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Family?

Karen:hold on Michael ill call you right now

Michael : okay

*Michael's phone rings a call from his mum

"Hi mum"

"Hi how are you ?"

"Seriously mom what do you think?"

"Well let me explain"

"You better"

"Okay we'll u was 18 when I had Maxwell and not married . I could not raise her by myself. You see u was with your father at the time , but we weren't married . Honestly she was kind if an accident . We were in a trip in L.A visiting some old friends. when I went into labor early with her. I had already decided adoption was the best thing for her. so she had been born and adopted in L.A."

"How come you never told me about her?"

I stood there listening to the conversation Michael had kindly put the phone on speaker . I had no idea how to feel . I had finally figured out who my parents were , and now I was kind of regretting it . I knew Michael was really hurt.

"Well Mikey. I was certainly not proud of it so i figured it was best you didn't know. I didn't want you to think of me as a different person."

"Well guess what mom I do now I'm 18 I'm not a little kid anymore."

" I never thought you two would meet ,I'm sorry"

"We did meet now what? what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to get a flight down to L.A. immediately . Im so sorry to put this on you ."

"Ill see you then"

*michael hung up the phone

Come here little brother I said opening my arms to him .

We embraced for a while.

This honestly had to be one of the weirdest days of my life. I mean Michael Clifford was my brother.

"Are you okay?", I asked him.

"No! How could she keep this a secret from me ."

" I guess she just wanted to protect you in a way. what is she like? Do you think she'll like me?"

"Honestly when she sees you she'll think gosh another punk rock child."

"Well I am who am so I guess I won't know how to act I've never had a mother or father structure in my life."

" Don't worry about it your beautiful and perfect. Damn sorry I keep forgetting your my sister ."

"It's fine I mean I'm way worse I obsessed over you I thought you were hot. I wanted to marry you."

"Well lets just forget about the kiss we shared we don't want people thinking were a weird gross family."

"Ya for sure."

We were silent for a couple seconds I stared at the floor , and Michael stared at the ceiling.

"I'm sorry for all the hurt and confusion I caused you.", I said breaking the silence .

"No your fine lets just distract ourself right now with some pizza."

"Sounds great"

Just then I felt my phone vibrate. it was a text from the one and only Luke.

Luke : hey cutie when can we have our date?

Me: umm some family issues came up so idk

Luke: I thought you didn't have family?