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Adapting Chapter One.

The Adoption

Clare Perspective.

I have never known what love and family felt like, because at the age of three my parents decided they couldn't handle me and gave me up for adoption. I've been in this place for a year and three months and it been like it always has, full of routine and dullness. Many kids have gone in and out and it's always the same until their new parents come and the orphanage puts on a good show of ' we take good care of these kids.' I'm so young and I can see all of these things because I'm living in the middle of it all. Right now its mandatory sleeping for two hours until we eat soup the tastes like noting but feeling like nails going down. Before the two hours are up one of the ladies came up to me and picked me up. She took me out of the room full of bed and into another room I've never seen before.

"This is the one you wanted to see?" She asked. There was a couple and a small girl she was talking to. The older women had brown hair to her shoulders and brown eyes to go with, the man had light brown hair and again brown eyes, and the nine year old girls had brown/blonde hair to the middle of her back and big brown eyes.

"Yes she's beautiful, don't you think Darcy?" The woman was talking to the nine-year-old girl. She nodded her head yes and smiled. All three of them were smiling.

"We love her." The older man said.

"Are you sure you want her, she's been in here for over a year and if you need time to think she wouldn't care." The lady holding me stated.

"No we love her, lets get the papers started and we can take her home today." The man said.

Once those words were said I was taken away and put into nice cloths and my hair was done into a braid down my back. She sat me in front of toys that I have never seen taken off the shelf. I looked at them oddly and was confused on what to do with them. A book sat there in the middle of the table, I grabbed it and looked inside of it. Soon I heard a snapping sound and I looked up to see the small family holding a camera in their hands pointed at me.

"Look Helen her first photo we have of our new little girl." The man told the older women. They we both looking at the camera smiling and the nine year old jumping trying to see the picture. Why am I so interesting?

"Okay Clare these wonderful people are going to take you with them." She spoke to me in such a soft voice but I couldn't be fooled. All I knew was that some strange people were going to take me from a place that I've known since I could remember. The older women took me in her arms and I was so confused. What were they doing with me? They walked outside with me in their arms to a big car and put me in the seat. Where are they taking me?


Authors Note: Okay, I know I'm not a great writer but hey I tried. Sorry it's so short but I wasn't sure how people are going to react to the story.