Chapter 3: Family

Nessie's POV

I would have spent more time with my dad if I didn't risk getting into immense trouble when I got home. There was nothing that I wanted to do more then make up for lost time. He was my daddy. I had always missed him and loved him so much just like I had the rest of my family.

I gave my dad one more kiss on the cheek before heading back home.

Cookie pulled on the leash to make me walk faster. When I looked at my girl I remembered what my father said about her having eight heartbeats. Pregnant. I'm assuming there are seven puppies on the way and the eighth heartbeat was her own. I loved puppies but I wasn't sure how I was going to handle seven of them. I wasn't even sure how to take care of a pregnant dog. I'd have to do some research and ask a vet. I'd have to get her to a vet anyway so he can give us all the news. I can't exactly say I ran into my vampire father and he heard eight heartbeats.

Then I thought of something. My unborn baby. Did my father hear my baby's heartbeat? If he did why didn't he say anything? Or am I just not far enough along in my pregnancy for my baby to have a heartbeat yet? I don't know.

I smiled when I thought of my dog and I being pregnant at the same time. It was cute and funny in a way.

I smelled the pizza as soon as I walked in the house.

"There you are Nessie I was starting to worry" grandpa said a few seconds after I arrived.

"Oh grandpa you worry to much. I made it home before the time you said to be home by" I pointed.

"True but I always worry Nessie. There is a lot of crazy people in the world and if anything ever happened to you or someone hurt you I'd go crazy"

I instantly felt my face pale and my heart rate go up. Part of me felt guilty for keeping my gang rape from my grandfather but I couldn't tell him anything. Lord knows that he would go crazy and want to kill the men that hurt me. Men taking advantage of women is one of the things that he hates most in this world and when he finds out what happened well...:.

"Nessie are you okay?" grandpa asked.

"Yes. Why?" I asked him.

"Because you have been frozen to the spot for the last two minutes"

"I'm okay. Anyway I'm going to go eat dinner now" I escaped my grandfather's presence before he could ask anymore questions.

I warmed up a few slices of pizza and poured myself a cup of soda. Then I started thinking about my father again. I was filled with nothing but pure happiness knowing that I was so close to my family again. That I would finally see them again after so many years.

I went to bed early that night because I was tired and there was nothing to do anyway.

I only woke up when I heard someone knocking on my door the next morning.

"Nessie are you awake?" my brother asked.

"I am now" I yawned. "Why?"

"Because grandpa and Anne are gone. I was wondering if you wanted to go do something together?"

"Sure. Are you feeling up to it though?" I asked him.

He sighed. "Nessie just because I'm sick it doesn't mean that I'm completely useless"

I threw open the door and hugged him tight.

"What do you mean your 'not completely useless' ?" I said in shock. "You're not useless at all! Why would you even think that?"

He sighed and then continued in a sad voice. "I feel that way all the time now. You all trying to do stuff for me all the time now. You all act like I'm fragile or breakable now and I don't like it. I have leukemia but I don't want it to define who I am or change the way that people look at me. I just want to be treated the same way as I was treated before I got my diagnosis"

I was shocked. I honestly had no idea that my brother even felt that way. Actually we hadn't talked a whole lot at all since he was given the news.

"I'm sorry" I told him sincerely. "I didn't mean to make you feel that way"

"It's okay Nessie. Really what I miss most of all is how close we were before. You've been kind of distant lately Nessie don't think that I haven't noticed"

Apparently I wasn't acting as normal as I thought I was. I didn't want my family to suspect that something had happened to me. It was sad to think that my efforts might not have been working as well as I thought.

"Okay, enough mushiness. Let's go get something to eat now" I said as I pushed him playfully.

He laughed. "Now there is the Nessie that I know and love"

We left the house 20 minutes later and walked to a nearby restaurant for breakfast.

Once we were done eating we left and started walking. We weren't sure where we were going but we did know that we were not ready to go home yet.

Royce seemed happy and full of energy that's why it came as shock when I noticed that he wasn't keeping up with me easily anymore. He seemed to be getting tired.

I stopped walking and was about to turn back when I saw them. Three women that appeared to be my age. My mother Bella and my aunts Rosalie and Alice. They were clutching a ton of shocking bags.

When they noticed me they stopped and stared to. My mom looked like she was about to cry. She knew me. She knew who I was. I wanted to run over there and hug her so much. I wanted to feel her loving embrace once more. All three of them recognized me. I could see it in their eyes.

I kept my face as emotion free as I possibly could. I could not let on that I knew who they were.

I turned around when I heard someone approaching me. It was just my brother. "Nessie I'm sorry. I felt kind of tired for a minute so I had to stop"

I glanced back at my family again and was shocked to see aunt Rosalie looking terrified. Her bags slipped from her hands and she ran in the opposite direction with my mom and aunt Alice chasing after her.

Well that was...strange to say the least.

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