4 Years ago
Izzy
"We are done Mum absolutely done." Hanna yelled at her.
"What? Then your leaving?"
"Yeah we are leaving." She said. "You only care about yourself. Our Dad's don't even know we exist."
"That's better off." She yelled at Sadie. "So, what you're going to find him?"
"No! We are not leaving to find Daddy dearest we are going to get a life. Maybe you'll get Essie and Izzy right."
"Everything that happens it's never your fault and it's always on us and I'm done.
Essie and I sat on the stairs listening to our older sisters screaming at our Mum.
"You will never ever see the girls again."
"Well um… you can't stop a card coming through the post." Sadie said.
Present
There was a knock on the front door. Essie and I were playing in our room, I was drawing and Essie was playing with some trains.
We heard a big crash and bang. We ran to the stairs and saw a guy fighting our Mum, she was throwing him around the room without our hands.
"Izzy!"
"I know Es." I told her.
Mum ran upstairs quickly.
"Okay. Okay. We're going to play hide and seek yeah. So, get in the cupboard and you've got to be quiet. I love you." She kissed the top of our heads.
"Mommy where are you going?" Essie said.
"It's going to be okay." There was another crash and bang.
We heard more banging from downstairs as we were running our cars up and down the wall.
We fell asleep in the cupboard. Essie was lying on my stomach my stomach.
We woke up as a cupboard.
"They're here." A woman yelled.
"Come with me." She said.
"Mummy told us to stay here."
"Well Mommy told me to come get you." A guy came over and picked me up as the woman picked Essie up.
They talked into the radio. "Ever seen a cop car." I shook my head.
"We found them, send social services."
We were sitting in the front as he showed us all the buttons. "When's our Mommy coming back?" Essie said.
"Honey, your Mommy was in an accident she died."
"Yeah but, where is she?"
Jo
I pulled outside a house with cop cars and tap around the house.
"Social services." I held my car up.
"Twins, four or five years old. They are with my partner, they've been in a cupboard I'd say 1 or 2 days comparing to the state of the Mum's body. I think they were hiding from the man."
"Are you going to try to keep them together?"
"A lot of family takes on twins. They're the same age." I told her. "We'll look for other family first."
"Hi girls." I said.
"You found our Mommy?" I looked at another cop.
"No sweetheart, we need to go somewhere." They both climbed out of the car and got into my car.
The two girls climbed the steps to the nearest foster home. They held onto each other and walked to a table of crayons.
I walked into the office and started a file up for them.
"I already started their file up. They have two others sisters. Twins. Must be a gene pool of twins."
"Where'd do they live?"
"Both in New York. They are 21 moved about 4 years ago."
I was flipping threw the file. "They left home young."
"So maybe they are their best shot. There's no Dad, on record." She said.
Hanna
I was sitting on the sofa watching the TV with a pot of ice cream, the doorbell rang.
"If that's the guy next door…" I mumbled.
"Hanna Michaelson?" A woman said.
"Yes, that's me." I said as a woman stood on my doorsteps.
"Can I come in?"
"Sure." We both sat at the table.
"Unfortunately, 3 days ago your Mum passed."
"Sorry?"
"She passed away. I am very sorry." She said.
"We weren't close." I told her. "Wait, where are my sisters?"
"We had to take them into the foster care, I am here because you and your sister are the only family they have. There father was not listed…"
"Mum, tried to ignore both of our fathers."
"We will have to put the girls into the foster system."
"What? You can't do that!"
"We have to, unless you or sister claim responsibility for them both." She said.
"Of course, I will. You need to come Seattle, do some paperwork and get them."
"Okay. I'll book a ticket and come straight away." The woman grabbed her bag and folder, she walked to the front door and walked down the steps of my apartment building. I pulled my phone out.
"Hey Han." Sadie said.
"Mum's dead."
"Oh…" She said.
"I'm not hung up over that, they've put the twins in foster care."
"What! You need to get them out of there."
"I know that! The only way I can get them out is to take responsibility for them."
"Alright we'll go to Seattle and get them.
Sadie and I walked up the steps of a building.
"Ugh this place is rank." Sadie whispered as Jaz was on her hip.
"Hi Jo." A woman shook my hand.
"This is my sister Sadie and her daughter." I said to her and she shook her hand.
"So, you want to see your sisters first or the paperwork." Jo said.
"You go do the paperwork." Sadie said to me.
"Thanks Sad's." I said.
Sadie
I looked around the room.
I followed the woman. "They're very quiet."
"Girls, your sisters are here."
"They won't know who we are." I told the woman. "Our relationship with our mother isn't the best."
"This is Sadie. You're going to go home with them…." She said. "They don't speak only to one another." She said to me.
"Come on girls." Jo said. The two of them stood up and walked towards me but stop.
"Okay then." I said. We walked out the room and was met with Hanna.
"You ready?" Hanna said.
"They don't speak." I whispered.
"Alright then. Thanks for everything Jo." Hanna said. The girls were holding each other hands.
The girls followed us to the car.
"So we're going to go to the car and then onto a plane.