Chapter 9: Family

Alexia's POV

Soon three more wolves joined my brother. All of them had run up to me and started licking me to death. But it was my father that refused to let me move even an inch. My father had somehow managed to block any means of escape with his body. He would not stop licking me. He was crying a lot and his tears were splattering onto my shirt. One look in my father's eyes told me everything. He loved me. He wanted me. He was never going to let me go ever again.

I hugged him for a long time and kissed his massive snout. He responded by licking me some more. If there was one thing that was clear to me, it was that I was definitely going to need a shower now.

My dad then took off for a few seconds before coming back again a few minutes later as a human. He didn't say anything as he walked up to me and grabbed me into a tight hug. His warm skin and his hot breath were very comforting to me.

"Young lady don't you ever do this to us again, do you understand?" my father said as held me even tighter to him. "You have no idea how worried and scared we all have been"

"I'm sorry" I said. "I thought-"

"Well you thought wrong" my father said.

"You sure did!" I heard several more voices say. I hadn't even noticed that all of my brothers had phased back into humans. Before I knew it they were all hugging me and squeezing me so hard that I couldn't breathe. Maybe it was safer for me when they were ignoring me. No, actually I would rather take the physical pain if meant knowing how much my family really cared about me.

"Can't breathe" I eventually wheezed out.

"Sorry sis" Leo said before releasing me.

"Where is mom?" I asked.

"Your mother is out looking for you. She is determined to find you no matter how long it takes. She loves you and she misses you so much. She has been going crazy with worry" dad explained.

I felt so terrible for all of the pain and anguish that I have caused. I really didn't think that my running away would have such an impact on my family. They basically ignored me before so what reason did I have to believe that they really cared so much?

"Alexia why don't you go take a shower while I call your mother and tell her that you are here. Then after that we need to talk"

"Okay dad"

We went into the house and I headed up the stairs to shower. When I came down 30 minutes later my mom was already there waiting for me. The moment she saw me she ran up to me and hugged me very tightly. She covered my face with kisses as she cried. I hugged her and kissed her too. I never wanted to let go of my mother ever again.

"Young lady don't you ever put me through something like that again!"

"I'm sorry mom" I said. "I didn't think anyone cared" I admitted.

"You didn't think that we cared!? You are a member of this family and we love you! I'm sorry that we ever made you feel different. I'm sorry that we ever made you feel excluded. We love you. We don't care that you are human. And we are sorry if we ever made you feel that you were less valuable because of that. I'm sorry that we didn't pay as much attention to you as we should have. I'm sorry that we didn't know about your bullying or harassment-"

"Wait how did you know about that?" I asked.

"I found your diary. Then your father read it. Alexia, we are really that we never noticed that anything was wrong. I'm sorry that we never noticed that you were suffering so much. Believe me something will be done about the bullying and something will be done about those boys that have been sexually harassing you"

"And we are sorry for never noticing. We should have helped you. We should have defended you" Jacob Jr. said and the rest of my brothers agreed.

"Mom why did you run away?" I asked her as soon as I remembered that the Cullens were out there waiting.

"Alexia you know that I don't like talking about that" she said.

"Mom I just spent the last several days with the Cullens. I know they are your family. They have been going crazy looking for you the past 20 years"

"Wait you what?!"

"Spent the last several days with your family. The Cullens. But I don't understand why you ran away in the first place. Your parents haven't stopped looking for you. But they don't even want to tell me what happened. I think we should all know"

Mom sighed.

"Ness I think she is right. I think they should know" dad said.

"Okay" mom said. "About 20 years ago over 2 million dollars worth of stuff went missing from the family one day. It was mainly clothes and jewelry. Every member of the family had been robbed. But somehow they all got it in their head that I was responsible. I still don't know why they accused me. I tried to explain that it wasn't me. I wasn't even home when it happened. And I also had been robbed, but for some reason they would not listen to me. They were so sure that it was me"

"Well mom they are all out there right now. Even your parents" I said.

"What?!" mom shouted.

"No wonder I smelled vampire all over you!" Jacob Jr. said.

Then the doorbell rang and mom fainted.

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