A new life

6

After sitting there for what feels like eternity, a phone rings. I wipe the tears away, leaving my cheeks stained with tears. While answering the phone Scarlett hands me a tissue to wipe away the snot that has accumulated under my nose.

"yes...... okay...... yes, can you please not let my team know yet..... no, then just tell them again who is paying their salary.... Okay bye." Scarlett talks as she stays looking at me making sure the I will be okay. She hangs up the phone slightly irritated, but gathering from the call I understand that it is not me.

She gets up and leaves the room, I follow her into the living room. Slightly impressed by the home that she lives in.

"The test confirmed it, but I guess that we had already figured it out on our own." She says, sniffling, clearly holding back her own tears. All the while I am still standing in the entrance to the living room, frozen by everything that was just confirmed by a DNA-test. At that moment the only thing I can do I let the tears escape my eyes once again. Before I know it I am making my way to the elevator that serves as the entrance to the house, but I am stopped by a pair of hands grabbing my wrist.

"please, can you stay and let me explain it better." She says, the pain very clear on her voice.

"I'm sorry, it is not you. You have been amazing to me so far. I .... I ..... just didn't even know I was adopted, so this is a lot to process for me. My god how could it be you, this is everything I have ever dreamed of. The woman who has been providing me comfort since I started watching my movies and who I have considered to be somewhat of a mother figure for me, actually is my mother. It just that....." I am unable to finish my sentence because of the sobbing that takes me over again. God, I can't believe I am an absolute mess in front of her. Yes I know that I get to be because this is a lot of new information that will change everything about my life, but still.

She once again takes me into a hug that I just melt into, needing the comfort as much as she does. She leads me to the couch where she sits me down before sitting down herself.

"Y/N, darling, I need you to listen to everything I will be saying. Can you do that?,' I nod,' look 18 years ago I had a baby, nobody knew about it except for my parents and manager at the time. I am still surprised we were able to keep I out of the media. I was just twenty years, and even though I had a very stable career at the time I couldn't take care of a baby. I was way to busy for that and the father left the moment he found out. He later signed an NDA that prevented him from ever talking about it. As much as it hurt me I found this family that wanted to get a second kid but couldn't, so I chose them because they seemed like the right people. Please know that giving you up was the hardest thing I have ever done. It took a while for me to get over you and I eventually kind off forgot about you. But I think I have always hoped that our paths would cross again. I wanted to get in contact immediately when I got the message about matching with someone. And here we are. From here we go okay?" She finishes talking, having chosen her words very carefully not wanting to hurt me anymore.

We just sit there for a while, something we have done a lot today. Just sitting in silence together, trying to process everything that has come to light.

"From here we go.,' I repeat her words, which slightly calm me down,' look, I'm sorry if I made you feel like I put all the blame on you. But that isn't the case. Sure it hurts to find out that your mother gave you up, but I fully understand why you did it, I would have done the same if I was in your shoes. I think the thing that is hurting me the most is that I have always known that is didn't belong in my family and that just never knew that this was the reason. My parents, well adoptive parents have never told me anything. Maybe they just didn't think it was the time yet or because they were under an NDA. But they could have at least told me." I say, still sniffling here and there and having to stop to take a deep breathe.

I continue: "You have done nothing but make me feel at home in the short time I have been here. I don't know where you stand on this but I would love for us to stay in each other's life and get to know each other again. But I you don't want this and just want me to go back to Sweden and we both life out life separately, than that is fine by me. It must be weird for you and me, since I am like this mega fan of yours. So whatever you decide it is fine by me. Sure it'll hurt if you choose you don't want me in your life but I'll get over it eventually. Please know that I don't hold any grudges." I finish, waiting for her answer to the deal I just proposed, knowing that this situation is very hard for the both of us.

She breaks the silence that has once again formed with a deep breath in.

"I would love for you to be a part of my life. I would love to get to know you. And yes you cam on a little strong, but that is to be expected from someone who is a fan and never thought that she would ever meet someone like me. God, I have to tell Colin and, oh no, Rose. What will they think?" She starts to spiral.

"Hey, take a deep breath. We'll figure it out okay, one step at a time, I can stay out of your hair for a few days. Since I have stuff to figure out and you have stuff to figure out. I'm sure there is stuff that needs to be done that include me signing a shit ton of documents with lawyers and I need to tell my family that I know about it. And you need some time to tell your own family, because they are important to, maybe even more important than I am." I say, hoping that this will help her calm down a little bit before this turns into a full on panic attack.

"Yes, that sounds like a great idea. Thank you. Gosh, I can't even begin to say how happy I am that our paths crossed. Oh gosh, it is this late already, Colin will be home soon and the kids to, I need to start on dinner. Will you please stay?" she asks me

I nod happy that she doesn't want me out of the house just yet. I help her prepare dinner, but I am not much help since I can cook about 4 meals that I have been rotating for weeks.

"Are you telling them tonight or are you not. If not we can just pretend that I am working with The Outset on a new product or something." I offer.

"How would you be working with The Outset on a product? Aren't you still in school."

"Yes, but if you need to know I study chemistry so I'd say that I would be able to create a skincare product. And Colin doesn't know that."

"You study chemistry, god both my kids are so smart." She says for the first time in a while a big smile once again painted across her face. Before we know it we hear the elevator open and Colin lets her know that he is home. She walks out to great him and I stay back in the kitchen, he had also picked up the kids from Scarlett's mom by the sounds of it.

"Y/N get out here there is someone I want you to meet." I hear her say. I leave the kitchen slightly unsure what to do. I walk into the hallway and see them together. Gosh they look so good together. Out of all the husbands that she has had I feel like she is the happiest with Colin. Or at least she looks the happiest. Me and Colin shake hands as I quickly introduce myself to him, before I excuse myself to go to the bathroom.

"Y/N diner is ready are you coming."

"Yeah just a minute. I'm just quickly going to the bathroom."

Preparing myself for what I expect to be aslightly awkward diner with my new mom and her family that doesn't know aboutit.

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A/N: new chapter is here. some explanation for all that is happening. and some cute panicked Scarlett moments. but I love where this is going.

Also the chapters are getting a little bit longer. so let me know if you like the longer chapters or if you want shorter ones.

And once again comments and votes are appreciated.