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Remember Scott and Melissa's chat on then phone in chapter E l e v e n of Secret Admirer:
Me: Yes... Why do I have a feeling you know something more?

Mom: Because I do... Son, years before you and Stiles, your father and Claudia... Stiles mom, use to date. There were rumors that your father had forced things upon Claudia, she had been known to lie for attention. She got a restraining order against your father for stalking, and that's where she met John. Your father skipped town for a couple years, but 9 months after he left Claudia had a baby boy that would be around Jordan's age now. Before she could even name the boy the was stolen from the hospital... A few witnesses said they saw your father, but your father had alibis.

Me: But what does any of this have to do with Jordan?

Mom: Before John passed, He had called me with suspicions on Jordan because his driver's license and background checks to become a deputy looked tampered with.

Me: S-so what you're saying is that Dad had a child with Stiles mom that may or may not have been a rape child, that may or may not be Parrish... And dad may or may not have stolen him.
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Its been a couple months since graduation, everyone was pretty traumatized so they got their diplomas the next day. Stiles laid low for a couple days, he didn't even leave his room because reporters and paparazzi were on his lawn. When it died down Stiles went everywhere but his room, it made him even more depressed.  The cops asked Stiles and Scott for some of the spare time to come down to the local doctor's office and get swapped for a DNA test. The results came back and they were actually both related to that guy. His name was Marcus Cassidy, Scott had visited him a couple times but Stiles couldn't.

September 2

11:39 A.M.

Stiles POV

Isaac spent the night again last night for the past 3rd night in a row, we are cuddling on the couch watching a random tv show. "I've never been on a date before..." I realized, "Do you want me to take you out on a date?" Isaac asked holding me closer. "Y-yeah... could we dress up fancy?" I asked shyly and he chuckled. "Yeah of course, would you like to go tonight?" He asked and I nodded smiling excitedly. I finally became irrelevant again in public, It sounds bad but I never been happier.

"Hey Stiles? Could you guys come in here?" Jackson came in the living room and we followed him back down the hall and into his bedroom. He was cleaning his room and making himself more at home, "I was cleaning out this closet and noticed that this rug was moldy so I picked it up. There's a hidden door but it's locked..." He said and I immediately run to my father's old room. Jackson moved into the guest room, it was actually the nicest room in the house because dad would like our guest to feel treated like royalty. I grab the cup of keys he had hidden from me and then I run back to Jackson's room.

"It looks like it needs two little keys..." I said dumping out and sorting the keys from their sizes, there are about 17 keys left. There were a lot more but I found most of the boxes and locks he was hiding from me... I like getting into things. They both kneeled down and helped me "It looks like these two are the same..." Jackson said and I grab one and open up one of the locks "Yay!" I grin and Jackson unlocked the other one. He gently opened the door and it led down to a secret room, "Oh my gosh... I didn't even know this existed..." I said amazed and hugged Jackson thanking him for finding this. "After you..." he bowed down and I giggled, I climb down the latter and Jackson came after me. "Could you grab the keys... I have a feeling the rest of the things he was hiding from me are down here," I asked Isaac and he nodded.

I look around to find the light switch, I flip it on and awe in amazement. It's exactly as big as a normal room in the house except there aren't any windows, there some French doors leading to other rooms. In this room, there is a bookcase, a couch, a chair, a coffee table, some paintings, and a tv. "Hey, it looks like your dad had some journals..." Jackson picked up a journal and handed it to me, "C-Could you read it before you give it to me... My dad would disappear when he was upset with me," I said not wanting to read something Dad wrote if it was bad about me. Jackson nods and looks at me with sympathy.

