Felicity

"Miley, hello?" Spoke a girl who was standing in the room of her sister's room. Another girl, who had been lying on a wooden bed, arose looking towards her. "Huh?" She asked, walking towards the other. The taller girl moved closer to her younger sister, pulling her into her embrace. "Miles, darling, ma and pa are looking for a new daughter to adopt." Miley looked up towards her sister, with the look of confusion on her face.

The Stewart family was a…well it was a very unique kind of family. Both the parents, Susan and Robbie, had two daughters of their own, Miley and Crystal. They also had a son named Jackson. As much as they had loved each and every one of their children, both of them still had decided to take in orphans. Fortunately for them, their three amazing children had, with no doubt, supported them.

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart began looking for a girl to adopt about a week after they heard about a city in California being nearly wiped off the face of the earth. They had been told that a lot of the people were killed but some had survived and that there were some children who had been left parentless. The children were taken to a nearby orphanage in San Diego, CA. So the Stewarts had decided they'd go and visit the place to see if they could find a new daughter to adopt.

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Reaching the entrance of the orphanage in San Diego, the Stewarts all made their way through the door walking to the lobby of the petite building. As they approached the lobby a women about the mother's size walked over to them with a warm smile. "Ah, you must be the Stewarts." She said, reaching her hand out to shake their hands.

Both Robbie and Susan smiled as they shook her hand; their children doing the same. "It's so nice to finally meet you all. I'm Amy Wellinger, the owner of this here orphanage. We have many children here due that awful tornado that happened nearby. So if you've got any requests please be sure to tell me."

The parents glanced at each other for a moment and nodded as Amy began walking, motioning for them to follow, to the back of the building where the children were located.

When they approached the room, Amy gathered all the children up into an orderly fashioned line. "Alright, children we have a lovely family here today who would like to meet you guys." The children looked at her blankly; not a single person from the group was enthusiastic about that. They just rolled their eyes and groaned. "Now, now children…that is no way to welcome guests." Amy said while sighing.

None of the children they had here ever got excited to know that these families who came to visit them may just be their future parents. Although she couldn't really blame them considering they had lost their own. Amy remembered her child hood life, it was horrible. She was put in foster care when she was only five years old. Her father was know where to be found and her mother had many, many problems and had soon died a year after her being put into foster care. Life was never the same for her. So that's what had inspired her to open up an orphanage for children with no mother nor father. And that way she with the help of some other volunteers here they could find the children a nice, loving family.

"I can't say hi to strangers…" Said a little girl with golden brown hair as she looked to her feet. "My mommy told so." Some of the other little girls nodded their heads in agreement.

Hours passed as the Stewarts met some of the children until they had come across a very special little girl that they had found very delightful and sweet. The girl's name was Lillian and she had long, silky blonde hair that just reached the middle of her back. She had said very little to the Stewarts when they spoke with her except to call her Lilly.

Lilly was a very unique type of girl, she never had really cared what people had thought of her and her life revolved around sports along with schoolwork. Her parents had always been very strict on her getting a good education; they made sure to check her homework every single night before she was to go to her room for the night. She never liked that about her parents, and because of their strictness she wasn't allowed to date boys nor hang out with friends during the school week. Then one day when she had just turned fourteen years old she and her parents were in a pretty fatal car accident. Unfortunately though she was the only one that had survived, hours after being admitted to the emergency room Lilly was told of her parents horrifying death.

After that she shut everyone who dared talked to her out of her life. Lilly was forced into foster care for about a month until Amy had found her lying outside of someone's house, all beat up. So she had brought the girl to the orphanage and she had been there ever since.

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart were very pleased with meeting the girl. Though she hadn't spoke much to them, they knew she belonged with them. Even Miley, Crystal, and Jackson liked her. So they told Amy they'd like to meet with her some more even though both of the parents had known very well they were gonna adopt Lilly.

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"So kids, how'd ya'll like Lilly?" Robbie Ray asked as he parked in the driveway of the hotel they had stayed at while being in California. Miley, who was sitting in between her sister and brother, smiled and spoke up. "Daddy, you and mom had better adopt her. She's the perfect sister to have…I love her already." Jackson huffed; he hated the fact that he'd have yet another sister to deal with. He thought having two was horrible, soon he'd be proved wrong.

Crystal smacked him across the shoulder. "God Jackson, get over it. She's a poor girl without a family, grow up." She hissed at her irritating twin bother as she rolled her eyes at his immatureness. Then she wrapped an arm around her younger sister's shoulder, happy that now she would have herself two amazing little sisters.

"Alright guys that's enough. Now get out of the car and stop your bickering, you two sound like an old married couple." Their mother Susan said, opening her door to get out.

Once they were back in their room of the hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart had a discussion about adopting Lillian. Both of them had agreed that they most certainly were going to but they didn't know how much she'd like living back in Tennessee with them. From what they could tell, the girl was born and raised here in California and if she moved to some place she barely knew who knows what it would do to her…?

