Chapter 12: Dad

Nessie's POV

At first there was nothing. I couldn't hear anything. The last thing I remembered was eating ice cream that had peanuts in it. I was having a severe allergic reaction and I couldn't breathe. I didn't have my Epi Pen with me so I had no way of stopping, or even slowing down my life threatening alergic reaction. Was I dead? That would explain why I didn't head any noise.

I opened my eyes slowly and realized I was in a hospital bed. In a very familiar room. I tried to get up but a cold hand grasped my shoulder and stopped me. That's when I noticed for the first time that Edward was there. Sitting by my bed.

There was dark circles under his golden eyes that made him look tired. Overall he looked worn out. I could see it in his demeanor. I wondered how long he had been sitting there. How long had I been unconscious?

"Thank God you're awake. You have no idea how worried I've been about you,"

Even thought we were family I still found it odd that he would worry about me so much. We were still didn't know each other that well. Then I remembered the last conversation I had overheard between him and Carlisle. The one that initially caused me to runaway again.

"Are you really my father?"

He sighed and didn't answer.

"Well are you?" I pressed on.

"Yes," he said. "I am,"

I tried to let that information sink in for a minute. No matter how hard I tried though I couldn't quite grasp how this guy, who only looked a few years older than me, could possibly be my father.

I decided to ask another question that was on my mind instead. "How come I haven't seen you before now then?"

"Because I didn't know you existed. Believe me if I had I would've been there. I would've loved you and taken care of you your whole life,"

"Mom never mentioned you. Or any of the rest of our family here,"

"I'm sure she had her reasons,"

"What happened between you and mom?"

"Your mother and I had just gotten married. We were on our honeymoon when she suddenly disappeared. I looked everywhere for your mother. I looked in every possible place I thought she might be. I never found her though. I was always terrible when it came to tracking people however,"

"Why would mom just leave you like that?"

I could tell that this conversation was making him very sad. I could see it in his eyes and just in the way he carried himself.

"I asked myself that question a billion times over the years. It wasn't until recently, very recently, that I've come up with a theory. I just need your mother to confirm it for me,"

"What is it? Your theory I mean?"

"If it's true you'll find out soon enough,"

I wished that he would stop being so cryptic. It was starting to give me a headache. One thing was for sure. He certainly had a lot of secrets.

"Why do you look so young?" I suddenly blurted out.

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't think I haven't noticed the fact that you don't look any older than 17 or maybe 18 max. That would only be six or seven years older than me. Which doesn't make any sense. I might be young but I'm not stupid,"

He smiled. "So perceptive," he muttered. "Just like her mother,"

"Dude you'd have to be blind not to notice that. Anyway how old are you and why do you look so young?"

He shook his head. "Nessie I promise all of your questions will be answered. Just not right now. I'd prefer if your mother were present for that as well,"

I took a deep breath. It was getting more and more blatantly clear that he was not going to answer any of my questions. At least not right now. Oh well.

"But mom is in a coma,"

"I know," he said. "and now that you're awake we can go to Hawaii. To your mother,"

"When do we leave?" I asked.

"Tomorrow,"

"So why did you go back onto the reservation when you were specifically told not to?"

I gulped nervously. I was really hoping he wouldn't bring that up. Of course I wasn't going to get off that easy though.

"I overheard your conversation with Carlisle and kind of freaked out and ran. I'm sorry,"

"I swear you're going to be tbe death of me kid. You go where you're not supposed to then eat peanuts when you're deathly allergic-"

"Hey that was an accident! Do you really think I want to die?"

"Shouldn't you have been more careful?"

"I suppose so," I sighed. "What happened after I passed out anyway?"

"We were already out there searching for you when we heard your brothers screaming for help. We followed the sound of the screams and that was when we realized you were on the reservation. Our family is not allowed on the reservation but at that moment we didn't care. Especially when we saw you on the ground. Carlisle got you home just in time to save you. He said if we had been a minute later you would have died,"

"I'm sorry. I didn't realize that the ice cream that Jacob guy had given had peanuts in-"

"Wait what did you say?"

"About what?"

"About Jacob," he said. "What was that about Jacob?"

"Oh," I breathed. "He was kind of weird. My brothers say that he's our dad. He was really rude to me at first. Took one look at me and said there is no way in hell you're my kid. You look like that leech and smell like him to. I don't know what the heck he was talking about. Then he tried to apologize later and gave me ice cream. I didn't realize it had peanuts in it until it was too late. My brothers said they had told him about my allery so-"

"That's it!" Edward shouted. "I am going to kill that mutt! I am going to make him regret the day he was born!" Edward screamed in pure anger and stormed out of the room.

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