What I Never Knew

Chapter One

I stare out the window of the plane, replaying last night over and over again. Last night I told Cam what I thought would happen, my fears, and how I was excited to finally be adopted. We ended up talking about our fun times together and then we started to cry. Well, let me rephrase that, I started to cry again. He would just hug me and tell me that there was still email, facebook, snap chat, and Skype. I laugh at the memory...he knows it's not the same as speaking face to face. He just rolled his eyes at me and laughed, knowing how I feel about all that. I turn to my left when I feel someone lay a hand on my arm and see that it was just my case worker, Miss Ali.

"How are you feeling?" She asks me. I shrug my shoulders before answering.

"To be honest, I'm scared and excited. I don't know what they are like or if they will like me..." I trail off. I look down at my lap. I feel her squeeze my shoulder to reassure me.

"They will be crazy not to like you, Scarlet. I mean they know about you and how you ended up in foster care, which usually puts off people due to the lack of your background. " She flips her hand in one of those 'dont worry about it gestures' before continuing. "Anyways...my point is that they still adopted you knowing that. You see what I'm saying?" She asked me.

"Yeah, I do see what your saying. Thank you Ali..." I smile at her.

"No problem kid." She says while laughing. I laugh with her.

"So how long will it be before we get there?" I ask her.

"We should arrive around two in the afternoon since we took off around eight in the morning. So in about two hours."

"Oh okay." I decided that I would take a long nap...or at least try to. I told Ali what I planned to do and she just shook her head and told me I could try.

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I woke up with a cramp in my necks and shoulders, so I try to stretch as much as I can without bothering those around me. I also try to message my neck to see if that helps get rid of the cramp. It doesn't. With a sigh I slump back into the chair, but I hear a soft laugh to my left.

"I told you that you could try to take a nap and it seems that you took one." Ali says.

"An uncomfortable one." I mumble as a reply. She laughs.

"Well at least you got some sleep before landing."

"How long was I out?" I asked while rubbing the sleep out of my eyes.

"An hour and a half." She says with laughter in her voice. My eyes get big.

"An hour and a half!" I whisper surprised. Ali knows it is hard for me to sleep when I'm not in my own bed and usually I only sleep for about thirty minutes.

"You may have slept more due to the fact that you and Cam stayed up all night talking and laughing and crying." She gives me one of 'those' looks. You know? The one your mother gives you when she knows that you didn't know she knew? Yeah that one. I just smile sheepishly and shrug my shoulders.

"Maybe?" My voice comes out in a high questioning tone. She just shakes her head and smiles. We ended up reading for the rest of the time, with her reading The Hunger Games while I was reading The Maze Runner. I have read it before, but sometime when I reread a book I notice things I didn't notice before. But I usually wait a while to read the same book and I read a lot, no joke. I got so caught up in reading my book that i didn't even hear the pilot speak. The only reason I know he spoke was because Ali told me.

"Scarlet, the pilot just announced that we will be landing soon, so buckle up." She said. I nod my head to let her know that I heard her and buckled up. I ended up looking out the window again, thinking about my new home and my new family. I wonder who is picking us up at the airport? Ali said that the family was sending a family friend to pick us up. I wonder what they will be like. Well, you will find out soon enough, Scarlet. When we landed and were off the plane, Ali and I retrieved our bags and headed to the entrance of the building where the family friend was suppose to pick us up.

When we reached the entrance there was very few people. I noticed one guy was waiting. He must be around sixteen and was really, really...wait a minute...pause and rewind. He had dark brown hair that looked almost black, but when he turned his head towards the sun it looked like he had a ginger tint to it. His hair was a little past the ears and flopped onto the left side of his face. He was wearing dark faded blue jeans, a blue t-shirt that fit a little to well, and a pair of black and silver running shoes. Wow... I finally realized I was staring and looked away, blushing, but I ended up looking at Ali who just shook her head and laughed. I glared. When I looked back towards the boy, he was walking towards us.

Oh moons...please tell me he is just walking to the door of the airport and not towards me...please! I look at Ali and see her smiling at me. Uh oh. She knows something I don't and I have a feeling that I'm about to find out what it is.

"Ali...what aren't you telling me?" I half whisper and half grumble out. Her smile gets bigger and she shakes her head.

"You'll see..." Was all she said. The boy is about three feet away from us now before he stops. Oh moons...help me!

"Hello...I am Mackinley Winters. I was just wondering if you happen to be Scarlet and Miss Ali." He said in a voice that sounds like a singers voice. Ali shakes her head yes.

"Hello, Mr. Winters. I'm Ali and this here is Scarlet. I'll take it that you are the family friend?" She asks him. Oh no...if he's the family friend I'll have to see him more. I wish Cam was here...he'd know what to say and do. Jeez girl...snap out of it, I tell myself.

"Yes ma'am. My family and the Moonstone family have been friends for a long, long time. So I guess I'll be seeing you around a lot, Scarlet." He winked at me. Please tell me he's not like those jerks at my old school that made all the girls swoon. I looked at Ali and seen that she was still smiling.

"So how long will it take to get to the Moonstones' place?" Ali asks emphasizing the family's name.

"About thirty minutes, Miss Ali." I think my eyes widen a little bit. We have to spend thirty minutes with him! This is going to be a long ride for me. Wait! The Moonstones' place? But my last name is Moonstone...does that mean...no...they can't be...I started seeing black spots and i heard my name being called. The last thing I thought was that they can't be my birth family...and then everything went black.