Chapter 4: The Drive
Nessie's POV
There was zero doubt in my mind that Bella and I were related. I could feel it deep within my heart that we were related. I knew it as soon as I saw her. We must have been twin sisters. It was the only thing that made sense. She looked exactly like me only more pale and with a strange golden eye color.
Now here I was in her car on my way to meet the rest of my family. My stomach was filled with nothing but butterflies. "So let me see if I understand this correctly. We're twin sisters who were both given up for adoption at birth and then I was kidnapped a few months later?"
"That is exactly correct Nessie," Bella answered.
"I'm sorry," I said. "It's just a lot for me to take in. That's all. I'm also a bit nervous. Are you sure they're going to accept us?"
"Ness they're going to love you. You're family after all,"
"But what about him? Will they accept me with a baby?" I looked at my sleeping baby and sighed.
"Oh Nessie of course they will. Our family struggles with fertility issues so babies are extremely rare for us. When our family is blessed with a baby we don't take that for granted. Tyler will probably be the most loved and cherished baby in the world. If I'm being perfectly honest you will probably have to fight with the others just to hold and feed your own son," she laughed.
"Will they fight for diaper duty? Or cleanup duty? Because I'll be more than happy to relinquish those duties," I laughed.
"Oh no in that case I think they will be more than happy to give him back to you for that,"
"That sounds like my grandparents right there. They would tell me their only job was to spoil him and everything else was on me," I tried to keep the emotion out of voice when I mentioned my grandparents. Even thinking about them was extraordinarily painful.
"What about your parents?" Bella asked me. "Did you have parents?"
"I did actually. It was my mom who found me in a dumpster somewhere in Seattle. She and my dad took me to the police but they were unable to locate my family. So my mom and dad decided to adopt me. But they died only a few years later. After that I went to live in Kentucky with my grandparents,"
"Where are your grandparents now?" I could tell that she was genuinely concerned.
"They died in a car accident a week and a half ago," the term 'accident' could hardly be applied here. But I didn't want to tell her that they were murdered by my evil aunt and uncle.
"I am so sorry about that Nessie," she said. "Don't you have any other relatives? Why did you come all the way to Seattle?"
Now this was a bit harder to answer and I had to choose my words carefully. "No I have no other relatives. My grandparents were all I had. I left because I couldn't stay in Kentucky anymore. It was too painful. I didn't really have a concrete plan beyond that. Stupid I know,"
"What about Tyler's father? Couldn't he help you?"
Tyler's father help? That was a laugh! "Oh please Damon dumped me as soon as I said I think I might be pregnant. In fact he very steadfastly believes that he doesn't have a child,"
"I don't understand," Bella said.
I took a deep breath. "When I first told him about the pregnancy he called me a whore and a slut. He accused me of sleeping around with other guys because there was no way that baby could be his. Which is not at all true. I'm not the type of girl that would cheat on a guy. It was really ugly let me tell you. We fought about it for months. When I finally had Tyler I thought that maybe him seeing his child would make him realize how wrong he was. Oh boy was I wrong. As soon as he saw me he completely blew up and again stated that Tyler wasn't his because I was a whore who slept around with multiple guys at once. Then he slammed the door in my face. It turned into a school scandal. I mean Damon went out of his way to spread those vicious lies about me,"
Bella didn't say anything but I could tell that she was furious. "He got you pregnant, then denied that it was his baby, and spread horrendous lies about you? Are you serious?!"
"Unfortunately I am dead serious. But thankfully I had a good support system with my grandparents. I went through a brief period where I even wanted to drop out of school becsuse of it. But my grandparents reminded me that I should never give up on my dreams no matter what life throws at me. They loved me and they wanted me to succeed and for Tyler and I to have a good life. They believed in me,"
"I can't believe that he would do that to you all because he didn't want to take responsibility for his own baby," she sneered. "It's beyond infuriating,"
"It is what it is I guess. Maybe Tyler's is just destined to grow up without a father the way I grew up without parents," I said. "anyway Bella why don't you tell me more about your family?"
I listened in awe as she told me about her parents, her sisters, her brothers. The very family that I would have grown up in had I not been stolen away from them. It was hard to think of them as my family. The idea was so strange. So foreign. But I wanted to know them.
"We're here Nessie," Bella announced. My nerves suddenly quadrupled. My heart rate skyrocketed.
"Okay," I choked out.
"Don't worry Ness. You'll be fine," she said. "You're going to love them and they are going to love you,"
I took a deep breath. I then unstrapped Tyler from the car seat. He was now wide awake and looking around curiously. I wrapped his blanket around him when he shivered. It was early fall. Halloween was less than a week awake now. Washington was about ten degrees colder than Kentucky.
"Just stay close to me Ness," she said.
I didn't trust myself to speak so I just nodded. As it was I felt like I was going to hyperventilate. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw someone walking toward us. The boy froze and stared when he saw me.
Bella turned and spotted him. The boy looked quickly at Bella and back at me again. He looked at me like I was a two headed alien.
"I guess I should introduce you two. Nessie this is Edward. Edward this is Renesmee our long lost sister and her baby boy Tyler. We have a nephew now," Bella added an unnecessary emphasis on the words 'sister' and 'nephew'.
Edward was speechless and so was I.
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