Authors Notes: Thanks for sticking with me the whole way you were great :). And I hope you all read my next fics coming out which will be sequals to this both this fic my story called "Girl" and a sequal I'm making for my friends fic called "Monsters Ball." And this one will be called "The Blood Lore" I took it out before because I didn't like the way it was going so I took it to another direction to try again. And for all the Rocky fans there will be a sequal to the story "Silent Voices" called "Dial Tone" Adios for now and don't stop reading.
Day Nine
Here we are having breakfast again. Tum tum is soaring through his food so he can run off and play video games, Rocky is reading a comic book that Dad keeps telling him to put away while he's at the table and Mom keeps giving me these loving looks as if I'll forget how much she loves me when she looks away.
I smiled quaintly at her then went back to my breakfast. How can I bring up the subject of the McRea's without jumping down their throats again? 'Lissa seemed out of the picture rght now as she was just casually putting dishes away in the cabinets after unloading the dishwasher. She's so comfortable here after only a few days or so and she isn't any part of our family, was it like that with me? Did I get dragged here and just decided to fit myself in because things are so peaceful or quiet so what difference did it make where I lived as long as someone loved me?
That didn't sound like something little Jefferson might have thouhgt, but why don't I have any memories after being kidnapped? Is Aunt Sabrina really my Mother or is she just a good cover up? Maybe a babysitter gone bad? She does live in Arizona now, I remember getting a letter from her on my birthday- if that's even my real birthday.
When 'Lissa left the kitchen I was tempted to follow her but Mom cleared her throat and got everyone's attention. "Can I speak with you boys for a minute, please? And I want your full attention on this." Rocky and Tum stopped what they were doing and looked at Mom to show her they were listening. "It's something I honestly never planned on telling you kids, but it seems I really have no choice now and I want you to know that I'm sorry for not telling you in the first place but," She paused for a long while then looked from me to them and said. "Boys Jeffrey isn't your real brother."
"What?!" Rocky said and Tum tum just twisted his nose up in confusion, I couldn't look at either of them right now for fear I'd suddenly see what they honestly thought of me after all these years of being brothers. Rocky did turn and look at me in shock as though asking 'Is she telling the truth?' I glanced back meekly and kept my head down. "If he's not our brother than who is he?" Tum tum asked and glared at me as if I had suddenly become a speculation in a lab.
Mom looked at Dad for support but he seemed distracted at the moment so she went on. "Well your Aunt Sabrina was a confussed woman she had spent time in a mental home and everything before she ran off to join a cult." Mom went on explaining the story she had told me until she was done and Rock' and Tum were flabbergasted that was for sure. "So you're actually my cousin?" Tum asked and Mom nodded. "Oh, okay it's not like he's a complete stranger he's just my cousin." Youth.
"No, honey." Mom corrected. "He is still your brother you just know the truth now." Dad cleared his throat point an absent finger in Tums direction. "Sweet heart you're just confusing him now."
"You're confused yourself Mom." I mumbled. "What?" She asked looking at me. "I said you're confused too." I clenched my jaw trying to keep my words in but something needed to be done, some things still had to be answered.
"What, did I leave something out?" She asked giving me the biggest opening in the world. "Yeah, you did." I answered pulling out the flyer and sliding it across the table she reached out for it and her mouth dropped. "If your story is the truth," I was saying coldly, "than who are the McRea's?" I asked. The two of them looked the flyer up and down in complete shock. Then Mom looked up at me and held it out to indicate what she was talking about. "Where did you get this?" She asked me.
I had no reason to lie or protect them anymore, so I told them the whole story. About finding the flyer while at that gas station on the road and seeing the family with my own eyes, how I lied about staying at a friends house the other night, and seeing 'Lissa's when we went to Arizona all of it. Mom and Dad- I mean, Jessica and Sam just sat there in disbelief. "You're not my-....I don't understand how this could have happened."
