Chapter 9 Family

Okay everyone here is chapter 9. I hope ya'll enjoy it and that ya'll like it. Let me know what ya'll think by reviewing :)

I looked at the house. It was like five times or more bigger than the one in Seattle.

"This one's it?" Jace asked.

"Yes." I said

"It's huge." He said.

I looked at him and smiled. I got off the car and got Isabella out. I went to the front door. Someone was waiting for us.

"Karla." Alex said.

"Alex." I said shaking his hand.

"Well our work is done. Here is the key to the house." He said giving me a key.

"What about the keys to the rooms?"

"Those are separate." He said getting a key chain out of his pocket with lots of keys.

"It has been a pleasure working with you. Please do call us again if you need anything. I know that you are going to be pleased with our work."

I smiled. "I think I am."

He nodded. "Well I must go now. It is a very long drive and I want to make it home before dinner."

I smiled. "Of course."

He nodded and went to get in his car.

Jace got off the Volvo.

I looked at the keys. There was a little remote. Like the ones they give you when you just bought a car and it has an alarm. It had a red and a green button. I pressed the green button. It made a noise and I looked up and saw that it had opened the garage door. Two cars were already there. One was black and the other was blue. the garage was not right next to the house. There was a road the size of two lanes that went between them. The garage was facing the house. I went to see the cars. One of them was a black Nissan Titan. The car was a blue Nissan Skyline.

I smiled.

"Are you serious? This is a huge garage!" Jace said.

I smiled again.

"Hey Frank start getting the cars down. We are going to put them in here." Jace said.

"Jace I am going to go take a quick shower. There is something I must do." I told him.

He nodded. "How many are they?"

"Seven."

"Okay. I'll make something in a little bit."

"Thank you." I said giving him a kiss.

I went to the front door with Isabella.

"Karla." Jace said.

I turned around.

"How am I supposed to know which one is our room?"

I smiled. "Go to the elevator. Go to the second floor and then go to the last hallway on the left side."

He nodded.

"I'll leave the door open."

"Okay."

I went inside. This was the first time I was coming in so I was really surprised. The living room was old fashioned. It had big lamps in the ceiling like in the movies. There was a set of satire to the left and a set of stairs to the right. The stairs were black with a blue carpet on the middle. The colors were black and silver. There was a sky blue also but it looked like it was glowing. The furniture was black and the walls were gray. The decorations on the walls were silver. I walked forward to under the stairs to the end. I pressed the button to the elevator. I went in and the doors closed. Isabella had fallen asleep. The elevator started going up and then it stopped. The doors opened and I got out. I looked around. It reminded me of when I was in high school.

I sighed. I turned to my left and started walking. I stopped when I got to the last hallway on the left. I turned to face the hallway in front of me. There were rooms to my left and rooms to my right. I started walking toward. I passed four doors and stopped on the fifth one that was on the right. I opened the door and turned on the light. I closed the door behind me. The room had three colors. It had brown, beige and black. The furniture was black, the walls and the bedspread were beige and Brown. The curtains were Brown.

I smiled. I actually liked what they had done. I went to lay down Isabella on the bed. I put the pillows around her. I went to the restroom and turned on the light. The restroom was brown and beige. They had really done a good job. I took my clothes off and got in the shower. About twenty minutes later I got out if the shower. I wrapped the towel around me and went back to the room. I went to the closet and turned on the light. The closet was huge. It was a fitting room, a closet and a salon all together. The walls were sky blue, the carpet was blue. The walls were the same sky blue that I had seen down stairs. It looked like it was glowing. The doors to the fitting rooms were aqua. I went to get a strapless brown dress. I put it on and then I put on my brown ankle boots.

I pulled the zipper to the boots and the zipper from the dress. The dress was three inches above my knees. I connected the blow dryer and turned it on. I dried my hair. It was better than straighten it. When I was done I turned it off. I went back to the room. I went to check Isabella's diaper. It had to be changed. I picked her up and went back to the hallway. I went to the stairs and walked down. Jace and the others were already putting everything inside in the living room. He looked up as I came to stand beside him.

