Dear Viewers,

So, I'm back from England, and let me just say it was one of the best vacations I have ever been on! Well, aside from almost getting run over by a car and getting lost in the middle of nowhere, but I looked past those incidents.

Now, in this chapter, Sophie finds out something rather shocking from her Mother who just found out about it as well from something of Donovan's…

I have been waiting to use this idea since the beginning of the story so I hope you enjoy what Sophie finds out, even though I'm sure you'll all be shocked by the news Sophie's Mother has to give her!

So, get on with it and read the chapter!

Michelle

The walls start breathing
My mind's unweaving
Maybe it's best you leave me alone

A weight is lifted
On this evening
I give the final blow.

When darkness turns to light,
It ends tonight
It ends tonight

It Ends Tonight—All American Rejects

Chapter 35
Sophie's POV

As I made my way inside smiling, taking off my flats and holding them in my hands, I noticed my Mother at the breakfast bar, head in one arm while the other hand held a cup of what I guessed was coffee.

"Mom? Are you okay? What are you doing here?" I questioned going over to her and pulling her in for a hug.

"Sophie, baby, go get changed. You can tell me all about your date with Paul later, but right now, there's something you really need to hear." She sounded so dejected, so…sad.

"Okay, I'll be right back." I got up quickly and got into my room. I put on a pair of sweatpants, the shirt Paul had left here and took out my contacts which were, for the first time, really bugging me.

I grabbed my glasses and walked back out and sat down on the couch where my Mother had moved to.

"So what happened?" I pulled her into my arms.

"When did you start wearing glasses?" She asked confused.

"About four years ago, but I don't wear them anymore, I wear my contacts but for the first time in four years my contacts are bothering me." I told her.

"Okay, well, what happened was that when I went back over to the house today." I rubbed her arm soothingly. I knew she hated that house more than I did. "And I was just collecting a few of my things when I saw one of your Dad's journals hidden. Now, I don't usually want to know about his life before me but I got a little curious about what he'd been like before he got all angry and abusive. Now, you know your Father is 5 years older than me, right? Well, this journal was about when he was 16."

I froze, that was a year nobody, meaning the older adults, talked about around me. "Go on." I said shakily.

"Well, your Father had a girlfriend that he cared about a lot, like a lot, a lot, like he really loved her. So basically, the time that they had sex, your Father had made her pregnant."

"So I have a half-sibling?" I whispered.

She nodded. "So, when she gave birth to the child, who was a boy, she died, making your Father very angry and I think that's what set him off."

"That's when it started? So who is my older half-brother? Does he still live in La Push?"

She had tears in her eyes and she looked distressed. "I thought he looked like Donovan because he was your Father's brother, I really did." She whispered to herself and I knew she was going to tell me soon. "Since your Father was only 16, his son was given into the custody of his brother, who was married and 21 at the time and his wife was unable to have a child."

My eyes widened, I knew this wasn't going to be a very happy part of the story.

"When your Father was 18, he was not able to take custody of his son, the judges, the lawyers; they saw to it that he was not fit to have a child, and he was very angry, and that's what made him finally lose it completely. Your Dad's son was in the care of your uncle, Joshua claimed the boy to be his son, with him never knowing the truth, and nobody else did except for your grandparents, all the old aged adults and the lawyers."

She pulled me in a hug. I hugged her back, knowing what was probably coming next.

"Honey, your older brother, is Sam. Sam isn't just like an older brother to you, like you've always seen him; he is your older brother." She said softly.

My heart stopped for a few seconds and my head fell into my Mother's lap.

"Sophie?" She said startled.

All those times I'd called Sam my older brother, all those times he'd called me his little sister. We weren't just feeling like siblings, we actually were siblings.

"That's why Dad hated Uncle Joshua, that's why he hated Sam and that's why he hated…me, why he hated me so much." I whispered, tears streaming down my face.

"And why he hated me when I gave birth to you, a daughter and not a son. And when I was going to give him a son, he was going to kill me, and maybe you as well, because all he wanted was a son to raise. But it didn't turn out like he thought and all his built up anger was lashed out on me and you. Oh Sophie, this is all so messed up." I felt a tear hit my cheek and realized she was crying as well.

We stayed there, for a while. She told me Sam was out with Emily because she needed to talk to me. Well, we've talked, and now we're crying with each other.

"I have to get back to Skyler, we're getting along a lot better, and, well, I should break the news to him as good as I can." She got up and I followed her to the door.

"Mom? Why don't you let me and Sam tell him?" I said to her.

"Okay, I'll let you do that. Goodbye sweetheart, I'll see you sometime later." She kissed my cheek and was on her way. I closed the door and went back to the couch.

