Chapter 10- Discovering the Truth
The next morning I woke up to find a note taped to my forehead. I took the note off carefully so I wouldn't pull any of my hair out. When I finally got the note off my forehead I flipped it around to read it. It was a note from my mom that read "Morning sweetie I'm sorry that I won't be home by the time you read this. I went out to talk with your aunt and uncle about some family matters. I'll be back by dinner so before then I have some stuff for you to do." She put a list of things to do under that part of the note which made me groan because there was a lot to do. After a few seconds of whining I kept reading the note "P.S. don't forget to eat something, Love Mom." Since the list was kinda long I decided to get up and start doing it now so I could relax the rest of the day but before I did anything I fed Kuro his breakfast.
The first thing I had to do was clean the dishes which didn't take me long but Kuro kept wanting to jump in the water in the sink so it took a little longer. Next up was to clean up mom's study so it was clean for her work, she was a writer who had several books out (she usually gets all her work done before I get home from school so she can spend time with me). When I walked into her study I was horrified at what I saw, there was stuff everywhere. It looked like it was going to take me a few hours to get the whole room clean. Instead of complaining I went into her study and began to clean.
Two hours later I had the room cleaned and organized but I was exhausted to the point where I went out to the living room and collapsed on the couch. I laid there for a few minutes then Kuro jumped up on the couch and laid down in front of my head and began to lick my forehead. It tickled so I started to laugh then I picked up Kuro and held him in my arms. When I looked down at Kuro I noticed I was still in my underwear and a tank top. Since I needed a shower I decided to go run a bath so I could relax in the warm water. I went upstairs and grabbed my usual clothes then came back down and went into the bathroom. Our bathroom has a bathtub that you have to go through the shower door to get to, the showerhead is located next to the bathtub so you can just get out of the bathtub then turn on the shower. I set my clothes down on the sink then went through the shower door then went up to the bathtub and started to run the bath (What I found funny was that Kuro followed me into the bathroom). Once the water was how I liked it I closed the bathroom door then I took off the tank top and underwear I was wearing and got in the bathtub. Kuro sat next to the bathtub looking at me with a look like he wanted in so I picked him up and slowly put him in the water. To my surprise he started to swim around in the water and meow at me. I laughed at the adorable cat then proceeded to grab my shampoo and lather it into my hair. Sometimes I wished I had short hair because my long hair was hard to wash sometimes but I couldn't part with my long hair. As soon as my hair was covered in shampoo I relaxed in the bathtub while watching Kuro swimming around. After a half hour of soaking in the bathtub I got out then turned the water to the shower head on. I washed all the shampoo out of my hair and all the possible cat hair from Kuro that I might have got on my body then I turned off the water. With Kuro still in the bathtub I walked out of the shower door then grabbed my towel off the hanger on the wall. I dried off my hair then wrapped the towel around my torso. Very quickly I walked out of the bathroom then opened the cabinet next to the bathroom that kept our extra bathroom towels. Quickly I grabbed the towel then went back into bathroom. When I got in there I was surprised to see Kuro sitting outside of the bathtub waiting for me like he thought I was leaving. With towel in my hands I grabbed Kuro and began to dry him off, he began to purr as I did. After he was dry I dried the rest of me off then got dressed.
After I got dressed I drained the bathtub then went into the living room. In the past three hours I had got two of the things I was tasked with doing done and I still had three things to do and they didn't look like they would be quick stuff. I had to grab some stuff from the attic, go to the supermarket to get some ingredients for dinner, and do some laundry. Since getting stuff from the attic seemed like the easiest one out of the last three I decided to do that first. I went up to where the rope to pull the stairs down for the attic were then grabbed the rope. Slowly I pulled the stairs down then went up into the attic. My mom wanted me to get some old picture albums down so she could look at them later. It took me awhile but I found them in the back of the attic. There was a thin layer of dust on the albums so I wiped it off to make sure it was the right ones, they were what I was looking for so I picked them up. Underneath them there was a metal box the size of one the albums with a lock on the front of it. There was some boxes next to me so I put the albums on them then picked up the metal box. The lock had a design I had saw earlier that day, in my mom's study she had a key in one of her drawers that was hidden under some paper which had the same design as the lock. I scooped the albums onto the box then went downstairs. When I got in the living room I put the albums and the box down on the couch then went and closed the stairs up so Kuro wouldn't go up and get stuck up there then went to my mom's study. I went to the drawer that I found the key in then grabbed the key and went back into the living room. I was right, the key matched the lock perfectly. Slowly I put the key in the lock and turned it. The lock opened and I pulled it off then started to open the box. In the box was a layer of pictures that I hadn't saw before. Most of them were pictures of my mom and my dad holding me after I was born. I found one picture that puzzled me, it was a picture of my mom and my dad both holding a baby in their arms. When I looked closer the baby in my dad's arms had greenish blue hair and eyes, it reminded me of Hatsune.
"Why is dad holding Hatsune instead of uncle" I asked in my head knowing I wouldn't get an answer.
I stared at the picture until a blue colored piece of paper caught my attention and made me look at the box again. I lifted the piece of paper out of the box to see that it was my birth certificate. I looked at it for a few seconds then I saw another piece of paper so I put my birth certificate down then picked up the other piece of paper. I sat back on the couch and I got the answer to that question that I had asked in my head. I was holding the birth certificate of Miku Hatsune with my mom and dad's name on lines for mother and father.
My mind started to go around in circles seeing this. Why would my mom and dad's name be on my cousins birth certificate? What did all this mean? I was so lost in thought that I didn't notice the front door opening and closing.
"I guess it was about time for you to find out" a voice said.
I looked behind me to see my mom standing behind the couch looking at me with a saddened look on her face. My mom walked around the couch then sat next to me and put her arm around my shoulders.
"Well I guess I should start from the beginning" my mom said while grabbing the picture I was looking at before.
Two years after your father and I graduated we got married and bought a house. At the time my brother was in his last year of high school and he was a big fan of motorcycles. In 1989 after he graduated he went out and used all the money he had saved over the years to go out and buy his dream motorcycle, it was an Intruder 750 with a nice black color. Shortly after he got the bike he was hit by a car that didn't see him, he was hospitalized for a few days and was told he would never be able to have kids. That thought devastated him since he had always wanted a baby girl. There was one good thing that came from the accident, he met your aunt in the hospital. Ten years later your father and I were expecting a pair of baby girls. Since my brother and your aunt wanted a kid we decided to adopt one of our kids to them.
My mom sat next to me about to cry.
"When we saw you two we wanted to keep you both so much but we promised my brother" my mom said with a tear escaping her eyelid.
I didn't know what to say to her because at the moment I wanted to yell at her and ask why she hid this from me.
"I didn't want to hide it from you but I was waiting until you were older" my mom said while beginning to sob.
I began to understand a little.
"I'm not mad at you mom" I said with a sweet voice.
With me saying that my mom looked me in the eyes then I hugged her and she began to sob into my shoulder. I guess the burden of finally telling me the truth made her feel better because when she started to stop sobbing I saw a smile on her face. After awhile my mom calmed down and we decided to go to the store and get some stuff for dinner. While we were out my one question that I had swirling in my head was "How am I going to tell Hatsune about this."