This chapter is pretty short.. All the good stuff happens in the next chapter. Thanks to everyone following this.

Chapter 33

I remember every detail of that conversation. Dean asked Sam to sit down at the kitchen table then went into his room for a second. He came out holding 2 large manila envelopes. Sam asked him what they were, but Dean told him one thing at a time. I heard a chair scrape as Dean sat down opposite from Sam.

Dean got straight to the point. He told Sam that he had something really important to tell him and that Sam was gonna get really pissed off about it. Sam asked him what it was and Dean just blurted it out:

"We have 2 sisters." there was silence for a few minutes then Dean said "Say something, dude."

I think Sam just shook his head. There was silence for a few minutes more and then Dean repeated his previous statement. I almost missed Sam's question cause he said it so quietly:

"What are their names?"

"Laura and Katie, they were twins." Dean replied.

"Where are they?" Sam asked.

"I don't know where Katie is and Laura died a few years ago." Dean answered.

There was another long silence and then I heard a chair scrape on the floor. Sam had started pacing around the room. I knew it was just gonna get harder for Dean as things went on. I should have come out of hiding, but I didn't. I let my fear get the better of me and Dean paid for it.

"How long have you known about this?" Sam was trying to control his anger, but I could still hear it and so did Dean.

"Since they were born."

"And when was that?"

"1981." Dean replied.

Sam's pacing suddenly stopped. I couldn't see him, but I could imagine the look on his face. He must have been thinking that Laura and I were younger than him, not 2 years older.

"Did mom know?" Sam asked

"Yeah," Dean said, "she gave birth to them."

"WHAT?!?" Sam yelled, "You mean to tell me that we've had 2 sisters out there all this time and I'm just now hearing about it. Why the hell didn't you tell me before? Why didn't dad tell me? Where did dad keep them all this time?"

"Dad didn't keep them anywhere." Dean said, "Mom's family took them away from him. Dad didn't tell you because you asking bout mom all the time hurt him enough. He couldn't face your questions about the girls. I didn't tell you because Katie asked me not to."

"You mean you've been in contact with them? For how long?"

"From the time I was 10 until Laura died in a car wreck when I was 18." Dean answered, "I haven't heard from Katie in nearly 3 years."

Sam started his pacing again. The tension was so thick I could feel it through the closed door of my room. This time Dean broke the silence.

"Sam, I have some pictures here from before mom died, if you wanna see them."

I heard some paper rustling and knew that Dean was taking the pictures Caleb and I had given him out of the envelope. At that time, I didn't know about the other envelope Dean had with him. I heard a chair scraping the floor again as Sam sat down to look at the pictures.

"Wow," Sam said, "They look exactly like mom."

I think Dean just nodded. There was a few more minutes of silence and then Dean was again the one to break it.

"Sam, I have something else for you."

"What?" Sam asked him

"Letters," Dean replied, "Laura had written you several letters before she died. One a month for 8 years."

That put me into shock. I never knew she'd written letters to Sam. Then again, I didn't know that she was talking to dad on the phone once a week the entire time we lived with Caleb. I heard paper ripping which meant that she had sent them in separate envelopes and that they were still sealed. Somehow I got the feeling that dad didn't even know those letters had existed.

The silence lasted longer this time as Sam read some of Laura's letters. Other than the one outburst of anger, he was taking this a lot better than I could have hoped for. I think Dean was thinking the same thing. I heard a chair scrape again and then the fridge open. I figured Dean was getting a couple beers out of the fridge.