Isaac gave me the cup when he climbed down and I dumped them on the coffee table, I got the bigger ones and started unlocking the doors. One of them lead to a bathroom, another to the basement but the door was hidden by a shelf, another one to like a kitchen/dining room, another to a bedroom, and another to a game room. Finding this would usually excite me "What's wrong, babe? I thought you was happy to find this?" Isaac asked. "I-I am happy, but it's like a whole other house down here... I couldn't tell you how many times I was home alone and heard laughing or someone walking around and just thought it was my imagination... This was my dad's escape away from me..." I wiped a tear from my eye. "Hey don't ever think that... your dad loved you very much... I don't think he would want you to think like that," Isaac cups the sides of my face and looks me in the eyes. "Uh Stiles... This isn't your dad's journal," Jackson told me and handed me it and I started reading it.

Dear Stiles,

If you have found this it means you have found this room, don't think it was a vacation away from home or something like that because it isn't. Also If you're reading this that means something really bad has happened to me or your father, and I'm sorry for that. Know that I love you and to always remember

"May the good Lord be with you
Down every road you roam
And may sunshine and happiness
surround you when you're far from home
And may you grow to be proud"

Remember how we would love to play games? Don't show this room to anyone but your closest friends. I hope you and your boyfriend love this find<3

Love,
Mommy XOXO

"Huh? She even had a gaydar for me when I was little..." I couldn't help but smile, she even put in a picture she took of me at the time she was writing this. I was 3 and I actually remember her writing in books a lot. Isaac smiled when he read it to "Aw how cute were you?" He cooed and I blushed trying to get the picture from him but he stuffs it in his pocket. "What is this? I think I've heard it before," he asked, "It was a popular song the year she graduated, it was the senior song, she'd always sing it to me to go to sleep to," I answer him. "Here are some yearbooks," Jackson said and I looked at them, there is two copies of each year, probably one was mom's and one was dads.

I sat down on the couch and  look at her yearbooks first reading the notes from her friends. "Who do you think A.W. or M.V. is?" Isaac asked, "I can't think of anyone I know with those initials that would be her friends..." I said deep in thought. This A.W. and M.V. people had taken up a full page of all of her yearbooks except her senior year, it looks like they were close and then something happened. "'Remember the games we would like to play'..." I said outloud to myself, "We would aways play mystery games like clue... or like we would play scavenger hunt all the time..." I tisked. "Hey, would you hand me my fathers yearbooks?" I asked and Jackson got them from the bookshelf.

He didn't have many signatures in his yearbooks, he was always the quiet type. I can't really see him wanting anyone to sign his yearbook, he would want it neat and clean. "Woah..." I opened up his senior yearbook to find all of the pages for people to sign completely filled with notes. One was from mom "Wait... Didn't Mrs. McCall tell us your parents didn't meet or at least start dating until after high school once he was a deputy?" Isaac asked and I nodded confused. "I had a great time last night... can't wait for our second date - Claudia XOXO," it said. The rest was a long ass note from M.V and then the rest was another long note from A.W. and they both had an incessant undertone to them towards mom.

I started flipping through the pages of the yearbook until I say a page with my mom on it, the header of the page was "First Day of Senior Year... BFFS Arriving together in fashion". It looks like they were asked to dress fashionable, mom was in the middle and two girls were posing by her. "Is that?" I said to myself and look at the names of the people in the picture, "Melissa Vasquez, Claudia Smith, and Anna White dressed to impress," I read out loud, I look at the senior pictures to make sure. "M.V. is Melissa Vasquez... and that's Scott's mom... I knew they were best friends in high school, but it looks like Melissa was angry at mom and she was flirting with dad in the yearbook signature she left..." I said. Isaac grabs the book from me, he flips some pages "look this is Anna White..." He points at a drawing basically saying she was out sick, I flip back to the BFF page and look closer but I can't see her face well because it's so grainy.

I pick up an earlier year and flip to the junior pictures "Is that..." Isaac and Jackson said in unison shocked, "Yep... It's Jillian Hills..." I said angry just seeing her face. She had long curly black hair, braces, and glasses on, totally opposite of what she looks like now. "A.W. Is Jillian Hills... she must have had her name legally changed," I explained, "Drive me to her office..." I got up and brought some of the yearbooks for proof. I need answers...

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