Chapter 1: Leaving Again
Hadley's POV
"Hadley, I'm sorry but I've tried everything their are no foster families in Angel Grove willing to take you in, Reefside is your only option." Sydney tells me.
I've heard this before, more times then anyone could ever imagine, I've been in the system since I was 3 years old and have been to 40 different foster homes, Sydney became my social worker when I was brought to my first foster home in Angel Grove at
/8years old, I've been bouncing from home to home since but I've always stayed here in Angel Grove, untill now.
"There has to be something, some way I can stay here I don't want to change towns, change schools, my friends are here"
"I'm sorry but I told you if you got kicked out of this home it was your last one."
"When do we leave?"
"Tomorrow morning, I'll drive you there, your new family and your new case worker will be there to meet us."
13 years in the foster system I should be used to packing, not being wanted, but it never getsany easier.
"So your leaving?" Kit ask.
"I don't have a choice kit, there's no homes left and the Granger's want me gone, it will be okay, I'll keep in touch I promise."
A few tears shed and an hour later and all my stuff is packed in the car, Sydney asks if I'm ready to go, I tell her I am, but I don't think I ever really will be.
Reefside looks like your average town, nothing special, butwe drive through town and come to a white cottage on the outskirts oftown, my breath is taken away, my foster homes are usually ratty old houses with parents who could care less aboutme
as long as they get their welfare check, but this home was different, it was beautiful.
"Were here Hadley, it's time" Sydney tells me
"Can I have a minute."
"Of course you can, take as long as you need."
Sydney is the only one who has ever seen me scared she has been there for me when no family has, and this is it my last time with her and now I'm in some else's hands.