"That dress looks good on you." Jace said.

I smiled. "Thank you. Listen it's about to be four and I need to go. I don't know if I should take Isabella and let them see her or wait until we get here." I said.

He sighed and then he smiled. "Give her to me. It's going to be easier once they are here."

I nodded. "You're right. So I leave you the car seat?"

"Sure."

I went outside to the Volvo and got Isabella's car seat out and I took it inside and left it in the living room.

"There is some stuff I must do Bella. I'm going to miss you my little princess." I said kissing her cheek.

"What about me? What am I?" Jace said.

"You are the king to my heart." I said giving him a kiss on the lips. He kissed me back. I let him go and sighed.

I knew that what I was about to do was going to be difficult.

"Good luck." He said.

"Thanks. I'm going to need it."

He laughed. "It's not going to be that bad."

"Just wait and see."

He nodded.

"Well I'm going to go."

He nodded.

I walked outside and got in the Volvo. I turned it on and put it on reverse. Them I put it on drive. I knew that my father. got out of work at six, but since he got a divorce with my mother years ago he didn't live with us. So I was not going to be seeing him today. I got out of the driveway and turned right. I went through the curves and then I turned right to the street that went under the freeway. I turned left and got on the freeway. I got on I-10 East. As I drove towards Channelview I started to get nervous. It had been almost a year since I had left and now I was back.

I was married and had a seven month old daughter, that no matter what she was like my own. I was different and pregnant.

I sighed. "Breathe in and breathe out." I told myself. The last thing I needed was to have an anxiety attack while driving. After an hour and a half had passed I was already passing Houston's downtown. Under the sunset it looked beautiful. I knew there were a lot of things that I missed from Houston. Like visiting my family, who had become normal a month before I left, being around my friends. I had talked to Cindy, Tania and Ana while I was in Seattle but I had not seen them. They were like my sisters to me. I trusted them like I didn't trust my own sisters. I knew that I could tell Cindy, Tania and Ana anything and that they would be there when I needed them.

They also knew it was the same with me. The last time I had talked to Tania was like three months ago. Now that I was back u was going to have to go look for her. Fifteen minutes later I was passing a sign that said 'Channelview next right'. I sighed and smiled. Channelview was the same as when I left. When I left they were building new schools because they did not have enough space in the other ones. Channelview's population had grown in ten years. Twelve years ago it was safe to walk at two in the morning by yourself.

Now you would either get ribbed or raped. I took the exit. I moved to the last lane and then I turned right. I kept going forward until I got to the first house on the left. I parked in front if the white house on the same spot that my mother parked her truck. She wasn't home since the truck was not there. I stayed in the car. I looked in the rear mirror and saw that Yurlin was already drinking with his friends. I got off my Volvo and looked at the house. It still looked kind of the same from the outside. The only difference was that it had gotten fixed.

I heard a car stop.

"Hey can you move your car?" A familiar voice said.

It was my brother Chris.

"Wait that's a Volvo." Chris said.

"I can't believe that you don't recognize me." I said turning around.

"Karla!" Chris and Kevin said getting off the truck. They came to hug me.

"Hey how have ya'll been?" I asked them.

"Good and you?" Kevin asked.

"Good. Let me move my car so mom can park."

They let go of me and I got in the car. I got out of the drive way and parked on the other side. The house had two drive ways so we had two places to park. I got off the Volvo. I then noticed that everyone was staring at me, including the men that were drinking at the house in from of ours. I did look different. My hair was reddish-brown and I was wearing a dress. When I used to live here I didn't wear dresses. I went to where Chris and Kevin were. Chris was taller than me already and Kevin's head was just below my chin.

"You look different." Chris said.

"Yea I know but I guess ya'll are not the only one that noticed." I told him looking at the men that were drinking.

"Yea that's true. Welcome back." He said giving me a hug.

"Thanks." I said. I let him go and went to where my mother was. "Hi mom."

"No way! It can't be! You're back!" She said hugging me really hard against her.

