A Christmas Surprise
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Chapter 47 – Jalen Kaiser Long
Sam's POV
Jalen got up and stood in the middle of the room.
"Before I tell you guys my story, I ask that you all to be open-minded." He said and sighed. "My past is nothing to be proud of. I thought I was doing something that was right but looking back, I made it worst."
I was curious about what Jalen meant as I saw Elena gave Jalen a sad look. I mean I know he lost his parents and has live in a foster home and they never treated him right. And suddenly people have been disrespecting him, even knowing his family owns the gaming company? What the hell was that about? Anyway,
"Okay, my name is Jalen Kaiser Long. I was born in Seattle, Washington on October fifteenth in 1996." He began. "My parents were Atticus and Brenda Long, my family owns Long Corporation."
"No way!" Russell said.
"I love that company!" Renee said causing Jalen to chuckle.
"Yeah, it's the best gaming company to have ever existed." He said. "So yeah my parents were the best employers that company ever has. But to me they were the best parents I ever had." Then he looked away like he was looking at a distance. "My life though back then was cut short."
"What happened?" Ellie asked.
Jalen paused for a bit before he said, "My parents were murdered when I was four." Those that didn't hear the story, gasped.
"It happened at night when the company was having a banquet to promote a new gaming system. After the event, my parents and I were leaving the banquet late when two guys came out of nowhere and mugged us. My dad was told to hand over his car keys and wallet which he did but he did so while trying to protect me and my mom. They did not like that and without warning one of them shot my dad." I saw Nina looking away as she got close to Ellie. "Mom and I ran away from them but they caught up to us so mom told me to go get help." Oh shit. "Obviously I wasn't gonna leave her like we left dad but she told me to do so and that's what I did, regrettably. As soon as I came back with the police and some of my parent's co-workers, we came in just to see the muggers doing something worse to my mother than just beating her up." Jalen shuddered as did some of us.
"After those two were arrested, we got mom to the hospital… but she died a few hours later." Jalen said sadly. "Because of them since I have no family apart from my aunt who wants nothing to do with me, I was placed in a foster home. That place was nothing but a nightmare."
And here comes the sad part.
"No one in that foster home cares about me. My foster mom was strict. She would always beat us as punishments or for no reason at all. My foster dad was an alcoholic and would sometimes join my foster mom in the beating." More gasps came. "Even so, they cared about my foster siblings." Jalen scoffed. "Even they never liked me. They would tease me, treat me like dirt and mostly I end up getting in fights with them. Basically, everyone at the foster home gives me a hard time there. I don't understand how I suddenly lost respect from people. Nobody likes me… except for her, my foster sister."
"She was the youngest of us all. Like me, she gets picked on by others and been treated badly by our foster parents." Ouch, why those two? "I however loved and cared about her as she does to me. She always stays by my side like glue. She looks up to me like a big brother as I treat her like a sister." Jalen sighed as he said. "We even promised each other that neither of us will go with a family until we find one that will adopt the both of us. And we would've if it weren't for him." Jalen hissed at the last word.
"As Tiffany told you, her family was planning on adopting me but it never happened. Here's what went down." Jalen said.
"I was seven when I came home late where everyone was asleep, or so I thought. I heard my foster sister crying. I came to her room when I saw her door cracked open and the light on. I saw her on her bed without any clothes on with my foster dad on top of her." The gasps came. "I knew that it wasn't good so before my foster dad had a chance, I grabbed a desk lamp from my room and attacked my foster dad by surprise. I might have over done it by knocking him out cold."
"Nice. OW! Alright, alright." Russell said when the twins punched his arm.
"Anyway, my foster mom came in when she heard the commotion. All the evidence was pointed to me from her eyes and no surprises there, I was the one to be blamed." Jalen said. "She believed I… did something worse to my foster sibling and beat up my foster dad for silence and she called the cops on me."
"That's terrible." Ellie said as Asher shook his head while Elena shuddered.
"Worse is that the cops believed her." Jalen said in disbelief shaking his head. "My foster sister was too traumatized to back me up so I got taken away and in the police cruiser I go. I thought I was going to jail for what I was framed for. That is until before the cops closed the door on me, there was a fight going on with the neighbors and the police came over to break it up. Without thinking, I got out and made a run for it. I've been on the run since then." Whoa.
"I've spent my life living off the streets with nothing but the clothes on my back. I did get a part time job posting flyers earning me some decent money. I've been good at sneaking in to steal food without getting caught throughout my time." Jalen said. " Sometimes I help those in need of help such as pushing someone out of the way before they got ran over, breaking the car window so that a child could get out from dying from the heat, fight off guys picking on others etc. All of that, I just come and go not getting any appreciation not that it mattered to me the way people treated me. I continue doing what I did until it was time for me to leave Washington. I've been around places doing the same thing as I got older."
Wow, Jalen must have really had it rough. He's around the country on the run living on the streets? I can't believe how he was able to survive.
"By the time I was twenty, I've been living in Detroit, Michigan for awhile. During that time, I stumble across a group of men ganging up on a girl. Being me, I jumped in, fought them off and saved the girl who just ran. Just as she disappeared, one of the guys pulled a dirty trick and knocked me out." Uh oh. "I woke up being dangled by the wrist like a punching bag. They were not too pleased that I saved that girl and I paid the ultimate price; I got tasered to death." All of us gasped. Damn.
"So how did you get out of it?" Mom asked.
"I was saved by a vampire named Mordecai Coleman." Jalen said.
"Who?" I asked.
"I'll explain about him in a minute." Jalen said. "Yeah, he saved me after killing those men but the damage was done. My life was about to end until Mordecai offered to save me if I wanted to start over; where I didn't have to worry about people putting me down like I was just nothing because they can. Doing this for the two people I care about; Tiffany and my foster sister, I accepted and that's when he saved me. What I didn't expect how was that he turned me into a vampire." So Jalen was already a vampire before he met the Cullens? Again, damn. I saw my parent's eyes widened as were Asher and Elena.
Jalen then returned to his seat next to Tiffany and then turned to us.
"Okay, now I'm about to you about Mordecai and my new life as a vampire." He said.
Get ready to hear the Detroit coven. Please review.
