You're Family Now

Part 7

Gem's POV-

I woke up to someone trying to wake me up.

"Gem, Gem. C'mon babe's we got to go and get ready." The voice said and I determined that it was Mitch.

"Mitch I don't want to wake up, can I have 5 more minutes?" I whine and he chuckles a bit.

"You said that five minutes ago and the five minutes before that." I open my eyes to see him sitting on the edge of my bed and a smile on his face.

"I did?" I ask sleepy and he nods.

"Ugh, fine, I'll be down to the kitchen in like 10 minutes for breakfast then we can go wherever the hell we are going to go." I groan hopping out of the bed and pulling out a red plaid button up with a grey t-shirt, black converse, cut off dark Jean shorts and some hipster looking sunglasses.

I do my usual make-up and put my hair into a typical messy bun. I slip on my clothes in the bathroom even though the room was empty and I brushed my teeth while I was in there. I grab my bag that's full of essentials, my phone (that has been charging all night) and a pair of earphones from my suitcase. I head down stairs to the kitchen and see everyone waiting anxiously.

"Jeez guys, do you all have to go to the bathroom or something?" I joke and they all laugh shaking their heads and Mitch hands me a package of paper.

I look at the mail in the envelope and quickly open it yanking out the papers. I read the papers and look at one specifically, my birth certificate. I focus my eyes on my birth date 5/16/1998. Wait,what?

"Hold up, I'm 16?" I ask and Mitch gets super confused.

"It says I was born May sixteenth 1998. Look right there, I'm 16." I state and point to the location. He looks over my shoulder and I see his puzzled face.

"How did you not know this?" He asks.

"I never even knew my birth date, the lady at the orphanage would always just randomly tell me that I'm a year older but the date would be different everytime." I state matter of factly.

"Pft, welp, your sixteeennn." He says laughing and I laugh too. Everyone else in the room chuckles slightly.

My eyes trace the rest of the parchment and land on my parents' signatures. My fingers trace the ink of their name, God how I miss them. After a moment I move onto my name that's actually Gemma and my last name that was Rainer but there's no middle name and I give everyone a sad look,

"I don't have a middle name." I say trying not to sound too sad then Mitch smiles.

"Look at the one behind it." He answers, bouncing on the balls of his feet. I look and see the paper right behind it that looks to be another birth certificate. I look over that one as well and see something in the slot where a middle name is supposed to go.

"I saw you didn't have a middle name so my- I mean OUR parents and I decided on one for you, Gemma Roselin Hughes." I gasp and hug him swearing that I could have killed him from squeezing him so tightly but he just smiled and hugged me back.

"Thank you Mitch." I mumble into his shirt and I hear him whisper a 'you're welcome'. We both pull away and I stare gawking at the certificate.

"We also have one more thing." Vikk says and I look at him as he holds up a pass to PAX. I smile and he tosses it to me.

"We have to leave for a kind of briefing thing for it now." Jerome says checking his watch, and we all head out to the cars.

Jason's POV-