I pulled my knees up to my chest and laid my chin on my knees. This was so messed up. Why had Donovan kept this from everyone? Why had Sam not been told? Why had he not been told he wasn't being raised by his parents, but by his Aunt and Uncle?

I heard the door open and close. Sam and Emily came into the room and spotted me.

"Sophie? Are you alright?" Emily came over and crouched in front of me.

I looked at her and shook my head no.

"What did Paul do?" Sam asked angrily.

"Nothing, it wasn't what Paul did or said, it's something I just found out. Emily? Could you let Sam and I talk?" I asked her. I realized she wouldn't just me my cousin-in-law, she'd be my sister-in-law, and at that thought, that made my mood a little better.

She nodded and left the room, kissing Sam on the lips and heading upstairs. Sam came and sat next to me. "What's wrong Soph? And when did you start wearing glasses?"

"I don't wear my glasses but I've been wearing my contacts for the last four years." I sighed. "Sam, I just found out something, it's not exactly bad, but it's shocking to find out now and I'm a little upset that I'm only finding out now." I had tears running down my cheeks.

"Sophie? You aren't pregnant are you?" He asked mad and shaking.

"No! It's nothing like that! And besides, Paul and I used protection." I said blushing. He blushed as well. But, that made me think of Emily, and when she was planning on telling everyone the news. And I also realized something else...I was going to be an Aunty. Oh gosh.

"Oh, okay, continue talking."

"Well, my Mother was over, as you might have known, and she told me something. She'd been over to the house and she found out something by reading one of my Dad's journals." I sighed. "Sam, we're not cousins—"

"What do you mean we're not cousins? Our Dads were brothers and—" I gave him a look.

"I wasn't finished." I whispered. "We're not cousins, we're brother and sister."

Sam fell off the couch, hitting his head on the table in front of us. I got off the couch and looked at his face. He was staring forward with a blank expression, blinking every now and then.

"Sam? I know it's a shock but please get up, you're scaring me." I helped him back onto the couch and he put his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands.

"All those times we acted as if we were brother and sister...but we actually were?" He whispered almost inaudibly. "Explain everything to me." He said after a moment of silence.

"Okay here's the quick version: Donovan made a girl pregnant at 16, she died at birth, you were given to Joshua since he was 21 and married, when Donovan was 18 you weren't given back to him and he lost it and that's why he hated Joshua, you, my Mother and, me and my Mother because I was a girl and she didn't give another son at first. That's basically it; you were raised by your Aunt and Uncle, not your parents." I said, putting an arm around his shoulders.

"I'm...shocked, I always wondered why Donovan hated my Dad and me, and now I know...it's really shocking." He looked over at me. "And that means Sky's my little brother as well." He thought something over. "And that Paul will be my brother-in-law someday, isn't that just a lovely thought?" He said almost to himself. I laughed.

"Look on the bright side, you have two lovely little siblings, Piper as a sister-in-law someday and I have Emily as a sister-in-law someday." I said giving him a small smile.

He chuckled. "I guess there are those things." He shook his head. "It won't be too weird thinking of you as my little sister and Sky as my little brother since you actually are my little sister and Sky my little brother."

"Yeah, but it is a good thing, a really good thing." I smiled and he smiled back at me. I pulled him in for a hug and that's when Emily came back into the room.

"What's going on?" She asked.

I got up and went over to her, giving her a giant hug. "Well Emily, right now you are hugging your future sister-in-law."

She gasped. "What?"

"Turns out Sam and I are half-siblings, along with Sky being Sam's half-brother." I smiled at her.

"Oh my gosh." She hugged me back. "I always knew you two looked too much alike to be only cousins."

I laughed. "Yep, I guess that's it."

"You're wearing glasses? Since when?" Emily asked.

"I usually wear contacts but they were bothering me for the first time in four years." She nodded.

This night just kept getting better and better; first my amazing date with Paul and then I find out Sam is my brother and that I'm not only going to have Emily as a sister-in-law, but I'll also be an Aunty.

Nothing could make this night better, and nothing could make it worse, it was just, simply, a perfect night.

Truly amazing.

Well, there it is, Sam is Sophie and Sky's older half-brother. I bet none of you saw that one coming!

If you did, well then kudos to you, you are a genius more than Einstein.

Now, I will hopefully have the next chapter up next Thursday, and, this is only a maybe at this point, I might be uploading another story. It's a Seth/OC story, and the girl is Paul's younger sister. Now I won't give any details just in case I don't post the story, but I thought I'd let you know if you're interested.

Anyways, until Thursday, ciao!