Isabella

Chapter Four

The night and next day passed very quickly. We had told everyone what we got as graduation presents. Everyone loved them. Also on the 31st of May, the night after our graduation all of our parents and all of us went to Isaac’s and my house for a huge meeting. None of us kids knew what was going on, we didn’t know if we were in trouble or not. So we all showed up. It was unusual as we only had one of these meeting when we were all in trouble. When we all got there are parents all told us they had something to tell us.

My dad was the one who gave us the news: “Kids, I know you all think that you are best friends because you meet in school, and then you think you all brought us all together am I right?” Isaac answered him, “Yes sir that is what we all know.”  Dad said “Well that is not the case. The real answer is that we are all in the mob.” All seven of us were quite as we did not expect that.  Caden and Arianna’s dad went next, “See we didn’t want you guys involved while you were in school, and during the summer we all sent you on errands when we didn’t want you in the office, now that you are out of school it is time that you all decided if you want to help take over the family business or lead a regular life, however, whatever you chose know that we will always still love you.”

I spoke up next “what you are saying is that all of you are part of the mob, so who is the leader of this so called mob?” Mom answered, “Well hunny, your dad is. See we are all under him. Of course all of yawls grandparents were before us. See it was always our intentions for all of you to meet and fall in love. However, Nevaeh’s parents were supposed to have twins, so that you would have someone to marry, however, as she and her parents both know her twin died at birth, which was so hard on her mom for the longest time. That is why there are only seven of you.”  I asked her if this has anything to do with what they have to tell me when I get home from our trip. Mom says “Yes, it does, we will not get into it know.” Nevaeh’s dad said “now you all have some choices: you have the option of getting the fake id’s and everything that is in the package. When you take them, you will then have to make a choice on how you are going to use them. We will give you until you return to decide, but just know that we will love you all no matter what. We all hope that you make a choice together otherwise you will all be split up. So here are your choices, Jordan will tell you.”

 Dad says “here is the deal, when we give you the envelopes there are several things in there that you guys do not know about. I have a friend that was able to hack into the government and change a few things. So as you all know there are fake ids in there but they are not really fake.  They are just your new identity.  Also in there, are your new birth certificates, passports, and credit cards. You are all the same people we just gave you all a new birth year; you were all born in 1985. Also, there are papers in there that state you have all attended college and your degrees are in there.  The degree will help you get into a good college for med school or a law school. It all depends on you guys.           

 Another thing, no one will know about this change in the family, so form here on out if you stay when it comes to the family we all act normal, but outside of the families you can be the new you. Now the thing you guys need to know is that you have two choices. You guys can take the new identities and move far away with the money that is on your cards, an start your own careers,  or you guys can use the information and come back and learn to take over the family business and one day merge them all together. If you choose this option, ladies, you will all be stay at home moms, or work with the guys. The guys will be doing most of the work, like it is now. The choices are yours. But here is the thing; you guys need to decide as a group as this is a group offer. Mike told you all you have until you all come back please have a response by then. And another thing, if you three couples want to get married while in Vegas that will be ok with us, if you do then we will have a huge party when you get home.”

After that we all headed to our house so we could all talk about this and get ready for the following day. We all decided just to finish packing the cars, and then get dinner. We didn’t talk about what our parents had told us. We just all said we would think about it later, so after the car was packed and we had all gone to our room we each looked at the information in our envelopes. Isaac came into my room, and we both looked at our information together. I am sure the others did as well, but I don’t know. When we looked at the information we saw letters from our parents. Neither one of us read them we decided to wait until we were in Vegas. We had no idea this was coming, we were all a little hurt about it but, the ones that were together could know get married like they had all planed on doing. So that night after going over our things, Isaac and I both fell asleep in my room. We knew we were going to have a long month ahead of us as that is how long we planned on being gone. We all had saved up $15,000 each. So we knew we would be able to survive a month away from our parents, but know we had things to think about and we knew it would be a group decision on what to do.