I hugged her too. I had missed her a lot during the year I was gone

"Yes I am. I came back home."

"I'm so glad you are home."

"Mom?"

"Yes?"

I swallowed. "I missed you a lot."

"Aw, sweetie I missed you too. But the good thing is that you are back. Are you on vacation?"

"No. I came to stay."

She let me go and nodded.

"Where's Jasmine?"

"She went to Mexico for a few days. She should be back either today or tomorrow."

"Oh. What about David?"

"Here he is." Kevin said.

"Hi David." I said grabbing him.

"Look David its Kala."

"Kala?"

"Hey."

"Kala!" He said giving me a hug.

"Aw, u missed you too."

He looked at me.

I gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Well I'm going to the shell to put gas."

They nodded.

I got in the Volvo and turned it on. I put the car on reverse. I got out of the drive way and put it on drive. I went to the right. I went straight and saw when Yurlin asked someone for the car keys. I went straight until the street ended. Then I turned left. When I got to the light I turned left into the gas station. I Parked and turned off the car. I got out and swiped the debit card. I put the hose on the tank and started fueling the tank. I saw a car park next to me.

"Hey." Yurlin said.

"Hey." I said.

"How have you been?" He asked.

"Good. How about you?"

"Kind of good, hanging around here missing you. I have missed you a lot."

"Oh! I thought that you had probably moved on since a year already passed."

"I thought about it but I couldn't."

"Oh." I put the hose back.

"How about you?"

"Um, I went out a couple of times." I said closing the little door to the tank.

"What does that mean?"

"Look if you don't mind I have other stuff to do than ti be interviewed."

I went inside the store and bought some chips and sodas. I went to pay.

"Do I know you?" The man at the register said. He had an accent from India.

"Yes I'm Karla."

"Alba's daughter?"

I nodded. "The same one."

"You mean a different one. You changed so much."

I smiled. "Everyone keeps saying that."

He nodded. "Maybe it has to do with wedding ring on your finger."

I looked down at my left hand. I had both rings Jace had given me at out wedding.

I laughed. "Yea it does, a little bit."

"You pregnant?"

I nodded.

"Congratulations."

"Thank you."

"Where have you been? I haven't seen you in a while."

"I was in Washington."

"D.C?"

"No. Seattle."

"Ah. How is the weather over there?"

"Way different. It's really nice though."

He nodded.

I paid and went back to the car. Yurlin was still there.

"So where are you going now?" He asked.

"To my mother's house." I said.

"Are you going to stay there long?"

"No. I'm just going to drop off some stuff and then I'm going to my house."

"Can I come with you?"

"To my mother's house?"

"No, to yours."

"Why?"

"I want to talk to you."

"We can talk at my mother's house. Inside my car."

He nodded.

I turned on the Volvo and went back to my mother's house. I parked behind my mother's truck and got out. I noticed that Lando's car was already there. I went inside.

"Hey." Chris said.

"Hey." I said.

"What did you bring?" Kevin asked.

"I brought some chips and sodas."

"Cool!" Kevin said.

"Hey how have you been?" Lando asked.

"Good. I just got back."

"How's school?"

"In still doing my basics but I am transferring to the University of Houston."

"Oh that's good. So you're coming back to the house then?"

"Um kind of."

"What do you mean kind of?" My mother asked.

"Look I need to talk to Yurlin. I need to give him something back. I'll explain everything later when I'm done."

"Okay."

I went outside and closed the door behind me. Yurlin was already there waiting outside. I unlocked the doors to the car and got in the driver's seat. I left my door open. He tries to kiss. I pushed him away.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"I just wanted a kiss from you." He said.

"Well you're not getting it."

"Is something wrong?"

I sighed. "I'm sorry. It's just that I don't feel the same way."

"What do you mean?"

"When we last talked on the phone...what I told you I really meant it."

"Is there someone else?"

I looked him in the eyes. "Yes."

"You cheated on me?!"

I laughed. "Yea I cheated on you when I had already put an end to this relationship."

"So you just stopped loving me?"

"To begin with I never loved you." I took his ring out of my pocket. "Here."

