Guardian Files (fanfictions)

Birthday gift

Someone has requested a story with twisted end. And it took me a while to think of something very twisted... so here you go... do not hate me.

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 I was holding the envelope in my hands with a questionable look.

"What is inside? Some kind of a certificate? For an adventurous trip? Or maybe a voucher to restaurant for two?"

One look at my mum and I knew she was not as excited as me. She seemed to be more on the nervous side. Very nervous, in fact. Clutching the wash clothes in her hands while urging me with her eyes to finally rip the seal open.

"That is strange."

My fingers started shaking. The feeling of importance hidden in the brown paper enveloped my heart and its beats got faster.

When I removed the papers within the envelope my mum gasped for air, maybe unsure of how I will react. I glanced over the papers.

"DNA tests?"

My mind stopped working for a few seconds. I always wanted to know who my father was. Persuading my mum to tell me the truth on our way to the shopping mall, when we got back home, when she was walking to school with me, before sleep... To know my father's name was my annual Christmas wish. And, of course, I did not get any answer. That is how I discovered Santa is not real. I simply did not receive what I was wishing for.

Now, the moment of truth came, on my birthday. I lost the hope of finding my father a long time ago. My childish dream of a full family disappear as soon as I realized how big the worlds is, bigger for just a kid with hopeless feeling it will be easy to find his father in the mass of people.

"Yunlan? Are you okay?" My mum touched my arm, bringing me back to Earth from my way through my childhood, back to the envelope and its contents.

"Yeah," I mumbled and looked at the paper carefully. Even when I did not know a thing about medicine I realized I am holding a blood results. 

"My mum went straight to him to ask him for his blood?"

The tests showed 98% concordance. I glanced over the next page. There were columns with names. My name was written in one of them.

"So the second must be..."

My heart skipped a beat. I looked at my mum and the name, back at my mum and back at the name I knew so well. And then it stroked me. I started laughing. The panics melted away with every breath-in I made in between my laughter.

"This is the best joke of all, mum. I was sure you will give me something special, but this is the most hilarious gift I have ever received."

I patted my stomach because it hurt so much from laughing freely.

"It... it is not a joke, sweetie." She said with a serious expression. I wiped away my happy tears and looked straight into her eyes. She was not joking. The worry luminescing in her dark irises told me the results are not faked.

"You can not be serious!"

"It is truth. He is your father."

"But that is just not possible. He is only a few years older than me he can not be my father!" I tried my best to remember whether he even told me how old he was. I had no recollection of it. I knew he was older because while I was attending university he was already an established business man. Still, I did not consider the age gap to be more than five or six years. And that was nothing when love came to the view. I could love him even if he was ten year older than myself.

She placed her small hand on mine and said in a low voice: "Shen Wei... is your father."

Horror enveloped my whole body. I knew she had me when she was 17, but what the hell... This is so twisted! Wei can not be...

Tears started falling down my cheeks and my heart sunk into the depth of my despair.

"My boyfriend is my father."

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