Adopted
It all started a month ago.
At this moment, the girl named Chuck was making a cup pie, cherry, her favourite. At that moment, Olive Snook, her best friend in the entire world, walked in, an excited look on her oval face.
"Chuck, I'm pregnant!" she screamed.
"Olive, that's brilliant!" Chuck screamed back to her, when suddenly, Chuck felt a pang in her heart; Olive was having a baby, and she wasn't.
"Chuck, are you all right?" Olive asked, noticing her friends change in expression, which confused Olive greatly.
"Yeah, don't worry, I'm fine" Chuck told her half-heartedly.
"You want kids?" Olive asked, a small smile on her face.
"Yup"
Chuck, you see, wanted a child, it had been her dream since she was in her teenage years, but, by instinct and cruel fate, the man she loved could not do that for her.
"Hi"
It was Ned.
"Hi" she said, turning round and smiling at him.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine" she sighed, first Olive, now Ned!
And with that, she left the Kitchen, to serve pies.
Chuck sat on the end of her bed, she had to ask. As soon as Ned walked in, she sat back, trying to look confident.
"Listen Ned….Have you ever wanted…..Kids?" She asked, barely audible, but the pie maker still heard her.
"It….never really came to mind, I suppose"
"Because, the flat sounds a bit, what's the word, quiet, Don't you think?"
"Listen Chuck, you know we can't…"
"But what if we adopt?"
The flat went quiet, really quiet.
"Well.." Ned was confused, couldn't Chuck just love life as it was?
"Ned, I love life here, I do, but, as much as I would like the child to be ours, it isn't possible" she had tears in her eyes.
"I'd like that too" Chuck looked at him, wiping her eyes.
"Really?" She asked, she could feel her happy tears coming.
"Yeah, but, why don't we adopt?" Chuck nodded.
"We'll go to Cour'd Cour orphanage tomorrow and choose," he said "But for now lets get some sleep" he smiled.
The next morning, the Cour'd Cour orphanage was filled with laughter as children ran up and down hallways.
"Hello, how may I help you?" a kind looking receptionist asked.
"Um, I'm Kitty Pimms, and this is my boyfriend, Ned," Chuck told her "and we would like to adopt one of the children here"
"Ok, well, I'll let you wonder round, let you have a nice walk around to talk to the children, take as much time as you want" the receptionist told them.
"Thank you" Chuck said to her, before stepping into the hallway with Ned.
"Oi, look, it's some one here to take one of us home!" a boy who had bruises up his arm. All at once, everybody crowded round them saying "Pick me, Pick me please!" which left Chuck and Ned underneath a pile of children.
"Everyone! Let Miss Pimms and Ned go, they want to choose for themselves!" the voice of the receptionist shouted, making the children jump off of them.
So, Ned and Chuck inspected the rest of the orphanage, looking into empty rooms and rooms with hyperactive children. It didn't look like their was a child for them.
Until Chuck came across a large blue door with a picture of Emily Browning on it.
"Ned, can we look in here?" she asked. He nodded, it was worth one more try.
Chuck opened it and stepped inside. There was a small girl in the middle of the room, on her stomach, reading a large book, she had short curls, the actual hair itself looked like it was dipped in a bucket of honey-suckle.
She looked up quickly and sat up, looking up at Chuck and Ned.
"Hello" she said, she stood up.
"Hi," Chuck said back "What's your name sweetie?"
"My name's Rosie, and I'm twelve"
"My name's Ned and I own the Pie Hole, have you ever had a Pie Hole pie?" he asked. She shook her head.
"My name's…." Chuck didn't know how to go about this; tell Rosie her name was Chuck or tell her it was Kitty Pimms.
"Her name's Chuck, and she's my girlfriend," he told Rosie who looked happy "and we're looking for an adopted child"
"Rosie, how about you come to the Pie Hole with us, it's only six pm and then we can chat and see if we could, you know, adopt you, because that's what we really want" Chuck told her, to which she nodded.
"What pie would you like Rosie?" Ned asked.
"Could I please have…..Cherry?" she asked. He passed her a small piece of the cherry pie.
