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After Damien had left mom stood outside just staring out to the trees, probably trying to take in what was said, the same as me. For as long as I remembered Max had always called dad, dad I had completely forgotten he wasn't. I considered running out to comfort mom but that would have risked a serious scolding for eavesdropping and I was not up for that.
Mom had turned around and was returning to the house so I ran like a chicken to hide on the safety of the stairs. I sat and listened for a moment but all she only got out a chopping board and some vegetables for dinner. Figuring it was safe I started to waltz into the kitchen, I stopped in the doorway and saw something I wish I didn't; mom was cutting carrots at break neck speed. It sounds pretty dumb to say I was scared of that but in our house when mom cut carrots that fast something was seriously wrong. "Hey Lj, you home?" dad called I really wish I wasn't stood in the middle of this. Mom didn't actually answer she just kept cutting and cutting, really it's a good thing that Max ate loads the same with dad. "Lj?" I held in a giggle typical dad; he wouldn't just take it as no answer meant she wasn't home.
"Here dad" I answered him. He came to the kitchen doorway and the smile dropped from his face looking down at me he pointed at mom.
"Did you do this?" fear pounded in my chest, I know you shouldn't feel scared by your parents especially not when you're a by-product of an imprinted couple but my dad is Paul Reese the scariest Ex-wolf I knew! My eyes widened and I shook my head rigorously. "ok" he replied softly and kissed my head "you should go to your room, I don't want you to see this" this time I nodded my head and returned to my room, which was placed above the kitchen, I have never been so glad that I got my Grandpa's old room. I lay down and pressed my ear to the floor and listened in
"Lj you have a choice you can either put the knife down and talk to me or I can take the knife and just hold you till you eventually fall asleep and tell me, now which is it going to be?" the chopping continued for another 10 seconds or so then the knife dropped to the floor and I could hear my mom sobbing into dad. "Its ok baby, I promise it will be fine"
"No it's not Paul, it's really not! You remember I told you about my Quileute friends back in England?"
"Yeah?"
"Well I got a visit from one of them today"
"So why are you upset?" wow he was really didn't get where she was going with this.
"Damien, he told me-" she burst in to tears again; I hated hearing my mom like this I felt a few of my own tears dribble down my cheek.
"Laila sweetie come on it can't be that bad can it?"
"He told me he was Max's biological father" she blurted out between cries.
"Did you know?" I could hear the anger rising in dad's tone
"No I didn't! I would have told you if I did you know that!" there was a sigh
"Ok so tell me what he told you" I lifted my ear up; I couldn't bring myself to hear anymore so I rang Ethan.
"Hey are you ok Angel?" he asked a bit frantic
"Yeah why?" I replied confused
"we were hanging at Caiden's when Cami brought Max in he was shaking really badly he actually made on of Emily's pictures fall off the wall, I just wanted to make sure that nothing bad had happened to you" I smiled at his sweetness
"yeah I'm fine we just had a weirdo visitor who gave my mom some real suckish news, it made him pretty mad, hey do you mind if I come over to Cai's the atmosphere is pretty tense here, mom got out the chopping board and veg" I'm not giving away secrets here every family in the pack knows about mom, her temper and the vegetables.
"Sure come over now, right now and real quick, actually you move really slowly I'll come to you!" I laughed at him
"Bit keen aren't you?" but I was speaking to a dial tone.
Whilst rummaging through my closet to find a matching shoe there was an incessant rapping on the door. "What the hell do you want!" dad roared at Ethan I let out a tiny giggle, I snatched up my other shoe and ran down to greet him.
"Sorry Paul" he grinned, I let out another giggle and looked at dad.
"No, you have homework!"
"Please daddy!" I begged
"Yeah please daddy" Ethan joined, dad glared daggers at Ethan.
"Fine!" he surrendered
"Sweet" he turned away muttering to himself
"Damn kid always so god damn happy should of been Seth's boy not Brady's!"
Ethan and I left the house and started to walk holding hands in silence. We got about 10 minutes down the road when Ethan stopped and pulled me into a tight hug. I practically melted in his arms I looked up at him and kissed him quickly on the lips. We continued to walk this time with his arm wrapped around my shoulders while I held around his waist.
