One Life {finished}

Fourteen: A what?

Derek's POV

The sour taste and the sun overcrowding your room. Today was the day. The day I would meet my real parents. Although I was with mixed emotions. I really did want to find out who they were. But most of all why they would ever leave me and come back asking for me until now. I mean now that I had grown up they didn't have to take care of me. Typical selfishness of human beings. I could look forward to this or just forget about it. Forget about my whole life and the one ahead. Just ended it all. Why does the world need another Derek. I know I wouldn't need one.

I heard a knock on my door.

"Sweety we leave in 10 minutes!"

"Alright"

I got dressed and headed downstairs. Before I could reach the stairs I got a call from not other than Ariana.

"Hello" "Hey babe. How are you doing? How do you feel, you know about this whole thing with your real parents?" "Im fine. But the question is how are you?" "I'm good. I'm good." "That's good beautiful." "How's everything with you know, Caroline?" "Well she's believing everything. About the whole falling in love shit" "Yeah yeah" "Well beautiful I got to go" "Bye baby call me when you get out of the "meeting your real parents" shithole." "Bye beautiful."

I hung up and walked downstairs. If your wondering who that was. Ariana my so lost love. My first and only true love. Who am I kidding. Every second I was with Caroline I ended up falling for her and forgetting about Ariana. I was falling in love with Caroline and there was no one and nothing that could stop me. Because I am in love with her. Love isn't a choice. It just happens. You can't pick it out and you cant stop it from happening.

"Good morning. Grab the toast and lets go." John said. My supposedly father. After the whole adoption conversation, I refused to call them dad or mom.

The whole car trip was quiet. Well not really after five minutes I couldn't handle their presence. I grabbed my headphones and put them on blasting my music as loud as I could. I looked at all the tall buildings. I hated New York so much. It only made my life hell. All the memories that were just a bunch of lies. Until...until I met her. Until I met Caroline. Right after I left Ariana for what seemed the third time. I met Caroline. I bumped into her after arguing with Ariana on the phone. She was like my wake up call.

After what seemed like five minutes. The car came to a halt. We were at a hotel. Damn. More like a five star hotel. We got inside and the luxury all around the lobby was amazing. only rich people stay here. not thaty parents weren't. It's just this was like for billionaires. My parents asked for whoever their names were. My fake parents wanted it to be a "surprise" for my birthday. We got in the elevator and headed to the twelfth floor. I looked at the long extended hallway. Instead of heading to the rooms. We took a left to some reserved rooms. Where you can plan parties and shit.

We arrived into one of the rooms. There were couches and a big screen television. A pool table on another side and a window view of the city. I sat on the couch and waited. I got my phone out and textes Caroline.

Hey goodmorning beautiful

Goodmorning handsome. Hey good luck with you know, the parents. I guess

Thanks. I'll try to stay stabled. We should hang out. I really want to see you again.

Derek focus on your reality and the future of your parents.

Yeah the ones who left me because I was a waste of space.

Derek there's a reason for everything. Just listen to what they have to say. Alright? Hang in there.

I heard the door creek open and I looked up to see a woman in her late thirties. Behind her was a man the same age or older. She had long brown hair. Not that long but long enough to look astonishing. Her clear blue eyes changed to light green shining from the sun. She was beautiful. The man next to her kind of reminded me of someone. Well obviously I looked at him everyday, me. Then a guy the same age as me walked in. He had a sleeve of tattoos on his left arm and a few tattos on his right one. His hair was spiked up and it was golden brown. Too light that it looked almost blonde. He turned his head to the side and I saw a tatto on his neck. It read patience. What the fuck was going on. I stood up with my parents and they walked towards us.

"Hello I'm Pattie Mallete, this is Jeremy bieber and this is our son Justin. You must be Diana and John." Their son. Their fucking son. I was their son too.

"Yes so nice to finally meet you and Jeremy in person. This is Derek. The famous Derek." The woman looked at me and a tear dropped from her eye. The man next to her, Jeremy, stroked her arm and he smiled as he looked at me. I couldn't take it. Why would they be so excited to meet me after all these fucling years. The woman, Pattie, came to me and put her hands against my cheeks. She rubbed them softly with her thumbs. This is what I've been waiting for. After all these years these were the hands that I missed. My real mom. The mother who had given birth to me. I hugged her which was the least that I expected from me. She huuged me back. I didn't want to let go. After all this time I was finally in the arms of the true person I had missed and didn't know why I missed them. I never had known I had missed the arms of my real mother. I let go slowly and she looked in my eyes her hands attached to my cheeks.

"I've been looking everywhere and forever for you." I let out a tear. For the very first time. I had let everybody see me cry.

"Why? Why did you leave me?" I looked at her in the eyes and waited for her answer.

"Honey if only you knew the situation I was in."

"Then tell me. I have all day for you to tell me the perfect reason as for you to give away your child." I was curious and finally wanted to listen to what they had to say. It was time, for the very first time I got some truth out of the cruelty that is to be known as human. We all headed to sit down on the couch. I wiped away my tears and looked at Pattie.

"Please I just want the truth for once. That's all I ask for."

"Alright. I had you and at that moment you were born that was my biggest regret. To let you go. But with the situation of me having two jobs and being so poor, I could barely take care of myself. I knew it was for the best. To give you a different life. A better one where you can have what you need and have the normal life of a child who deserves to live happily. After rebuilding my self up and being able to handle it. I spent years looking for you just to see you all grown up and having the best life that I couldn't have given you. I couldn't find you and now I'm looking at you. Healthy and so full of life."

"There's one thing you forgot. Happiness. It would have been better to live that life with you and cherish all the moments I would have had with my real parents. The real happiness I would have had. Not build up memories with lies and be happy, to it all crumbling down to the ground."

"Derek there's something else..." "What is it?" I looked at them confused and Jeremy looked at Pattie nodding his head. He opened his mouth and spoke the words I would never forget.

"You have a twin brother." His words. The words that completed the whole puzzle. They had chosen him to take care of and two of them was too much. They had chosen one and send the other one away. All the times I felt empty. It wasn't for only my real parents but for my twin brother. I felt so incomplete. Unsolved. Torn in half. I was missing the other part of me. My other half. My twin brother. at that exact moment I couldn't understand and process the words Jeremy had just said.

"A what?"

"A twin brother" Pattie reapeted and her words stung my ears.