A/N: My next book should be posted sometime within the next week. Of course, this depends on real life, as I am intent with finishing the book before I post it. Look for it! I'm not 100 sure what the title will be, but it revolves around both Frank and Joe, and, as always, I hope to see you all come back and read & review the story. (The quote referred too at the bottom is Matthew 12:25.)
SIX WEEKS LATER
Things were going nicely in the Hardy household. Though the emotions and rough feelings between Frank and Fenton were by no means healed, they were starting to get along.
Frank still jumped whenever Fenton entered the room. He had trouble eating family meals. Gertrude did her best to help by making Frank's favorite foods, but nothing seemed to work. Joe knew that was because he had trouble eating with others. Frank's counselor warned that it was something Frank would always struggle with, mostly because of the abuse he'd suffered by hsi father.
As for Joe, he already got along like Frank like they were the same friends from "the yester years". Even Joe's other friends all loved Frank, and rumor had it that Callie was going to ask Frank on a date if Frank didn't ask her for one. She was thinking of waiting for the Sallie Hawkins Dance, but Biff joked that she'd loose Frank if she waited that long.
Phil and Frank had become best of friends, the same they were before Frank disappeared all those years ago. Frank had discovered a newfound love for computers, and it was as if that was all he could focus on. He enjoyed them, and so did Phil. They got along extremely well, and even won a huge prize for discovering something that could fight a computer virus.
Laura enjoyed having her son back. They took off the lies on Wikapedia, which said that Frank was dead and that his uncle was fostering Joe. Laura still continued volunteering at the social help clinic, helping woman who were recovering from affairs. Fenton helped with the kids who had been born as a result of the affair, knowing how he himself had sounded. Both were nominated "outstanding citizens" for the Bayport community.
As for Joe's uncle, he discovered that he really enjoyed fostering kids, and started fostering them. He started fostering one the day they signed all the paperwork, and both Frank and Joe liked James, their new foster cousin.
Though the Hardys still had many hurdles to climb, were getting better every day and things were going well. Frank was having less trouble with sleeping, and although he was always panicked he'd have to move away at a moment's notice, he was getting better with his fears and loved his counselor, Tracey.
Even though the Hardys had been through the battle, and come out of the fire alive, they knew it wasn't over. As Frank put it one night when he awoke screaming from his nightmare, it was never over—the hurdles he'd go through weren't just something that could be put out of sight and out of mind. They would have to be dealt with again, and again.
Under Frank's counselor's suggestion, Fenton took Frank to the pound to get a dog—someone who Frank could trust to protect him, and as well as that, always be there for him. Frank loved his new dog and even named him "Joe," so that when the name "Joe" was called throughout the house, neither dog nor boy knew who Frank was referring too, and Frank oftentimes joked he was calling for both.
Though things were getting along well, they knew they had the steepest hurdle to climb… the trial against Frank's father, where everyone, except, of course, Mr. Adams, Frank's father, knew he'd be found guilty. It would be a tough case, one where Frank would be pushed emotionally, physically, and mentally—perhaps beyond the bounds of his imagination. He had seen tougher people quiver under Mr. Adam's defense attorney.
Still, the Hardys knew they could make it through everything, as long as they were together. After all, as Someone put it long ago, "A house divided against itself will not stand."
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