My Playboy Cowboy

14 [The Truth]

[a/n: Sooooooo sorry this took so long but I finally have an ending for the book]

I was back in school, after a couple of weeks of resting. But I was still a bit bruised here and there; so there wasn't any need for gym class any time soon. Not to mention I enjoyed my time living with Ace's family as I healed; it reminded me of my own little family, how the boys were always so loud and fun. It was actually something new to look at since I never used to go out with other people but this was refreshing for me to do after all that happened in my life right now.

Right now, I was cleaning a closet in one of the classes; it was filled with old stuff from the old days of the school. Nami was helping me since I couldn't lift heavy boxes just yet and Nami said Ace would kill her if she let me try and lift one heavy box; one thing about Ace that I loved about my boyfriend is that he was always protective of me and his friends and family no matter what.

"Man, this place is dusty as hell" Nami said as she waved her hand around trying to clear the dust floating around.

"I agree, guess forgetting these things does that" I said while placing some old items in another box to be taken out later today.

There wasn't much in here so it didn't take long for us to clean the room and put it in boxes; but there was one more box that was on a high shelf that needed to be taken down.

"I got it" I said as I got the stool so I could step on it and get high enough to grab it.

Grabbing the box I noticed that this one was labeled which was weird since the other's weren't. I brought it back down gently placing it on the ground, before opening it up. Letting the sight of old photos come to my eyes, seeing the teachers being teenagers was weird since you never think about them being around my age. Digging through the box I saw a picture of my mom, one I never seen before again; it was her graduating from collage finally with a big bright smile on her face as she stood with Killer he looked to be maybe ten or something I couldn't tell but on thing I saw was mom was pregnant with me in this picture. I couldn't help but smile warmly at this picture and thought about keeping it since I never could find once of mom very much since she liked taking picture of me and Killer all the time when we grew up.

Looking back through the box I found a letter with my mom's hand writing. Thinking it wasn't something important I opened it not seeing who it was for; I skimmed through it seeing there was a picture of my as a baby smiling brightly attached to it. That's when the words caught my attention which made my eyes widen in shock.

'I might not see you again but, here is a picture of our daughter. She has you're smile Shanks' 

My body just froze on the spot as I looked at the one sentence through out this whole letter; my whole body was shaking and I didn't know how to handle this at all. I was never told about who my father was, even when I asked she always avoided the truth. Did he even want me as a daughter? Did he even care? The man I always knew as my principle in this school was my FATHER!?

"Lilly, you good?" Nami's voice brought me out of my thoughts which made me jump a bit.

"Y-yeah, I just....I need to do something" I stuttered a bit before rushing out of the room.

I needed to know, I needed to know if Shanks even cared. Did he actually love my mother? Did he even think about wanting to be in my life? Did miss Makino know about this? I thought my life was upside down now but it just got a whole stranger right now; and I needed to know the real truth about what happened between my mother and Shanks.