"Maybe we should talk to Amy about this, if she says she'll be fine in Tennessee with us then we'll go back but if not we'll have to stay here. I'm sure the kids won't mind." Susan said, although she really hoped that Lilly would want to go back home with them, but if she did not want to they would stay here.

Robbie nodded with a smile. He could tell his wife was already falling in love with their future daughter, just by the way of her words. As a matter of fact he was pretty thrilled himself about adopting this girl.

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Outside of the orphanage sat Lilly with a pair of binoculars in her hands. She looked up to the sky, using the binoculars, and slightly smiled at the sight of the moving clouds. Ever since she was a little girl, she and her father would sit out on the deck of their house and look at all the different kinds of clouds in the sky. It was her favorite thing to do in the beautiful weather Californians had got to experience.

So every time after they had lunch, Lilly would go out onto the front steps of the building and just sit outside for hours looking at the moving clouds. Sometimes she would begin to cry feeling lonely without her father there with her and other times she would observe the different types of clouds she had seen. Either way it would always calm her down after another horrible day without her parents.

"Lillian…" Startled from the voice, the girl jumped from her thoughts. She put the binoculars beside her and turned her face towards Amy who was standing in the doorway with a teenage girl behind her. "You have a visitor; it's one of the Stewart's daughter's."

Lilly looked behind her to see which girl it was. The girl standing behind Amy had brown curly hair which went down to the tip of her back and her eyes were twinkling blue. With those properties Lilly realized it was Miley who had come to see her. She hadn't understood why but she didn't care. "Okay, ma'am." The blonde said quietly, not getting up from her spot.

Amy sighed, knowing that she wouldn't get up so she went over to try pull her up until Miley stopped her. "It's okay Amy, she can stay there. I'll just sit out here with her." The brunette smiled at her future sister. The woman nodded and walked back into the building to take care of the other children.

"Hey Lilly." Miley said happily as she sat down beside her, stroking her arm lightly. "What are you up to today?" The other girl pointed to her binoculars and then up to the sky; she was too nervous to say anything to her. Miley noticed and began wondering why the girl wouldn't speak to her so she had decided she'd try asking her. "Lilly, how come you won't talk to me or anyone else besides Amy? Are you scared?" Lilly looked down.

She hated being asked questions like that; she didn't know why she would not speak to anyone. Every time she had tried to nothing would come out of her mouth. It had been that way since her parents' death, though it was even worse after her awful experience of foster care. Only she and the owner of the orphanage knew of what had happened.

Lilly tried her hardest not to remember that horrible time in her life. She hadn't ever brought herself to peace with it; she couldn't. It was plain old horrible.

The other girl rubbed one of her hands up and down Lilly's back, still very confused of her actions. She knew something was bothering the girl but she knew it wasn't her place to ask her, at least not now.

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Robbie and Susan had finally decided that it'd be best if they just moved here for Lilly's sake. They'd go back to Tennessee to bring most of their stuff here, after they agreed on a house to buy.

Crystal over heard them talking about moving and sighed. She never ever dreamed of her parents ever wanting to leave their wonderful home in Tennessee. She, herself, never wanted to leave it either. Her life was back there. Everything she ever had was there, her friends, her pets, her first love, her childhood, and so many things they'd all be leaving behind. But she could kind of understand why her parents would want to move here; Lilly.

She walked out from where she had be standing and sat down beside her mother and father. "Since when are we moving? Did you even bother asking Miley, Jackson, and I about it?" She asked a little harsher then she had planned but she did have a point. Her parents could of at least been nice enough to ask them about moving here.

Both adults looked at her like she was crazy. Their eldest daughter glared at them while she shook her head. "Oh come on, don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about cause' you damn well do." Her mother and father looked at her in shock. Never once had they heard such foul language came out of their daughter's mouth. "Crystal, don't you talk to your mother and I in that tone young lady! We were planning on telling you guys later this afternoon…"

Their daughter glared at him still, and then ran out of the hotel room and down the steps.

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A few weeks had passed and Lilly was coming home with the Stewarts tomorrow. The girl still hadn't liked the thought of going home with complete strangers but anything was better than being at orphanage any longer. All the people there besides Amy were snobs and she didn't like them. Her mother and father had always said to her that even though people are snobby does not mean there better than her, yet Lilly still hated them.

"Lillian, are you ready to leave tomorrow dear?" Amy asked as she walked over to the blonde girl who she herself became so close to. Lilly looked at her feet, shrugging. She had all her stuff but emotionally she didn't think she was ready at all. "I got my stuff, ma'am."

The older girl looked at her, sighing, she knew that Lilly was still very terrified of leaving but Amy knew that this was what was best for the girl. She sat down beside the girl and wrapped one of her arms around her shoulder. "Lilly, I know how hard this will be for you sweetheart, but it's for the best. Trust me your new parents really seem to care about you. And believe me I will call every week to make sure things are going good. So don't worry." She spoke sincerely to the blonde girl beside her.

