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CHAPTER 21

Monday at school everyone was sitting down for lunch. Embry had taken a seat beside Gabi and Paul had taken the empty seat on the other side of Gabi. Quil and Jacob were sitting across from them when Embry and Gabi happened to glance up at the same time. Quil looked at them strangely for a second before his eyes widening in shock.

"On my god," Quil said.

"What?" Gabi asked confused.

"Hey Jake," Quil said and Jacob looked over at him from Cassi. "Look at Embry and Gabi, I've never paid attention before and I guess I've never seen them side by side." he said and Jacob looked at them and you could tell that whatever Quil was talking about clicked when he looked at them. "You see it right?" Quil asked.

"Yeah." he said. "Wow, I totally see it, same eyes, same cheek bones, same face shape to," Jacob said. "If I didn't know they were cousins I would swear they were brother and sister," he added and Gabi dropped her fork on the table and looked over at Embry.

"Oh my god," she whispered.

"My mom says my dad ran off," Embry said.

"My mom would rather me believe my dad is dead than tell me who he is," Gabi said. "Its not possible," Gabi said and stood up and walked out of the cafeteria. Paul and Embry glanced at each other before abandoning their lunch and quickly followed her out of the cafeteria. When the two of them walked out of the cafeteria they found Gabi standing against a wall with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Gabriella," Paul said and walked over and stood in front of her. "Look at me Gabriella," he said and placed one hand on each of her cheeks. "Gabriella." he said and she looked up at him. "You ok?"

"Yeah," she whispered and Embry walked over to stand by Paul.

"Gabi," he said.

"Embry, I…is it possible?"

"Anything is possible Gabi," he sighed.

"Yeah my mom is such a slut it wouldn't surprise me if she slept with your dad." Gabi sighed. "You've never met your dad?"

"No but I know my mom knows who he is, she just refuses to tell me." Embry said. "You think you mom knows who your dad is?"

"Possibly." she sighed. "Who knows?" she added. "She probably wouldn't even tell me even if I asked." she sighed. "Your mom told me that he wasn't dead not that I believed he was anyway." she told them. "I learned a long time ago to never trust my mom."

"Gabriella," Paul whispered and took her hands in his and pulled her to him. Gabi laid her head against his chest and Paul wrapped his arms around her. "Everything is going to be ok," he whispered and ran his fingers through her hair. "I love you Gabriella and we're going to figure everything out somehow, for you and Embry."

"My mom might tell us something if we talked to her together, tonight." Embry said.

"Maybe," Gabi sighed and lifted her head off Paul's chest to look over at Embry. "Won't hurt to try." she said and laid her head back against Paul's chest.

"I think I'm going to go to my locker and head to class," she told them. "I'll see you boys later." she added and pulled away from Paul.

"I'll call you later ok," Paul told her and she nodded.

"Ok Paul," she whispered and he lowered his head and touched his lips to hers.

"I love you Gabriella, we'll figure this out ok."

"I know Paul," she sighed. "I love you to." she told him and he smiled. "See you later," she sighed and turned and walked down the hall.

When she was gone Paul turned to look at Embry.

"Its totally possible that you two are brother and sister isn't it?" Paul asked.

"Yeah it is," he sighed. "We'll find out tonight hopefully." he added.

"Hey, you know we'll all be here if you or Gabriella need anything," he told him.

"I know," he sighed and he looked over at Paul. "Did I hear you tell Gabi you loved her?" he asked.

"Yes," Paul told him. "I told Gabriella I love her, I do love her," he said.

"I can see it," Embry told him. "I can tell she loves you to," he added.

"Just be careful with her Paul." Embry told him and turned and walked away.

When his mom got home Embry told her there was something him and Gabi wanted to talk to her about. So after dinner they went to the living room. Gabi and Embry sat next to each other on the couch and his mom took a seat in the chair by the couch.

"Ok what's going on?" Lisa asked.

"Aunt Lisa, today at school it was pointed out how much Embry and I look alike," Gabi began.

"I know you said my dad left before I was born," Embry said.

"And my mom would rather me believe my dad is dead than tell me who he is," Gabi said. "But we know he's not dead." she added.

