I meant to get this up the very next day after publishing. Oops. Oh well, here's chapter 1!

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"Mom..." Kendall started over dinner that night "...can Katie and I get a brother?" he briefly looked up at her before glancing quickly down in order to avoid eye contact with the now shocked woman. He heard her gasp and splutter into her drink slightly, but before she could reply, Katie had stated her opinion.

"Can we mom? I've always wanted a younger brother or sister! Can we please?" the ten-year-old bounced up and down in her chair giddily at the proposal. Kendall's mother however was already shaking her head.

"Kendall, Katie...no...you know that I can't have any children at the moment. It would be impossible. Besides, I don't think that my salary could cover three children anyway." She told them, very happy to be done with the subject right then and there. But she knew her son, and of course Kendall wouldn't drop it.

"But it wouldn't hurt too much to feed just one extra person. And you could adopt someone. I'm sure there are plenty of kids to adopt in the orphanage!" he tried again, stabbing a piece of chicken ferociously to emphasise his point.

"Kendall, I told you that we can't get another child, even if it is through adoption. It's too complicated."

"But he needs a home! He needs someone to love him!"

Mama Knight looked surprised at her son's outburst but then her eyes narrowed. "Kendall, what's this really all about? Who is this 'he' you keep mentioning?"

Kendall looked down and sighed, knowing that because he slipped up he would have to tell her the real reason as to why he supposedly wanted a new brother.

"Well...all the second graders did a presentation in front of our class today. And there was this boy. He was really small and he didn't have the best clothes and he looked kinda scruffy and he started talking about Santa. But then he went on to say that Santa didn't like him because he did something which made his parents not care about him and then leave him. He thinks it's all his fault." He explained in a sad tone.

"His Christmas wish every year is to have a family again, but he never gets it because he thinks that whatever he did to make his parents go away means that Santa won't give it to him, which is obviously not true. But...I don't know...I just thought that maybe if you adopted him then he could have a family again...his Christmas wish would come true" Kendall shrugged and realised that maybe they wouldn't be able to grant Logan his Christmas wish after all.

"Ok..." Mama Knight's resolve was weakening after she heard the boy's story. To think he was only in second grade and he had already been through so much heart-break. She rubbed her temples as she could feel a headache coming on. "Couldn't Sylvia and Carlos take him in? Or Brooke considering she has such a large house, it would be easier."

"Carlos and James already asked. Carlos' house is already too full, you know with all of his sisters and all and James...well he goes between his dad's house and mom's house each week. So ours is the only option or nothing."

"I would really like to have a little brother" Katie adds in a small voice yet wanting to be heard. She wants her mother to know her opinion on the matter before she dismisses it entirely, which is looking like how it will go now. "I mean, Kendall and I could look after him when you couldn't. I just want to have someone I can take care of because I'm sick of being the youngest."

Mama Knights sighed again. Why were her family so persistent and stubborn? She knew they must have gotten the majority of it from her former husband as she felt as though she couldn't deny the subject any longer. She supposed it could work. She had steady income that was more than enough for the family of three and so wouldn't mean they were too stretched with an extra person. She could also see that Kendall and Katie could benefit and she did love caring for her children. But most importantly, she might be able to change the life of a 7-year-old.

However, she still didn't want to adopt straight away. What if they didn't have enough money? What if things went badly? She also wouldn't be able to tell if the child would even settle in properly and if he would like it. They would have to trial it. She couldn't even believe she was saying yes to the idea, but that was her children for you.

"Right, we can try this out. And when I say try I mean it. We don't know what it's going to be like and we can't take any risks with it all going terribly wrong. Therefore, we can foster him for a few weeks, say a trial period. But you have to remember it's not just about us. If he doesn't like it even if we do, he comes first. Understand?" two heavy nods and she knew they were serious.

After dinner was cleared, she went to search for a phone number and once found, she gave the orphanage a call.


The orphanage was loud. Much louder than Logan would have liked it to be, but with the masses of children there it couldn't be helped. Besides, he had been there three years now and after a while you got used to the crying and the shouting and also the happier sounds of children playing.

None of them played with him though. He didn't know why. Maybe it was because of what he had done? Maybe they all knew and were so disgusted that they stayed right away. But they couldn't all know. It was probably because he was just a loser.

Logan liked to keep to his books. He could be transported to magical worlds and join in with the characters on their little adventures, as if he were there alongside them. His favourite books, no matter how girly they may be considered, were the series called The Faraway Tree. He loved the idea of all the magical lands that he could only dream of and being able to adventure. They had freedom which he didn't have. Most of all, they had family. Even though they didn't always get along, it was still family. More than he has.

They always end happily as well. He knew not all books had a happy ending, but the ones he read did. He just wanted his own happy ending.

He ignored the world around him as he huddled in his room, the one place at the orphanage that he could have just to himself. Everything else had to be shared out and somehow he usually didn't come out on top of that bargain. Dinner had been uneventful. All the boys and girls acted like vultures coming down on a dead carcass in the heat of summer. Logan wasn't amused and as soon as he had finished he was upstairs, away from it all.

But just as he was about to go to bed, Liz, the head of the orphanage knocked lightly on his door and bounded in. She smiled at him and apologised for coming in so late.

"Just to let you know, Logan, we're having a 'Future Families' day tomorrow, so there'll be a lot of perspective people looking about. You never know, it might be your lucky day" she sighed when she saw his expression.

"Don't give up hope, Logan. You never know what might happen."

And he sure wouldn't have predicted what happened that very next day.


Sorry if it was a bit rushed at the end, I just wanted to get something posted for you guys before I went to bed. Tell me what you think and please review! :)

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