My adrenaline was running now and I was beginning to get angrier by the second. "You stole me away from my family and you didn't tell me because you didn't care!" I stood up and Jessica stood too with an angry look on her face. "First of all I never stopped loving and secondly I still think of you as my son, this little piece of paper may say other wise but it changes nothing it doesn't have to Jeffrey." "Jefferson!" "What?" She asked at my outburst.
"My name is Jefferson! Not Jeffrey, not Colt neither of them exsist!" I shouted. "What's all the commotion about," Grandpa was saying walking into the kitchen. "How's an old man supposed to get any sleep in here with all the shouting." We all went silent because of Grandpa's innocent interruption, Mom and I just sat there glaring at each other in silence until Grandpa sat down and started eating. "I'm leaving." I said tightly but when I walked past Sam he grabbed me back into the kicthen. "Get off!" I shouted jerking my arm free.
"Where do you get off acting this way? Huh?" He asked me and I just stood there bitting my tongue. I heard 'Liss's steps behind me and I couldn't bare to turn and face her. I was doing the one thing she asked me not to do and that was hurt my parents, but you know what these people- those brothers- they're not my family. They are liars and cowards to not tell me the truth from the start. "You apologize to your Mother, now!" I balled up my fist and Grandpa was on his feet now at Sam and Jessica's sides. "Colt, what is going on with you?" He asked.
"I can't hate you Mori, but ask your daughter she'll tell you the whole story about how she kidnapped me as a baby and never told me until I had to force it out of her just now." I saw Jessica bitting her tongue then went on. "Go on, tell them, tell the world how you did it Jessica....The shopping mall in Arizona, the little boy trying on shoes you just took me!" Grandpa looked confused as hell then he looked from Mom to Dad and asked. "Is this true sweet heart?" Jessica didn't answer she just brushed past me and out of the room upstairs with Sam following.
"Someone mind telling me what's going on?" Grandpa asked looking exasperated. "I can't tell you, because I don't exsist to tell you." Turning around I marched myself upstairs to my bedroom hearing foot steps behind me- close behind me at that. Just as I swung the door shut it was pushed back opened before it could slam and I turned around seeing Rocky there.
"What do you want?" I asked him but he just crossed the room to where I was standing at punched me! Right in the jaw! I was tempted to swing back but I just licked my teeth to see if there were any blood on them.
"Real mature Rocky, turn a man around and hit him, didn't your Grandfather teach you anything?" I spat at him smugly. "You little-..." He didn't finish the sentence but I knew the rest of it. "How can you sit there and not care after all that Mom and Dad and Grandpa have given you."
"Think about all they've taken away?" I shouted back. "My real life, my name, my identity!"
"You are Colt Jeffrey Douglas, you always have been and you always will be." Rocky said rather calmly, though through his teeth. I shook my head trying to walk past him and out of the room but he pushed me back to where I was standing. "The person you speak of Rocky, doesn't exsist, he never has and unless your parents have another kid- he never will!" I shouted in his face.
"Alright if he never exsisted then who were me and Tum sharing a room with for most of our lives, who practiced ninja with us every summer?" He went on. "Who went to collage with me and shared a dorm and started a band and everything else you've accomplished in life?" I scoffed those statements away and said very lowly. "Nobody."
"And as far as you know your life hasn't changed, all you have to do is pretend back to before your Mother stole me and it'll be like I was never here at all."
"She's your Mother too." Rocky wanted shout at me.
"No she's not!" I retorted louder. The both of us narrowed our eyes at each other but Rocky retracted his claws.
Turning his eyes away from me I didn't know what I was doing right then but I really pulled back and let him have it. The way he did it seemed as though he were almost mocking me for being this way- as if he were calling me stupid. "Don't make fun of me Rocky!" I shouted lowly at him. "I don't need this kind of hassling from the worlds most perfect guy, not right now." I continued but all he did was hold a hand up to his cheek and look at me with a little annoyance.
