A new life

15

Y/N's POV

"Y/N, what do you have to tell us." My adoptive mom asks me once more.

"Honestly, it is not as important as I thought." She shoots me a look. "Okay, fine. Uhm, damn, okay here we go. I wasn't in the US for work, I was there to meet with my biological mom. And before you start, yes I now know that you guys adopted me. Which, by the way, is a thing I can't believe you never told me." I blurt out. Immediately some anxiety was eased by no longer having to keep it a secret.

"You know? Why didn't you just tell us over the phone?"

"Because this is not something you tell over the phone and I needed to get back to Sweden anyways so why not stop here on the way. Also, I want to say that I will be keeping in contact with her. It is something we have both decided and I am very happy with this. No matter what you want now, I honestly don't really care." I bluntly say. I was looking around to see three very stunned faces.

"Y/N, we didn't tell you because honestly we just thought it would never come up. I mean the adoption agency made it very clear that there was to be no contact with the biological family whatsoever. But how in the world did you find out in the first place? And who is your mother, I am dying to know what woman has you in her grip so much that you decide to lie about something that big?" She says, the anger clear as day in her voice.

"Wait, are you seriously angry about this?" I ask in disbelief at the emotion that she is portraying, not expecting that to be the one she chose to go with.

"Come on, Y/M/N. she deserved to know." My father now butts in but gets stopped by my mother as she begins to talk again.

"No, all we have done her whole life is take care of her and protect her. And this is how she chooses to repay us. Don't you see what is happening, she has already replaced us with her new family, going there and celebrating a holiday. Now Y/N you have 5 minutes to explain yourself and after that, you won't be welcome here anymore, since you apparently have a new family now." Is she serious right now, this is absolutely not how I expected this to go. I had at least hoped for a little bit more sympathy. But she wants to kick me out. At least my father looks like he isn't agreeing so that is one thing and my brother is just sitting there watching all of this unfold.

"Are you for real going to disown me over this? Huh, what about the part where you raised me and protected me for the past 18 years? Okay, so you want to know how I found out?" I raise my voice at her as tears sting my eyes. "Well I did a DNA test and they showed me I had matched with someone in the system. I got in contact with them through the organization and before I knew it I was on a plane to New York. And I haven't replaced you, the reason I didn't tell you is because I was angry over the fact that you guys never told me. How about that, you lied about this my whole life and never even brought it up for me to decide what I wanted to do. You should have thought about how I would feel about this Well, I guess it is time for me to leave since I am apparently no longer welcome here." I slam my hands on the table and stand up, I run down the stairs to get all my stuff together. As I am about to slam the door shut I see my dad appear at the bottom of the stairs.

"Y/N please don't leave. We can talk about this." "No dad, she was very clear. I'm sorry but I won't live around someone that apparently doesn't understand me as I thought she did. It is clear that she resents me for this." I spit out at him before I turn around to walk to catch the next train, to get out of there as soon as possible. Leaving behind the house that I spent my childhood in, but that I now could no longer call my home. I let the tears, that had been threatening to run over my cheeks, fall. Not caring about a thing that other people might think.

I get a hotel in Amsterdam to sleep in because my flight to Sweden isn't until 12 pm, since I had planned on staying with my former parents. I can't believe that she just discarded me like I was nothing like they didn't just spend 18 years of their lives raising me and shaping me into the person that I am. Luckily I fall asleep fast not giving my brain any more time to overthink this or sent me into a full-blown panic attack.

I am woken up by a ringing phone. Great, it is already time to wake up, but when I go to turn off my alarm I see it is Scarlett calling me.

The time reads 3 am.

Scarlett's POV

"Hi." I hear a very sleepy voice say on the other side of the line as the other person picks up.

"Hi, darling. Did I wake you up? How has your day been?"

"It was fine and yes I was sleeping. Did you forget that I am in a different time zone right now?" She says slightly annoyed.

"Sorry darling, I was just missing you and you didn't message me to say you landed."

"Sorry, I forgot. I was too occupied with getting home and after that dragging myself to a hotel near the airport."

"That is fine. Wait, did you say a hotel? I thought you were sleeping at your parents?" I am confused to hear it since I remember her quite clearly telling me her plans for when she got home.

"Yeah something happened, I don't want to get into it now. Now if you don't mind I am going back to sleep. Good night." I hear her say yawning before she disconnects the call. I go to say something else but am met by the beeping tone that tells me she has left the call.

This whole situation is really weird, but I am going to let her handle it by herself unless she of course comes to me. She is an adult and very much capable to do so.

I walk back to Colin who is sitting in the same spot I left him in when I decided to call her.

"How is she?" he asks.

"She is fine, something happened but I don't know what. I just don't want to push her. I woke her up though, I might have forgotten about the time difference." I reply and Colin just laughs about me waking her up.

"Do you know when she will be back?" I shake my head. I and Y/N didn't plan a return date, since she wasn't sure how long it would take her to deal with everything. She might not come back soon at all, who knows? I turn my attention to the TV again and snuggle up to my husband.

Y/N's POV

I walk into the airport and quickly check-in, before heading to my gate. These next two flights are luckily not that long and I got lucky with the layover in Stockholm. Those can sometimes be a pain in the ass, the time in the air is just over three hours but your journey can take a whole day because of a six-hour layover in Stockholm. Or they do something crazy and have you fly to Copenhagen first.

A few hours later I land in the city where I live. Over the day I saw that my ex-mom had apparently already started erasing me from her life. God, I am so happy that everything here in Sweden is in my own name and not theirs. Imagine I could not have gone back to my apartment. I will have to figure out what to do about money because they did still give me the money to pay my rent.

"Ma'am, can you exit the plane?" My thoughts are interrupted by the flight attendant. I mumble a sorry before getting off the plane. I take the bus and return to the messy room I didn't have any time to clean up before I left.

When I get back I see several messages from my former dad, but I ignore them not wanting to talk to them. Even though it was mostly my mom who kicked me out. I still blame him for not standing up against her.

I unpack and continue my day as if nothing had happened. The next morning I return to my lectures as if nothing had happened. I am of course met by my friends asking me where I was and I tell them the same lie that I had told the people that adopted me.

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A/N: this is an intense chapter. a lot of stuff went down.

What will happen in the next chapter?

Will things resolve between Y/N and the people that adopted her? or will things stay the same?

I hope you love this chapter, it is not my best but I am proud of it.

As always votes and comments are appreciated. love you guys.