2 days later
"boo bear why are you distressed" asks CeeCee as Sarah looks around at everyone yet seems fixated on Shane
"she's staring at me" says Shane as he backs away and Sarah moves towards him
"she's really not in a speaking mood is she" asks Tori
"she got her new bed yesterday and we had some fun in it and she hasn't spoken since, she seemed to really enjoy my touch so I don't know what's going on" says CeeCee as Sarah scans Shane up and down
"this is kinda weird" says Shane
"have you ever actually introduced yourself to her" asks Cat as Sarah attempts to signal Shane to put his arms out as if to catch her
"I think she connected the dots, babe she wants you to catch her" says Trina
"I don't understand, she said three weeks" says Shane as he puts his arms out to catch Sarah as she jumps into his arms and nuzzles him
"Andrea said three weeks till she felt comfortable in this house, not three weeks till she realized who you were Shane Gray, geez I swear Andrea made that quite clear" says Tess as Sarah falls asleep in Shane's arms
"ok it's nap time for Sarah" says Shane as he rocks her back and forth as he takes her to her bed and returns
"I don't think you realize what you just did Shane, she does NOT fall asleep like that, I was sexual with her for FOUR hours with only a half hour break and I dosed off to sleep and she was up for ANOTHER four hours before she fell asleep SHANE, there is NO possible way you could have put her to sleep so easily, her sister confirmed she barely sleeps when I texted her this morning, oh Shane if you don't intend to cuddle her till she's in a deep sleep she won't fully sleep, she said as much last night, someone needs to be cuddling her in bed" says CeeCee
"ooh can I" asks Josie innocently
"no you may not" says CeeCee
"aww why not, she's friendly" pouts Josie
"how friendly exactly" asks Tess afraid of the answer
"like Dani and Samantha and Lucy, she likes pillow fights and playing dolls and blanket burritos" says Josie scared now she did something wrong
"ok fine josie you may cuddle with her, I need to call her sister" says CeeCee as Josie runs in to cuddle with Sarah as CeeCee calls Andrea
"did you have to call me now CeeCee, I just got to work" asks Andrea annoyed
"yes, Sarah was speaking fine last night, her and I played around and she hasn't spoken today, oh also she connected the dots and figured out who Shane was and made him catch her as she jumped into his arms and almost immediately fell asleep" says CeeCee
"oh my god she mimics, I forgot to mention that, who has she interacted with besides you CeeCee" asks Andrea
"Josie and possibly Dani, Samantha and Lucy, Josie said Sarah was friendly and liked pillow fights, playing with dolls and blanket burritos" says CeeCee
"ok I don't know why I never thought about doing that, Josie is a GENIUS" says Andrea
"I don't understand" says CeeCee confused
"Sarah may have aged sexually and physically but mentally she really can be like a child sometimes, before we were kidnapped our teacher asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up, I said doctor and Sarah said Daycare worker" says Andrea
"what does my daughter have to do with this, and what about the whole Shane thing" asks Tess
"Sarah is like a living time capsule, Josie cracked the code to unlock it, unfortunately it would also mean that she's in overload mode which causes her to mimic, even if it means mimicking her delirious state which is when she would have connected the dots, it would confuse her but she would also act on instinct, the three week thing will no longer apply" says Andrea
"how do we get her to talk again" asks Shane
"either overload her sexually or overload her with kids" says Andrea
"is the first one legal, she can't give verbal consent" asks Tess
"that's not her decision to make, trust me I know my sister, you said she jumped into Shane's arms, she was indicating just what she wanted just fine, the sexual overload would be the quickest route and ironically should most definitely now include Shane, Jennie wasn't her choice, Sarah had only just barely moved in with me and I'd found out my boyfriend had cheated on me at the same time and I kicked him out, but before he left he decided to 'make love to' Sarah who was still in her delirious state so she didn't truly understand what was going on, he'd managed to convince her that he loved her and was giving her a present, she spent the whole nine months saying that he loved her and that he's be back to raise his daughter with her, the difference here is she made the conscious choice to jump into Shane's arms which by the way means that when she is ready to have a kid on her terms she wants it to be
Shane's, now I seriously have to get to work and please dear god never make me talk about my sister's sexual life again, just the fact that she made me watch her play with herself to completion and that I had to see her naked to do it actually makes me sick to my stomach" says Andrea as she ends the call
"ok what do you think Josie is doing while cuddling Sarah, Josie seems to HAVE to be doing something with her hands" asks Cat
"knowing her probably braiding Sarah's hair, she has a thing for hair" says Tess
"oh you have no idea how accurate that is Tess, Josie is literally the reason why Nate, Jason and I grew out our hair, our hair used to be so short she'd put extensions in it so she could braid our hair" says Shane
"ok I'd have killed to see that" giggles Trina
"wait you never fully answered why you always visited Josie" says Jade
"uncle Browne was all about making music and making it fun but if you wanted to listen to music of artists long dead Aunt Hannah's apartment was the place to be, she rented two apartments, one where she lived and the other was her record museum, the building super wasn't happy about it at first but then he realized how it paid for itself, Aunt Hannah made good money but not enough to buy a house, she had some really good records man" says Shane
"ok so Cat said she got some disturbing information from Josie the other day and needs to talk about it" says Tori as Shane sighs