"You've always been a cry baby, you know that?" He started saying as he picked himself up off the floor and walked over to the door. "You've always acted like the world didn't matter but deep down you care- why don't you ever show that side enough, Colt?" Rocky asked me in all sincerity.
"Why?" I mocked. "Why? Because Rocky, I don't know who I am, I don't know what I'm really like- and until I find out.....I'm not here, because I'm nothing." "Psh." He waved a hand away from me as he walked out of the room.
'So what's his problem?' I couldn't help but wonder. 'It's not as if he hasn't told me he doesn't want me around a few times in life- now his wish is granted. Right?' I walked over to the dresser and grabbed a handful of my clothes getting them folded a little better so that I cold pack. I didn't know where I was going to go but I knew I couldn't stay here- not with all of their stares, and whispers and looks of confusion. It wouldn't be comfortable or right of them.
Maybe though, I could go downstairs and say that I'm sorry a little for being so hard on them, I mean they have taken care of me since I was taken they could have easily dumped me off somewhere if they were sick of me and with the way I was I'm sure everyone had their fair share of that wish.....But I don't know how to begin so, I'll just hang out up here for a while.
Sitting on the bed I closed my eyes and tried to relax while the time passed me by.
.......................
"Jeffrey?" I heard a voice saying to me. "Jeffrey wake up." It sounded like Neilissa so I opened my eyes and smiled at her. "Hi." I said and she smiled back slightly then frowned and patted my cheek. "What happened, Rocky hit you?" She asked. "What gave it away?" I said being a little sarcastic. "That he has a twin cheek?" She just ran a hand gently across it then looked at me. "Does it hurt?" She then asked. "No." I replied, lying because it actually did. "What time is it?" I then asked. "5:20 p.m." 'Lissa answered. "You've been up here for hours."
We were quiet a moment as if wondering what to say about that statement but instead she said. "You're uh....Sam and Jessica wanna talk to you." I raised an eyebrow wondering what they wanted to tell me since everything was already out in the open, I mean, what more could they have to say?
"We were all talking about this downstairs, even me." She went on. "And we'd all like for you to come down and hear what we have to say." Amazing how she can have family meetings with people who aren't even her family, how comfortable she was with us from the start.
It's easy for her to be a part of someone elses family so why am I having such a fit all of a sudden. I mean they do love me, no matter how they show it someone times, maybe all the commotion was just a big mistake. "I think I have some things to say myself." I responded to her and slid off the bed to standing and she was right beside me. "Lets go."
When we walked downstairs I saw everyone sitting on a couch and looking rather serious. Jessica and Sam were on the same couch together, she looked so sad and he just looked annoyed with the whole thing- I didn't blame him. Rocky wasn't holding an ice pack against his cheek like I'd imagined he just sat in an arm chair off to the side, Tum and Grandpa were sitting on the love seat as they call it and my little- well ex-little brother looked pissed at the seriousness of the room- he never liked it when things got serious like this, and Grandpa just looked confussed, sad, and scared.
I decided if I was gonna forgive and forget I'd have to pull everyone out of this funk. "Why the long faces?" I asked and they looked up at the sound of my voice. "Who died?" I laughed out to show them I was joking but they remained quiet until Jessica spoke up. "Son- uh," she paused to correct herself. "Jefferson right," I nodded. "We've been talking and we've decided to let you go." What? I knew it. They never wanted to keep me even after the fact of stealing me, they just felt guilty.
"We want you to know that we still love, we always will...." She added. "But we respect your anger as well as your decision to leave us, but we want you to know that we will miss you and never forget you." She then stood up and met me in the middle of the room pulling me into a hug. "We've um....we-.." Her words we forced and cut off. "We're sorry this happened and..." She couldn't speak anymore and just broke into tears.
