𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐍 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒, JJ Maybank

20| YOU'RE ADOPTED

This morning John B was fishing with Ward so that left me to face the one thing I didn't want to do, go and get everything from my Mother's house. I had been dreading this thing. My father came with me for moral support though I protested knowing she was going to be drunk and a fight would break out. I walked up to the door, pushing it open. As I walked in, my mother was sitting at the dining table, surprisingly eating normal food and not drinking alcohol.

She smiled, "Sydney lovely for you to come back. Please sit." She motioned to the chair next to her. I looked at my father, weary, before sitting down next to my mother. My mother moved her plate away from her before looking at me, "Sydney, I know this has been a very hard time-" I cut her off, having had enough of this already, "What do you want to tell me?" My mother smirked, "You like to get straight to the point I see. Well, you are not my daughter-" she turned to look at my father, "-And he is not your father-" My father shook his head, "Don't do this Lucià."

My mother only smirked in response. I snorted, finding this all very funny. "So you're saying I'm not your daughter just because of the other day." My mother shook her head, "No, I'm saying you're not my daughter because you're adopted." I looked at my father to confirm what she was saying. He hung his head in shame. I nodded understanding the answer. I asked, "Who is my real mother?" My mother looked at my father before sighing, "When I was younger, my best friend was Rose-" I asked, "Rose Cameron?" she nodded, "-Yes, Rose Cameron. She and I were best friends for a very long time. Rose and I were Pogues. We were known for being very wild and having fun. Before Ward and Rose started dating she had a one night stand with someone and got pregnant. She wanted to get rid of her baby, knowing she couldn't take care of it. At that time, Simon and I were trying to have a child but we weren't able to do it. Rose gave birth to you and I took you in."

I scoffed, standing up, "You expect me to believe Rose Cameron is my mother. A Kook?!" My mother nodded, "Yes-" I asked, "Who is my father?" My mother shook her head, "Sydney-" I asked again, "Who is he?" My mother sighed.

"Massimo. Rose and Massimo are your real parents."

I shook my head, tears slowly falling down my face without my knowledge. "No that's not possible-" I looked at my mother shaking my head, "-You dated him knowing he was my real father?" My mother reached for my hand, "Sydney-" I shook my head, stepping away. I walked past my father who let me go knowing it wasn't going to work.

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As I walked to the chateau, the revving of JJ's bike caught my attention. I jogged round to the back and saw John B on JJ's bike. Kiara shouted, "John B! What the hell!" as she opened the back door. I jogged over shouting, "John B tell us what's wrong!" John B snapped, "Ward knows about the gold. He killed my dad." I reached out to stop John B but he quickly sped off. I turned to JJ, Pope and Kiara, "What the fuck just happened?!"

As Pope and Kiara ran calling for John B, JJ turned to me sensing something was wrong, "What happened?" I sighed, "I found out that I'm adopted and that Ward Cameron's wife is my mother." JJ shook his head sighing, "Now that's fucked up." I nodded, "Tell me about it."

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It was dark out and we had just pulled up to the deck outside the Cameron's house. JJ asked, "What now, do we just go up to the front door and ask, 'Hey have you seen John B?'" Kiara sighed, "Look, he lives at Tannyhill now. It's plausible. We can play dumb." I chuckled softly, "Play dumb? Kie we are knee deep in this." JJ scoffed, "Play dumb?-" Pope looked at Kiara, "It's pretty lame."

Kiara sighed, "Look, I have never seen John B like that. We should honestly be going to the police." I groaned, "What are we gonna say? Huh? Everything apart from the fact that we robbed someone, stole a device and have done a lot of illegal shit." JJ nodded, "-Say what Kie? We are worried about our friend who has gone off on a wild rampage cause Ward Cameron killed Big John, like they aren't going to believe us!"

Pope broke up the argument, "Hey, I see Ward." Kiara stepped closer to Pope asking for the binoculars. Pope shrugged, "He doesn't look dead to me. Let's go home." Kiara asked, "What?" Pope sighed, "I see Mr Cameron is fine and even if John B was here he isn't here now. Ok plus I have the biggest most important moment of my life in 6 hours." Kiara chuckled, "Yeah, And our friend is in trouble." I mumbled, "Kie let him go." Pope scoffed, "Yeah, I'm in trouble. Guys, I haven't been home in 3 days. My dad has put my **** on the streets by now." Kiara sighed, "K, so that's it. Any time we need you, you are just gonna bail-" I turned to JJ mumbling, "I feel like I am watching an episode of real housewives America." He nodded, "True."

As Kiara and Pope continued to shout, I felt my phone buzz. I pulled it out of my pocket and saw a message from my 'father'. 'Lucia and I would like to talk. Come home, please?' I scoffed before putting my phone back into my pocket. JJ whispered, "Hey what's wrong-" He quickly asked Pope and Kiara, "Can you guys tone it down."

I shook my head, signalling for him not to ask. As Pope shouted, "-Bullshit-" it caught my attention. I gasped, "Pope!" I was not expecting him to say that. No one was. JJ sighed, "Pope, come on." Kiara gasped, "Excuse me?" Pope pointed at us, "No, no. She has no place to talk. Where were you when Big John went missing? You weren't there. You weren't there for John B. You weren't there for any of us. Remember your Kook year-" I sighed, "Pope come on please." JJ sighed, "Dude." Pope ignored us, "-Yeah, you forgot about us. Now you feel guilty." Kiara shoved Pope away. I stepped up and tried to push them away. Though, Kiara smacked me in the face unknowingly. JJ was quick to break up the fight as I rubbed the spot I was hit on my face.

I scoffed as no one seemed to notice that I was hurt. I stood up and climbed out of the boat and onto the deck running away ignoring the calls for me to come back.

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Knowingly, I found myself outside of my house. Well my adopted house. I was hesitant to say the least but I knocked on the door never less. A few seconds went by before the door swung open and I was greeted by my 'father's' smile. I smiled back as he opened the door for me to come in. As I stepped in, I took in the state of the room. Everything was cleaned. The table was set for 5 and a bottle of fancy champagne was placed on the table with 5 champagne glasses.

As I opened my mouth to ask what was going on, Lucià came in, "Sydney. Glad you could join us." I questioned, "Us?" Lucià nodded, "Us." Two footsteps could be heard coming from the living room to our room. I suddenly became anxious. As the footsteps got closer, I looked down at my shoes not wanting to face whoever it was. The footsteps stopped in front of me. I slowly lifted up my head to be met with the two faces I was not expecting. I asked, really convincing myself more than them. "Rose? Massimo?" Rose smiled, "Hello Sydney." Massimo smiled as well, "Hello, principessa." 

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