"And its not like either one of us are looking for our dad, he obviously didn't want us so we don't care if we ever meet him," Embry told her. "so what we're trying to ask is do we have the same dad?"

"Embry," Lisa sighed and she looked from Gabi to Embry.

"It wouldn't surprise me at all if we do," Gabi sighed. "Considering how much my mom loves to sleep around."

"Gabi," Lisa sighed. "We didn't want you two to find out," she added and looked over at the two of them. "But yes you do share the same dad."

"Unbelievable," Embry said.

"Nothing surprises me anymore," Gabi said and he looked over at her. "So you know who our dad is."

"Yes," Lisa said and looked from one of them to the other.

"Do we even get a name?" Embry asked her.

"Embry, I'm not sure if that's a good idea." Lisa told him.

"Why not?" Gabi asked.

"Its just not," Lisa told them and stood up. "And we're done talking about this." she added and walked out of the room. A few seconds later Gabi and Embry heard her bedroom door slam.

Embry turned to Gabi.

"Why do you think she won't tell us?"

"I don't know Embry, we might be able to get an answer from my mom," she said.

"We'll save that as a last resort because I'm sure she won't tell us anything anyway."

"It can't be that hard to figure out anyway Embry," Gabi told him.

"Why do you say that?"

"Ok so we have the same dad but whoever he is passed the wolf gene to you so we have a place to start." Gabi told him.

"Yes," he said. "Lets go to my room and write down who is a possibility." he added and the two of them stood up and walked to Embry's room. Embry pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Gabi with a pencil. Gabi sat down on his bed and laid her phone beside her and then grabbed a book to lay the paper on and looked at Embry.

"Ok so who do we know that has the wolf gene?" Gabi asked. "The Blacks, The Atera's," she said and wrote it down.

"There's Sam, so Uley." Embry told her. "I don't know anything about Sam's dad." he added.

"Ok," she said "And Jared," Gabi added and wrote his last name down.

"Jared's dad left his mom a couple of years ago, none of us know why and he never really talks to him anymore." Embry said.

"Oh wow, I didn't know that," Gabi said.

"Yeah," he sighed. "Anyway there's the Clearwaters, you've never met Seth and Leah but they phased to."

"Ok," Gabi said. "Is that all besides you."

"And Paul," Embry said.

"And we're not even going there Embry, not a chance." Gabi told him.

"Ok," he said. "And there could be more possibilities but we may never know who our dad is Gabi." he added.

"Yeah we may never know," she sighed. "Maybe it is better that way," she added.

"We could still try your mom, she might give us answers." Embry said.

"Well it can't hurt to try but it will probably go worse with my mom than it did here." she told him. "You're mom's a lot nicer than my mom."

"I know," he sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. "So we shouldn't even try to find out who our dad is?"

"I'm not saying that Embry," Gabi said softly. "We just found out we're brother and sister, maybe we can enjoy that and get used to that before we find out who our dad is."

"I guess so," Embry sighed. "Sounds good."

"Ok then," Gabi said. "Maybe your mom will change her mind and tell us who our dad is."

"We can hope," he said and Gabi smiled.

"Ok then," she said and stood up and grabbed her phone just as it rang. "Its Paul, lets think on everything for tonight and figure out what we want to do in the morning."

"Sounds good Gabi," he said and she smiled.

"Hey Paul," Gabi said answering her phone.

"Gabriella," he said.

"Hold on one second," Gabi said to Paul. "We'll talk about it more in the morning and decide what we should do ok."

"Ok Gabi," Embry replied and Gabi nodded and turned and walked out of his room.

"Ok," Gabi said.

"So what's going on?" Paul asked.

"Turns out me and Embry have the same dad," she told him as she walked in her room and shut the door.

"Did his mom say who?" Paul asked.

"No she wouldn't say," Gabi told him as she sat on the bed. "But whoever it Paul it can't end well when we find out."

"Why do you say that?" he asked curiously.

"Think about it, Embry has the wolf gene so his dad, our dad is obviously from a family that has that gene."

"Yeah I see your point," Paul said. "But the two of you still deserve to know who your father is whether you have anything to do with him or not when you find out."

