A New Lodge

Chapter 1

Veronica's POV
Riverdale had never been quieter. Everything was normal for once. The blackhood, Mr Svenson had been caught and everything was getting back to the way things were. Funny I thought everything would  go back to the way things were for me. A couple of weeks after the blackhood had been caught, I had just come back from Pop's after meeting Betty and was welcomed by my parents and two unfamiliar faces, a middle aged woman and a teenage girl. She looked a lot like me, too much like me. She had raven hair just like mine but a bit longer, olive skin, big brown eyes. She seemed like a mixture of my mom and I.

"Mija, I want you to meet Mrs Johnson and Arianna," my mom said.
I shook hands with both of them and was just about to sit when Mrs Johnson got up to leave. The curious part was that Arianna didn't. She shook hands with my parents and I and hugged Arianna before she left.

     Before I could get a word to speak my mom took the chance,

"Hey Arianna, why don't you go put your things in the guest room and go get fresh. Then we can all sit for dinner."

Arianna nodded and headed to the guest room.

I waited till the door closed to barge my parents with questions that had popped up in my head but all I could get out was, "Who is she?"

But before my parents could answer I started again, lDon't tell me she's another one of your business friends kids, Daddy, because I've already faced too many of them and you know how that turned out."

"Actually no Veronica, this situation is a bit more complicated," my dad replied, " Why don't you take a seat and I can explain."

I began to sense the tension in the room and realized this was much more serious as I was taking it. I looked at my mom, who looked like she was about to start crying and my dad began to tense up. I saw him hold a framed picture. It was the same picture of a baby my parents always kept and told me it was a picture of me but I knew all  too well that it wasn't. Sure the baby in the picture looked like me but it was me.

"Mija," my dad began, "I'm going to tell you something that will change all of lives for good."

All I could do was eager and yet terrified of what was coming.

"You see," he continued, "Before you were born your mother and I lived here in Riverdale, as you know, but there's something you need to know. Something we thought we could hide but I guess not. Before your mother and I got married we had a daughter. She was like an angel, looked pretty much like you. But we knew we couldn't handle the baby along with everything else in our lives, along with the fact that your mother had hid her pregnancy and the only people who knew were us and our parents. So we knew that it was the right decision to give her up for adoption." He paused for a minute to let all of this settle in. "Later after getting married we had you, another blessing. We knew we would never see our other daughter and we decided that it was best she remained a secret. A secret until now."

This was the part I was waiting for.

"Recently, her foster parents died in a car accident. They had no other children and our daughter was left alone. Finding out about this the authorities thought it was right to send her back to her birth parents, since they were now her legal guardians." Again came another pause, it was for a minute but it felt like hours. " Those parents are us, and our daughter's name is Arianna, the girl in our guest room."

That was it. I felt like a bomb had crashed on us and we were forced to rebuild our lives but I knew it couldn't be the exact same as it was before.

"Mija," my mom finally got the courage to speak, " We, your father and I, have decided to take back Arianna. I don't know what life is going to be like, but it's something we both really want and we hope you can support us in this."

"Wait. So mom your telling me that in our guest,room right now, is my long lost sister I never even knew about." They didn't know what to say. "I'm sorry but this is a lot to take in. I need to go out for a walk."

Fortunately my parents understood.

"Just be back before dinner, alright?" My mom said after me.

All I did was nod and shut the door behind me.

Ok so we're done with the first chapter! This is my first ever book so please be supportive and I hope you like it. Feel free to mention any ideas for this book.