Rocky opened and closed his fist then looked at me. "We're gonna miss having you around you loud mouth jerk....." He said then went on with tears forming in his eyes. "Ha, you were the blue of the fabulous Douglas brothers." I smiled for a second at our old school going name. "It's gonna be hard doing things the same without you." What is everyone getting at? I could tell Tum tum was next because he started to figgit and I shook my head as if telling him not to say anything.
"This is stupid, but since I can't tell you not to go then I guess I'll miss you too- although I don't see why I have to you traitor." Tum was furious and near tears but before I could walk over to him to tell him that I wasn't going anywhere Grandpa put his hand on my shoulder and looked at me. "Once a ninja, always a ninja...I don't care whose family you belong to." And with that he took out a ninjas belt and handed it to me. "I was gonna wait until tomorrow but now's as good a time as any for gifts I mean it is Christmas eve you know."
I nodded feeling my face scrunch up weird because I was gonna cry myself, then Sam stood up and crossed the room to me and gave me a hug. It was the weirdest thing I've ever had happen from him, this was the man that usually yelled my name at the top of his lungs because I'd done something wrong, this was the man that prized everyone in the house but me because I was such an idiot sometimes but today he's hugging me and letting tears fall down his face.
"I'm gonna miss you my son," He whispered. "You were always my favorite...never had to worry about Jeffrey ya know, he was a trouble maker but he had good intentions always...." He sniffled a little then went on. "Just don't lose that, stay the way you are."
"And I plan to." I finally spoke up for myself. "Why is everyone acting so weird?" I asked knowing why but I haven't told them my good news yet that I was actually staying with them.
"Listen everyone I've decided that I-..."
"We called your parents Jefferson." Sam was saying and Jessica held the phone out to me. "They're waiting to hear your voice." Jessica added. They called my-....I took a cautious step forwards and held a hand out reaching for the reciever. When it was firmly held in my hand I gulped before pressing it up to my ear.
"Hello?" My real Mom said on the other end. Her voice....."Is someone there?" She asked again and I blinked in disbelief. "We want you to be happy son." Jessica said to me. "Even if it's not with us." Sam added.
I knelt down slowly and sat myself by the phone on my knees then sighed after taking a shakey breath. "Hi Mom," I started to say seeing a sudden flash of hurt on my Mom's face. "It's uh, it's me Jefferson....."
THE END
Day Nine
Here we are having breakfast again. Tum tum is soaring through his food so he can run off and play video games, Rocky is reading a comic book that Dad keeps telling him to put away while he's at the table and Mom keeps giving me these loving looks as if I'll forget how much she loves me when she looks away.
I smiled quaintly at her then went back to my breakfast. How can I bring up the subject of the McRea's without jumping down their throats again? 'Lissa seemed out of the picture rght now as she was just casually putting dishes away in the cabinets after unloading the dishwasher. She's so comfortable here after only a few days or so and she isn't any part of our family, was it like that with me? Did I get dragged here and just decided to fit myself in because things are so peaceful or quiet so what difference did it make where I lived as long as someone loved me?
That didn't sound like something little Jefferson might have thouhgt, but why don't I have any memories after being kidnapped? Is Aunt Sabrina really my Mother or is she just a good cover up? Maybe a babysitter gone bad? She does live in Arizona now, I remember getting a letter from her on my birthday- if that's even my real birthday.
When 'Lissa left the kitchen I was tempted to follow her but Mom cleared her throat and got everyone's attention. "Can I speak with you boys for a minute, please? And I want your full attention on this." Rocky and Tum stopped what they were doing and looked at Mom to show her they were listening. "It's something I honestly never planned on telling you kids, but it seems I really have no choice now and I want you to know that I'm sorry for not telling you in the first place but," She paused for a long while then looked from me to them and said. "Boys Jeffrey isn't your real brother."
"What?!" Rocky said and Tum tum just twisted his nose up in confusion, I couldn't look at either of them right now for fear I'd suddenly see what they honestly thought of me after all these years of being brothers. Rocky did turn and look at me in shock as though asking 'Is she telling the truth?' I glanced back meekly and kept my head down. "If he's not our brother than who is he?" Tum tum asked and glared at me as if I had suddenly become a speculation in a lab.
