Hope

Chapter 3

A/N - There's a last particular dialogue that's in Italian. I have not put up the translation for that. Because its something I want to tell you guys in furthur chapters. You'll understand the meaning of it later. Its a spoiler please don't look up on it. 

Ocean Eyes- By Billie Eilish 

Shock was evident all over my face and people had started giving me weird looks seeing me gaping like a fish out of the water. I swear on my mother that I never in my life did that, I was one minute away from having a panic attack or better dig a hole and bury myself in it. Not only was Emma being nice to me but the entire department was treating me like a queen it was confiding, suspicious suffocating, you name it. After hearing Emma give me a news that shook me to the core and made me question my existence, I gave up on thinking sensibly and rationally a long time ago. How could one? When someone just barges in and indirectly tells you that you've been living in the shadows your whole life. That the people you're supposed to know since your birth are complete strangers to you.

I've never felt so many emotions swirling inside me at once. It was like a wave crashing on the surface taking everything with it causing a mess. I have never been more shocked not even when I found out that my mother committed suicide. The news was so terrifying that I should pat myself on the back for being so calm.

I've been sitting in this room a different room for about an hour now with a mug of hot chocolate in my hand. What's with these people giving me hot chocolate? And I haven't taken a sip of it and that's saying something the only job its doing is warming up my hands. When Emma was done scrutinizing me she said and I quote.

"You have a blood related family that we found".

Off course me being me I asked her the most important question that could cross my mind at the time.

How?

Her simple answer was "When you said your father wasn't dead, I took it upon myself to hunt him down and hand over his long lost property to him" by the time she was done I felt like an object. But my feelings didn't matter because she continued her feud.

"So when I told jones a former level cop about it, he got on the investigation with me. You see situations like these don't need permission of higher authority we had all the information of you and your generation with us available within thirty minutes. So me being the smart one told jones to track your mothers account or anything that would connect to your father and we did. Eight years ago an account was closed by your mothers lawyer it was a joint account that contained alimony under the name of you and your mother. But your mother never used it that's a different thing though coming back to the point we tracked down the other half owner of the account your biological father and much to my dismay he's dead I'm sorry for your loss"

Did I feel sad when I heard the news, even though he abandoned me.

Yes. Very much.

"Anyways the name seemed very familiar and famous so it was no biggie that your father had other children everybody knows that" she snickered. We contacted the family and just your luck your eldest brother is legally adopting you its not like he has an option since your underage"

"So Sarahfina Russo you elder brother Alessandro Russo is coming over so why don't we get a move on huh..."

Its been an entire day since she gave the news to me. I had not leaved the police station once which made me feel like a prisoner. According to Emma it was my brother's decision to keep me in here

I didn't even know what I had to or what I wanted to say. My mind had given up. I still can't get my mind wrapped up around the fact that I had a brother, screaming crying and throwing things around the room seemed like a good option. After Emma was done I couldn't even blink. I had forgotten to breathe. It all seemed like a nightmare, so many questions were whirling around I had no idea which one to ask first. I had not accepted the fact that I had a brother, not a cousin, not a step brother but a biological, actual brother named Alessandro Russo who was twenty seven unmarried that's all I heard the rest was a blur. How much can a fourteen year old teenager take in one go? I don't know what's going to happen but one thing I'm sure about is that its all a misunderstanding a huge one I never had a brother because mom never mentioned him and I trust her more than my life though she's dead she had me all to herself for six years she never mentioned it once. She's an angel, she won't lie to me ever, no matter what the consequences and its not like I never in those years talked to her about buying me a sibling that's what I thought it was. The six year old me was vulnerable she didn't knew that siblings cannot be bought but the fact that it was my only wish for six years every year on my birthday whenever mom asked me what I wanted I always said buy me a sibling there is not a chance in heaven that I have a brother. Mom never mentioned I had one to begin with so when I had the option of living a decent life with my mom and Alessandro. I was thrown in the belly of the beast. My skin had visibly become pale. I kept chanting