"Shane why didn't you tell me Josie had an older sister" asks Cat
"the main word there being HAD Cat as in the past, her name was Gabriella, she was twelve and fancied herself an electric scientist, meaning she broke all safety rules and often blamed Josie when something caught fire" says Shane
"are you saying what I think you're saying" asks Tess
"yes though in all honesty it was caused by Gabriella actually caring about Josie for once and making her a nightlight, Josie almost never slept in her bedroom because it was too dark, Gabriella accidentally caused a short in the nightlight, oh I should mention they had a cat which honestly Josie hated but Gabriella loved to bits, after the fire started and everyone was outside, Gabriella went back in for the cat, she didn't trust the firefighters to get the cat, Josie stayed outside, when Gabriella didn't immediately come back out as the building was really on fire by this point both parents went in for her and never made it out and yes by the way two days ago was the third anniversary of the fire and in four days is the third anniversary of her rape" says Shane
"so wait she believes she killed her family" asks Tess
"yes, Gabriella really hard wired the guilt into Josie, it didn't matter what experiment Gabriella was running, any mistakes or problems were always Josie's fault, which actually led to the rapist taking advantage of the guilt she felt, honestly I never should have left her that day, I was headed to dinner with Browne that night, he was In town for some reason, a date maybe I don't remember what his reason was, all I remember is getting back in my car and hearing that an eight year old girl was missing from the scene of an apartment fire, I didn't have the heart to search for her, then five days later that she was found in a ditch with no underwear and a ripped dress by a homeless man, I searched the homeless villages for two weeks, as far as the police cared Josie was dead so they wouldn't help me find her, I'd given up hope of ever seeing her again" cries Shane as Josie walks over
"unkie there was nothing you could do, it wasn't your fault, unkie bwone says to stop hating you self for it" says Josie
"uncle Browne is dead Josie" says Shane
"no he right der, he have his hand on you showder, you not see him" asks Josie
"no I can't Josie, please don't bring him up please" says Shane as Sarah walks over staring at his shoulder
"uhhh Shane do you believe in the paranormal, you know like spirits and ghosts and stuff" asks Tess shocked as what she sees
"I've never had a reason to why" asks Shane
"then whatever you do don't look into their eyes" says Tess as Mitchie's jaw drops
"what do you see" asks Shane
"Browne, in the reflection of Sarah's glasses with his right hand on your shoulder, you know like he always used to do, I can't explain it but the tension in the room dropped off dramatically just now" says Mitchie as Josie and Sarah drop to the floor
"what just happened" asks Tori
"I think I know, my grandma believed in spirits, she would have called what happened a seer message, they won't remember any of this" says Tori
"what do you mean" asks Tess
"Josie is a seer, she can communicate with spirits, if you think she has invisible friends think again, Shane was feeling a lot of guilt for not saving Josie that day, Browne sent a message to Josie to make Shane realize he couldn't have possibly done anything and that as cruel as it might sound was God's plan for Josie so she could end up with Tess" says Tori
"how do you know all this" asks Shane
"because Jenna had the same gift, the ability to speak to live one's who have passed on, in Puerto Rican culture you can politely ask for the gift to be silenced, Jenna was having a lot of problems, it would happen everywhere, especially at the doctors, it convinced her doctor at the time that she was schizophrenic" says Tori
"does it cause any harm to them" asks Shane worriedly picking up Josie and rocking her
"not in the slightest, if anything it helps them, now I suggest you hand Josie over to Tess and pick up Sarah" says Tori as Shane trusts Tori and does so
"I trust you but I don't understand why" says Shane as he rocks Sarah
"because as Andrea mentioned she loves you, however I'm certain she doesn't believe you would ever love her, Tess is easily a ten, Trina isn't far behind that and I have a feeling she feels like she doesn't even qualify for the scale" says Tori
"in my eyes sis if anything Sarah is an eleven, if she doesn't think she qualifies would that explain why she wouldn't think CeeCee would love her when she arrived" asks Trina
"that's exactly what I think, Shane do you love her" says Tori
"I mean she is really beautiful but I don't know enough about her personality, I think I could love her though" says Shane
"she's bubbly and honestly really fun to be around" says Lucy
"Shane you have to understand something, she's like a mix between me and Tess with a bit of Trina sass, and that was all before the overload so it wasn't mimicry, trust me you love her Shane" says CeeCee
"ok Shane think about it for a few minutes while you rock her back and forth, I have a simple way to overload her" says Tori
"that's not as easy as you think Tori, even if I did enjoy every minute of it" retorts CeeCee
"oh I'm not planning on using Andrea's methods, I'm planning on exploiting her seer gift, she has the gift of seer projection so she can project what she sees onto glass surfaces" says Tori
"huh" asks Shane confused
"Shane if you love her whisper that in her ear, if I've learned anything from having the seer gift it's that we have exceptional imaginations, Sarah wants to be a part of the broader relationship not an exclusivity, even the hint of a broader acceptance of love will cause her imagination to race with thoughts and pictures of the love she can experience from three girls and a guy, it will overload the overload condition, her heart will race, her breathing will quicken, once that happens you just have to wait for her to wake up, I may not understand polyamory but I respect people who don't get jealous IN said relationships because it can't be easy" says Jenna