Chapter 13
“How are you feeling this morning?” I was asked as I walked into the kitchen a few minutes later.
“Things could be better. I just don’t understand why he couldn’t tell me he was sick?” I said while starting to sob again.
“I don’t know, Ian. I guess he felt that you had enough to deal with at the moment and didn’t want to add to it.” I was told as my mom pulled me into a hug and let me cry things out. As I was starting to get myself under control again my uncle walked into the room.
“I was wondering where you were. I stopped by your room to see how you were doing and didn’t see you there. How are you doing?” I was asked again as my uncle placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.
“It’s getting better, but it’s going to be hard,” I said with a sniffle.
“I know. I felt the same way when my grandfather passed away. Just so you know, I doubt he’ll ever really be gone. When you need him to be there for you, I’m sure he’ll find a way to let you know he’s still around.” As corny as it sounded at the time, my uncle turned out to be right. At times later in my life when I needed a little extra support for something I always felt like my grandfather was around to help me out.
“If you guys aren’t in too much of a hurry after breakfast we need to have a talk.” I told them seriously.
“Does this have to do with what you and my dad talked about yesterday?” my uncle inquired just before David and Isaac burst into the room.
“Yeah, it does.”
Breakfast was kind of quiet that morning since I guess everyone was wanting to give me time to adjust to my finding out about my grandfather’s death. Soon after the meal ended, everyone had gone off to do whatever they had planned for the day, leaving me alone with my aunt and uncle.
“So what was it that you and my father talked about yesterday after you had asked your mom to leave the room?” my father asked after we had gotten settled down in his office.
“The day before we left on vacation I had found some information about myself on the server Mr. Wu had taken from your brother’s house. I didn’t know what to make of it or even if it was true so I had your dad take a look into it while we were gone. He was giving me the results from that.”
“And what did you find out?” my mom asked me while rubbing my back trying to keep me calm.
“I found out that that everything that was on the server was true. It seems that I had been lied to about almost everything in my life up till now.
“What do you mean?” my mom asked me.
“I mean that everything my asshole parents had told me in my life was a lie. Aside from the false schooling that you dad know about, I found out that I’m actually two years younger than what the “birth certificate” you had been given states. And that I haven’t had any of the shots or anything that my medical records show.”
“OK that’s not so bad. I kind of had a feeling about the shots and such when the school said that they couldn’t find any records of them when they did the background check after finding out about the school records. I will say that I find it kind of shocking that they would have lied about your age, but it’s not something that will be to hard to deal with.” My dad stated as he sat down next to me as my mom pulled me onto her lap for a hug.
“What about if I told you I had a brother?” I asked softly.
“We already know about my brother’s sons what’s so surprising about that?”
“No, I mean I have a twin brother.” I told them almost inaudibly.
“A twin?” my parents asked together in awe. I just nodded at this as I handed them the file containing the information my grandfather had found out.
“Good lord.” My father asked as he read through the file.
“I can’t believe this.” I heard my father say a few minutes later.
“What is it, Brian?” My mom asked on seeing her husband go slightly pale.
“Not only did my brother use his youngest son as a slave, he sold off his other one.”
“Ian, I want you to know that I’ll do my best to see that these people are prosecuted as far as they can be.” I was informed as my father started shaking with rage.
“NO, you won’t.” the strength and tone of my declaration brought both of my parents up short. After taking a few seconds to get my temper under control, I explained myself.
“Gramps already confirmed that my brother’s adoptive parents had done nothing wrong . As far as they know the adoption was completely legal. Our father had done all he could to mess our lives up. He succeeded to a point with mine, but failed with Jason’s. I won’t allow you to make good on what my father tried to do.” I told them.
“Don’t you think Jason has the right to know that he has a brother?” My aunt asked while still doing what she could to keep me calmed down.
“I feel that we should let his parents know about it. They would have a better idea than we would as to whether Jason should know. I can live with it if they want to keep it a secret. Just knowing that he’s loved and well cared for is enough for me.” I told them as I finally relaxed.
“What if he happens to run into you at some later date?” my father asked reasonably.
“We can deal with that when and if it happens.”
“OK. Why don’t you go outside and play? Your mom and I need to talk all this over.” I just nodded at this and left the room.
Taking my parents advice I called around to see if any of my friends were free. Not too unexpectedly, all of them were either out of town or busy with family. After leaving a note, I decided to get on my bike and ride down to the park that was a couple of blocks over from my house. Since I still had the cast on my arm, I was limited to what I could do but had fun running around with some of the kids that were there anyway. I guess this was a kind of turning point for me since I finally started letting myself act my age. What was even better was that none of the kids I was playing with noticed that I was wearing diapers. I got some strange looks when people saw some of the tattoos I have but nothing was really said about them.
