The Adventures of Kelly Prescott

Chapter 2 – The Truth About Jesse

A/N: We don't mean to offend any Jesse fans in this chapter. Jesse's great! It's just that Chloe and I couldn't resist this little twist…

After school I totally stormed back home and got ready to tell my daddy the WORST-NEWS-EVER! I mean, it was like totally unheard of for me not to be popular! I bet daddy was sooo popular when HE was in school! So I was like totally not looking forward to letting him know that I'd been repl-

God, I can't even say it.

I didn't know if I could survive, you know. And that is just sooo not like me. I swear I've never felt like this before. But then, I've never been rejected before either.

Rejected.

Oh God, what a horrible, horrible word.

And it was all because of that albino freak!

I don't even get it. All she did was push Paul Slater out of the way of the random boulder that was rolling down the hall. And now they're GOING OUT!

And it's not like Suze Simon didn't do almost the exact same thing when she first came here. I mean, sure, people talked about that A LOT, but nothing LIKE THIS ever happened.

And now she's just totally gone and grabbed MY guy and MY friends and MY popularity! That's just soooo unfair.

I stomped up the front steps and flounced into the house. Daddy turned around and gave me a dazzling smile.

"Hello, princess, how are you?" he asked. It was the question I'd been waiting for. I immediately burst into tears and ran up and hugged him.

"DADDY! IT WAS HORRIBLE! They… she… IT'S NOT FAIR!"

"Kelly, sweetheart, what's wrong?" he questioned, looking at me, totally concerned.

"SHE REPLACED ME! CEECEE WEBB REPLACED ME!" I looked up at my dad amidst all of my rabid ranting. "She was a TOTAL LOSER, daddy! A FREAKING ALBINO! And now she's more popular than me! AND, OH MY GOD, SHE'S STILL AN ALBINO. AN ALBINO IS MORE POPULAR THAN ME! OH MY GOD!" I was hyperventilating, so I paused slightly to catch by breath and found myself backtracking and then I discovered a horrible truth. "In fact, EVERYONE is more popular than me now, probably even that fag friend of hers…"

My brain then proceeded to stop thinking anything except: OH MY GOD, I'M LESS POPULAR THAN ADAM MCTAVISH! OH MY GOD! THE WORLD IS OVER!

"Kelly, I…"

I cut him off. Sorry, but what I had to say was more important. I was telling my story of angst and rejection! It was MY TIME IN THE LIMELIGHT now that everyone else had kicked me out of it! Daddy wouldn't, though. He's too nice and doesn't stab you in the back. Speaking of which…

"And all my friends BETRAYED me! Even Debbie! God, I'm so going to kill her, it's like so totally unfair, Webb doesn't DESERVE this. I do! I'm class VP, not her! She's like a total dumbass!"

I felt an odd power surging around me, and noticed daddy was staring at me with pride.

Pride? Pride! After what I'd just told him?

OH MY GOD. HE WAS A TRAITOR TOO! WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME? DO I HAVE GARLIC BREATH? DO I HAVE A ZIT…? OH MY GOD, I DO, DON'T I? WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME? Just because THE ALBINO (I refuse to call her by her dumbass name anymore) doesn't have any!

TRAITORS!

"YOU TRAITOR! YOU TRAITOR," I screamed.

"Kelly," daddy snapped. "Shut up a minute! You need to listen to me."

I froze. Daddy NEVER spoke to me like that!

He adopted a more gentle tone. "It is time," he said in a voice that sounded totally like Father D's, "To tell you the truth about your heritage and who you are."

"Um, hello? I'm Kelly Prescott, daddy! You're being SO mean!"

"Actually," he said in a really important sounding voice, staring at me, "your real name is Kelliella Alexandra Esmeralda Justine Sapphire Heliopolis Annabel Joan Prescott Trotsbottom."

I stared at him, speechless. …The whole situation was just totally… STUPID! You know?

He carried on. "Our family… it has a curse. It all started approximately 150 years ago with your great-great-great-great grandfather Hector."

"Hector?" I laughed. What a name! God, it's even worse than CEECEE, and that's saying something!

He ignored me again. God, daddy can be sooo annoying sometimes. "Your great grandfather, Hector de Silva – you may refer to him as 'Grandpa Jesse' if you wish - was the paragon of virtue, until…" he paused dramatically, and I held my breath, waiting for the revelation, "he was seduced by a man veela."

I was in a numb shock. Man-veela? MAN-VEELA!

Wasn't a veela one of those things from that book that I very conveniently happen to have read? What was it called? Oh yeah, Harry Potter.

OH MY GOD! This was like… totally DUMB! MAN-VEELA! Wait a minute… DID THAT MEAN HE WAS GAY!

"But that's another story," Daddy continued.

Thank God for THAT!

