Brooke was shocked when Sam stood in front of her, it was almost midnight. She hasn´t seen the young woman in 2 years. She was now 17. But Sam wasn´t alone. No she had a 16 year old girl standing right next to her. The young blonde had a bloody nose and a cut across her left cheek.

„Mom? We need your help." Sam said and looked really stressed out. Brooke really wanted to yell at Sam for walking out of her life and then suddenly standing in front of her, but she was to worried about how stressed out Sam looked and she wanted to know who the other girl was.

„Come inside first. But please be quiet, Jude and Davis are asleep." She said. Sam had heard about Brooke and Julian having twins so she knew about the two.

The three sat down on the couch in the living room. Brooke started talking. The mystery blonde was holding onto Sam´s arm tightly.

„Sam please tell me what is going on." Brooke almost bagged.

„So um…this is my sister. Rebecca had another baby after she had me. Both of us were living with her…but we ran away today cause her new boyfriend was abusive. He and his 19 year old son Paxton did hurt both of us…but he was way harder on Roni. Today we couldn´t take it anymore and ran away. Rebecca is on his side!" Sam explained slowly. Brooke tried to process everything she just heard.

„You stay here! I will make sure both of you are safe. Julian and i will protect you!" The older woman said. Sam smiled a little.

„Thank you so so much." Sam said.

„Always Sam, i mean you are family to Julian and i. And Roni is your little sister so of course she is family to us too!" Brooke told her.

„Thank you!" Roni whispered, she was very shy and she wasn´t used to people being nice to her. So far her life was full of lies,pain, more pain and even more pain.

Sam helped Roni to take a shower, she was to weak to do it by herself. After that Brooke showed them the guestbedroom. The two had put on their last pair of clean clothes and climbed into the bed together. Sam held her younger sister close. Slowly but surely the two sisters fell asleep. Brooke on the other hand was wide awake. She sat in the living room on the couch sipping on a glass of red wine. She had so much on her mind right now. Her daughter was back, back here in her house. Should she ask her if she finally wanted to be adopted by her and Julian. She had to ask Julian of course. But what about Roni. Does Roni want to be adopted? And Brooke also wasn´t sure if she was ready to adopt a kid she doesn´t know anything about. But then again, she is Sam´s sister and seems very innocent and she looked like she needs a family.

It was 3 in the morning now and Brooke was about to crawl back into bed when she heard a loud scream coming from the sisters room. Sam was the one screaming. She was sure of it…