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Everyone seemed to like Mia for some reason. She's not going anywhere anytime soon, so relax. Lol I hope you guys enjoy this chapter.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Parker's heart raced. He tried to relax as they pulled into the garage. Keely smiled at him. "Are you hungry?"

Parker shook his head. "Why didn't he know about me?"

Keely gave him a blank expression.

"You wrote one of those parent letters to me like all of the parents did who were giving their kids up for adoption. It said something like, "don't ever be upset with your father, he's not here." Where was he?" Mia jumped out of the car.

"I want pancakes." Mia beamed.

Keely motioned for Parker to get out of the car. "I'll talk to you inside."

He groaned and followed Mia and Keely up the stairs from the garage. They filtered into a mud room/ washroom. "Your house is huge!" Mia exclaimed.

Keely smiled. "Thanks your welcome to come whenever you want to." Parker took a deep breath. He didn't want to come whenever he wanted to. He wanted to live in this house.

She pulled them into the kitchen where Hillary was flipping pancakes. She turned around and almost dropped the spatula she was holding. "Keel, who are they?" She asked in an awkward manner.

"Um, this is my son Parker and his adoptive sister Mia." She put a hand on each of their heads, but quickly removed it from Parkers.

"You're son? The one you were talking about yesterday?" She smiled giddily and held her hand out towards Parker. "I'm Hillary!"

He took her hand and shook it. He remained silent so Mia took Hillary's hand. "I'm Mia!" She smiled and noticed Page and Madison in the corner. "Aw, look at them." She stood in front of them with Keely leaving Parker alone with Hillary.

"So, you're Keely's son?" She asked silently.

He nodded. "Yeah?"

"And is Phil your father?" She asked questionably.

He nodded again and squinted his eyes. "Of course."

"Right…" She found it hard to completely turn her attention back towards the pancakes she was flipping. "So, how old are you?"

"Twelve."

Hillary stopped dividing out the pancakes onto plates. "Oh, woah, I finally understand."

Parker shrugged. "Yeah, that's pretty much the story of my life!"

Hillary handed him a plate of pancakes. "Are you hungry?"

He gladly took the plate from her hands. "Thanks."

Keely smiled and cleared off the table. "Here, come and sit down." Hillary handed Mia a plate also and put butter and syrup on the kitchen table.

"I'll go get Phil." Keely lifted Madison into her arms and brought her into the hallway towards the stairs. She walked slowly and took a long deep breath. This was all to surreal. She entered the bedroom just as Phil walked out of the bedroom.

"Hey, he's here?" He walked closed to her and wrapped his arms around his waist before kissing her on the forehead. They kept a good amount of space between them so not squish Maddie.

"He's eating some breakfast with his foster sister Mia." Keely informed him.

Phil let her rest her chin on his shoulder. "Mia, huh?"

"Yeah, they mentioned something about us helping them? I don't know. I didn't pry too much yet." He brought her back to look at him.

"Did you phone they're foster mother?" He asked sternly.

Keely's mouth dropped. "Oh shit," Phil covered Madison's ears. "Sorry, no I completely forgot."

Phil pulled his daughter out Keely's hands. "I'll go introduce myself and you call her." He pointed towards the phone and turned away.

"Wait," She stopped him in his tracks. He looked at her confused. "If he faints, put him on the couch."

Phil gave her a blank look and shrugged. "Alright?"

Keely sat down on the bed and reached into her pocket to find the phone number of Parker's house. She reached for the phone and dialed the number.

A frantic woman answered the phone on the fist ring. "Hello?"

"Um hello, is this Linda?" Keely asked.

"This is her, who is this." She asked strictly.

"Um this is Parker's mother Keely Teslow Diffy. I just called to make sure that you knew Parker and Mia were here?" The other line remained silent for a few seconds.

"How very responsible of you to call, but it doesn't make up for all of the irresponsible things you've done." She gave her a burst laugh.

"Excuse me?" Had she heard her correctly? "What are you implying?"

"I'm implying that you are an irresponsible person because you gave your son up for adoption!"

"Well excuse me; it's come to my attention that you treat your foster children like worthless crap." Keely stood and grasped the dresser.

"They wouldn't be foster children if their parents had kept them like responsible people." She fought. "I called Hinder, they're sending over someone to pick up Mia and Parker and bring them home."

"Parker and Mia are foster children. If I choice to adopt them right now Hinder would let them come to me because it's in their best interest!" Keely huffed and heard the other line beep. She ignored it and Linda kept going.

"You've known them for less that an hour. What makes you think they want to be with you?"

"I know that Parker does because he tells Mia that he wants to and Mia wants to find her family!" Keely argued.

"Mia has no family!" Linda laughed. "Her parents were mentally challenged and could keep her. They died a year after she was born in a plane crash."

"Then why is she looking for them?"

"Because she doesn't know they're gone!" Keely angrily hung up the phone. She fell back onto the bed sobbing. "Not good, not good!" She thought.

She grabbed a tissue from the bathroom and whipped her eyes. She looked at her self in the mirror and left the bedroom. She slowly walked down the stairs to the kitchen where she found Mia and Hillary talking away with Page and Madison. "Where are Phil and Parker?"

