This is the very last chapter of Hold You In My Arms, but the epilogue should be up within a day or two. I will also post all my sappy thank yous then.
So when I imagine Dylan I think of 7th Heaven if you have ever seen it, I picture David Camden (I am pretty sure he was the twin with curly hair, or was that Sam Camden?) But its brown like Sam Scott's.
So all of you need to go read The Future's Not Ours To See by Obsessive Princess after this because its fantastic!
I love how almost every single one of you mentioned the Nathan dancing part, I just had to include it, its fluff, which is right up my alley :)
So I am 90 reviews and I would love to get to a 100 so can you guys get me their? And I promise the 100th reviewer will get a special preview of the story I am working on, I'll Stand By You.
Oh and Jodie we forgot to tell you that Ashley, Jenn, you, and me were all planning to meet in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to finally meet since its in like the middle, I was going to take a kayak, Jenn a paddle boat, and Ashley was going to pick you up in her inner tube, but then we realized that their would be no where to plug our computers in at, and all our paper would get wet so that was ruled out. Then we picked Fiji, but ruled against it because since we are just going to spend our time locked in a room talking and writing that why waste a trip somewhere pretty and we could just visit somewhere ugly.
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Andy called giving us the address of Dylan's social worker, so the next afternoon we found ourselves sitting in the waiting room once more before we were seen by Bevin Mirsky.
"So the paper you filled out saying that you required information about Dylan Walker." She said looking down at the paper before flashing her white teeth in a smile "But before I can do that, I need to know why?"
"Well" Sam spoke up. "I recently found out that he was my brother, and I was wondering if I could meet with him. And maybe get to know him or something. I didn't think it all out yet but."
"I will have to look into it if you don't mind but you were recently adopted weren't you?" She asked.
"Yes, actually Millicent Huxible was my social worker."
"Yes, she was telling me all about it when you finally got placed in a good home, so you must be her adoptive parents?" Bevin asked turning to us.
"Yes, Nathan and Haley Scott" Nathan said for us.
"Nice to meet you, now let me look all this up to verify before I let you see Dylan." She then turned to her desk typing in names. Before bringing up a page. "Can I see your driver's licenses?" She asked as Nathan and I showed them to her. "Thank you, and alright Sam matches the photo along with their last names and birth mothers name. So I can actually take you to see him now, the children's residential home is right down the street."
"Okay" Sam said smiling.
"First let me tell you about him. He was in one home for about four months until they said that him and their other children didn't get along so he came back with us, went to another home where they said he was too much trouble before he came back once more and has been here since. He is currently waiting to be taken into a home." She said eying us "Now let's get going."
We all walked outside before I stopped "Actually, if I could talk to Nathan and we could meet you there, that would be great." I said as Nathan looked at me.
"Okay" Bevin turned back around as her and Sam went down the street
Nathan sat down next to me on the bench "You want to adopt him don't you." He said quickly as I just looked at him.
"I promised her I would protect him…and I just I can't let him go through what she did it would physically hurt me to do that. And I mean I know we are busy with the triples and Sam, but we would make it work. I mean eventually we were going to move Jamie out of the girls room and into the guest bedroom but we could put Dylan in there with him too."
"Hey look at me." Nathan said raising my chin with his pointer finger. "You don't need to explain yourself to me because I feel the exact same way. Now lets go meet our soon to be son." He said taking my hand and leading me down the block.
The second we walked in I saw Sam sitting next to a little boy coloring as they spoke. They looked like siblings. Both had brown hair and brown eyes.
"Hey Buddy" Nathan said sitting next to him "I'm Nathan, mind if I sit here." He shrugged his shoulders as Nathan pulled out a chair for me and then sat down himself.
"And I'm Haley. What are you coloring buddy?"
"A basketball." He said not looking up.
"You like basketball?" I asked. He nodded.
"I love basketball buddy, maybe would you like it if we went to a basketball court tomorrow and played basketball?" Nathan asked as he looked to Bevin for approval as she nodded.
"Really?" His head shot up.
"Sure Buddy, as long as Miss Bevin says its okay."
"That would be fine."
"Dylan you ready to eat?" A short blond asked walking over
"Okay Ms. Lauren!" He said jumping up and running away with her.
Sam just sat their watching him run away with a smile on her face. "So um...Sam Nathan and I were thinking about something."
I looked to Nathan as he continued for me "If its okay with you...well we want to adopt Dylan." She looked back and forth at us for a minute then cracked a smile
"Are you guys serious!" We each nodded as she quickly got up and hugged us "Thank you thank you thank you, you guys are the best!"
"I told you Sam, I was going to do anything I could to protect him." I whispered into her hair as she began to softly cry.
"Its just, you guys already had four kids and I didn't think you would want to add another into the mix."
"But he is your brother Sam and that means something, you two need to be together, not separate. And if that's what we have to do, we have to do it, theirs no second thoughts about it." Nathan said.
"Well Mom and Dad, your the best parents a girl could ask for." She said as I began to cry now. "I mean I can't just keep calling you Haley and Nathan, that will get Dylan confused, so I guess its just the price I will have to pay." Sam said joking as I hugged her once more.
"I'm sorry for ease-dropping but if you would like to talk about adopting Dylan, why don't we go on back to my office and discuss the details." Bevin said.
When we got into the office, she first started by saying. "Well the way we would handle this is first by you would be his foster parents and after a few months and some visits from us you can go along with the plan for adoption."