Amy realized why Lilly was a little bit scared of going home with the Stewarts tomorrow; she was worried that the same thing that happened to her when she was in foster care was going to happen to her again. But she knew that Mr. and Mrs. Stewart would never be capable of hurting anyone. That's why she was letting them adopt her.

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Miley smiled to herself as she sat on the floor of her new bedroom in their new house. As hard as it had been for them all to leave they're beautiful home in Tennessee, she was glad it was for a good reason. Even if she was being forced to share a room with Crystal and their new sister Lilly. It actually made her quite happy; she had really liked the girl.

The brunette heard her sister come hurrying into their room. She jumped up from the floor startled from the sudden movement. "Gee, thanks for scarin' me half to death Crystal…" Miley said as she tried to catch her breath. Her sister sat down beside her, pulling her into an embrace.

"I'm sorry, Miles." Crystal caressed the younger girl's cheek, a bit sad that soon she wouldn't be her only baby sister anymore. She decided that today she was going to spend the whole day with her sister to show her how much she cared for her. "Miley, you have no clue how wonderful of a sister you are." Miley laughed, stroking the older girl's arm.

Crystal smiled down at her little sister in her arms and pressed a kiss to the top of her head. "How about only the two of us hang out today, since tomorrow we won't be the only two sisters' in the house anymore, kay love?" She asked her sister, thinking of all the good times they had together. Her younger sister smiled at her and nodded, "Sounds good to me."

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The next day came by quickly which brought excitement to the Stewart family. Robbie and Susan had hurried to get their children up and ready to go pick up their new daughter. "Come on guys, get up. We have to go pick up Lilly." Their mother said as she knocked on the girl's room while Robbie went to wake Jackson.

"Mom…" Miley groaned as she sleepily got out of bed. She reached for her alarm clock to see what time it was. "It's only six am! What the heck?" Her older sister who was lying beside her had awoken to the sound of Miley talking and she let out a groan as well.

Their mother shook her head while she walked into the girls' room, turning the light on and opening the curtains to let sunlight in. "Oh girls, you no better than to whine. Besides today we're going to finally bring Lilly home with us, so we have to get there bright and early." A smile crept it's way upon the brunette's face, happy to see the girl again.

A half hour later everyone was dressed and ready to go. Mr. Stewart put the key into the injector, turning on the engine of their 15 year old station wagon then began the drive to the orphanage. The drive was around a half hour to forty-five moments long and the whole ride consisted of the three children fighting over what station of music to listen to.

"Will you guys please quit fighting with each other?" Their mother said, annoyed. "For goodness sake it's only a radio station, besides you don't need to be listening to people who swear every ten seconds." Jackson rolled his eyes and glared at his mom. He always was the one who was forced to listen to the dumb music everyone else in the family liked, and it hated it all.

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Lilly hid in the locked bathroom, scared of going home with her new family. Tears were stained on her face from all the crying and sobbing she had done last night. She was not ready for another family; she had a hard time trying to overcome losing her old one. First it was her older brother, Jonah, when she was only about a couple years old, which no one had known about, and then there was the tragic accident of her and her parents that killed them leaving her to fend for herself.

Going home with another family freaked her out. How was she supposed to survive without Amy there? Amy was the only person who she felt comfortable talking to, being without here scared the life out of her. She prayed to God every night that her new parents would not harm her, but she couldn't overcome the fact that they were different then the foster parents she had a while back.

"Where is Lilly?" Mr. Stewart asked the owner of the orphanage after they hadn't seen her. Amy sighed; she had figured that the poor thing was probably hiding in the bathroom, thinking that her new parents would hurt her. "She's probably hiding in the bathroom… She's still a bit scared of the new family thing. I'll go get her for you." Miley looked over towards her. "I'll come with you." She said, as she followed behind Amy.

The older women knocked on the door of the bathroom. "Lillian, open the door dear. You're new family has come to take you home." She heard the girl sniffling then something fell in the background. Miley gasped thinking that something had fallen and hurt the girl. "Oh my gosh, you have to open the door Amy…Something could of hurt Lilly!" The brunette shrieked.

Amy put her hand in her pocket trying to find a key that would open the door. Finally after looking for a moment she pulled a key out and placed it into the door knob. When the door opened they saw Lilly huddled in a corner with glass spattered around her. Miley gasped as she jumped over, pulling the blonde girl into her arms. "Oh my God, are you okay Lilly? What happened?" She asked while she caressed her forehead.

Lilly said nothing, only continuing to sniffle and shake. The older women looked over at her and Miley. "Why don't you take her back to your parents…" Miley nodded while getting up with her arms wrapped gently around the blonde's back.

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Susan held her new daughter tight in her arms, giving a kiss to her forehead. "I'm so glad we can finally take you home with us baby girl. You'll get to share a room with your new sisters Miley and Crystal. Trust me we will all take very good care of you sweetheart, don't you worry." She said softly.

The two girls smiled lovingly at Lilly, each of them caressing one of her cheeks. Having this sweet, angelic new sister made the Stewart family finally feel complete for everyone. "We love you so much, angel."