“Everyone’s here”. She smiled. “We’ve waited so long to finally meet you”.

“And my dad is he here?”. I asked.

She nodded. “He thought it best that I come and speak to you first. He did say you were your mother’s daughter after all”.

I didn’t get what she meant by that but shrugged it off. I couldn’t go down there and meet them all. I wasn’t ready for that. Yes, I had waited a lifetime to meet the other side of my family, but this wasn’t the way.

I wouldn’t be ...