“Get to your room and stay there till mom and dad get home.” Megan announced not two minutes after I arrived back home.
“What? Why!? Mom and dad said for me to get out of the house for a while so I went over to the park.”
“Then you should have left a note!” Megan yelled. Her tone, of course, set me off.
“I did leave a note. It was on the refrigerator door.”
“Don’t lie to me. I already checked and I didn’t see a note there. Now get up to your room!” Feeling that I was about to lose my temper. I choose to do what I was told and headed upstairs without any kind of response.
Not knowing how long I might be waiting for my parents to get home I decided to rearrange my room to more of my liking. Not to mention that I still needed to put away the diapers that had been delivered late the afternoon before. Once I was done doing some work on my room I decided to meditate for a while since I found this helped me calm down some.
“Dinner’s ready, Ian.” David called startling me out of state I was in.
“WHA!?”
“Sorry about that. Mom wanted me to let you know that dinner’s ready.”
“Oh, OK. Let them know I’ll be down as soon as I change.”
“OK. But don’t take to long.” I was told as David closed the door behind him. Once he was gone I started looking through the new diapers I had gotten and decided to try one of the school diapers. I figured that it would be better to find out how well they worked at home in case of any leaks.
“Sorry for taking so long.” I said by way of apology as I took my seat.
“That’s all right. David said that you were needing to change.” my mom replied.
“And before we get to far into the meal, I believe Megan has something to say.” My dad joined in with a pointed look towards Megan.
“I owe you an apology about earlier Ian. Mom told me that you had left a note for them when you went to the park and they had inadvertently taken it with them when they went out for a while”
“It’s OK Megan. I can see how you would have overreacted a bit given my history. I just ask that you give me the benefit of the doubt in the future.”
“OK, that matter is closed. Ian, your mom and I have taken care of the item we had talked about earlier.”
“How exactly was it handled? Just so I know what’s going on and don’t mess things up by mistake.” I added the second part in a rush to head off any misunderstanding.
“We went over to the Murphy’s and talked to them about what was going on. They said they would handle things with Jason and let us know what the results were.” I nodded at what my mom had just said and let the matter lay there.
“Whose Jason? None of my friends are named Jason.” David asked. I noticed that Brad and Isaac where also exchanging looks between themselves. Since they had introduced me to all of the people I now called friends I’m not too surprised that they wouldn’t recognize the name. After exchanging a look with my parents and getting a small nod in return, I decided to answer the question.
“Jason’s not one of my friends. He’s my twin brother.” The resulting silence was just about what I had expected.
“It was another one of my real father’s surprises. My mom it turned out had twins and my dad’s business partner had apparently told her that my brother had died at birth.”
“So you have a twin brother that you never knew about. So when do we get to meet him?” Megan asked excitedly.
“That depends on what his parents decide to tell him. I’ve already made it clear to mom and dad that if his parents decide not to tell him anything then that is their choice and I’m going to abide by it.”
“But..”
“Megan, think of what you would feel like if you suddenly found out you had a twin sister after ten years.”
“Ten years?” Brad asked looking at his parents.
“That’s right Brad. It seems that your uncle had Ian’s birth certificate altered to show that he was two years older that he actually is. Now how about we start eating before everything goes cold. We can discuss this more once dinner is over.” This effectively ended the conversation on this matter but I could tell that when we started talking about it after dinner it was going to be a long one.
“So what’s all this about Ian having a brother and being Ten?” Megan asked once we had finished dinner and went downstairs to talk things over in a more relaxed area than the sitting room would have given us.
“I’ll try to explain it as best I can. I just ask that you don’t interrupt till I’m done.” I told everyone after taking a few deep breaths to calm myself down.
“As you all know, I’ve been working with Gramps a bit to try and locate the server my father had some information stored on. Well, shortly before we left for Disney I found the server and the information that the FBI was needing to try and prosecute the Wu’s with. Though with the Wu’s being dead now the information is being used for other things now. Anyway on the server I found some files holding personal information on the people in our family. In the file baring my name, I came across my birth certificate. Since I didn’t know what to make of it I asked Gramps to look into it while we were at Disney.” As I took a few seconds to catch my breath from talking so fast I could see that everyone was itching to start asking me questions. They settled down slightly when I motioned that I was almost done.
