~Scarlett~

Saturday, I was nervous as all get out. I didn't know why everyone was acting so strange. I just wanted to know.

It was like in all those mystery shows, everyone was just so close to finding out who had done it, but it was just that someone wasn't telling the full truth. They were hiding something, something that would've always helped Perry Mason or Jessica Fletcher figure out the mystery.

But there isn't much of a big mystery, or is there?, I can't really be sure. I know Amber, Mum and Alfie are hiding something, maybe even Kayla, but I don't know what. It had to be pretty big for them to keep it for this long. But it surely couldn't be life-changing.

I couldn't really be sure, I couldnt really be sure about anything in my life. Weather or not my birth parents were happy they gave me up or if they missed me. I wasn't sure if they, somewhere, deep down, loved me, or didn't. I couldn't even be sure if Willow loved me. I mean, I guess I knew she did, of course she did, sometimes I just questioned it. I shouldn't, but I do. It was a closed adoption, but that didn't mean I couldn't have questions about it floating around in my head.

I was nervous as Alfie picked both Kayla and I up and drove us into the city, and as we sat down at the coffee shop I couldn't help but wonder.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" I ask Alfie

"It's something i should've been doing for the past 14 years." He tells me

"So will someone tell me what's going on?" Kayla asks "and why she has to be here."

"God Dammit Kayla! She's your half-sister and your going to respect her! Got it?" Alfie exclaims, rushing the words

"Wait, what?" We ask in unison

"Crap! That was suppose to come out different! Sorry!" Alfie exclaims "look, I'm sorry. If I'd had been in my right mind, and I'd known Amber was pregnant again, I wouldn't have done it."

"That's it. That's all I need to know." So say, grabbing my purse "thank you for you time, Mr. Lewis, but I don't think I need any more explanation. Have a good life."

"Wait, what just happened?" Kayla asks

"Your father here just told us he cheated on your mum with my mum, obviously, while she was pregnant with you, but he didn't know and if he wasn't probably drunk, he wouldn't have done it." I explain "and then they probably forced my mum to go into like, hiatus, have me, then say I was adopted."

"Well, actually, Amber did. But yeah, I guess that's how I happened..." Alfie adds

"I grew up believing my real parents didn't want me, and I guess that was half true. That's why our mums acted so strange at that farmers market." I conclude "well, now I know that I was just a mistake and I was never wanted. So much so that my own father never acknowledged me until I was 14, and even then, I had to connect the dots myself. I'm sorry of the in-convince of my life, goodbye."

When I got back to the house, everyone was finishing up their lunch chores

"What happened?" Sarah walks over to the living

"Im not adopted." I tell them

"Then who's your dad?" Poppy asks

"Alfie Lewis." I sigh

"Kayla's dad?" AJ questions

"Yeah." I sit down and they all start to advance

"What does this mean?" Lacy sits next to me

"It means nothing. Alfie isn't my dad. Amber isn't my step-mother. Kayla and Anthony aren't my step-siblings. No holiday visits. No birthday cards. He didn't bother the first 14 years of my life, he doesn't need to now." I shrug

"Are you okay?" Robert asks

"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine." I smile gratefully "I'm just glad I have all of you."