Chapter 8: What?

Messi POV

"He's a what?" whatever I had been expecting my father to say it sure as hell was not that.

"He's just like you. I saw him in the hallway and read his mind," dad explained.

"Did he see you?" I questioned.

"Yes he did," he said. "He recognized me for what I was right away,"

"What did he say?"

"He didn't say anything. But I got his story from his head,"

"What story?"

"His mother died giving birth to him. Then his father abandoned him in the woods and left him to die. His father hated him for killing his mother. So he abandoned him hoping that he would die. Instead he was found by humans and has been in foster care ever since,"

Damn I could not even imagine what that must have been like. To be hated by your own father. To have never known the love of your family. Or to have never known love at all. Maybe that's why he is so screwed up.

"Dad,"

"Yes sweetheart?"

"What are you doing here?"

"I told you. I came to see you again. Nobody knows I'm here. Except for Alice anyway. It's impossible for me to keep secrets from her,"

"Why don't mom know?"

"Maybe I'm being selfish," he said. "But I wanted you all to myself. At least for a little while,"

"Oh,"

"Nessie I heard what you were thinking about yesterday,"

I stiffened.

"About you wanting your grandfather to do the surgery," he clarified.

"Oh," I said again.

"I spoke to him about it earlier and he said that he would be more than happy to perform the surgery. There's just one problem,"

"He can't do anything while I'm in foster care. Can he?"

"Yes that's the problem. Not unless he and Esme adopted you,"

"Really? But the process could take a really lonhlg time. I might just age out of the system before them," I remarked sadly.

"Renesmee Carlie Cullen there are other ways to adopt much faster,"

"There are?" I raised my eyebrows in confusion.

"There are back channels that will get this done much faster. Your grandfather knows exactly which strings to pull to get this done much faster,"

For the first time in weeks I felt hope. Hope that I would not only get my legs back but my family back as well. I smiled. I couldn't ask for anything more. I was going to have my family back.

"You better get some sleep," Dad said. "You still have school tomorrow. Your mother and I are very much looking forward to going to school with you,"

"Right. School," Oh God I'd be going to school with my family. The thought alone felt very weird. How many teenagers can say that they've gone to school with their parents, aunts, and uncles?

Dad laughed. "Just go to sleep already Nessie and try not to overthink this,"

When my alarm clock blared the following morning I realized that I was alone. My dad must have left sometime after I had fallen asleep. I got ready as fast as I could. I was in such a hurry that my breakfast only consisted of two pop tarts and milk.

I had made it to school just in time. Apparently the news of my family's arrival had already spread. We didn't get new students here very often. So when we did it was newsworthy. I tried to tune out the whispers of my 'hot' family members.

"Hey Vanessa!" I looked up from my locker when I heard my best friend Jasmine calling me. I felt a pang of guilt every time I saw her. Knowing that my brother was cheating on her with very own sister killed me on the inside. I wanted to say something but I couldn't.

"What's wrong?" I asked her when I noticed the wild eyed look on her face.

"I need to speak to you urgently. You're the only one that I can trust,"

Suddenly the bell rang.

"Can we talk later? I don't want to be late for class,"

"Sure," she said. I could hear the worry in her voice which worried me.

It was a rather uneventful morning until my second period math class. As it turned out my mother and father shared this class with me. I sighed when we were given our assignment for the day. I hated Algebra. I hated the very concept of math. It was beyond frustrating. Ever since I could remember I struggled with math. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if the numbers weren't always getting mixed up in my head. For example a 32 would turn into a 23 in my head and I'd write that down instead. I never finished my work on time and I would have to finish it at home on top of the other math homework I'd been assigned. Often times I'd just pay Lewis to do it for me.

During the last 15 minutes of class. We received the results from our last math test. I smiled in deep satisfaction when I saw 94%. A solid A. Every test costed me fifty dollars but it was money well spent. Lewis was a genius at math and getting copies of test answer keys in advance. I think I was one of his top customers. Memorizing the answer key was way easier than trying to figure out math. I'd just deliberately get a few wrong so no one would suspect anything.

When I looked up and saw my father's face the smile instantly vanished from my face. He looked absolutely one hundred percent beyond pissed. Oh fuck he was reading my mind again. My days of keeping secrets and successfully getting away with things were officially over. I saw him whisper something to my mother and she too then looked at me furious.

I sank backwards in my seat. Holy shit I was in deep trouble. Stupid mind reading vampire father! Well dad if it's any consolation this is the only subject I cheat in. All of my other grades are well earned.

I dared to glance at my father and instantly regretted it. Yup he's still pissed. Why oh why couldn't I have just inherited my mother's shield?!

Right then and there I decided that it was probably best to stay out of my father's and maybe even my mother's way for now. I knew that they'd confront me about my cheating but hopefully when they were less mad.

I was relieved to find out that my parents weren't in my next class. Science.I didn't think I'd be able to take my father's angry stares much longer. The only relative I had in this class with was aunt Alice.

"You're in a lot of trouble Nessie," she said as she sat down next to me.

"How bad is it going to be?" Fear gripped my heart at my future seeing aunt's words.

"I don't know. Your parents keep changing their minds about how they are going to confront you about this. But none of the scenarios are good,"

"Oh boy," I slumped back in my chair.

When lunch time came around I was still doing everything I could to avoid my family. Especially my parents. As soon as I entered the cafeteria I spotted them sitting at a table all by themselves. Jacob was with them as well as Seth and Leah.

I looked around for somewhere else to sit. Jasmine was by herself looking as worried as she had that morning. That was the perfect excuse I needed to avoid my family again.

"What's wrong?" I asked her as I approached.

"Oh Vanessa-I don't-God I'm so stupid!" she cried.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm pregnant,"

"What?"

"I said I'm pregnant. God I'm freaking out here and I have no idea what to do,"

"I thought you were on the pill?"

"I was but I accidentally forgot to take it a few days and now and now-" she was not able to finish her sentence.

"Does he know?"

"No I haven't told him," she snivelled. "I just found out yesterday. I started getting sick since last week. It wasn't until I saw Erica's positive pregnancy test that I realized that I could be pregnant-"

"Wait your sister is pregnant to?"

"Yes but she won't tell me who the father is,"

I was seeing red. My brother. My drug addicted, cheating, blackmailing, half human brother was the biggesst fucking idiot in the world. How the hell could he do something like this?! Didn't he at least believe in condoms?!

Oh shit my half human half vampire brother has two babies on the way.

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