“Anyway”, I continued, “Gramps found out that the information on my birth certificate was correct and after some searching on the matter had found out that my father and a couple of his friends were running an illegal adoption service. My younger brother happened to be one of those. I’m not really sure how they pulled it off but they did. As for my age, it seems that my father had taken the liberty of making up a false birth certificate in which I was two years older than I actually was. All I can guess on that is he probably felt that if I happened to survive to what I thought was eighteen he’d be able to toss me out on the streets and that would be that.” I finished feeling extremely drained.
“So your dad had made it look like you were two years older than you were and hid the fact that you have a twin brother.” Isaac asked with a look of disbelief on his face.
“Father, not ‘dad’”, I corrected, “but yes that is the sum of it.”
“Why aren’t you wanting to meet him then if you had Gramps go to the trouble of finding him?” Megan asked heatedly.
“Megan.” My mom said warningly.
“It’s ok mom. I’ll answer that one.” I said with a small grin.
“Meg, I never said I didn’t want to meet him. I said that if his parents didn’t think it was the right time to tell him then I would abide by it. It’s like I mentioned at dinner. How would you react if you suddenly found out that you had a twin. Especially if you knew that you were adopted. Besides, at the beginning of this , Gramps wanted to place him in foster care until they could get this all cleared up. I was able to talk him out of that. I mentioned to mom and dad because I felt they had a right to know.” On hearing this, my brothers and sister turned their attention to their parents.
“We were just as disgusted to find out this information as you guys were.” my dad started off.
“Once Ian mentioned what he had found out we decided to talk to Gramps ourselves. After doing this the three of us decided to go over and talk to Jason’s parents about this so they didn’t get caught flat footed either. We didn’t get to meet Jason but from what his parents told us he seems like a very likeable young man. The Murphy’s said that they needed a few days to try and get an angle on this and decide how to break it to Jason once he gets home. We were told we would have the answer to this before school starts next week.” we were all told. I could tell that my brother’s and sister still had a lot of questions.
“I know you all still have a lot of questions, but it’s getting late and some of you have had a very long day.” my mom said effectively ending the conversation.
Over the next week, I learned how much my grandfather’s net worth truly was. This coupled with the rewards I had ended up getting from the cases I had helped break ended up making me very well off. I still wasn’t sure about what was going to happen with my father’s estate but I had already informed my dad’s dad that anything I was in line to receive was to be placed in a trust fund and to be used strictly for charity work. I guess that after all the problems that I had been through on it I figured that it was time for some good to come out of it. After a long talk with my mom, dad, and Nana on the subject, I made Nana one of the executors of my maternal grandfather’s will. The one thing that surprised everyone was when I had insisted that a portion be split off into a trust fund for Jason. I figured that gramps would have wanted that if he had known. One thing that did sadden me was the fact that my brother’s parents had decided to keep my existence a secret from him. While I did decide to keep my promise and abide what they had decided I didn’t like it very much. Not to mention I had the feeling that sooner or later we were going to meet whether his parents wanted us to or not.
“OK, I want everyone to make sure that they have everything packed and ready to go for tomorrow. After that I want you all in bed.” My father announced.
“But it’s only 8:30.” David whined.
“I’m quite aware of the time young man. Now do as I say.” Before David could respond to this, Brad was lifting him to his feet and rushing him from the room to care out our father’s instructions.
“David, you really need to learn when to keep your mouth shut and do what you’re told. Dad seemed ready to start handing out restrictions. And I highly doubt you want to start the school year in hack. Now do what he said and make sure all your school supplies are ready for tomorrow.” I heard Brad say before he walked into his room. Even-though I knew I had all my school supplies ready and already sitting by my door I took a second look just to make sure I haven’t over looked anything.
“You doing OK there, Ian?” my mom asked as I started undressing for my shower.
“I guess. I’m just nervous since I don’t know what to expect.”
“Don’t worry about it. It’s normal.” I was told with a small smile
“What about my problem?”
“That’s been taken care of as well. I already dropped supplies off for you and David with the school nurse and we’ll be going by there in the morning so you can be told how everything is going to work out. So don’t worry about anything. And if anything is said just let your teacher know and they’ll handle it.” I was told as my mom pulled me into a light hug.
“Now why don’t you go climb into the shower.”
“Wouldn’t it be better for me to get one in the morning?”
“Not really we’ve found out that it’s quicker just to wipe you down in the morning. Now go on and get going before your dad sends someone it to check on you.” I was told while being given a small push towards my bathroom door.
“Your dad and I will be up in a little bit to tuck you in.” I nodded at this and finished undressing for my shower.
As expected, my parents walked into my room about twenty minutes later. I was just finishing up getting my night diapers fastened.
