Chapter 10: Long Lost Family

Nessie's POV

My head felt really heavy for some reason. I could feel myself slowly beginning to wake up again.

"She is waking up" I heard someone say. I didn't know who though. What happened? It took me a full minute to remember what happened. My daughter had told me that my family, whom I haven't seen in 20 years, was just outside. Then I heard the doorbell ring. After that...black out. It was all too much for me to handle. My family was here. I was going to see them again. That was enough to put me in shock and make me pass out. Especially because this was something that I never saw coming. It was all so sudden and shocking to me.

I finally found the strength to open up my eyes and to my shock I found myself staring into the golden eyes of my grandfather. It was odd to look at him again, after all I had not seen him in two decades. Yet, nothing seemed to have changed. Of course not.

"Grandpa?" I muttered slowly, still in a daze from having passed out. I was also still shocked to see him there. Part of me wondered if I was dreaming or having an apparition of some sort. But when I touched him, I knew that it was real. No dream, no apparition.

"Nessie?" he said. "Oh Nessie" he said as he hugged me tightly to his chest, just like he used to do all those years ago. I quickly looked around the rest of the house and saw all of my family standing around me. But it was my mother that I stared at the longest. Her golden eyes seemed to hold nothing but love and compassion, but mostly love.

Before I knew it she was crushing me against her chest. I could hear her sobbing right into my ear. I was surprised when I realized that I had started crying too. The tears just kept on rolling out of my eyes. I had always missed my mother and I thought that I would never see her again. But it was only now that I realized just how much I missed her.

"Mom?" I said. I was in complete shock that she was even here. I had never, in a million years, expected to see my mom again. Or any of my family for that matter.

"Nessie?" she responded. She seemed to be in shock as well. Though I couldn't say for sure.

"I love you" was all that I could manage to say. Nothing I have ever said before could be truer then that. I loved my mom so much. That was something that no amount of time apart could ever change. Even thinking that she didn't care about me didn't change the love I had for her. If anything, it had grown over the years. Weird, I'm sure. But that is the truth.

"I love you too Nessie. Don't ever leave us again. You have no idea how painful the last 20 years have been"

Next thing I know I'm being hugged by my father He held me tightly to his body. His cold body was oddly warming to me. He even gave me a kiss on my cheek. "Nessie?" he said.

"Yes daddy?" I said as If I were a little girl again.

"Don't you ever leave us again young lady. No matter what, you are a part of this family and we love you"

"I'm sorry dad. I just...I didn't think...well, I didn't think that any of you wanted anything to do to me after what happened. You blamed me for stealing and you all treated me like I was a criminal. You didn't believe me. I didn't think that you all loved me anymore and I couldn't take it. I thought leaving would be the best option" I explained.

"Nessie" mom started to say. "What we did was a mistake. We shouldn't have accused you like that. We should have believed you. We should have trusted you. I don't know what made us act that way toward you. We were wrong. All I know is that being robbed was nothing compared to how we all felt when you disappeared without a trace. We were so scared that something could happen to you. I mean, we had no way to communicate with you. All of the wolves had stopped phasing so the pack couldn't even communicate with Jacob. We had no idea what happened to you. Your father and I have been searching non-stop for you these past 20 years. I mean it, non-stop"

"Really?" I said in complete shock. I always thought they were so angry at me that they were happy that I was gone. I never thought that they worried about me so much, especially to the point where they would search for me non-stop all of this time. It was a bit of a shock to me honestly.

"Of course!" my mom nearly shouted back. "You are our daughter. How could we not worry about you?! When your daughter went missing how did you feel?"

"I was going crazy with worry. I was afraid that anything could happen to her. I was afraid that I would never see her again, never get the chance to undo my mistakes. And I was really sad that she left. Why are you asking?"

"Because that is exactly how we all have been feeling for the past 20 years. Try having to carry that worry for 20 years. We had no idea where you were or if anything had happened to you. We were sad. We were worried that we would never see you again. It was, well, words can't even describe how we felt" mom said in a very sad voice.

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