"I know Paul," she sighed. "But we've decided to sleep on it and talk about it in the morning after we've processed everything." she told him.

"Good idea." he said.

"I hope so," she sighed.

"Gabriella, you know I'm here if you need me right," he asked.

"I know Paul."

"I love you and if you want to find out who your dad is we will, if you don't we'll let it go."

"Thanks," she said. "I love you to Paul."

"I'll meet you and Embry at your house before school in the morning ok," Paul said.

"Ok Paul."

"Get some sleep and we'll figure everything out tomorrow."

The next morning Paul met Gabi and Embry at their house before school.

"So have you two thought anymore about your dad?" Paul asked.

"Of course we have but unless one of our moms decides to give us a name we could never figure it out." Gabi told him.

"We went through all the possibilities we knew of last night," Embry told him. "Men we knew for sure had the wolf gene they could have passed down to me."

"I just hate to think about it," Gabi said. "Because one of the guys dad cheated on their mom with our moms."

"I see your point," Paul sighed. "You know Sam's dad is a good possibility," he added. "He never stayed around much from what I understand." he told them.

"Sam's dad," Embry sighed and looked to Gabi.

"And no one knows this but I know the reason Jared's dad left a couple years ago." Paul told them. "His mom found out his dad had been cheating on her. She walked in on him, in their bed with some woman. That's when he left but it hadn't been the first time apparently," he sighed. "He had been doing it off and on for years."

"Oh no," Gabi said and covered her mouth with her hand. "That's horrible," she added. "But if Jared's dad phased, wasn't his mom an imprint."

"A lot of wolves never imprint," Paul told her. "So no she wasn't an imprint."

"That's still horrible," Gabi said and shook her head.

After school Embry and Gabi went home. His mom had the day off and she was home in the kitchen. She had just put some fresh baked peanut butter chocolate chip cookies on a plate. She had decided to tell Gabi and Embry the truth they did deserve to know.

"Embry, Gabi," she called from the kitchen. They both let out a sigh and dropped their books by the door.

"Come on," he said and the two of them walked into the kitchen.

"Hey mom," Embry said.

"Hey, you two want a cookie?" she asked. "Peanut butter chocolate chip."

"My favorite," Embry said.

"Mine to, Thanks Aunt Lisa," Gabi whispered and Embry smiled. Gabi reached and got two cookies, Embry grabbed about four.

"Ok, I want to talk to you two so lets go sit down in the living room." Lisa said and they nodded and the three of them went into the living room and sat down, Embry and Gabi together on the couch and his mom in the chair next to the couch.

"Ok so after we talked yesterday I did a lot of thinking about your father," she said. "You two deserve to know the truth and I should tell you." she sighed. "When I met your father Embry I never knew he was married," she told them. "He was charming and attractive and seemed really nice." she told them. "I liked him a lot so we slept together," she sighed. "After we slept together, I found out he was married and his wife was about four weeks pregnant," she told them. "I wouldn't have ever been with him if I knew he was married, you two have to know that," she said and Gabi saw her eyes fill with tears and saw them slid down her cheeks.

"Mom, I know that," Embry said and he laid his hand over hers and she smiled.

"I know that to Aunt Lisa." Gabi said and she smiled.

"So I find out I 'm pregnant a few weeks later with Embry." She said. "I never told him he was the father but I know he suspected it. He never said anything to me though, so I figured he was better off not knowing," she sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. "I don't know how it happened with your mom Gabi I just know we both slept with the same guy around the same time and we got pregnant like a week or so apart,." she said. "Embry was born on June 16 and Gabi your birthday is.."

"June 18," she said and shook her head. "I can't believe this."

"I'm so sorry," Lisa said and shook her head. "So sorry."

"Its ok mom but who is he?" Embry asked. "Who is our father?"

"I lied to you, your father never took off after you were born, he didn't even know about you," she told him. "He lived here until a couple of years ago," she said and Embry and Gabi looked at each other.

"Aunt Lisa," Gabi said softly. "Please just tell us," she pleaded. "Please."

"Your father's name is Easton Cameron," Lisa said softly and she heard Embry and Gabi's gasps. "I know the two of you are friends with his son Jared." she told them.