"So you wanna talk about it?" he finally asked
"Did you know my dad wasn't Max's real dad?" I blurted out
"Yeah why?"
"Well you know my mom didn't actually know who his dad was?"
"That I didn't know, I thought she just didn't tell anyone who he was you know like Embry's mom" I nodded in understanding.
"Max's real dad came to our house today and told mom, she got really mad at him because he wanted to be a part of Max's life even though he told my mom that he couldn't possibly be Max's dad because he wasn't even at that party"
"What are you talking about what party?"
"ok so my mom told me that when she was my age she was rebellious and stupid because of my Grandma being a bitch, she slept around and got pregnant with Max but she was so drunk the night she conceived she didn't know who was Max's dad. She asked all her friends that she usually went to parties with but they didn't know, it wasn't till a day or so after Max was born that she noticed his skin was more tanned than hers. She figured that maybe Damien was at that party and seeing as he liked her maybe they got together for the night, she wasn't mad at him for not telling her because she figured he was as drunk as her and didn't remember but when she asked him all red faced he told her bluntly he wished it could of been him but he was nowhere near that party" Ethan nodded to show he got all that and was with me 100%. "ok so today Damien came to visit mom and started saying he wanted to see Max and be his dad and everything but my mom was like but Max has nothing to do with him and that she was married and couldn't drop everything to be with him but then he told mom that wasn't what he meant he told her he was Max's dad he was at that party and he had lied, so mom got majorly mad and did that creepy clam voice thing she does and told him to get lost that Max was my dad's and he had no right to come along and try to claim him as his own"
"Wow that is suckish"
"I know tell me about it" we walked the rest of the way making small chit chat about nothing. We got to the house and I ran inside to find Max. The three amigos' ran past me almost knocking me off my feet, Ethan caught me and growled at them.
They all stopped "sorry" they said simultaneously
"It's cool" I smiled, mom once told me that Chris, Joey and Jay Jay were like Jake, Embry and Quil when they were 13 except Joey was Sam's boy not Quil's.
"Hey Sam where's Max?" I asked following the scent of Emily's muffins
"Hefs thin fee sadden" he said, mouth completely full I raised an eyebrow
"Say that again?" Sam swallowed hard
"He's in the garden still calming down"
"Ok thanks" I began to go into the garden when Ethan pulled me back "hey let go"
"I don't want you to get hurt"
"Max is my brother he wouldn't hurt me"
"But how do you know that! He's mad he could phase...oooh big scary wolf!" he waggled his hands around trying to scare me, I slapped them down
"The first time Max phased I rode around on his back biting his ear"
"Err why?" he asked
"I watched dog whisperer with dad and he said to show a dog whose boss bite its ear"
"So why bite Max's ear?"
"I was 9 I thought he was a dog, it did explain why he smelt so bad" he laughed at me and while he was distracted I walked out to Max he was sat under a tree with Cami by his side.
"Hey Angel" Cami greeted
"Hey Cami, Max?" he looked up at me "how you feeling?"
"Angry, annoyed, irritated, sad, happy, hurt I don't know!" he groaned frustrated and pulled at his hair "it's like I had no dad at all then I had Paul as my dad then bam I have two dad's"
"You don't have to think of him as a dad"
"What else am I supposed to think of him as? He is the reason I am here now! If it wasn't for him you wouldn't have an older brother at all Angel" he told me harshly
"Max for fuck sake, he was just the damn donor, get over yourself! Paul is our dad he has been since you were 4 and he will be for the rest of eternity! God you are such a drama queen! Besides mom told him to piss off and that Paul was your dad anyways so why worry?" he just stared at me wide eyed and mouth open "close your mouth you'll catch flies and blink you'll dry your eyes out" I looked over to the back door and saw that everyone was there including mom and dad.
"Yep she's definitely yours Paul!" Jared laughed.
So it was a bit of a filler but still it's better than nothing right? Anyways next chapter you'll hear about Ethan's mom! =)
Sunny xoxo