Chapter Eleven
Changes
Later Angel sat in the counseller's room with the grey cat, Susan and Bella stood in the room, "he just lost it" said Bella, "one of the kids said that he began to get violent at the TV screen when Razor came up"
The grey cat looked at Angel who lay on the sofa curled up, his scrapbook in his arms and tears streaming down his cheeks, "we should keep him away from the TV, and make sure there is no mention of Razor and the murder of his parents" she said. Susan looked at the Cat.
"I've been calling some people to see if they could foster Angel, just to give him a family environment that might help him cope, I'm gonna keep going, hopefully that will give Angel a chance to get to grips with what has happened and hopefully the parents will give him all the comfort he needs"
The cat smiled at Susan, "that should help, but he still needs to have more therapy and someone to talk to" Bella looked at the still crying Hedgehog, "poor little child" she whispered "I can't possibly imagine what he went through" the cat smiled "why don't you go and carry on with what you need to do and I will keep on with Angel" Bella and Susan nodded, then left the room leaving Angel with the Cat.
Much later, Angel sat in the garden of the Care Centre, he sat on the grass looking through his book in the sunshine, as he sat there, he saw some of the kids looking at him in a weird way.
Just then, he was pushed over by Jerry who walked past him, "did you cry and whine that the TV?" he mocked, his two cronies laughed "awwww" Jerry smiled "little baby's upset by the big bad TV!" he then began to mock Angel shouting at the TV. Angel scowled and turned away from Jerry looking at his scrapbook.
The three boys walked off laughing, as they did, some of the kids continued to look at Angel with a weird and fearful look. Angel pulled the book closer to him and continued to read. "Mum…" he thought "dad…I wish you were here…I miss you like hell!"
Just then a shadow fell on him, Angel looked up to see Bella standing over him, she knelt down to his level "hey there Angel" she said, Angel closed his scrapbook and looked up at the white goose, "oh…hello Bella" he said quietly. Bella sat next to him and stroked his shoulder.
"How did your counseling go earlier?" she asked "did you feel better, after your little incident?" Angel nodded slowly "yeah…" he mumbled "it helped…" "That's good" said Bella. "Well, I have a little news for you" "what?" asked Angel. "Susan has been getting in touch with some people who may be able to foster you, a family who will look after you"
Angel looked up at her, "a…a foster family?" he whimpered, Bella nodded, "It's gonna be ok, you'll have a family again, and someone to take care of you" Angel still didn't look sure, "Don't worry honey" said Bella kindly "you'll get to meet the family, they'll be coming in a couple of days to meet you" Angel nodded "ok" he whispered.
A couple of days later, Angel sat in the waiting room with Bella and his counselor, the grey cat was still talking to him about his anger and sadness. Through a window leading from Susan's office, a black male fox was looking at him with sympathy. Susan was standing behind him and she had told him about what had happened to Shadow and Rouge. "He's a traumatized and saddened child, yet he is good as gold, and since I know that you and your wife have done so well with previous kids whether you could care for him?"
"Sure thing" said the fox looking at the bear, "he needs a loving family and a safe environment to grow up in, he'll be just fine, we have two children of our own around his age, I'm sure they'll be great friends" "Thank you Jim" said Susan. She smiled as the black fox walked out the door to go and meet Angel.
Wow, the start of a foster home, what's gonna happen next?