"So, what…..ummm..well, what was your life like before now?" Ned asked.
"Well, when I was two months old, my birth mum abandoned me at the orphanage, and then I was adopted by Mr and Mrs Summers, but they started having fights, and on night, it got so bad, I heard a slapping noise and the front door bang, Mrs Summers committed suicide the next day.
"I was then taken back to the orphanage and adopted when I was five, by Mr Baxter ,who was a lonely old man, at first he seemed nice, but he wasn't really, soon he started hitting me and threatening me with a knife. I ran away back to the orphanage and told them what happened. When I was ten, I was adopted by the Power family, who had two kids of their own. That's when.." She suddenly stopped.
"What's the matter?" Chuck asked, stroking the girls hair.
"It's a secret, just don't call me a freak or a liar" Rosie said.
"We promise" Ned said, knowing how she felt.
"One day we were playing in the garden, when the family guinea pig stopped breathing and died, so, I decided to pick it up, and then, it started breathing again, my siblings ran indoors and told the Powers what had happened and they called me a witch" Rosie said, she stopped only when Ned's mouth fell wide open.
"You have the gift?" Ned asked "I do too"
"Carry on Rosie" Chuck said.
"I was taken back to the orphanage and stayed there ever since." Rosie turned her attention to Ned. "You can do it too?" he nodded.
"Wow" she said.
"Let's get back to the orphanage, and collect Rosie's stuff…." Chuck was cut off.
" You guys want to adopt me?" her mouth fell wide open as they smiled and nodded.
I wish the story could end here, but there is always loads to tell.
Rosie had lived there for exactly two weeks when a woman with bleach blonde curls walked in, wearing a boob tube and mini skirt.
"I'm looking for Miss Pimms and Ned" the woman said to Chuck, who was telling Rosie how to place the plates in the Pie Hole.
"Ned!" she shouted into the kitchen, and he appeared within seconds.
"I want my daughter back" the woman said.
"You mean me?" Rosie asked, in awe.
"Yes, my name is Ella Ellis and I want Rosie back"
At that moment, Chuck found herself really angry.
"Tough luck Booberella Sluts, Rosie's my daughter" Chuck hissed through her teeth.
"Ha, don't make me laugh, I gave birth to her, umm, that's right, eight years ago!" Ella said, getting Rosie's age wrong.
"She's twelve" Ned said.
"Whatever, any way, Miss Pimms, she's coming with me, come on Rosie"
"You take her away and I'll…" Chuck didn't want to finish her sentence.
"I'm not going, Ella" Rosie told her "Chuck's my mum, Ned's my dad, and that's more then you ever did"
Ella's face went bright red. "That's not your decision, you little piece of dirt!" she snapped.
"Don't. Call. My. Daughter. That." Ned said, angry.
"Excuse me?"
"Get out!"
"Oh, alright, come on Rosie!"
"Get out! I know what you want, you're going to hunt down Rosie's dad, and make him pay child support! I love Rosie, and so does Ned, and I don't want to use her, like you want to use her!" Chuck hissed loudly.
Ella then slapped Chuck across the face, leaving her on the floor. "This isn't over!" and with that, she stalked out.
Ned stared after Ella, with Rosie buried into his jumper, before he heard Chuck sobbing from the floor.
Rosie walked over to Chuck first, followed by Ned, who put his clothed arm around her shoulder, and she buried her face into his jumper.
"It will be Ok Mum" Rosie told her kissing her cheek.
"Chuck, she won't get her horrid manicured hands on Rosie, even if it kills me, I'll help you look after her and keep her away from Ella"
"I love you Ned" she told him.
"I love you too" he told her.
"I'll get you guys some plastic wrap" Rosie said, a smile crawling onto her face, skipping to the kitchen. She belonged here, with Ned and Chuck.
Ella tried many times to get Rosie back, but failed, soon, she just gave up.
Ned and Chuck took care of Rosie, and in turn, Rosie helped them, with their strained relationship. They loved her and she loved them. Her help included other way to help them have a romantic relationship and they were grateful.
Life was perfect.