Chapter 10

"Me?" Sam said. Cosmo and Wanda nodded. "You're wanna adopt…me?" They nodded again.

"Whoa!" Tammy and Tommy whispered in unison.

"ARE YOU OUTA YOUR MIND!?" Sam all of a sudden shouted, making everyone in the room, except Sam, cover their ears.

"Calm down sweetie." Wanda soothed. "We understand if you're mad-"

"I'm not mad! I'm not, I just…I just…" In mid-sentence, she started yelling in what seemed like Italian. Sam is not Italian, but after wandering around the world so many times, you pick up on quite a few languages. Italian just so happens to be one of her favorites.

"Samantha Tara Artemis! Calm down this instant!" Wanda shouted back. The whole room went quiet. Cosmo and Sam's mouths were gaped open.

"You remember her full name?" Cosmo asked.

"Oh, I used to hear her mother yell her name so many times." Wanda responded. "I've just never heard you yell."

"That's because my mom would punish me for yelling, or any form of speaking, for that matter. I didn't even remember I had a middle or a last name." She paused. "Huh, I didn't know how cool my name was. Except the Samantha part, it just sounds girly to me."

"Why couldn't you remember your full name?" Tammy asked.

"I guess my name just got lost over time."

"Well that's kinda sad." Tommy said.

"You get used to being called Street Rat for most of your life."

Sam looked back up at Cosmo and Wanda. "Look, I'm not mad about you guys wanting to adopt me. It's just, no one in the right mind would adopt a street kid. Wait, it's also against the rules for a fairy to adopt a human."

"What Jorgen doesn't know won't hurt him." One of the twins muttered.

"Or us." The other twin garbled back.

"If you're not allowed to adopt a human," Tommy asked. "Where did you get the paper?"

"Oh it was easy." Cosmo said.

(Flashback)

Cosmo sneaks into the secret files of Fairy World.

Behind one door has the adoption papers, however, there are security guards floating up and down the hallway.

Cosmo POOFs up a lava lamp. As he sneaks through the door, the guards gathered around the lamp say, "Ooh…the colors…"

"Wow," Sam commented as she and Cosmo pounded fists. "Nice one dude."

"The last time I checked," Tammy whispered into Wanda's ear. "He was an idiot, right? How did he get past those guards successfully?"

Wanda didn't say anything, but laughed and hugged her husband.

"Sam," Wanda said. "We're two-halves of a whole idiot remember?"

"Yeah," Cosmo agreed. "So, in other words, we don't necessarily have the right minds."

Sam grabbed her wand that was sitting on the bed and POOFed the adoption paper back up.

She smiled warmly at Cosmo and Wanda. "You know, I can already tell my sights fading fast again," The former street kid informed as she POOFed up a red pen. "So I guess that means I better sign this before my sight completely goes." And so she signed the paper and rolled it up and handed it to Cosmo and Wanda. "And I guess this also means that I better start calling you 'mom and dad' from now on."

Cosmo and Wanda hugged Sam tightly and Tammy and Tommy joined in the group hug.

"Alright," Cosmo and Wanda's daughter said as they released her. "Now this doesn't mean I want the wings and the floaty-crowny thing. Not yet at least." She tucked the wand in her pocket. "Can I remain human for a while?"

As Cosmo and Wanda agreed to this, Sam's eye color faded from a chocolate-brown, into a faded blue color, which meant she was blind yet again. But she still had a smile spread across her face.

"Yes," Tammy exclaimed. "I finally have a sister."

"Great," Tommy muttered. "As if one sister wasn't bad enough."

"Oh, and by the way," Sam said. "I want my windowsill back, please."

*The epilogue will be up today or tomorow.