“Let me help you with those.” My dad said as he took the plastic pants I had laying on the bed and started putting them over my feet and pulling them up. I lifted my butt on instinct when I felt them come in contact with my diapers. Soon after this I was being helped under the covers of my bed and felt them being tucked in around me.
“Try to get as much sleep as you can, you have a big day tomorrow.” My mom told me as she placed Remus and Romulus on either side of me and kissed me lightly on the forehead.
I did my best to get as much sleep as I could, but given how nervous I was about starting school for the first time sleep didn’t come that easily for me and when it did it wasn’t very fitful.
All to soon I was hearing some one pounding on my bedroom door telling me it was time to get up. Before I was even fully awake I felt the covers being pulled off me and I was being herded over to my changing table. I was half way through my diaper change before I even realized what was going on.
“Hurry up and get dressed. Breakfast will be ready in ten minutes.” Megan told me briskly as I felt a new diaper being pulled up between my legs and taped closed. This was by far the fastest diaper change I had been subjected to yet. I was just glad that my parents had told me the previous night that my morning diaper changes was going to be handled for me to keep things on time. I guess they weren’t kidding on this point given how fast things were done.
Looking around I found my school uniform hanging on a hook next to the mirror I had on my closet door. I was glad to see that who ever had put my clothes out for me and decided to go with the long pants and shirt. I got quickly dressed and was pleased to see that the school diaper I was now sporting was barely visible under my pants, and this was with me knowing what to look for. I figured that the odds of someone else noticing them was not very good.
(“Well, don’t you look sharp.”) Anita said as I came into the kitchen.
(“Thanks. I just wish I wasn’t so nervous.”)
(“Don’t worry about it. I’m sure it’ll go away after a few days. Now go sit down and eat something before your brothers eat it all.”) I was told with a smile. I was a little surprised to see Brad and Isaac were already at the table eating.
“Morning Ian.” I was told almost simultaneously.
“Morning.”
“Don’t you think it’ll be a bit on the hot side wearing those long pants and shirt?” Isaac asked once he had noticed what I was wearing.
“Maybe a little bit but it beats having a lot of questions asked.” after a few seconds I got a shrug in response to this statement. About this time, Megan came in pushing David ahead of her.
“Morning, Megan.” I said as she sat down. All I got was a grunt in reply. I noticed Brad and Isaac just grinned at this.
“Megan’s not what you would call a morning person.” Brad explained when he saw the look on my face. With a shrug, I started back in on my meal. I was kind of surprised that it helped calm me down some. We were soon joined by our parents and were informed that at least for this morning we were going to be getting a ride to school. All too soon breakfast was being finished and we were heading out to the car.
As we got closer to the school, I began hoping that nobody I knew saw me getting out of a car seat. I knew I needed one till I grew some more but it was still embarrassing.
“So David back again are we?” An older lady called a few minutes after our mom left David and I in what I assumed was the nurses office while she went to fill out some last minute paperwork on me.
“Yes, ma’am.”
“And you must me Ian, then.” The person I assumed was the nurse inquired.
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Well, David already knows the routine so let me get him taken care of first.” She said while sitting down behind her desk. After a few moments of shuffling through some papers she handed David a card and told him to wait in the outer office for me.
“Now Ian, I want you to know that I’ve been fully apprised of your situation and your father has left instructions for me. If you start to feel overwhelmed or anything like that he would like you to try and hang on for as long as possible. He left me something to help calm you down if needed. OK?” I was asked. I just nodded at this not really being surprised by it.
“Now on to the other matter. I’ve already been informed of your need to use protection. I can assure you that aside from you and your brother we have other people in the same situation both younger and older. Your teacher has also been informed of this in case you have any problems in class. It’s been set up for you to get checked during each break and at lunch. If for some reason you are unable to wait till one of those times just let the teacher know that you need to come here and nothing will be said. Your teacher has also been informed of you needing to wear the sunglasses during class. He will probably explain this to the class to avoid any problems. And, before I forget you’ll need this.” I was told as she handed me over a card similar to the one she had handed David.
“You’ll need to attach that to the school ID that you’ll be getting later this morning. Any questions?”
“No ma’am, not at this time.” I said formally.
“OK then, you can go join your brother and he’ll show you where your class is.” I was told in the way of dismissal.
“Don’t worry about it Ian. I doubt anything will be said.” David said when he saw me fingering the special pass.
“If you say so.” I replied noticing all the looks I was getting from the fact that I was still wearing sunglasses in doors.
“Well, here we are. Just start looking at the lists on the doors. That will tell you which class you’re assigned to.” David said as he walked off to join a few of his friends to look at the lists. I saw him walk into a classroom a few seconds later. I was just glad that I wasn’t the only one still looking at this point.
