My Vampire Twin

Chapter 24 - Family

(A/N: Starting from now on, Alexa will be called as Celina.)

Celina's POV

I slowly opened my eyes and slowly adjusted by the sunlight that is penetrating through the curtains. I blinked for a couple of times before my eyesight finally got used to the lighting.

The first thing that I saw when my vision cleared up was that I was in a pink and white room with a pink curtains, pink bed, pink blanket, pink pillows, pretty much everything was pink with a couple of white.

"I'm dreaming, aren't I?" I said and closed my eyes again. I took a deep breath and counted to three.

1

2

3

I opened my eyes again and I was still in the same room as before. I took a deep breath again and closed my eyes.

"Okay, think Alexa. What did you do yesterday which led you to be in an unfamiliar room?" I said to myself and without a second later, I finally remembered.

"Oh my god." I breathed. "I've been kidnapped by my family." I panicked. But wait. Why am I panicking?

"Okay!" I screamed. I got up and rubbed the back of my head. Soon after, I slid my left leg on the edge of the bed and followed by my right. I pushed myself down so my feet had touched the ground.

I took a couple of deep breaths before I think of a plan.

Okay. First, I'll scout the room up. Second, I'll try to lay low and just try not to cause much attention. Third, I'll get out all the information that I need. Fourth... uhm... Why do I need to make a plan again?

Okay, calm down Alexa. You're over thinking things. You have to have a calm mind. As Shawn said, fighting will be useless if you don't have a calm mind.

Oh fudge.

Shawn!

He's probably worried sick by now.

And oh fudge.

Emily!

She might die of worrying!

I stood up and began pacing. The room was really large so I had much room to pace in.

But this isn't the time to think about that!

What should I be worried about?

Being kidnapped or having all the people back home worry about me?

Oh fudge why did it have to come to this?

I stopped at my tracks when I heard the door creak. I shot a look at the door and waited for the person to come in and reveal themself.

The door slowly opened which finally revealed a beautiful looking woman with black hair and beautiful sapphire eyes. She smiled at me which made me feel all warm. She fully opened the door and let herself in. She held a food tray which contained a stack of pancakes, juice and an apple.

"Good morning." She smiled gently while she walked across the room with the tray still in both of her hands. She reached the coffee table beside me and slowly placed in on top. She smiled and motioned for me to take a sit down. When she realized that I wasn't going to, she frowned and sat on the chair across to where I was supposed to sit.

She fidgeted with her thumbs which made her look like a teenager more than a mother to me.

I let out a sigh and pulled out the chair and sat down which made her smile immediately.

She kept smiling. I didn't know what to say.

"uhm... thanks... I guess..." I said with uncertainty for what I should do just about now. "But I have a few questions, if it's alright." I said which made her look at me confusedly and then nodded.

She smiled and pulled her chair forward so that she'll be able to get close to me, even if it's just across from me. "I know that I have a lot of explaining to do since that we kind of kidnapped you yesterday so I think that you deserve an explanation and I know that you have the right to ask questions regarding why you're here and how that happened." She said which surprised me. It's like she read my mind.

"H-How did you--"

She smiled. "Mother's instinct." She proudly said.

I cleared my throat and took a deep breath with my eyes closed. "Okay." I started. "Why am I, well you know, here?" I asked which made her nod and get ready for her explanation.

"If you can remember what happened yesterday, that will be great, but for far more details in the story, I'll tell you. A few years ago, we tried to help a friend of ours which made me decide to go for myself in order to save her from what's coming for her. It led me to having my memories wiped out. A few months after that, your father rescued me but since I had my memories wiped out, I didn't recognize him or any of my family. It was confusing, all of it. But somehow it all came back, little by little. After that, I learned that I was pregnant with you and your brother. A few days after I have given birth to you, you were stolen by someone. Since that day, we have searched far and wide, just to get you back to us." She started tearing up. "We searched 17 years. We never gave up." She smiled and wiped her tears with her forefinger. "After we learned where you were, we conducted a plan. Your brother infiltrated the place and sent us a report when he found you. I told him to try his best to not hurt you in any way so he decided to have you unconscious than to fight you off or knock you out. After our talk in the woods you fainted and we flew you back here with us." She said and ended it with a smile.

