Hey guys! Sorry I haven't updated this in a while. I got some writer's block and just didn't know what to do next, but, I told myself not to give up. So, here's the next chapter! P.S~ The woman's name is pronounced He-Anna. Just in case you were confused and thought it was a typo!
"How do you do?" The blonde haired woman asked, shaking Trudy's hand for the hundredth time. The brunette man next to her coughed uncomfortably.
"Sorry," he said, removing his wife's hand from Trudy's. "She has Short Term Memory Loss."
"Ah," Trudy said, nodding. "I see. Well it's nice to meet you, again, Heanna."
Trudy smiled, and the woman's blue eyes sparkled with confusion.
"We've met before?" She asked, her Irish accent noticable to all.
"Oh Heanna," the man laughed, placing his hands on her shoulders.
The woman looked confused, but sat on the couch by her, fiddling with her purse before taking out her iPhone and playing 'Temple Run.'
"So," Trudy said, breaking the awkward silence. "Are you here to adopt?"
"Oh no!" Sean said assuringly. "We already have a 16 year-old and a four-year-old. We've got enough kids for now!"
"So why are you here." she asked, not in a rude way, but confusingly.
"We're here to drop one off," he said. Typical. You find one you leave one. That's how it worked with kids at Anubis. "He's in the car. I'll go get him."
The man ran out of the house, and all the tension fell. The woman was almost unnoticeable, except to Alfie who was helping her with the jumping and other obstacles.
"Well that was a lift off my shoulders," Jerome said, giving a relieved sigh.
"You can say that again," Joy said, holding June close.
"Hey people," Poppy, Jerome's other sister, said, coming in. She was always late for dinner. She said that as a 16-year-old girl, she needed to 'represent.' And that meant go shopping and hold her place as Queen of her school.
She was wearing typical Poppy clothes. Her long strawberry blonde hair had been streaked with lighter blonde, once again, and was curled and swung over her shoulders. She wore a tight blue dress that went down to her knees and had tiny pink and green flowers all over it. The buttons at the top of the dress spelled out, 'CLARKE' in white letters.
"Hey Poppy," the all said. They never ignored her presence. Ever.
The only unique thing about Poppy, was that she wasn't up for adoption, as you would say. She lived with a 25-year-old woman who reassembled her, AKA; her aunt. She had refused to take Jerome. Or at least that what Jerome told the others. He had just refused to live with her. But Poppy didn't want to be apart from her siblings, so she usually stayed at Anubis, so she could be close to Alexandra, and, though she didn't want to admit it, be happy that she could see Jerome.
"I'm gonna go," Nina said awkwardly. "Now that I know Safari's not going anywhere, I guess everything's cool."
She gave her sister a tap on the nose, and left, her long, dirty blonde hair flowing after her.
A few minutes later Sean came back in with a blonde teenage boy who looked angry as hell.
"Here he is," Sean announced, earning the attention of everyone."
"Hey," the boy said, carelessly throwing his large bag to the floor. "I'm Eddie."
Hey! All done with this chapter! This story will have some mystery, but way more drama!
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