“Oh this ought to get interesting.” I thought to myself a few minutes later when I saw that I had been given the same teacher as David. David started laughing when he saw me walk into the class just as the bell rang for the first time. Before I got to a seat though I heard someone chuckling and saw that Misha’s younger brother was in the same class. Deciding to nip whatever problems there might be in the bud I walked over to him.
{“I’m only going to tell you this once Ivan, if you mention to anyone about my problem I’m going to make sure you regret it do you understand me?} I asked him in Russian to make sure that the odds of someone understanding me where narrowed. Before I could get an answer from him I heard someone call for me to take me seat Without thinking I responded to the request.
(“One moment, please.”) I called before turning my attention back to Ivan.
{“Well, Yes or No, do you understand me?”} I asked. I just got a small nod at this.
{I want to hear you say it. Do you understand.”}
{“Yes.”}
{“Good.”} I said before turning around and seeing that everyone was looking at me.
(“My apologies, sir. I just needed to clear up a little matter.”) I told my teacher as I took a free seat in front of him just as the final bell rung.
“OK, Mr..?” the teacher started
“Miller, sir.”
“Mr. Miller in the future I expect you to do as I ask immediately not when it suits you. Do you understand?”
“Yes, sir. Again my apologies.” I replied looking at my desk.
“Now since class had not yet started I’ll let it pass this time but in the future don’t let it happen again. This goes for all of you. Understood?” A smattering of nods and soft “yes, sirs” came back.
“Lets try that again. When I ask you a question I would like you to either answer yes or no, sir, or Yes or No, Mr. Perez. Now do you all under stand me.” We were questioned again. This time the replies were what he wanted since he continued in on the start of the day.
“Now I would like you all to gather up your belongings and stand against the back wall when I call your name I’d like you to answer in some way that you’re present, come up to me, get your school ID, and then take the seat I point out to you. OK?”
“Yes, Sir.” the class answered as we stood up to follow the directions given to us. Several minutes later the first slight problem with me and David being in the same class started.
“Miller, David.” Mr. Perez called out.
“Here, sir.” David and I answered in almost perfect unison. This caused Mr. Perez to look at both of us then down at his class list. I started chuckling with a few others in the class when we heard what Mr. Perez had mumbled under his breath.
“OK. Miller, David I.” Our teacher tried again after having to look at his master list for the class.
“Here, sir.” I called as I stepped forward.
“If it helps sir, I normally go by Ian.” I said as I took the offered ID. I got a small nod at this while Mr. Perez wrote something down.
“OK, Now while I pass out some forms for your parents to sign , I need to point out something. As I’m sure you have all noticed Ian here is wearing sunglasses. He has medical reasons for doing so. I don’t want to hear anything being said about it. If your glasses are not prescription you had better remove them now. When I look at you I expect to see your eyes when I do so. For those of you that do not already know this I will spell things out for you. This school has a “Zero Tolerance” policy. Any harassment of any kind will be handled swiftly and severely. Is this understood?”
“Yes, sir.” we all answered. I think most people had already figured out that they weren’t going to get away with much in this class. But on looking around, I could tell that a few of them were probably going to try. The rest of the morning dealt with what we were going to be learning in the coming year. About three hours into the day we were informed that it was time for our first twenty-minute break. Since it had been a good five hours since I had last been changed I could tell that I was getting to the point of needing one. As everyone else headed towards the playground , I caught Mr. Perez’s eye and nodded in the general direction of the nurse’s office. I was kind of surprised that David didn’t join me but I felt that it was on his own head if anything happened.
On walking into the office, I saw a group of five kids standing off to one side of the room waiting by a closed door. The same nurse that had met with me earlier was still at her desk and on seeing me just pointed to the end of the line as she made a note on a chart she had on one side of her desk. I was kind of surprised at how fast the line was moving till I got in the room myself and saw that they had two people doing the honors. I was a little embarrassed by this but I soon got over it.
“Jordon School Diaper , huh.” Came the comment as I felt my pants being pulled down.
“A lot of kids are wearing those these days.” I was told after I had given the person changing me my name. I soon felt a wipe being run over my groin, followed soon there after by some lotion and powder.
“There you go, all done.” I was told less than five minutes after having entered the room. After pulling my pants back up, I hopped off the table and left the room to join the rest of my classmates for what little remained of our break.
Once break was over we started in on our class work. We were informed that notes were expected to be taken in certain subjects and we would be told which ones. On hearing this, I felt it would be a good way to keep up with my language skills. Little did I know that it would come back to bite me in the butt.
Chapter 14
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