Chapter 2 The hidden truth

Keith is totally apprehensive now, his mother has always refused to give out any information about his father or the past, and now he's standing there about to open Pandora's box.

And what scares Keith the most is the fact that she was there telling Keith not to hate her as if it were her fault, which Keith very much doubted, because even though Estela was a beautiful woman, she never had a relationship with anyone again, making it obvious that Keith's father marked her deeply.

Estela starts by saying: “I met your father on one of your grandfather's crazy trips to these picturesque towns in the middle of nowhere, and that was the best and worst thing in my life”.

“Great”, thinks Keith “a town in the middle of nowhere, and certainly surrounded by woods or forest, because grandpa loved to watch birds, she herself had already been dragged two or three times in those crazy adventures of grandpa”.

“The thing is, on one of my visits to a snack bar, I met his father, and he loved me very intensely, at the exact moment he looked at me”.

" Haaaa are you serious mom, there's no such thing as love at first sight right" interrupts Keith with a skeptical look.

“There's no other way to explain it darling, and please don't interrupt me or I won't be able to go on”, says Estela shuddering, “well actually it was much more than love it was adoration, I of course didn't understand anything, although in a way in a very strange way I was attracted to him. Well he did everything to approach and his father was the most beautiful man I had ever seen, it seemed that everything about him attracted me. After two days of talking, your grandfather decided to go on an expedition and spend the night in the forest, but I convinced him to drop me off at the house where we were staying, and that was the night that we conceived you”, says Estela skipping over the details, “ it turns out that during the act, his father got carried away and out of nowhere bit my neck, after we finished he explained to me that he was different and that I was his partner, a kind of soul mate”.

At this point Keith rolls his eyes, “seriously the Twilight saga hadn't even been released yet and your father already came with this one”, she thinks. And of twilight she understood because she had already read the books twice and watched the movies. But she didn't dare interrupt her mother.

“At the time I thought he was joking, trying to scare me, but he insisted on the story, and when he saw that I wasn't going to believe it, he showed it to me, now at this point, dear, you need to understand that I was young and wasn't prepared for that, I was extremely scared with her father's special condition, he said that almost everyone in the city was like him, and that from that moment on I would be part of... hummm... let's say of their group. I said I was sleepy and tired that it was a lot to take in, that he needed to go away and let me sleep. As soon as he turned his back I packed my things I got in the van and went after his grandfather, he said he had been attacked I showed him the bite on my neck, I refused to go to the police station and made him go home with me, his father never knew where I was lived, or how to find me, I only knew my first name, after a few months I found out I was pregnant and then I was afraid that you were like him, I searched the internet, but I didn't find much reliable information, but all the information seems to find that the change occurs when the person has a fever and intense pain, that's why I can't help you, I don't know how to do that, that's why I have to take you to your father", says Estela almost shouting the last part and playing the Weird but beautiful mark on the neck.

“Wait mom! What did he show you, what does he have? what do you think I have?” Keith replies in the same tone, for although the whole story was close to Jacob Black, the fact is that his mother had seen something to run away like that, and not come back even to find out that was pregnant, it will be some physical deformity, because she said something about changes.

"That's enough Keith we're leaving now, and you'll understand everything when your dad explains it to you, you'll have to see it to believe it!"

Seeing no alternative, Keith helped her pack the rest of her things into the car, and close up the house that had been her home for the past seventeen years.

She sent a last goodbye to her friends via WhatsApp, and a last I will miss you to Kevin, although she had no hope that he would wait for her, even though he had promised that he and his sister who was Keith's best friend would visit her in the vacation .

He looked once more at home, not that she was sorry to leave that place, because sometimes she was afraid that everything would collapse on top of them, but she was afraid of the unknown that she had ahead of her.

But since there was nothing left to do, she got in the car and said goodbye and life as she knew it.

The car moves further and further away from Keith's old life and she begins to reflect on everything she discovered today, for her or her father had some deformity, or else he had played the biggest joke in the world on her mother.

Through the window she sees the old school, and her favorite cafeteria, soon after comes the neighborhood where her grandparents lived until last year, when they suffered a car accident that took both their lives.

So much history is being left behind, and it makes you wonder if it's really worth leaving this place.