Welcome to The Family

Chapter Three Postcards and Polaroids

Jace and I exchange a look then shrug. 'What do you mean?' I ask him with fake confusion

'Niether of you are talking. I mean that's okay for Auggie, but for Jace? That's like IMPOSSIBLE.'  He signs 

'Hey!' Jace signs defensivelly

"What's going on?" Eli asks us

"Nothing." We say at the exact same time

"Oh, now I know somethings up." He says as he rolls his eyes

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Jace tells him

Criss walks into the room with his sunglasses on. That just makes it even more suspicious. "Why are you wearing sunglasses inside?" Eli asks him as Criss walks 

He shrugs and fixes the glasses a bit. "I expect a real answer." Eli tells him as he starts getting annoyed

"I have a headache ok?!" Criss answers him in a harsh tone

That isn't like Criss at all. He never sounds angry. EVER. I didn't think he could. Eli stares at him with wide eyes. This shocked him too. "You okay clone?" Jace asks him

"Fine." Criss tells him

"Well then."

"Are you high?" Eli blurts out to Criss

"No! God! Is it so hard to believe I'm the only good kid in this fucking family?" Criss snaps at Eli

"Hey! Don't you dare talk to me in that tone!" Eli yells at him using his "Dad tone"

"Not like your my dad." Criss tells him

"What has gotten into you clone?" Jace asks him in complete shock

"Nothing! Why can't you just leave me alone?" Criss asks him

Eli reaches over and yanks off the sunglasses revealing the nasty black eye Austin's fist left. "Where the hell did that come from?" Eli asks Criss

"Austin's fist." I tell him

Criss glares at me. "Hey! No! Don't glare at him! What the hell happend?" Eli asks him as he pulls Criss closer to him so he can examine the black eye

"It's nothing, it doesn't even hurt...." He lies to Eli

Eli pokes him by the eye. Criss cringes. "Ow." He says as he slaps Eli's hand away

"We're gonna have a talk with this Austin kid." Eli says

"I wanna go!" I say excitedly

"NO!" Criss says frantically

"Fine then I'll go." Jace says

 "No! None of you will go! Stay out of this!" Criss yells at them

"Why do we have to stay out of it?" I ask him

"Because!" He yells at me

"Tell us Criss!" Eli yells at him

"No! I can't!"

"What does he have on you that's so bad Criss?" Jace asks him

"He's blackmailing you?!" Eli asks him furiously

"What is it Criss?" Jace asks him

Both of them start throwing questions at him. Too fast for me to read. "I'm gay okay! That's what he has on me!" Criss blurts out

I could read that perfectly fine. That shut everyone up. Even Xander who just walked into the kitchen. "Craig saw me going on a date with my boyfriend and he's been blackmailing me ever since." Criss explaines

"Boyfriend?!" We all question him at once

He sinks into the seat as he blushes. "Well you're serious huh? Whoa. Didn't see this one coming..." Jace says awkwardly

"I'm sorry! Please don't hate me!" Criss says as he breaks down and starts to sob

"Hate you? We could NEVER hate you Criss! You're our brother no matter what!" Xander tells him as he makes his way over to the table where we all sit

"Really?" Criss asks him

He looks so little here. His big green eyes full with tears. "We love you clone! None of us could hate you!" Jace tells him

"You're stuck with us. Whether you like it or not." I tell him

He laughs then hiccups. That makes us all laugh. Once we stop I say "We're gonna make Austin and Craig pay." with a serious tone

"But he'll tell the whole school!" Criss says as he begins to panic

"We'll take care of that." Jace says

We all nod in agreement. "So about this boyfriend...." Xander says nervously

"His name's Kyle...." Criss says

"How old?" I ask

"Seventeen." Criss tells us honestly

"Too old." Eli objects

"He's in all honors classes. He's super smart, super cute, funny, and he treats me right Eli." Criss explains

"Sounds too good to be true." Eli objects once again

"Eli..." Xander warns him

"Sorry."

"I wanna meet him clone." Jace tells him

"What?" Criss asks his clone confused

"I wanna meet him." Jace states again

"Oh, me too!" I tell him

"Me too." Xander and Eli say at the exact same time 

Shane Howard's POV

Washington D.C.

Ian and I sit at the table. My mother Stephanie called us over. "What's going on mom?" Ian asks her

"Is everything okay?" I ask her as I begin to worry

"I always promised myself I'd tell you the truth and I think I finally should..." My mom says nervously

"What are you talking about?" Ian asks her

"I want you to know who your father is." She says

"Didn't he like die in a car crash before I was born?" I ask her confused

"No. I lied. He had another family and he left us for them." She whispers as tears run down her face

"Why did you lie to us?" Ian asks her

"I didn't want you to hate him! He was such an amazing man. I couldn't bare the thought of the two of you hating him!" She says

"If he were such an amazing man then he wouldn't have left!" I yell at her

"Shane, you have to understand he had another family at the time. His wife was pregnant around the time I was pregnant with you." She tells me

"That's just wrong!" Ian says

"She had two sons at the time. Alexander and Elijah. He couldn't leave her. He loved me, but he just couldn't leave her." My mom explains

"So what we have like half siblings?" I ask her confused

"Yes." She sighs sadly

"I cannot believe this mom." Ian tells her

"I am so sorry." She tells us

"What's his name?" I ask her

"Adamo Moriarty." She tells me 

the pic is of Christofer Drew who plays Jace Moriarty :)