"Anyway, Hector and your great-great-great-great grandmother, Kelliella Trotsbottom, met at Hector's family ranch-"

"A ranch!" I squealed, "EEEEEEEWWWW!"

Daddy ignored me AGAIN. "They fell in love almost instantly, but because Hector was engaged to his cousin they-"

"His cousin! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS GUY?"

"- Could not possibly be together. Eventually they couldn't stand to be apart for any longer so they ran away together. Hector returned to his family when Kelliella died in childbirth. He left his daughter with a kind family and carried on with his life. No one knew where he had mysteriously vanished to for almost a year. But they forgave him and it appeared that his wedding to his cousin Maria was back on."

I shook my head, "That is so wrong."

"There's more though," Daddy said.

I rolled my eyes. "Go on then."

"Unfortunately, he didn't show up for the wedding and was never seen again," Daddy's expression went serious. "However, that wasn't the end of it. Because it turned out that Kelliella Trotsbottom was an extremely powerful demon. And, therefore, so was her daughter. Do you know what I'm saying, Kelly?"

Comprehension was slowly dawning, but not quite. I stared up at him with wide eyes.

"OH. MY. GOD." I said, more shocked than I'd ever been in my life, I SOOO could NOT believe this! "I'm related to a guy named HECTOR!"

Daddy frowned. "Um, that's not actually what I was getting at. You're a demon, Kelly, sweetie, and Hector brought this horrible bad luck curse upon his own family… This is all our own dear, sweet Hector's fault." He looked up at the sky and I heard him mutter, "may God smite the fellow right into Hell where he belongs."

A demon? No way! I couldn't be a demon, they didn't exist.

I laughed. "No, seriously?"

"It's true, Kelly. Why do you think your hair grew back so quickly that time your mother and I cruelly forced you to get it cut?"

"Um," I said, "Daddy, that never happened."

Daddy looked thoughtful. "Oh, yeah. But your eyes do flash red whenever you're angry."

My eyes widened, "Oh my gosh! I was wondering about that!"

"You'll soon discover even more of your powers, Kelly. And then you'll be the most powerful demon in the family since Kelliella Trotsbottom herself."

I frowned. "Why's that?"

"Because your mother just so happens to be a demon too."

"Oh, right," I said, brightening up.

This was so cool. Now that I had demonic powers I could totally get back at The Albino. This was just totally going to rock!

I suddenly thought of something.

"What happened to Hector?" I asked loudly.

Daddy gave me a small smile. "Some say he ran away to New Zealand to avoid the shame of breaking off his marriage. Others say that he married some other woman and had thirty-two children. But we Trotsbottoms-"

"Prescotts, Daddy," I interrupted. I mean, Trotsbottom! Ew!

"- Know the truth. Hector was murdered by Maria de Silva. He was going to break off his marriage with Maria and she found out. She couldn't bare the shame so she had him killed."

Um, okay. "And how do we know this?" I asked, confused.

"The Trotsbottoms-" PRESCOTTS DAMNIT! "- are also descended from a long line of psychics," Daddy said, pride clear in his voice.

"Wow, Daddy," I said, "is there anything our family can't do?"

"Not a thing, Kelly, not a thing."

"Great," I beamed then started to skip off.

I didn't get far, though.

"Wait," daddy called in a choked voice. "There's more!"

I froze. "What now?" I asked shakily, suddenly wide eyed and shivering. I don't know why, probably for a dramatic effect or something.

"Now that I've told you about your true identity you have suddenly - and somewhat randomly – gained the ability to see ghosts."

I raised an eyebrow at him. "Um, why?"

He gave a dramatic sigh. "Must you suck the fun out of everything? It's for the convenience of the plot, okay?" He then added in a scary voice, pointing a finger at me dramatically, "And it will come back to haunt you someday!"

"Oh, okay!" I chirped, doing a full turn for no apparent reason. "Wait a minute… Ghosts are real?"

Daddykins sighed. "This could take a while…"

A/N: Elaine - Do we need a disclaimer for the Harry Potter references in here? Whatever, there it is.

Thanks for the reviews

Pink-Raven: I can't spell either. And I stumble on words all the time. Chloe's got a really wide vocabulary, it seems, and I have to dumb lots of stuff that she writes down. I get the feeling that if I wouldn't use a word then Kelly wouldn't use it either.

Mrs. Nikki Slater: CeeCee and Paul are just the beginning… mwuhahahaha!

SingingSoftly: -Beams- I'm glad you think so. I don't know about Chloe, but I wasn't fully sure if the first chapter was that funny. We're pleased you like it.

Mrs. Meg DeSilva Slater: Thanks!

Treehuggr344: Thanks. Maybe thanks to this we'll all find that Kelly's not so bad… or maybe not.

CeeCeeCaffeine: Hmm you've got me wondering what Debbie's reaction would be if she found out she was a demon. But you're right; all I've got is LIKEUMMTOTALLY!

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