Falling For You ( Jonathan Toews Fanfic)

Chapter 20

I bolted upright. When had I fallen asleep? I rubbed my eyes and glanced at the time. It was midnight. I groaned and rolled out of bed to change quick before sleeping for the rest of the night.

I felt something brush my neck and I yelped reaching for it. I grabbed it and pulled it away, it was my earbuds. I smiled at my fright over something so small.

I tucked my earbuds back in their case, and slipped on my pajamas. I yawned and lay back down ready to sleep for the remainder of the night.

Unfortunately...

My mind had a very different idea. I lay awake for a while staring at the ceiling. Sleep didn't come easy that night, and when it did it was a restless and fitful sleep.

The next morning I certainly didn't feel very well rested. The sun shining through the curtains hurt my eyes and I felt like sleeping for the rest of the day. That obviously wasn't a choice, so I drug myself out of bed and slowly got ready for the day.

I looked in the mirror as I brushed through my hair. I wonder did my brother know about me? Maybe that's part of the reason he treated me so horribly. I twisted up my hair to keep it out of the way and grabbed my phone off the charger.

I dialed his number and waited for him to hopefully pick up.

"Hey sis what's up?" He answered cheerfully.

"I just have a question for you." I said in a more tired tone.

"Okay sure. Fire away."

"Well, did you know that Dad isn't my real Dad?" I dropped the bomb. I waited for him to reply he took a few seconds probably trying to figure out if I was serious or if this was a big joke.

"Wait. You mean you're adopted?" He sounded genuinely puzzled and I knew that he hadn't known about it before.

"I wish. No, apparently Mom was raped and-"

"RAPED! And she never told me!" He burst in just about bursting my eardrum.

"Yeah I thought the same thing."

"Okay sorry for my outburst continue." He said more calmly.

"And she became pregnant with me. Dad wanted to get an abortion, but Mom refused so thats why I'm here. And that's one of the reasons he left. I think he sort of still believes Mom had an affair and wasn't raped which is horrible."

"Wow. Why did she randomly tell you about this?"

"I'm not entirely sure. Dad said some mean things to me, and I think she knew he would so she wanted to tell me the reasoning behind it." I guessed, it made the most sense as to why just out of the blue she decided to tell me.

"Oh I'm so sorry. What did he say?" His voice was laced with concern and it made me smile. Here my brother was ,who I hated not that long ago, caring for me.

"He said," I bit my lip so tears wouldn't spill out and continued," that it was my fault that they got a divorce and when I asked what I did he said I existed." I pulled the phone away from my ear and sniffed and collected myself.

"Em you know that's not true? I'm so sorry you had to hear that."

"I know... Thanks I wish I didn't have to either."

"Hey I know you were saying about meeting Laura, you want to do that soon?" He asked changing the subject, which I was grateful for. I didn't feel like reminiscing in the horrible moment any longer.

"Of course! Are you free Monday night?" I asked genuinely excited. I couldn't wait to meet his fiancé.

"Yeah we're both free, we actually planned to go out to dinner. So that'll be perfect you can join us."