Chapter 42: 42

Ayla POV

"Dad, tell me what you said is true or not?" I asked while I could see there is an unfamiliar presence in front of me who kept looking at me.

"Baby, you should rest so go to your room", Dad tried to send me away when I asked, "Is it true I’m adopted?" He took his step back.

There was silence in the air.

"How long has it been since you stood there?" he asked while his eye fell on the unfamiliar person.

"You knew?" he asked, looking at him.

He stayed silent.

"Dan, I’m asking you something!!!!! Answer me if you know about her standing there or not?????" Dad sounded impatient while the person removed his hand from his shoulder.

"Taylor, calm down", he sounds gentle.

"How the fuck do you want me to calm myself down????? I shouldn’t have trusted you when you kept on telling me to tell her the truth. I thought maybe you understood me but in the end, you knew she was listening but you didn’t even bother to stop me but you kept on continuing to stand there and let her hear everything."

"Just how you want me to behave when you ruined everything."

I’m standing above the stairs waiting for an explanation but I can already hear my heart shattering into pieces. I can see some glimpse of those memories I lost when I’m standing in the same position while dad kept trying to come to me but I kept on stopping him. but Jace and mom still are in the same position which is so far from me.

"Taylor, stop blaming me and face the reality!!!!" he shook holding dad.

"Come to your freaking sense, you mad man!!!!! See the girl standing there no matter how much you want to hide it will go in vain eventually. She doesn’t look like you at her....." he kept on shouting while dad looked hell miserable.

I don’t look like him.

"She looks hell different from all of us."

"Just look at her, she looked just like her father, our friend Carol."

"Just look at her with those bright hazel eyes like a hawk."

"Are you still going to deny the fact that she is yours not him?"

"Or you don’t want her to know her dead parents who died while saving her?"

"If that is what you want then I won’t stop you but think carefully and say what is good for her and you also. I will never say you are not her dad but she has the right to know the truth when she is already twenty-one."

"Call is yours", he patted Dad’s shoulder when I came to my senses I was on my knees.

Dad didn’t utter a single voice which made me realise he is the one who loved me dearly as always. I could feel his shaking throat. He wanted to say lots of things but still, he couldn’t.

"Thanks for telling me the truth", I said looking toward Dan.

"You don’t need to say thank you to me. because no matter how I look at Taylor I can see just how much he is attached to you in all these years that he doesn’t want to shake away his hand from you.

I still remember the day you first came to all of us. It was the first time we saw you but you always chose Taylor then all of us which even made your father jealous of just how much you preferred him. but who knows that there will be a day when you will prefer to be with him than all of us, even your parents will lose to him."

I can feel the sorrow in his way of speaking too which makes me imagine. Did I ever think dad is not my real dad? No, but why hearing him speaking about my parents makes my eyes fill with tears which I never imagine. I wonder how my child self cried seeing my parents dying in front of her. Was she in so much pain? Did she feel as if her heart kept on tearing up seeing them die in front of her?

I don’t know.

"Seeing you growing up like him is an achievement for us. I wonder if that day I would have chosen to take you with me then would you have loved me more than you love Taylor?

Gosh now I’m being jealous of him" he laughed, making me chuckle.

Even though my eyes are teary still I couldn’t shake the amazing moment they made for me.

I came slowly downstairs and held dad.

"Dad, are you sad?" I asked slowly, holding him.

He didn’t answer.

"Won’t you talk to me?" I asked again when he hugged me back and cried like a child.

"Ayla...." It was mom no it is no longer mom.

The moment I heard she didn’t even look at me when dad brought me home made me realise the person never thought of me as her flesh but a nuisance.

I always thought maybe mom doesn’t like girls. That is why there was always partiality at home. I always thought that maybe she preferred Jace over me even though I heard younger children always get so much love but who would have thought I was not the one who came from her womb?

"Thank you Mrs White for bringing me up all these years", I said looking at her with my teary eyes.

"Ayla, it is not" she panicked but I only looked at her with my sorrowful expression.

"Brother Jace, now you sure would be happy as you finally knew I m not your real sister which you always wanted. Aren’t you?" I know this is a taunt from me but this is something I at least could do.

"Ayla, don’t say!!!!!"

"Why can’tI?"

"You first said you are hurt because dad prefers me over you but now when you got to know we don’t have any blood relation you must be happy a lot. now you have the reason to shout and say ``Dad, I’m your blood then look at me and love me more."

"Ayla, stop it!!!!!!"

"You are crossing the limit!!!!!"

"Why shouldI?"

"Let me vomit all the poison I have been keeping inside thinking it will hurt my dear ones but when I know you and I are standing on a different path I will say it. I will say it a thousand times."

"Ayla, stop right there until I lose my mind", Jace warned me.

"Oh wait I didn’t say one thing?"

I let out my phone and showed him the adoption photograph which Yona sent me.

"Now you must have realized who was right that time and who wasn’t?"

"You didn’t even bother to let me speak that day thinking I tried to kill her but the truth is she did it on her own just to make sure she will be your sister not me because she came to know that I’m adopted. She clearly said and sent me proof. So now I wish you a very happy bond with you and your dear sister Yona." I said, making him shut.

"Aren’t you sad?" Dan asked me.

"Sad? Why?"

"You just found out your parents are no more in this world."

"I sure feel sad but it’s not like dad ever told me about them so after so many years I no longer have any memories of them to feel sad.

For me, dad is my family."

I smiled as if nothing happened.

"You are just too strong like him", he patted my head.

"So want to go meet them?" he asked while I looked at dad who slowly got up from the couch and wrapped his hands around my shoulder.

"I will take her", I smiled.

"Didn’t I say you are just a bit childish?" Dan teased him.

"You asshole just shut your mouth if you don’t want me to beat the shit out of you in anger. I didn’t forget what you just did minutes ago so you better stay far from me or once I lose my brain cells I will beat you to a pulp." His smile was scary for real.

"Oh, I’m scared!!!" Here we go with a childish act.

"Yeah, you better." Dad looked away.

My laugh isn’t even stopping. I kept on laughing when I thought this would be the day I would cry until I couldn’t speak anymore. I wonder how the scene changed so fast. Just what kind of magic did they know made me lose my mind completely.

Are they magicians?

Do they have supernatural power?

Maybe?

But I couldn’t stop laughing.

Just how long it has been since I felt like this.

"We have reached", Dan said while I snapped out of my thoughts.

I came out and walked inside the cemetery when my eye fell on two tombs dressed in flowers.

"They are your parents", dad said as I walked closer but didn’t know why I kept on crying all of sudden. Dad and Dan continued patting my back realizing I sure miss them even though I have no idea who they are.

But one thing I’m sure of now is that I have removed one of the shackles which was the inferior complex of mine which developed seeing Jace.

I kinda feel relieved.

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