me. Mr. Newton was still standing, he looked shocked, but he suddenly snapped out of it and came to my side.
"Kaity, I'm sorry, I know this must be hard for you but I must know who is your father?"
"Mike!" Mrs. Newton shot him a dark look. "I'm sorry Kaity, just ignore him."
"No it's ok. My father's name is Edward Cullen…" I said indifferently. Mr. & Mrs. Newton exchanged a meaningful look, before turning back to me.
"Did you know him?" I asked hopefully.
"Yes, Kaity we did…" Mrs. Newton began.
"Please Mr. Newton, Mrs. Newton! What do you know? Do you know where he is? Please!" I pleaded.
"Kaity, please, Call us Mike and Jessica." Mike told me.
"Kaity, we don't know where he is. He left Forks almost a year before…" Jessica faded off, purposely.
"Before my mother died?" I understood where they were getting at.
"I didn't even know she had a child. She was 18." Jessica started crying again.
I suddenly remembered something else Officer Banks had told me.
"Your mother died shortly after you were born, so your grandfather gave you up for adoption..."
"Wait, My grand father, is he still alive?"
"Chief Swan? Yes of course! He still works in the police station too. He's never been quite the same... not since he lost Bella.." Mike said not seeing the point. I felt my own tears fall too.
"Mr. Newton please can you take me to him?"
Within minutes, we had reached a small white house. As soon as I saw it, I felt a stab of déjà vu, as if I had been here before. I realised that this was the house I was born in.
"Mike? Is that you?" an aging man, about 65 at least stepped out of the old house. I felt the tears leak from eyes furiously.
"Yeah Chief Swan, it's me. Chief there is someone I'd like you to meet...," he announced proudly as if he has 'discovered' me. I stepped out of the car and faced my Grandfather, I saw an immediate flash of pain cross his face, and then he looked almost angry.
"Kaitlin…" he said recognizing me.
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