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"Not one person in sixteen years ever wanted me!" was what Lux had told Cate, it had been four days since their argument. Cate had relented and transferred Lux back to her old school, she never saw Lux except in the morning and night. From 6:00 am to 9:00 pm she wouldn't see Lux at all until she came home with her boyfriend Bug or 'sister' Natasha.
Natasha would sleep over and she found out more about Lux's horrid past…also why she was afraid to trust Cate and Baze. When she was thirteen she had been adopted by a couple they were in there late 30's and they had steady jobs but weren't able to have kids. They seemed perfect. For a few months Lux was doing well, she didn't fight and steal; she was for the first time happy. Then the dirty little secret came out. Her foster-father was a drunk and her foster-mom was a coke addict. He would get drunk and beat his wife yelling and screaming at her for wasting all their money on drugs and she would retaliate and scream at him for wasting their money on alcohol.
Then they realized that Lux was still around. They began to take it out on her. The father beat her with a belt and her mother screamed and slashed at her with her nails and pull out her hair. Lux went from having the perfect parents to living in a hell hole.
She trusted them to take care of her and they broke that trust. Natasha and Bug then went to the foster care workers about the situation and they pulled her out of the home. It was her last chance and she knew it. 'She was done' those were Natasha's exact words. It was over and Lux had lost, she didn't get her dream of having perfect parents and to live her life without worry and to be taken care of. She began to fight tooth and nail against any and every foster family, group home and potential parents; because she lost her trust in them. In all adults.
Cate was very shocked. Lux couldn't trust her because she no longer had that ability to trust adults. She may like them and be nice and respectful to them but she could never trust anything they said. In the long run it wasn't Lux who lost it was Cate and Baze. The only people Lux would ever trust would be those three other kids; because they felt the pain of losing trust in adults and they knew, lived and saw the horrors of human nature.
Cate couldn't do anything than give her food and a roof over her head and support. Once Luz turned eighteen she would walk out her life, she may visit for a few days, maybe on Easter or Christmas and give her a Baze a trinket to be polite. But she would be doing her own thing. She would marry that boy Bug and have the life she wanted. Working as a real estate agent. With Bug as the proud owner of a Bed and Breakfast. They would have three kids. Their aunt and uncle would be Natasha and Gavin. She would live happy.
Natasha would own her own restaurant and Gavin would be a police man for Portland. They'd have two kids, and live a quiet peaceful life.
That all they ever wanted, to have a family and for the four of them to be together always. Cate was done she couldn't give Lux that peace of mind but she could give her a start and that's all she ever needed.