"They went into the office?" Hillary shrugged. "Anyway, Mia and I are just chatting about whatever, so feel free to go and talk with Phil and Phil."

Keely shrugged and lingered in front of the office door. She watched through the curtain at Parker showing Phil something on the computer. She smiled and knocked on the door before entering. "Hey guys."

She sat down in a chair and looked at the computer. "Look at this!" Parker exclaimed. He clicked the mouse and it brought him to a Pickford Newspaper article. He read out loud, "Parker (above) on Coach Marks Star Hokey team scores 13 of the 20 goals during tonight's championship game. He and the team are off to Florida to go to states."

Keely gasped. "I interviewed your team about a month ago!"

Parker shrugged. "I faked sick." He half smiled. "Okay, I was going to go, but I didn't feel like being interviewed and then Linda wouldn't let me go anyway. I just got back from Florida a week and a half ago."

"That's awesome! Did you win?" Phil asked.

Parker shook his head. "We lost by one. The score was 33 to 34!"

Phil frowned. "Aw man, one point."

"Not to interrupt, but Parker, are you really close with the people at Hinder?" Keely asked.

Parker gave her a confused look. "Um yeah, why?"

"Linda sent someone over to take you home."

Parker gasped. "No freaking way! What a bit, uh brat!" Parker stopped him self and Keely and Phil laughed. He blushed. "I'm going to go finish eating he scoffed and left the room.

Phil stood up to follow him Keely reached out her hand and grabbed his shoulder. "Phil, I need to talk to you."

Phil silently closed the door and took Keely in his arms. "I want to adopt Parker and Mia."

Phil blinked. "Don't they have a family?"

Keely shrugged. "Not really, they don't like them and Linda treats her foster children like crap."

"Is that what they told you?" He asked unconvinced.

"Yes, but we don't have any reason not to believe them." She rubbed his arm. "Come on Phil, we have the room and it won't be too hard!"

"If you can convince them to want to, sure, it's a great idea." He kissed her forehead. "By the way, are you pregnant?"

Keely half laughed. "I don't know."

"Well you should figure that out as soon as possible." Phil touched her cheek and looked into her eyes. He could see pain. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, it's not important right now." Keely tried to walk away, but Phil held her tight. "Okay, Okay." She leaned over and whispered into his ear.

"Oh my, so um, do you want me to help tell her or something?"

Keely sighed. "I don't know what to do. For right now, let's just go back out there." Phil let her go and they both left the office. Keely was just about to go sit down at the table when the phone rang. She lifted it off the wall and painfully answered.

"Hello?"

"Keel, it's Via. I just called but I bet Hillary had your line tied up." Via bitched.

Keely shook her head. "Stop, okay, I was on the phone. Hillary was making breakfast!" She hung up the phone and winced. Everyone was staring at her including the babies. "Sorry, that was just nothing." She bit her lip and sat down at the table.

Hillary continued spoon feeding apple sauce and bits of pancakes to Page. "Via?"

Keely sighed. "Yeah." Parker and Mia looked down at their empty plates.

"Were should I put these?" Parker asked taking Mia's plate.

Keely reached out her hands. Parker gave her the places and silverware and put them in the dishwasher. She sat back down and looked at Parker and Mia. Phil stood up and looked down at Keely. "I have to go to work, but I'll be back later." He looked at Parker and Mia. "I'll see you guys later."

"Bye," They said in unison. Phil kissed Page and Madison on the head and then left feeling awkward and unsettled.

"What do you want to do?" Keely asked as the doorbell rang. "Okay never mind, I'll get that." She stood and walked towards the door, knowing who it was. Parker followed behind her unnoticeably.

Keely pulled open the door and a woman wearing a jean skirt and a black long sleeved shirt. "Hi, I'm Brittney Heifer," Parker smiled at the sound of her voice and popped out from behind Keely.

"Britt NAY!'" He screamed. He ran and crashed into her arms.

The woman smiled and pushed him away genteelly. "Parker my main man!" She slapped him five and laughed.

"Brittney please don't make me go back to her! Mia and I want to stay here right now!" He complained.

The woman sighed. "Parker I wish I could, but Linda is your legal guardian."

Parker stopped short. "No, come on Britt, I never ask for anything. Let me stay."

Brittney took a deep breath. She looked at Parker with sorrow and then at Keely. "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do." Brittney took his and called for Mia. They were about to walk out on Keely when she put a hand on Brittney's shoulder.

"I want to adopt them." She said hushed.

Parker's mouth fell. "You do?"

Mia looked at Parker and then at Keely. "I think she was serious."

Brittney smiled. "I, uh, don't think that's possible."

"Yes it is, yes it is!" Parker shouted. "I look up all of this. I put myself in foster care and I can take my self out and because I'm twelve I have legal rights to pick my own adoptive family."

Brittney shook her head. "But it's not going to be easy. Linda and her husband are going to fight you." She said looking at Keely.

"Then I guess I'm going to have to win." She said smiling. Parker wrapped his arms around Keely's shoulders.

"If you can save me from her, then you'll never have to feel guilty about leaving me again!" Parker smiled.

Please Read and Review. I don't know when the next chapter will be up. I have serious writers block and I need help and because I can't get any, I'm just swinging by. Good luck to me!

Meghan