"I think at first though, to get him used to us we should maybe come by once a day for like a week so that way its not just one visit and then all of a sudden he is living with us. That might scare him." Nathan said.
"Your absolutely right, now what I'm going to need for you to do is to fill out some of this paperwork and we will run background checks, credit score checks, you know all of that fun stuff. Then after that comes back and its up to our standards we will have you fill out more paperwork before you can take him home. In the mean time someone will stop by your house two or three days before your scheduled to take him home, unannounced, to check and make sure your living conditions are up to par and you have a room for him set up. Now can you tell me all of the names of the people living at your house." She said beginning to type.
"Well their is me, Haley Bob James Scott, then Nathan Royal Scott, Samantha Rae Walker Scott, Lydia Bob Scott, James Lucas Scott, and Nataley Brooke Scott." I listed,
"And the ages?"
"Twenty-four, Twenty-four, Sixteen, and the three little ones are just about five months." Bevin just looked at us like we were crazy before going back to typing.
"Alrighty then, that is all we need today, stop by anytime to see Dylan and then after we all feel he is comfortable in your presence we will talk more then."
Levi had gotten into town this morning, I felt like I was walking on egg shells all day around him trying not to mention Dylan and now we were sitting at the dinner table. I looked at Sam once more trying to encourage her to speak to him, only this time she actually met my gaze.
"So" Both Levi and Sam said at the same time.
"You go first" Levi said.
"No...why don't you." Sam said trying to put it off for ass long as possible.
"Well, I got a new job." He said slowly.
"That's great" Sam said quickly before he continued talking.
"What's greater is the fact that its in Charleston. I actually moved last week and just didn't want to tell you yet until I got settled in. So hopefully this means I can see you more often."
"Yeah," She said looking down "Actually, now onto what I have to say. I found out something the day I called you...Andy found out some new information on Rebecca...and well you." He just looked at her confused. "You have a son." She paused "He is about five years old, and is currently in a children's residential home. His name is Dylan James Walker."
Levi just stared at Sam for a minute before clearing his throat "Can I see him?"
"Well that's the other thing" I said talking for Sam "Nathan and I...well once he gets to get to know us a little better we wanted to adopt him. But we didn't know since you didn't even know about him...well if you wanted custody."
He shook his head "This is the best place in the world for him, I'm not cut out for parenthood and I have seen how great of parents you and Nathan are and I couldn't deprive you of that. I will do anything you need from me to ensure that he lives here, as long as I can see him every know and then."
"Absolutely." Nathan said quickly.
"I mean right away we probably wont explain to him that you are his actual father because that would confuse him but I would never deny you the rights to see him or Sam. I just don't want Rebecca anywhere near him." I said as he only nodded in understanding.
"And I completely understand that. I have to leave tomorrow morning to get back to work because I could only take a day off but maybe once he is settled in here I could come back and visit."
"Of course, whatever you want to do."
"So Dylan can I ask you a question?" I said squatting down in front of him he only nodded. We had hung out with him everyday for almost a week and a half now and he especially bonded with Nathan. He made him play basketball with him everyday. "How would you feel about coming to live with us?"
"Would Nathan live with us too?" He questioned, his brown eyes twinkling.
"Yes buddy he would."
"That would be so rad!" He said jumping in excitement. I could hear Nathan chuckling behind me.
"It would?" I asked.
"Yeah like super cool."
"Good, I'm glad buddy."
"When are we gonna go?"
"Well Nathan and I have to sign some papers but then we can go."
"Does this mean your like my momma then?" The smart little boy in front of me asked.
"I'm gonna be your momma now buddy,"
"Will I have to come back here again, because every time someone takes me away I always end up here after. I don't like it here" A few tears glistened in my eyes as I only looked at the scarred little boy "No you can live with Nathan and I for as long as you want. C'mere" I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him in for a soft hug. I ran my fingers threw his hair as I could only look to Nathan who gave me a sad smile.
He then pulled away and ran to stand in front of Nathan "When we get to your house can we play basketball!" He asked thrilled.
"Maybe" Nathan chuckled picking him up and following Bevin to an office to fill out all the legal paperwork before we took him home.
*Later In the week*
"Hey baby" Nathan greeted me at five o'clock that night. He kept to his word and was home at five every night on the dot. Things were slowly but surely getting back to somewhat normal. "How was your day."
I just looked at him "Crazy" He began to laugh.
"Ughh" Nathan groaned plopping down on the couch next to me. Then he just looked at me.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" I asked.
"No I was just looking at you." He chuckled "I love you, you know that."
"I love you more." I whispered as I moved my face closer to his.
"Not possible" He whispered back putting his finger under my chin moving our lips closer together until they were just about to touch.
Then their was a screaming coming from upstairs, he sighed as we pulled apart and listened "Dylan what did you do to my room! Where are my cds!" Sam yelled before I heard running. "Oh you better run Dylan, MOM! DAD! Dylan colored on all my cds!"
"Momma, Daddy, save me from Scarrrryyyy Sammy" Dylan said coming tumbling down the stairs then launching himself into my arms.
"What did you call me!" She yelled coming down the stairs after him. Then through all the commotion I slowly but surely heard each of the babies start to cry from being woken up.
"Woah Sam, take your corner and calm down for a minute." I told her as she sat on the last stair glaring at Dylan "I can handle these two rascals Nathan, you get the triplets."
He only looked at me "What did we get ourselves into, we are so in over our heads." He said as I laughed and we headed our separate ways to handle the task at hand.