The "Family" secret

16 - Everything on a platter

Note: this is basically the entire back story to Karen, Greg and Alex.

Greg ( Alex's dad) P.O.V :

Alex walked into the room and perched herself comfortably on the bed and wrapped herself with her bed sheet.

"It all started back in high school, it was the first day of school....." I started  and was not so kindly interupted by Alex.

"So cliché dad!", she said.

"Um, could you please cut on the comments?", I asked kindly enough.

"Fine, fine! But imma still comment...... but less", she said as I lifted my eyebrow in acceptance.

"Alright, now where were we? Oh yes, it was the first day of school and I bumped into her that day, she was pretty pissed at me..... I met her in 5 other classes outta 7..... Bla bla bla..... She had a crush on me..... bla bla bla.... I liked her too...... bla bla bla.... asked her on a date....... bla bla bla...... it went well..... bla bla bla..... graduated together..... bla bla bla..... went to the same university..... bla bla bla..... graduated together (again)......... bla bla bla..... asked her to marry me...... bla bla bla.....She did say yes.......bla bla bla... oh, wait here's where I get into detail about your mother."

"Really? That's your amazing love story that brought 2 souls to be one and get married but not have a kid instead adopt one?.... Please,  you have more bla, bla , blas than dates with mom." She looked at me raising an eyebrow very concerned about my teenage love life.

"Anyways...... She told me she had to confront me about something. I was really nervous at the time.... I thought something REALLY BAD HAPPENED.... she told me everything, and it turned out to be  REALLY bad... but it was in the past and we were ready to start a future together."

"We decided to buy a house together and start a family. ( at that time, we both rented our own houses so we could get comfortable being able to both work and then decided to buy a house together) . The next day in the newspaper, there was an article about orphans and that really melted us both. The day after that we headed to the adoption center. We realised instead of having a kid, we can just help another in need."

"So that's when you got me.... right?", Alex looked at me with confidence that her statement was correct.

I continued, "well, not exactly...... you see we first adopted Elizabeth, she was a very sweet girl but she didn't like us, she didn't want to be helped..... she wanted to be alone. So after a month, for her birthday she begged us to take us back to the adoption center, so we did.... it was then when we saw you!