Mom looked at Dad for support but he seemed distracted at the moment so she went on. "Well your Aunt Sabrina was a confussed woman she had spent time in a mental home and everything before she ran off to join a cult." Mom went on explaining the story she had told me until she was done and Rock' and Tum were flabbergasted that was for sure. "So you're actually my cousin?" Tum asked and Mom nodded. "Oh, okay it's not like he's a complete stranger he's just my cousin." Youth.
"No, honey." Mom corrected. "He is still your brother you just know the truth now." Dad cleared his throat point an absent finger in Tums direction. "Sweet heart you're just confusing him now."
"You're confused yourself Mom." I mumbled. "What?" She asked looking at me. "I said you're confused too." I clenched my jaw trying to keep my words in but something needed to be done, some things still had to be answered.
"What, did I leave something out?" She asked giving me the biggest opening in the world. "Yeah, you did." I answered pulling out the flyer and sliding it across the table she reached out for it and her mouth dropped. "If your story is the truth," I was saying coldly, "than who are the McRea's?" I asked. The two of them looked the flyer up and down in complete shock. Then Mom looked up at me and held it out to indicate what she was talking about. "Where did you get this?" She asked me.
I had no reason to lie or protect them anymore, so I told them the whole story. About finding the flyer while at that gas station on the road and seeing the family with my own eyes, how I lied about staying at a friends house the other night, and seeing 'Lissa's when we went to Arizona all of it. Mom and Dad- I mean, Jessica and Sam just sat there in disbelief. "You're not my-....I don't understand how this could have happened."
My adrenaline was running now and I was beginning to get angrier by the second. "You stole me away from my family and you didn't tell me because you didn't care!" I stood up and Jessica stood too with an angry look on her face. "First of all I never stopped loving and secondly I still think of you as my son, this little piece of paper may say other wise but it changes nothing it doesn't have to Jeffrey." "Jefferson!" "What?" She asked at my outburst.
"My name is Jefferson! Not Jeffrey, not Colt neither of them exsist!" I shouted. "What's all the commotion about," Grandpa was saying walking into the kitchen. "How's an old man supposed to get any sleep in here with all the shouting." We all went silent because of Grandpa's innocent interruption, Mom and I just sat there glaring at each other in silence until Grandpa sat down and started eating. "I'm leaving." I said tightly but when I walked past Sam he grabbed me back into the kicthen. "Get off!" I shouted jerking my arm free.
"Where do you get off acting this way? Huh?" He asked me and I just stood there bitting my tongue. I heard 'Liss's steps behind me and I couldn't bare to turn and face her. I was doing the one thing she asked me not to do and that was hurt my parents, but you know what these people- those brothers- they're not my family. They are liars and cowards to not tell me the truth from the start. "You apologize to your Mother, now!" I balled up my fist and Grandpa was on his feet now at Sam and Jessica's sides. "Colt, what is going on with you?" He asked.
"I can't hate you Mori, but ask your daughter she'll tell you the whole story about how she kidnapped me as a baby and never told me until I had to force it out of her just now." I saw Jessica bitting her tongue then went on. "Go on, tell them, tell the world how you did it Jessica....The shopping mall in Arizona, the little boy trying on shoes you just took me!" Grandpa looked confused as hell then he looked from Mom to Dad and asked. "Is this true sweet heart?" Jessica didn't answer she just brushed past me and out of the room upstairs with Sam following.
"Someone mind telling me what's going on?" Grandpa asked looking exasperated. "I can't tell you, because I don't exsist to tell you." Turning around I marched myself upstairs to my bedroom hearing foot steps behind me- close behind me at that. Just as I swung the door shut it was pushed back opened before it could slam and I turned around seeing Rocky there.
