~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Emma's House~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

 I found that they all had known each other since grade 6. They were now in grade 9 and were looking forward to starting school back and getting back to work. I never knew many people back in America that cared that much about school. Usually the other people in my class were just trying to pass so that they could get out of school and work at McDonalds for minimum wage for 20 then wake up and realize that the job their at is not going anywhere. Here it was weird to see people looking forward to school. Then Craig and Sean walked in. Sean sat down beside Em and they snuggled in together. Craig sat beside me and said in my ear "You wana go into the other room so that we can get to know each other?"

"Sure, I was about to ask you to do the same and I still have a lot of unpacking to do." I said quietly. We stood up and headed up to my room quickly when no one was looking. When we got up to my room he said to me "So this is your family?" after he looked at my Disney picture.

"Yeah they use to be, that is my mom, father, and my sister Stephe." I said pointing to the certain people "It's kind of hard to talk about them."

"You called your dad your father; did he do something to you? Can you tell me, don't tell me if you don't feel comfortable with Me." he asked his gorgeous brown eyes showing concern and unconditional trust.

"He just abandoned me to the state of Texas." Then I proceeded to tell him my story. When I was done I was again crying he moved over to me and I moved into his arms that were open to me. He held me close in a tender embrace stroking my hair and saying calming things softly into me ear. When I calmed down I sat down on my bed and he said "We have something in common, both of our fathers couldn't take care of us with out our mothers. My mother left my father the surgeon for a used car salesmen and he took the anger he felt for her out on me. He beat me really bad. Now I live with my little sister and my step-dad. You want to go see my little sister for some reason I fell like you enjoy children."

"I adore children I use to work in my mom's daycare." So then we got up and we walked the 5 minutes to his house.