I was literally confused. I wasn't confused about the fact that I had a family but at the fact that Philip said that he found me and decided to take care of me.

"But who wiped your memories up and who took me? I'm sorry but I'm a little bit confused." I said and rubbed my temples for a bit. "Since I was a child I was trained to fight. Trained for battle. So how is this all connected." I said which made her eyes wide open.

She froze right in her spot, not saying a single word, let letting out a single sound. "You were trained to fight?" That was all she could say.

I nodded. "Yeah, by--"

"Philip." She breathed. My eyes widened.

I stood up from my seat and looked directly at her. "Wait. So does this mean that Philip stole me from you when I was a baby?" I asked with full of horror. I know that she tried to explain it to me earlier but this all came in to place.

All my life, I thought all of the people inside that mansion were my family. But they were all using me? I could understand that Philip was behind all this. That's why he's so cold to me? And what about Emily? She took care of me since I was a baby! I literally thought she was my mother! So all of her kindness was just an act?

But what made my heart break the most was when I thought of Shawn.

A tear roll down on my cheek which made me clutch my chest.

He's been my best friend since we were a child.

He's been under Philip's control since day one? Pretending to be my friend?!

I didn't notice that I was crying if she didn't hold my arms.

"Hey." She said with a weak smile. "It'll be stupid of me if I were to ask you if you are alright since that you're are obviously not, but still, I will say this." She took a deep breath and pulled me into a hug. She rubbed circles around my back and hushed me gently. "It'll be alright, you're home now. I know that you're confused with a lot of things but don't worry, we'll figure it out together." She said which made me break into sobs. She took a deep breath and hushed me for a couple of times. "If you're having trouble picking these things up, you can take your time, no one will rush you. We all just want you to know that whatever happened and whatever will happen from now on, we are still your family." She said and pulled away and looked into my eyes.

"You were crying when I last saw you." She said with a tear that fell down from her sapphire eyes. "I'm sorry if I wasn't there when you said your first words, or when you took your first step. I'm sorry for all the tears that you cried and I'm not there to comfort you with every tear. I'm sorry of I wasn't there to take care of you when you were sick. I'm sorry for missing so much that has happened in your life." She said while crying. Her gray shirt was going to be soaked if she doesn't stop crying.

I didn't know what to feel. I just feel sorry for her rather than for myself. I had no grudge against her since that she was the one who lost a child and I just didn't had an idea what family that I had been taken away from. All my life, I was made to believe all the lies that Philip threw in to my mind.

I smiled and wiped the tears from her face with my thumb. "All my life, I didn't know that I had an amazing mother waiting for me return. You don't have to feel sorry for anything. You didn't have a choice back then, I'm just glad that I'm finally home. It might take some time to process all of this so I want you all to be patient, but I will promise you that we will work this out as a family.

She nodded and smiled. "But regarding on what you said about your training you might want to know why Philip took you in the first place. I don't want to judge whatever relationship that you had with them but I want you to know the truth, okay dear?" she said and brushed a piece of hair out of my face. "I already told you that we will figure this out together. We'll find the answers to all your questions and figure out your problems together."

I smiled. "I'd like that."

I know that Philip has a lot of explaining to do than my mother but still, I don't want them to hurt him. He may have kidnapped me, he will probably just use me or have used me but still, I grew up knowing so much about him and known so much from him. As much as I hate to say this but,

They were my family.

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I have written 5 chapters in one night including chapter 23. I couldn't sleep. My mind is all like "If you sleep, you'll die". I might post the chapters 24-27 a day though.  So I wrote this chapter up to chapter 27 the same night as when I wrote chapter 23. I need to rest, but I couldn't