A/N: Wow 25 chapters! Thank you to everyone who has been reading and reviewing this fic! I probably wouldn't have gotten this far without the support I've received.
Tegan's POV
One day soon after we adopted Joseph as I was cleaning out Sara and I's closet, I found a notebook that did not belong to me. I decided to snoop a little and I found it filled with Sara's handwriting and pieces of printed out sheet music.
"Sara!" I called out into our apartment.
"Yes?" Her voice came before she entered the room.
"Is this yours?" I asked.
"Ohh... Umm. Yes." She stammered out before reaching out to grab it.
"I looked through it. Sorry. But its music right? You wrote it?"
"Yeah, I wrote all of it." She told me.
"Well can you play me something? Please." I asked giving her my best puppy dog look.
"I don't know…"
"Awwe, C'mon Sare. Just one song? I know you can sing. I hear you in the shower everyday." I begged her.
"Okay, Okay." She said grabbing a guitar from a corner in our room. She played me my promised song and Joseph had wandered into our bedroom, staring at Sara in awe, as was I.
"She's pretty good, don't ya think Joey?" I asked the young man using the nickname I had assigned him.
"Yeah. That was amazing." He said. "Play us another?" Joseph asked and we tag teamed the puppy dogface.
"Okay but only if you two stop with the face." Joseph and I high-fived and waited for Sara to begin her next song. When she had finished we were both mesmerized.
"Okay it's decided I'm not making another album unless you join me as a duo." I stated.
"Tegan! You cant do that!" She told me.
"Oh but I can. I can refuse to make any music until you join me."
"But I'm a teacher! I have to finish the school year. And did you forget about the 16-year-old sitting next to you? He has another year of school."
"Okay so we wait until you guys finish the school year and you teach him while we tour. Its one school year." I said.
"Tee. It's not that easy. You can't just make these decisions for the whole family. Did you even ask Joseph how he feels about this?"
"Actually I wouldn't mind that. I could study with you for my last year of school and I could help with setting up the stage and selling merch." Joseph stated.
"See." I said trying to convince Sara. She sighed and shook her head.
"I'll think about it guys."
"Yes!" Joseph and I shouted in unison and high-fived.
"Hey that wasn't a yes!"
"But it wasn't a no." I countered.
"You're such a child Tegan." Sara told me.
"Oh really? I don't think children do this." I said before kissing her neck and sucking on the soft porcelain skin there.
"Okay, gross. I'm leaving now." Joseph said gagging, Sara and I just laughed as he left the room in a melodramatic way.
"Drama Queen!" I called out to him.
"That's Mr. Drama Queen to you!" Was his reply.
"I'm glad you two get along so well." Sara told me petting my hair.
"I know. Our personalities just mix." I said relaxing into her embrace.
"So his sister, Jenna, wants to visit him, and us soon." Sara told me.
"That'd be cool. I know she's busy with school and all in Montreal, so she doesn't have much time to visit her little brother."
"Yeah. She said she also wanted to thank us for adopting Joseph, she knew about the abuse but didn't report anything out of fear and she wanted to take him with her but she wouldn't be able to financially support both of them in Montreal so she had no choice but to leave him behind." She explained to me. I could only nod my head. I had no response to that statement. I knew how lonely it could be to lose parents, but to think about being neglected and abused, and then the one person you trust leaving you. It hurt me deeply; Joseph was an amazing person though despite the hardships he has had to face. He was always polite and kind to everyone he came into contact with, and he was selfless, one of the purest persons I had ever met. I was glad Sara had decided to look after him, and I was glad we became his parents.