"What do you want?" I asked him but he just crossed the room to where I was standing at punched me! Right in the jaw! I was tempted to swing back but I just licked my teeth to see if there were any blood on them.
"Real mature Rocky, turn a man around and hit him, didn't your Grandfather teach you anything?" I spat at him smugly. "You little-..." He didn't finish the sentence but I knew the rest of it. "How can you sit there and not care after all that Mom and Dad and Grandpa have given you."
"Think about all they've taken away?" I shouted back. "My real life, my name, my identity!"
"You are Colt Jeffrey Douglas, you always have been and you always will be." Rocky said rather calmly, though through his teeth. I shook my head trying to walk past him and out of the room but he pushed me back to where I was standing. "The person you speak of Rocky, doesn't exsist, he never has and unless your parents have another kid- he never will!" I shouted in his face.
"Alright if he never exsisted then who were me and Tum sharing a room with for most of our lives, who practiced ninja with us every summer?" He went on. "Who went to collage with me and shared a dorm and started a band and everything else you've accomplished in life?" I scoffed those statements away and said very lowly. "Nobody."
"And as far as you know your life hasn't changed, all you have to do is pretend back to before your Mother stole me and it'll be like I was never here at all."
"She's your Mother too." Rocky wanted shout at me.
"No she's not!" I retorted louder. The both of us narrowed our eyes at each other but Rocky retracted his claws.
Turning his eyes away from me I didn't know what I was doing right then but I really pulled back and let him have it. The way he did it seemed as though he were almost mocking me for being this way- as if he were calling me stupid. "Don't make fun of me Rocky!" I shouted lowly at him. "I don't need this kind of hassling from the worlds most perfect guy, not right now." I continued but all he did was hold a hand up to his cheek and look at me with a little annoyance.
"You've always been a cry baby, you know that?" He started saying as he picked himself up off the floor and walked over to the door. "You've always acted like the world didn't matter but deep down you care- why don't you ever show that side enough, Colt?" Rocky asked me in all sincerity.
"Why?" I mocked. "Why? Because Rocky, I don't know who I am, I don't know what I'm really like- and until I find out.....I'm not here, because I'm nothing." "Psh." He waved a hand away from me as he walked out of the room.
'So what's his problem?' I couldn't help but wonder. 'It's not as if he hasn't told me he doesn't want me around a few times in life- now his wish is granted. Right?' I walked over to the dresser and grabbed a handful of my clothes getting them folded a little better so that I cold pack. I didn't know where I was going to go but I knew I couldn't stay here- not with all of their stares, and whispers and looks of confusion. It wouldn't be comfortable or right of them.
Maybe though, I could go downstairs and say that I'm sorry a little for being so hard on them, I mean they have taken care of me since I was taken they could have easily dumped me off somewhere if they were sick of me and with the way I was I'm sure everyone had their fair share of that wish.....But I don't know how to begin so, I'll just hang out up here for a while.
Sitting on the bed I closed my eyes and tried to relax while the time passed me by.
.......................
"Jeffrey?" I heard a voice saying to me. "Jeffrey wake up." It sounded like Neilissa so I opened my eyes and smiled at her. "Hi." I said and she smiled back slightly then frowned and patted my cheek. "What happened, Rocky hit you?" She asked. "What gave it away?" I said being a little sarcastic. "That he has a twin cheek?" She just ran a hand gently across it then looked at me. "Does it hurt?" She then asked. "No." I replied, lying because it actually did. "What time is it?" I then asked. "5:20 p.m." 'Lissa answered. "You've been up here for hours."
We were quiet a moment as if wondering what to say about that statement but instead she said. "You're uh....Sam and Jessica wanna talk to you." I raised an eyebrow wondering what they wanted to tell me since everything was already out in the open, I mean, what more could they have to say?
"We were all talking about this downstairs, even me." She went on. "And we'd all like for you to come down and hear what we have to say." Amazing how she can have family meetings with people who aren't even her family, how comfortable she was with us from the start.
