“Nora, it is! We are related!”
Oh, Moon Goddess Mother.
It’s for real. Elena and I are related! I can’t believe it! I have another family member that close to me! Moreover, sheis related to my mom, to my birth Clan! I feel tears coming up, and I smile like an idiot. While I’m trying to catch my breath, I hear Elena silently crying, too.
“Are you okay?” I ask.
“Why do you ask? You are crying like a baby, too!” She replies, half-laughing and half-crying.
We both laugh and cry for a few seconds, and Bobo suddenly comes back into the room. Seeing me in tears, he runs up to me with a worried look. I shake my head, whispering that I’m okay. I put the phone on speaker, to let him hear Elena, too.
“Nora, there’s more.”
“What do you mean?”
“According to Daniel, the percentage of matching DNA can indicate how closely related we are, so he brought the full results. You and I have 13.3% of matching DNA.”
Isn't that a lot? I must calm my breathing again. I can hear Elena smiling; she is having fun with this suspense.
“Elena, speak!”
“We are cousins, Nora. First cousins! One of my birth parents was your mom’s sibling!”
“...Are you kidding?”
“No, I’m not! Daniel just told me this much matching DNA can only be a first-degree cousin! Can you imagine? Your mother is my aunt! We are cousins!”
I can’t believe it! I have a cousin! A cousin from my mother’s side! I can’t help but cry and giggle, and Elena is in the same state at the other end of the line. We don’t even look alike, how could I have guessed we were so closely related? I did hope that we would turn out to be distant relatives, but this is unreal!
Bobo is happy for me, and he hugs me as I try to calm down. When I finally do, he brings me to sit with him on mybed. Once I eventually calm down, I can see and think much clearer. So clearly, in fact, that I realize another detail.
“Elena, do you know what this means?”
“Yeah, I thought about it right away. That means if you turn out to be, I would be a Royal’s child, too.”
“Could it be?”
“Daniel said so. I may not have as much as you, but I do have some Royal characteristics, after all... Probably that my non-Royal parent was less pure or something? I don’t know...”
I feel her tense up a little bit, and her tone as changed, too. Why do I feel like something is wrong...? I thought she wasn’t really caring about the whole Royal thing? Not that I am, either, but...
“Elena? What do you mean you need to find out?”
“I know I said before it didn’t really matter for me, but...” I hear sighing, and she whispers something with Daniel for a while, I don’t know what. Bobo suddenly pulls the phone towards him.
“You can tell Nora, Elena. She won’t tell anyone.”
“Tell me what?” I ask, a bit worried now.
“Nora, I need you to promise me you won’t tell anyone what I’m about to say. Especially not the brothers. Not even Tonia, or anyone else.”
“I promise. What is it?”
“...I learned yesterday before the battle. I’m pregnant. It’s Nate’s.”
Oh, Moon Goddess...
Chapter 9
