Trust Your family, Family Has Your Back

chapter 45, (extra)

Chapter 45
Owen

All the food is done. Tables and chairs in place. Gabriel putting a dark blue tablecloth on all the tables with silver weight thing on each end. He has Luke blowing up balloons of different colors with a portable helium tank. The balloons say congratulations on them. He ties the balloons to the weights.The animals are sitting by Sang even Max. I think Kota lost his dog. Sean came home and is in the shower. Tonight we are relaxing and celebrate our family. Tomorrow we need to get back to work. We have so much to do now. We need to get Uncles restaurant up and running. We need finalize what we going to do at the school. I want to get that done early so we can take a week or 2 off before school starts to take a vacation. I want to start the school year rested. I'm going need to talk Sean to not work at the hospital while hes teaching. I can see him burning himself out. Maybe he can only go in if there is an emergency. I feel Sean sit next to me. I still don't know how I always know its him.
"What are you thinking so hard about Owen?" He asks
"Just all that needs to be done. I want to get everything finalized a few weeks before we need to start school planning. I'd like us as a family to go on vacation to relax and rejuvenate before we get weighed down with homework, grading papers and meetings." I say.
"What was you thinking of as a vacation?" He ask.
"We can go to the beach, amusement park, go to the mountains, or anything. Well we can't go to another country Sang cant get a passport." I say.
"Well amusement park probably out this year. I don't think she would be ready. Beach would be the same to many people. The mountains might work." He saids.
"Ok we will plan a vacation in the mountains. Should it just be us and Tomas or should we invite the Anderson, Uncle,and Lee family?" I ask.
"We can have a family meeting about it later and ask they might have some ideas of some good vacation ideas. Look people are pulling in." He saids as we see a car pulling in. We get up.
"Good idea. Now let's go play hosts." I say as we walk to greet our friends. We all eat and Sang meet Goofy and Pluto. None of us knew their real names. They became Goofy and Pluto with Uncle being Mickey Mouse in basic camp we have new members do. I'm sure Uncle and Dr Roberts knows. They were just as taken with her as we all were. Just something about her innocent behavior make u want to protect her. We need to remember she is also stronger than she looks. She can be just as protective of us.
Mr Savage came. He gets along well with Axle. Both North and Raven growl when he call Sang, Pretty Bird. Mr Mason, his wife and rest of his senior partners came. I think the 2 senior partners are his old team members. But they are not with Mrs Mason. I think the 2 partners are together.
Jason's dads came. 2 big guys like one could be the Aqua man's double and other could be the Hulks double just not green. The one called da is hilarious he keeps flirting with all the guys. Calling Sean, Greeny is so dreamy. Sean been hiding. Da's husband Dad just roll his eyes. You can tell Da is just having fun. Jason said someone must have given him some coffee. Da met Sang and just put her on his lap and started showing her videos of educational stuff. I guess he was a teacher of special education when he was a teacher. Dad was a teacher of teaching practical techniques for special education. Like life skill of cooking, how to organize and even physical activity. That where they met teaching at the school and would put their heads together for any student to help them learn. Dad is sitting next to them watching what ever they was watching. Sometimes one of them would take her finger and trace something on the screen. Her eyes would brighten up from maybe understanding something. Lily came in with her men. Sang was still nervous around her and Erica she seemed worried about Lily guys but I just think its because they were with Lily. Least shes not having a panic attack. Maybe with time she will not be so scared.
Victor comes forward with his box. He puts it on a table noone was at.
"Everyone I have a box to open as part of my inheritance. I wanted to open it with my family. I don't know what is in it." He said. He opens the top. There were papers in a folder. He looks in the folder. He pulls out a piece of paper and reads it. I see some tears fall down his cheek. Magic goes over and puts her body up against his leg. He automatically reaches down and rubs her head. She starts licking his hand and he smiles. Good dog I think to myself. Victor looks back at the paper and starts to read.