It's easy for her to be a part of someone elses family so why am I having such a fit all of a sudden. I mean they do love me, no matter how they show it someone times, maybe all the commotion was just a big mistake. "I think I have some things to say myself." I responded to her and slid off the bed to standing and she was right beside me. "Lets go."
When we walked downstairs I saw everyone sitting on a couch and looking rather serious. Jessica and Sam were on the same couch together, she looked so sad and he just looked annoyed with the whole thing- I didn't blame him. Rocky wasn't holding an ice pack against his cheek like I'd imagined he just sat in an arm chair off to the side, Tum and Grandpa were sitting on the love seat as they call it and my little- well ex-little brother looked pissed at the seriousness of the room- he never liked it when things got serious like this, and Grandpa just looked confussed, sad, and scared.
I decided if I was gonna forgive and forget I'd have to pull everyone out of this funk. "Why the long faces?" I asked and they looked up at the sound of my voice. "Who died?" I laughed out to show them I was joking but they remained quiet until Jessica spoke up. "Son- uh," she paused to correct herself. "Jefferson right," I nodded. "We've been talking and we've decided to let you go." What? I knew it. They never wanted to keep me even after the fact of stealing me, they just felt guilty.
"We want you to know that we still love, we always will...." She added. "But we respect your anger as well as your decision to leave us, but we want you to know that we will miss you and never forget you." She then stood up and met me in the middle of the room pulling me into a hug. "We've um....we-.." Her words we forced and cut off. "We're sorry this happened and..." She couldn't speak anymore and just broke into tears.
Rocky opened and closed his fist then looked at me. "We're gonna miss having you around you loud mouth jerk....." He said then went on with tears forming in his eyes. "Ha, you were the blue of the fabulous Douglas brothers." I smiled for a second at our old school going name. "It's gonna be hard doing things the same without you." What is everyone getting at? I could tell Tum tum was next because he started to figgit and I shook my head as if telling him not to say anything.
"This is stupid, but since I can't tell you not to go then I guess I'll miss you too- although I don't see why I have to you traitor." Tum was furious and near tears but before I could walk over to him to tell him that I wasn't going anywhere Grandpa put his hand on my shoulder and looked at me. "Once a ninja, always a ninja...I don't care whose family you belong to." And with that he took out a ninjas belt and handed it to me. "I was gonna wait until tomorrow but now's as good a time as any for gifts I mean it is Christmas eve you know."
I nodded feeling my face scrunch up weird because I was gonna cry myself, then Sam stood up and crossed the room to me and gave me a hug. It was the weirdest thing I've ever had happen from him, this was the man that usually yelled my name at the top of his lungs because I'd done something wrong, this was the man that prized everyone in the house but me because I was such an idiot sometimes but today he's hugging me and letting tears fall down his face.
"I'm gonna miss you my son," He whispered. "You were always my favorite...never had to worry about Jeffrey ya know, he was a trouble maker but he had good intentions always...." He sniffled a little then went on. "Just don't lose that, stay the way you are."
"And I plan to." I finally spoke up for myself. "Why is everyone acting so weird?" I asked knowing why but I haven't told them my good news yet that I was actually staying with them.
"Listen everyone I've decided that I-..."
"We called your parents Jefferson." Sam was saying and Jessica held the phone out to me. "They're waiting to hear your voice." Jessica added. They called my-....I took a cautious step forwards and held a hand out reaching for the reciever. When it was firmly held in my hand I gulped before pressing it up to my ear.
"Hello?" My real Mom said on the other end. Her voice....."Is someone there?" She asked again and I blinked in disbelief. "We want you to be happy son." Jessica said to me. "Even if it's not with us." Sam added.
I knelt down slowly and sat myself by the phone on my knees then sighed after taking a shakey breath. "Hi Mom," I started to say seeing a sudden flash of hurt on my Mom's face. "It's uh, it's me Jefferson....."
THE END