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When the Mercers past the first shock of seeing double, it was even weirder. Everyone was mad at Sutton for keeping that huge secret from them, but were all sweet and gentle with me. Ted was busy on his phone with social service. I had no idea if he was planning to send me back to Vegas or to keep me here. I won't be that surprised if he sent me back. Why wouldn't he? He doesn't know me! Sutton was pretty much only jumping and hugging me. Laurel had locked herself up in her bedroom. She had said that the sight of two Sutton's was too much for her and that she needed to rest. Kristen had decided to make us diner, and kept on asking me if I liked that spice, or if I wanted that. Which is kind of weird for me. No one ever does something for me, except maybe Lexie. Most of the time, when someone asks me something, it's something I have to do. Sutton decided to tell me everything about her. So she took me to her bedroom. Her bedroom was so huge! She had a big bed all for herself with Egyptian sheets. All over the walls were pictures of her with friends and family. A picture of her between two girls, a cute blond one and gorgeous brown-haired one. From what I understood, they were her best friends. I wonder if they've ever heard of me. Well, Sutton never told her parents, so why would she tell them? On one of the pictures she stood between Mads and some other cute guy. But before I could even just ask her who it was she opened her dressing. That dressing was so huge! It was like if I entered a store. I could tell all of her closes were even more expensive that anything I owned. Maybe there was even more money in this room than in most fosters home I went through.
Diner time arrived. I had still that shy little smile on my face as I took a seat around the table. Laurel decided to join us and I could feel her staring at me. Everyone was acting like it was a normal dinner. The only person that seemed comfortable about all of this was Sutton. She was all happy and smiling and telling me stories about her. Her parents did their best to make me feel comfortable, which I would be if I knew what Ted's phone call was about.
"So, how is foster care?" Laurel asks me like if it was all normal. Well, at least she was talking to me.
"Laurel, that's not something you ask. I'm sorry Emma." Kristen told her daughter.
"No, it's okay Miss Mercer." Well, how was I supposed to call her else?
"Please Emma, call me Kristen." Call her Kristen, if that's what she wants.
"Really Emma! No one calls my mom Miss Mercer." Sutton added. Well how am I supposed to know that?
"To answer your question Laurel. Foster care, for me, isn't that great." Or if you think that being treated as a slave and life in the same house as a pervert is nice, well then it is great.
"How many fosters homes have you had?" Sutton asked me. How many? Well I can't say for sure, but I've had a lot of different once.
"Something like 16? But it can be more, I'm not sure." If I want a chance to be just accepted by Sutton and her family I have to be honest with them.
"16! Emma that's horrible!" Kristen said with an obvious sad tone in her voice. They weren't all that bad. Sometimes my foster parents were just too busy with the young ones to take care of me. But those where the ones I actually felt good in.
"How come you've been in 16 different homes?! Don't they just put you in one and let you their?" Laurel asks suddenly all interested in my life.
"Well, sometimes it's just because they had a problem with me, or sometimes I had a problem with them. They can't put you in another foster family at any time you know." Before I ended at Travis place, I was in a foster family with an old couple. My foster dad was even worse than Travis. But that I'm not going to tell them, I don't want their pity.
"16 foster families! You've never told me that!" Sutton said while she punched me.
"How come you've never been adopted? Like Sutton. Sorry sis, but it's the truth." Laurel continued. Like if Sutton didn't knew she was adopted.
"I guess I wasn't as lucky as Sutton. They only take the cute babies you know." I joked. An identical twin joke. "But actually I don't really know. I guess I grow too fast, and before I was adopted I wasn't a baby anymore. Everyone wants baby. They don't want to adopt a kid."
"I'm pretty sure you were a gorgeous baby! I know I was!" Sutton joked as we started to laugh. We were the only ones to laugh about it. But what else can I do? I have to laugh about this!
Ted got a phone call in the middle of diner. Diner that was soooo good! I've never, ever ate something that good in my entire life.
"Kristen! You're an awesome cook! I've never taste anything as good." I told her once more.
"Well, someone enjoys my cooking." Kristen said while she took my plate of the table. I offered to help her but she seemed offended that I just offered to help her. It was already getting late. So I wanted to know if I had to go back at the station to take the first bus back to Vegas.
"So, how old are you Emma?" Laurel asks me, which I really hoped was a joke. "I'm just kidding. You know.
"Kristen? Honey can I talk to you for a moment?" Ted said from another room in the house. She left the room and left me alone with Sutton and Laurel.
"Emma? Can I tell you something?" Sutton asks. Can she ask me something? Of course she can. "You know, you're my sister, so I can tell you everything right?" Sutton continued.
"I know. Just ask." I told her curious about what took her so long to just ask me.
"That's make you kind of my sister to right? I don't really know how this all works. But if Sutton is my sister, doesn't it make you kind of my sister too?" Laurel asked before Sutton got the chance to ask me what she wanted. I have no idea. Does it make Laurel my sister? I don't know. I don't think so.
