Unknown Heiress

Chapter One- A New Beggining

                                     Hello! This is my first story I hope you all enjoy and I am pleased to join the community. Please be sure to leave reviews!  If you have any questions or criticism please let me know. But now enjoy the story

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                  "Happy Birthday to you!" her father, Leonard, finished singing, drawing the song out longer than supposed to, "Now make a wish, Shortcake!" She blew out her thirteen candles, making a silent wish to have a great year as a thirteen-year-old. Her father cheered, clapping loudly. She smiled. "What did you wish for?" her father asked.

"If I told you it wouldn't come true, dad." 

"Alright, alright. Now let's eat this cake and open your presents!" he said while getting up to grab the knife to start slicing the cake. He cut her a huge piece that she knew she wouldn't be able to finish. He set the piece of cake down in front of her. She dug in eminently, licking the frosting off her fork and taking a bit of the strawberry flavored cake. Her father served himself a large slice of the cake, he set his slice on the table next to where she was sitting.

He walked into the other room and came back with an armful of presents. "Here you go shortcake, finish your cake then on to your presents." he said, setting the presents down on the other end of the table. He walked over to his seat next to her, and started eating his cake. They ate their dessert silently while she inspected her presents' wrapping. Most of them were wrapped in a pink-cat print, but some of her presents were wrapped differently. There was one that had pink and gray chevrons, that one was most likely from her aunt, Sabrina. There were two that were simply blue, those had to be from her grandparents. There was a really fancy one that had a royal look to it. She couldn't figure out which family member on her father's side would have sent it, but she knew it wasn't one from her mother's side, she had never met a single one in her entire life. She wasn't sure if they even knew they had a granddaughter, niece, or cousin, so it was definitely not them. Could it be from her mother? No it couldn't, her mother hadn't spoken to her or seen her since she was two years old.

After she finished her cake she stood to clear her plate, but her father stopped her half way. "No way, Shortcake, it's your birthday! So no cleaning for you today," he told her as he took their plates to the sink; he rinsed them off and put them in the dishwasher. "Go ahead and start opening you gifts, Rose." he said, coming back over and sitting next to her." She reached across the table and started opening her presents. She opened all of her distant family members' gifts first. She got a fluffy, white phone case with a cat-face on it from her aunt, which she thought was weird since she didn't have a phone or a music player. She only had a laptop. She got new, brown, heeled boots from her grandparents. Her grandparents like to be funny like that, so they put each shoe in different boxes. As she went to grab the fancy one, her father said, "Open that one last,  Shortcake."

So instead, she grabbed the cat-print ones that she knew were from her father. She got a $50 gift card to a clothing store. Her father never knew what to get her, so he always let her pick out her own stuff and he would just pay for it, but he gave her some money so she could buy it herself this time. One of them was new ear buds that were blue, which is her favorite color. She also got some art supplies, but the best one was what she least expected to get, a brand new teal touch-screen phone that had a camera. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!" she squealed, hugging her father.

"Your welcome," he said laughing. She let him go and jumped around some more. "Thank you!", I said one last time. Her father laughed again, "Give it here and I can actually get the phone out of the box, besides you still have one gift left." he said, his voice turning serious. She nodded and handed over the phone. She was confused about why her father was acting weird. She shrugged and grabbed her last present; there was a card with it. She opened it and a small piece of paper fell out. She picked it up and it read: