I Wonder *43*

Chapter 43

I close my eyes and feel the pain I just put my entire family in. Everyone was looking at me, thinking and dumbfounded by what I had just said to Dylan. No one knows of course that my real mother happens to be alive. Only I know and now Dylan and everyone in the room does now. I feel panicky, unsure of what to do and what to expect.

“Rose? What do you mean when you said that your mother is alive?” my Uncle Ryan asks, stuttering as everyone else frozen in silence.

I sigh, pleading for God to just take me away and hoping that all of this was just a bad dream. Of course, this is realer than real. “Karrie is alive. I met her at school quite some time ago. Jason,”- I turn to look over at him, as his face was uncertain-“that wasn’t the gym teacher that you saw me talking to that day. She was my mother. My biological mother I never knew existed ‘til then. For some reason, she found me and starts talking to me and then she tells me that she was in some secret company that no one needs to know about, and I screwed it up!” I cry and crash to the floor on my knees, holding my head in my hands.

“Rose, this isn’t your fault.” Jason kneels down beside me, placing his hand on my shoulder. “Everything is going to be fine-”

“Fine?” I snip. “Nothing is fine, Jason. Dylan just might kill my mother and/or the ones I love just because of the past. This is because of me, and it’s killing to even think of a thing like that.”

“The boy is right,” Ryan speaks, leaning up against the kitchen wall. “It isn’t your fault one bit, never think that. Your mother is strong and is ready for what ever life throws at here. She’ll understand why you did this, but it’s still confusing knowing that she’s alive. It’s been so long…” his voice trails off.

I softly feel the tears, building up in my eyes. Now, I understand why my family was keeping this secret from me and it feels so wrong to keep secrets, but you gotta do what you gotta do. I walk over to my one and only Uncle I love so much, as he grasp his muscular arms around me, giving me a tight squeeze.

“Now, what are you waiting for? You have a day to save.” Ryan verifies, talking to all four of us, as I look at him like he was nuts.

“But what do you want us to do?” Kyle asks, throwing his arms in the air.

“We’re just kids,” Kendra adds, standing by his side.

“You aren’t kids. You’re teenagers, almost adults, and ready for the future. You don’t just stand there and say there is nothing you can do, when you know that there is. Now go after that lunatic before he does something more than we can imagine.” He demands with a grin.

I smile, knowing that Ryan has always been the dad, that I always had, and I don’t know what it’s taken me this long to figure that out. I kiss him on the cheek and say good-bye as we are on our way to chase one of the craziest men alive.

*****

“Do you have any idea were your mother could be?” Jason questions me, with worry written all over his face.

Well, that’s a stupid question. She didn’t tell me a thing about where this company is or where it’s called. How am I supposed to know? He can tell by the look on my face that I had no idea what so ever.

“Right, you don’t know, sorry.” He says with a sigh.

Since there wasn’t enough room in Jason’s truck, Kendra and Kyle went in the spare car in the garage that happened to by Kendra’s mother’s car. It was a 2001 orange Ford Mustang. Her mother knows how to live. She’s all about speed, so I here. We split up, going down unknown streets, up and down, looking anywhere for somewhere they could be. Knowing us, this company could even be out of the state for that matter. Oh God, please don’t let him take my mother that I never knew.

© 2009 xHickChick789x

[Authors Note: Okay, so I’m planning on making this 50 chapters. So that means that “I Wonder” is coming to an end :( *cries* But don’t worry I think you’ll like the ending. Plus, for those reading my other stories, they will still continue. Once they are done, there will be a new story out. Thanks for your patience. --kayla]