"Honestly Laurel. I don't know. I'm still not used to the idea of having one sister so I can't really answer your question."
"So Emma. I wanted to ask, what are you wearing exactly? AS my sister, you shouldn't wear something like that. That's doesn't look good on us." Those are my pretty clothes! Well, I do look really bad next to Sutton. With her curled hair, expensive looking skinny jeans and gorgeous blue blouse.
"Oh, maybe we should give her a make-over! I've always wanted to dress you up Sutton." Laurel joked ones more. That's something I guess we all do, joking when we feel uncomfortable.
"Laurel, you know I'm the one with taste and style between us. But that's I good idea. Common, I'm sure you'll fit just right into my clothes!"
And as soon as Laurel and Sutton had decided it, we were in Suttons dressing. They made me took out my pant and putted my under the shower. That shower was like paradise! It was like a warm waterfall was just falling on me. When I walked out of the shower I found a towel to wrap me up in.
"Ah Emma, try this!" Sutton said as she handed me a punch of clothes and pushed me back into the bathroom. Ones the door closed I look at the clothes Sutton had given me. It's wasn't a punch a clothes like I had first thought, it was actually just a dress. One of those dresses you see in movies or magazines. I guess everything they own comes out a magazine! I putted the dress on and opened the bathroom. There wasn't any mirror big enough in the bathroom to see how it looked on me.
"OMG! You look just like me!" Sutton said as I came out of the bathroom.
"I have to agree. It's freaky!" Laurel added. I look around the room to find a mirror. I couldn't believe what I saw! That girl in the mirror, wasn't me. She was looking way to fancy and pretty to be me!
"You can keep it. I wasn't wearing it anymore anyway. And look way better on you anyway." Sutton said. She gave me the dress! No way! Really!
"Girls? Could you come here? We've got something to talk about." Ted said. I'm I included in this? I looked at Sutton to see if I wanted to come. But Laurel was the first one to react. She took my by the arm and pulled me outside along with her.
"Woaw Emma! You look great! You make it even harder for us to see the difference between you two…" Kristen said me as a compliment. "You girls should sit down." She soon added. That's it, that's the moment they're going to kick me out. Travis going to be so happy to see me back.
"So, you all know guys, that seeing Emma here, was a huge surprise. For all of us." Ted started. I looked at Sutton hoping she would see in my eyes that if they're all so surprised is her fault!
"I know dad. I should have told you about Emma. But you know how you are when I talk to you about my adoption. You close yourself and you don't listen to anything anymore." Sutton defended herself.
"That's not an excuse Sutton. We'll talk about that later." Kristen said to her daughter.
"I've made a few phone calls. And with the help of Alec, we've found a solution for this unique situation." Ted continued. The phone calls, I've noticed.
"Alec is dad's best friend, and he's also my godfather." Sutton whispered in my ears to help me out.
"Alec is going to help us to become Emma's foster family. If everyone agrees with it. Especially you Emma." They want to be my foster family? Is that a kind of sick joke before they kick me out of their lives?
"Emma is cool. She can stay." Laurel said as she putted her hand on my back.
"Wait? You guys are serious?" Really? They are really serious? They would let me stay here?!
"Of course we are! We can't let you go now. You're a part of Sutton's family, you're a part of our family, the part we didn't know of, but still. We aren't going to let you go now!" Ted said. A family? Really? "If you don't want they stay with us we'll understand you know, it's not an oblig…" He added.
"Oh no no no! I didn't say I don't want this! I've wanted this all my life! It's just, I can't believe all of this. I always thought that at the age of 18 I would finally leave the foster system and I don't know, be on my own." I think I'm talking too much.
"You better get used to this Emma, because you've got me now and I'm not going to let you go that easy."
Everyone agreed on the fact that they wanted to keep me. By this time, I was overwhelmed by something I wasn't use to feel, gratitude. Ted left the house to go meet Alex, which I had learned was a District Attorney. No wonder he could help Ted out for this unique situation. And after they decided to become my foster family, they went even further. Kristen, Sutton and Laurel took me to my new bedroom. Can you believe that? I have a bedroom of my own! And it was the most beautiful room I had ever seen. The walls were painted in soft blue and the furniture was white. And like Sutton's bedroom, I had a dressing too. Not as big as hers, but still. My entire room was probably as big as Clarice's living room! After a few hugs and kisses, and I have to admit, some tears, both Laurel as Sutton took me to their dressing and picked out some clothes for me. Kristen had decided that we all should go out shopping, to buy me some new clothes. New clothes for a fresh start. I had still a hard time to believe that everything was really happening to me. When it was getting late, Kristen left me and asked Laurel and Sutton to do the same. Kristen wanted everyone to have a good night of sleep, because tomorrow was going to be a big day. They wanted to take me out for shopping and to have my school files transferred to the same high school as Sutton and Laurel so I wouldn't miss too much school and could start my new life immediately. New house, new school, new family and a new life.
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