'And I think I want to try being your big sister.'

The words keep whirling to her head. She had said them. Stef could almost not believe herself, but she had said it. As from now, she was a big sister. To a girl who was almost a perfect stranger.

Stef let out a chuckle.

'What you thinking, love?', asked her wife, who was standing near the book case, reading the titles.

'I'll tell you later', Stef told her wife. Victoria had just left the room to put Doris in bed and Stef did not think there was enough time to fill Lena in. 'What is in there?', she asked her wife.

'A few books about parenting and raising children, some book about budgeting and lots of cook books.', came the answer. 'Imagine having to take care of another child when you are so young.'

Stef nodded thoughtful. 'I wonder how she got custody of Doris. It is quite uncommon, right?'

'I dunno really', said Lena, she had now moved onto the next shelf of the bookcase, which contained some photo's. 'This is a cute picture', she said, handing the photo to her wife.

Stef looked at the photo of Doris in a ballet suit and a big bow in her hair, besides her kneeled Victoria and in the background stood two men. 'That must have been Doris' foster parents.'

'Yes, that's Rick and Levi', came Tori's voice suddenly. 'They got her into this damn ballet thing.'

She took the picture from Stef and put it back on the shelf. The room fell silent.

'Uhm, how is the school thing going?', asked Stef. 'Aren't there scholar ships to get?'

'Yeah, Doris got the scholarship!', Tori beamed proudly, 'but even with that it is still expensive'.

Stef noticed that Tori had become more talkative after "they had decided to be sisters". She realized that Tori must have been kind of lonely. It must be hard to raise your little sister. Most of the parents at school would be older, but she was to grown up for people her age.

'I'll figure it out', Tori told them. 'Don't worry.'

Not so talkative after all thought Stef.

'Are you still in contact with Levi and uhm what was his name?', asked her wife.

'Rick and Levi. Barely.', admitted Tori. 'After they helped me get custody of Doris, they moved to France, but we email them like every few months. They are very interested in Doris' ballet progress as well. They "discovered" her', Tori told.

Stef had to admit how smart Lena was, she already knew what Lena was going to ask next.

'How did you get custody of Doris?', Lena asked lightly.

'O, uhm, Rick helped with that actually, he is a lawyer, so he helped built a case. At first when they fostered Doris, they were planning on adopting her maybe but Doris talked about me a lot and I think they realized that we were really close. They came visit me in juvie and they told me that they were gonna help me get my life on track.' Tori took a deep breath and Stef could hear the gratitude in her voice. 'So Rick built a case. I was already in my mom's will as Doris' guardian, so that helped, and Rick made a point of pointing out that I have always been Doris' caretaker.'

'How come?', asked Lena and Stef realized that she did not know that their mom had been a prostitute.

Tori seemed to have realized the same thing. 'Uhm, she worked a lot at night so during the day she slept a lot.'

'That must have been hard', said Lena.

Tori just shrugged.

'What were you in juvie for?', asked Stef suddenly.

Tori just looked at her wide-eyed. 'Just some things', she said after a while.

Stef saw that Lena gave her a strict look, telling her not to push further.

'Our daughter Callie was actually in juvie too', Lena told Tori.

'What for?', asked Tori.

'Just some things', said Stef.

'Stef!', chastised Lena, Stef understood that her wife was not impressed by her attitude. 'She beat up her foster father's car to get him to stop beating up her brother.'

Tori's eyes got big. 'That sucks', she said.

Stef was suddenly overwhelmed with love for Tori. This girl, her little sister, certainly did not lack compassion.

'Tell you what', she said, suddenly wanting to form a bond with the girl. 'Why don't you and Doris come over some time, to meet the gang?'

Tori nodded and gave Stef a small smile. 'Yeah, we can totally do that.'


AN- sorry, this is not my best chapter. It is mostly filler, but now that is out of the way. Please leave some reviews, what would you guys like to see happening?

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