Walking through the rain

Promises

2 months later
Kimberly's Pov

Finally I get to be happy for once, maybe the good days are coming, I'm so happy with Andrew he treats me like a princess, I haven't felt this good in a long time. My Mom was making breakfast before she went to work, I say "good morning Mom!!", she smiles "wow it's nice to see you happy again sweety". I reply "I know I hope it stays that way", she says "damn I'm late bye Kim I love you if you need an extra blanket there is more in my room", she walks out the door and heads to work, I sit on the sofa and wait for Andrew to come over, we had the week off because of the hard snowfalls. I hear a knock on the door, I answer it and Andrew just picks me up and closes the door and started kissing me, he lays me on the sofa and that's were things get interesting. He takes off his shirt and starts kissing my neck, it was getting intense, I started to shake of how nervous I was, this is my first time doing stuff like this at first I was kind of shy with him but as the minutes pass so does the nervousness. After a few minutes we find are selves laying on the living room floor just staring in each others eyes, suddenly Andrew gets a text "oh shit it's my Mom I forgot we were going shopping today, gotta go bae", he kisses me goodbye and runs out the door.

I go upstairs and take a shower, then I go to my Mom's room to get some blankets, so I reach in the closet and the blankets fall in the back, I reach for the blanket and I feel a book, I grab it and wipe off the dust, it is a photo album Samantha never had shown me. I open it and it had pictures of Samantha with a man and a little girl, I kept on turning the pages looking at the photos, at the end of the photo album it said in my Mom's handwriting "to the family that I loved, to the family that I lost, I will never forget you". I couldn't believe what I just read, I was already filled with mixed emotions from earlier but this had to slap me in the face too.

I stayed up till my Mom got home, as I pace back in fourth I hear my Mom walk in, she goes to the kitchen to get some water, I go to the kitchen and look her dead in the eyes and throw the album on the kitchen counter and ask her "what's this?" She looks at it and takes a deep breath "I was gonna tell you one day, I guess today is the day", I ask "tell me what?" She replies "Kimberly a couple years before I adopted you I had a family, a daughter named Jessica and my husbands name was Richard". I ask in total disbelief and with my eyes starting to tear up "why didn't you tell me this a long time ago?" She says "because you had been through enough, I didn't want to bring more sadness in your life, I just wanted you to be happy", I say in a choked up voice "I thought we promised not to keep secrets from each other no matter what, or do you break your promises too just like my parents, I'm sick and tired of promises!!" She starts crying and says "look it was hard for me to let go of them and I didn't what to tell you until you could understand and I saw how happy you've been these days and I didn't want to ruin that". I bite my tongue and say I can't deal with this right now, I need some time away, I'm gonna stay at Andrew's for awhile". She asks me "can't we talk about this?" I ignore her pack some clothes and call Andrew's Mom to see if it was ok for me to stay. His mom said it was ok so I start walking out the door, I hear my Mom say "please wait, I'm still your Mom and I still love you, I will always be here for you". I say "I know Mom I just need some time to think".