Chapter 5: Mom
Annie's POV
I couldn't remember the last time that I had felt so happy. For a long time I could only dream of meeting my biological parents. My tail was wagging so hard that my butt shook as well.
He kept licking my face and nudging me affectionately. I buried my face in his fur absorbing his warmth and his scent. I had it committed to memory.
He got up and started walking away. Then he stopped, looked at me, and beckoned me to follow him. I didn't hesitate to obey. I was beginning to wonder where he was leading me when he stopped at a tree. At the base of the tree were some clothes. Two sets of clothes were there. One pair of men's clothes and one pair of women's clothes. He'd been planning this all along.
I grabbed the women's clothes and went to a place where I could turn human again and get dressed quickly. When I returned a few minutes later there was man there waiting for me. He didn't look much older than me but immediately I knew he was my father.
We stood there for a few seconds observing one another. Then quickly and swiftly he'd closed that small gap between us and hugged me as tightly as he could do so.
"You're my father aren't you?" I asked him. I knew deep down in my heart what the answer was but I had to hear him say it.
"Yes I am,"
Those words opened the floodgates. I started crying. He came over to me and hugged me tight. I hugged him back. I was holding onto him so tight that my arms started to hurt.
"We never gave you up. I swear. We never gave you up," he was crying also.
"I know. They explained everything last night. We were all kidnapped. So I know you and mom never gave me up for adoption,"
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," he cried.
"Sorry? For what?" I asked curious as to what he could be apologizing for.
"For failing to keep you safe,"
"I'm sure that wasn't your fault," I shook my head.
"No. I should've heard something-known that something was wrong and I didn't and then you were gone and-"
"Please stop. You found me and that's all that matters now,"
He sighed. "Come on. Your mother is very anxious to see you,"
My mom was here. I hadn't even thought about that yet. I'd been so shocked by the presence of my father that I hadn't thought about the possibility of my mom being here yet. But now that I knew she was here I was ready to meet her.
My dad led me down a path that quickly became familiar. It was the way back to the Cullens' house.
As we got closer I saw a young woman standing around awaiting anxiously. My jaw nearly hit the floor when I saw her. We looked so much like each other that I would have thought we were identical twins had I not known better.
She quickly closed the gap between the two of us and threw her arms around me in a tight hug. She was crying "my baby," were the only words that I could make out. "My sweet baby girl. I can't believe it's really you,"
"Your my mom aren't you?" I asked her although I already knew the answer. I just wanted to hear her say it out loud.
"Yes baby. I am,"
For a moment I was really happy, blissfully happy even. I still had so many questions. More questions than I ever had before. One particularly burning question was why did my parents look so young? But I could wait to ask the questions.
"Come in. We have so much to talk about,"
I nodded in agreement to that statement. I followed my parents inside. The Cullens were gone but the house wasn't empty either. There was a boy who appeared to be pretty close in age and a younger girl who looked middle school aged.
"This is your younger brother Jacob Black Jr.," mom introduced.
The boy, who looked more like a man, walked me up to me excitedly. "Just call me Junior. That's what everyone else calls me and for the record I'm only two years younger than you,"
"Woah I would've guessed that you were older,"
"Perks of being a wolf," he smiled.
"and this," mom said. "Is your sister Abby,"
The younger girl approached me cautiously and I hugged her. Looking at my parents and my siblings I really began to realize the life that I had been robbed off. Not that I had a bad life but this was the family that I should've grown up with. I felt myself starting to get a little emotional again.
"What exactly happened?" I asked.
"We're not sure," mom answered. "You and four other toddlers from the reservation went missing one night. We were frantic searching for you five when we discovered you were all gone,"
"Where are there parents?" I asked curiously.
Dad shrugged. "We lost contact years ago. I tried calling them to tell them we've found you five but the numbers were no good anymore,"
"But we will find a way," mom said.
"You're actually related to one of them," dad said.
"I am?"
"Ethan is your cousin. He's my nephew from my sister. Oh how Paul and Rachel loved that little boy. They all loved their children,"
I was related to the hot headed anger driven wolf. In a way I'd always had a biological family member close by and I never realized it. How odd.
I wasn't sure how long I stayed there exactly. It felt like I had been there for a few hours. I couldn't get enough of my mom telling me stories about me when I was a baby. There were lots of stories. During those stories I learned that I was also part vampire. I hadn't really thought about that until now.
It wasn't until it started getting dark that I realized I should back home. When I finally got back to where I'd left my car I saw that I had about a hundred missed phone calls, voice-messages, and text messages.
I called Lily who was the last person who had called me.
"What-" But before I could get another word out she cut me off.
"It's Ethan-he's done-oh God,"
"What did he do? What happened?" I was afraid to know the answer.
"He was having lunch at the diner with some friends. When some other kids came up to him and started goading him and they said some stuff to him which pissed him off and-" she couldn't even finish. But I didn't need her to.I filled in the blanks myself.
"He snapped didn't he. Wolfed out,"
"He did and someone got hurt and the whole restaurant saw everything. They even caught it on video and now it's on social media and-"
I felt the blood instantly drain out of my face. This was not good.
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