Hidden Secret

By: Rogue21493

Disclaimer: I wish! Only my own characters! And there's only three right now, as I write this! LOL

A/N: I hope you likey! I finished up the first 2 chaps in the same day! Go me! LOL

Meet The Rest Of The Family

(Raleigh's pov still)

I had been sitting on the couch talking with Jack, as Dad did his father duty. Which was at that moment, calling his other brothers, telling them to get over here to meet me. Well, he just said that he had someone he wanted the whole family to meet. If I remember right it would be, my other two uncles, Uncle Jerry's wife and two kids.

So, while he did that I was preparing myself to be looked at like I'm a alien. Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to meet them, but I'm not looking forward to being gawked at.

Dad stepped back into the living and sat in the chair in front of the tv, with a beer in his hand. I grinned at him and looked back at Uncle Jack (I'm already starting to get use to calling him Uncle Jack in my head at least) as he talked about his band.

We got into a conversation about different guitars and my dad was looking at us like we were aliens ourselves, as the door opened.

In walked, two tall black men, a Hispanic woman, a black woman and two little kids. I already had a pretty good idea who each of them where. I had always loved hearing my dad's stories from when he was younger and him and his brother would pull shit. And I had seen some pictures before but they were a few years old.

"Bobby, what is– who's this?" one of them asked. I was 99 percent sure it was Angel.

Dad took one last swallow of his beer and stated matter of factly, "This is my daughter, Raleigh."

Jerry and Angel both looked at him like 'We're being Punk'd' and so did Jerry's wife and Angel's girlfriend, Sofi. That was their names, right? Oh, well, if I'm not right, I'll get it right soon enough.

"Wait, you have a kid? Who'd be crazy enough to have a kid with you?" Sofi asked.

"Shut up, La Vida Loco," My dad rolled his eyes.

"Bobby, man, shut the fu-" Angel started, but got cut off by Jerry.

"My kids, man!" he reminded them both.

I held in a laugh and glanced at the two little girls. Daniela and Amelia was their names... Daniela was the older one and Amelia was the younger one. Right? Anyway, they both were looking at me like, they didn't know what to do.

Camille, Jerry's wife shook her head and looked at me. "Hey, there. Ignore these four, they're crazy." she said, talking about Angel, Jerry, Sofi and my dad.

I grinned at that.

"Hey..." Jerry said.

Angel looked at Bobby. "Did she just show up or something?"

"Or something..." I mumbled.

"She did just show up, but not like that. She took a bus here from Chicago." Dad half explained.

"What? That's fu– that's stupid!" Angel exclaimed.

"Yeah, he's already chewed me out for that..." I grumbled.

"You deserved it," Dad retorted.

I rolled my eyes. "I had a good reason."

"Yeah, yeah."

Camille must of figured that my explanation might not be totally, little kid friendly, cause she took Daniela and Amelia into the kitchen, with Sofi. I mean, cause of there's death in the story and everything. And also cause there might be cussing... Dad told Jerry and Angel why I had took a bus down here.

"Bobby, why the hell didn't you tell us you had a kid?" Jerry asked.

Dad shrugged. "I didn't have a chance with everything going on, with Ma and then it just never seemed like the right time, Jer."

Jerry shook his head.

"Dad, you could have figured out a moment, in fifteen years, right? I mean, that's just cucko for cocoa puffs or somethin'," I pointed out.

With a smirk, Uncle Angel said, "The little girls right!"

"Shut up, Angel," Dad said just as I said, "I ain't no little girl! I'm fifteen, dude!"

Dad then looked at me. "Rae, stop pointing out shit, that's gonna have these two idiots yelling at me the rest of the night."

"Fine, I will, alright? But seriously dad... fifteen years?" I asked, with a look on my face like, 'how could you?' and Dad rolled his eyes at me.

Dad threw at pillow at me, which I ducked.

"Na, na, na you missed."

Dad gave me a look and I hid behind Uncle Jack's shoulder.

Uncle Jack laughed and patted my head.

"Bobby, man... did ma know about her?" Uncle Jerry asked.

I felt my own body tightened. Yeah, grandma Evey knew about me, but we never got to meet. Dad never got to come down here and she never got to come up -or go up- to Chicago for a visit. And even if dad could have came down for a visit, mom would never have let me go with him. She is -or would it be was?- a bitch like that.

"Yeah, she knew Jer. And no they never got to met," Dad sighed.

A moment of silence passed.

"So, Bobby, man... Seriously, who'd have a kid with you?" Uncle Angel joked. Probably to get off the sad subject.

"Hey! I take offense to that!" I exclaimed, which earned laughter. I then crossed my arms and stuck my tongue out at my dad and Uncles, earning more laughter.

"Oh, you all can suck my big toe!" I stated, heading into the kitchen.

"Rae?"

"Yeah, dad?"

"Get me a beer, well ya?"

More laughter. Ooh...

"Get it yourself, old man." I retorted, walking the rest of the way out of the living room.

Camille looked at me, when I entered the kitchen. "Hey, sweetie."

"Hi." I couldn't help but feel a bit shy. I sat down at the kitchen table with Daniela and Amelia.

"So, your our cousin, huh?" Daniela asked.

"Yeah, I am," I smiled.

"Cool!"

I chuckled. "Yeah, it is cool!"

Amelia looked at me shyly and when I tried to smile at her, she looked away. She was really shy. "Hey, Amelia, right?"

She nodded shyly, looking down at the table.

"That's a pretty name. You know, I always liked that name."

"Really?" she looked up at me.

"Oh, yeah. I thought it was perfect for you, when my dad told me about my two younger cousins. Just like I thought Daniela was perfect for you," I commented, glancing at Daniela when I said that about thinking Daniela was perfect for her.

They both giggled and grinned.

So far so good. This was going awesome. Everything was gonna be alright. At least for a while.

My dad came in then, grumbling to himself and got out a beer from the fridge.

"Hey, dad, isn't getting a beer for yourself, more satisfying then having me get it?" I asked, sweetly.

Dad shot me a look. "You're a pain in the ass, you know that, Raleigh?"

"I got it from you," I retorted.

Sofi laughed. "I defiantly, like you, chicka!"

I smiled, "Thanks."

A/N:-sigh- I ended it on a weak note but oh well. I hope you liked it my peeps! Review and I shall be back with more!