He stared at the ring. "You married him?!"

I noticed that I was giving him his ring with my left hand. He saw my wedding ring and engagement ring.

"Of course I married him. I love him."

He shook his head. "You're lying."

"I'm not lying. We have been married for a while now."

"He has money doesn't he?"

How could he think that?! "You know what? Think what you want. I don't care. I know it's not true but that's none of your business."

He got out and slammed the door.

I got out and closed the door. I locked the car and went inside. Everyone was getting ready.

"What's going on?" I asked Kevin.

"Jasmine called. She's already here."

I waited for everyone to get ready and then we left in my car. When we got to the airport I parked on the fourth floor next to an Impala. I gave the keys to Mt mother.

"I'll explain everything later."

She nodded. She got David out of his car seat and she put the car seat inside the Impala.

"I follow you right?"

"Yes."

She nodded and closed the door to the Volvo. After about ten minutes my mother, Jasmine and David came out of the elevator.

"Did you steal this car?" Jasmine said.

My mother laughed. "No I borrowed it."

They put Jasmine's luggage in the trunk and then they got in. I turned on the Volvo and reversed. I started driving towards the exit and she followed. We got on beltway eight and started driving. After fifteen minutes we took the exit to the I-10 West freeway. Then we drove for two hours at my speed since they were no cars on the freeway. We finally got off and turned right. I kept going.

"Nobody lives here?" Chris asked.

"Nope."

"Why?"

"Because all of this is mine."

I kept driving and then I slowed down when we got to the curves. We did the last curve and then we went into the drive way. They gasp when the house came into view.

"This is your house?" Kevin asked.

"It is."

"It looks like a mansion."

"More like a palace." Chris said.

"It was remodeled. It has a huge ballroom too."

I parked in front of the house. We got off.

"Who lives here?" Jasmine asked.

"I do." I said.

She turned around and gave me a hug. "When did you get here?"

"Today. Alright everyone let's cone inside."

I opened the door for them so they could come in.

"Alright how about if we go eat? The food is already ready."

They nodded.

I started walking to the hallway on the right.

"Where are we going?" Kevin asked.

"We are going to the dining room."

We kept walking until a hallway on the left came up. We turned into that one. We kept walking until the hallway ended and there was a door un Fein of us. I went in. Jace was waiting there with Isabella in his arms.

"Hey love." I said going to him and giving him a light kiss on the lips.

"Hi princess." I said getting Isabella.

"Love? Princess?!" My mother said.

"Everyone this is my husband Jace and our daughter Isabella." I said.

"What?! I thought you were going to marry Yurlin! And what's this that you have a daughter?!" My mother said.

Damn she was mad.

I sighed. "Look why don't we sit down and I'll explain."

"Fine."

Chris sat at the head of the table. Jace sat at the other head of the table. We sat around them.

"Okay a year ago Jace and u met in a boat in Niagara Falls. We got married three months later and we had Isabella seven months ago." I said.

"What about Yurlin?" My mother asked.

"It was over before I left."

"Does he know?" Chris asked.

I nodded. "Gave him his ring back today."

"What?! I can't believe that you lied and that you kept you marriage and you daughter a secret!"

I sighed. "It was better this way mom."

"No it wasn't! You lied to us!"

"I lied to ya'll it I lied to you?" I could feel the tears fill my eyes.

"To everyone! Including me."

"Why can't you accept it?"

"Because you lied."

"I didn't lied I just kept it away from you but you know what? Fine don't accept us. I guess you prefer YOUR other grandchildren better." I said getting up and taking Isabella with me.

"Karla." Jace said.

"I told you it was going to be this way." I whispered to him.

"I'm sorry." He said.

"It's not your fault." I said before I left.

Okay guys that's chapter 9. So what do ya'll think? Okay so this is what I meant when I said that chapter 1 explains why the mom is so over protective. Ya'll see later on the story how she gets lol so did ya'll like it? Do ya'll think that the Mon will accept Jace and Isabella? We'll find out in the next chapter. Thank you everyone for reading and reviewing :)