Dear Victor Westmoreland,
You would have changed your name if you are reading this. I would be with my beloved wife Anna your great grandmother. She passed way before her time. She got to see you before she passed you were almost 1. She didn't have magic but she sometimes knew things. The day you was born she held you and all of a sudden said you are the one. She said you was going to be victorious in bring our family back to how we were. She loved you.
Our daughter Kendra use to be so sweet,kind,and loving. She was so beautiful. One day a up and becoming family moved next to our estate. There was a young man who our daughter fell in love with. He came to us for her hand in marriage. We said no. She was 15 and he was 22. We told them to just get to know one another.
We didn't like the young man. He thought everyone should do what he said. He thought the shop people should just give him things because he had the name Williams. He was the youngest so he knew he would have to work. We had more money then anyone. We had land. So we believe he set his eyes on my daughter. He flirted and told her how special she was. She fell hard saying he was her soul mate.
Well weeks later she came to us crying saying she was with child. We were so shocked our 15 old was pregnant. She told me after we had said no to her getting married. She would met him in secret when ever she could. She said he forced himself on her the first time. After she went to his bed willingly. So they meet up alot. Then she missed her mm well her courses. She told him and he said she had to marry him now. He would tell everyone. Remember back then men could have hundreds of wemon they slept with and noone cared and alot of time were praised by the boy's father and male relatives. Girls were shamed. Well we agreed to the wedding, but we told them that other then a small amount of money they couldn't claim the inheritance. They married, but the first baby didn't make it past 3 years old. Life was hard on the babies back then.
He taught our daughter to think she was better then anyone. She was rude and bitter. They finally had your mother when our daughter turned 18. She raised her to be like her. Not to keep our family values. When she turned 30 she conceived again. Your mother was 12 almost 13. Our daughter died in childbirth. She had a little boy but something was wrong with him. I think now it be called down syndrome. He was so cute. But the father took the baby somewhere. He said a mental hospital. We looked for him at the ones close but they said no little boy was brought to them.We don't know. We fear what that man might have done to him.
Our family was all about helping our people. Our family goes back to England. We (our family) came to the United states before it was the United States. It was just 13 states. We came to what now is South Carolina. We had alot of land. We had a plantation house my great, great grandfather brother, 4 sons owned. From stories they were good men. They did have slaves but they didnt treat them like that. Yes they had to work the fields but the brothers did too. Everyone even the mouser cats had jobs. My great great grandfather owned the Westmoreland estate or our home. Another relative owned another estate. They were all friends from what I read.
They had 3 fountains built they did best they could to have them face one another. It was a feat back then. The cousin (it could have been a nephew or something I couldn't find out) had his facing the direction of the plantation, the 4 brothers had theirs facing the direction of our home. Ours was facing the cousins place. The rest of what's in the box is all the bank information of mine, your mother's, the 4 brothers and the cousin. All 3 properties were supposed to be yours as part of the inheritance as the 4 brothers kids and the cousin kids were not worthy. But from what I found out when they all passed their kids had a couple of judges in their pockets. The judges decided the kids owned the land. They also got the personal bank accounts that each brother/ cousin had has spending money.
Well the kids of the 4 brothers went bankrupt divided the land and sold it for the money. I dont know why the cousin's home was sold but found it sold for millions.
They didn't know about the main bank accounts the ones they never touched only added to. Their yearly income was divided half going to spend . The other half in the secret account.
I have kept a eye on the accounts. They keep growing. You might need our lawyer Mr Kegels or if you have a trusted lawyer look into the accounts. Now I'm sure he told you of the vaults. There is a map in the box that shows you how to find it. Also the plantation house and your cousin's house had a vault also. The codes for them is in the horn.
I love you my grandson. I didn't want to leave you with your parents. You was already playing the piano better than anyone I have heard.
Also be careful the Williams family still exists but they are not blood to us other than through your grandfather but they dont have the blood of the Westmorelands.
Love your Grandpa Westmoreland
I now go home to my sweet Anna's arms to rest.
I think we all had tears in our eyes. Victor went back to looking. He pulled out a crocheted baby blanket of light blue. In one corner in dark blue was wrote 'TO MY LITTLE VICTOR, MY DARLING LITTLE BOY, FROM NANA ANNA'. Victor cryed into the baby blanket.
With Magic still up against him Jason went to him and rubbed his back whispering to him.
When Victor calmed down and took a breath he started to go through the box again. He looked at some papers in a folder. He turned and handed to Mr Mason. He whispers to him and Mr Mason nodded and took the folder. Victor went back to looking. He pulled out another folder smiles after he looked inside it. He puts it down. He picked up another folder and pulled out pictures I can't tell of what. He put them back into the folder and put it back down. He pulled out looks like a folder that had been illuminated shut,
"I need a knife to cut this open. Actually Jason can you I don't want hurt my hands?" At Jason's nod he hands him the folder. Jason takes out a pocket knife and carefully opens it and hands it back to Victor.
Victor opens the folder and a some papers came out and a necklace with a unicorn rearing on a rock. The unicorn was almost white looking silver the horn was gold and the rock was blackened silver. It was beautiful.
Victor took off his old necklace his mom gave him as a kid. He then put the unicorn necklace on. It looked just right on him. He went back in and found another folder some pictures and a another note. He reads the note then pales. He looks at me then the note. He brings me the folder and note. I look at a picture in front of a unicorn fountain. Looks like the hospital before it was a hospital. Theres a man there with Silver eyes. Dark almost black hair. I looked at the note.