CHAPTER 2

AN: LIKE I SAID, REREAD THIS!

I wake up and before I open my eyes I feel like I'm in my own bed at home. Although, that's not my home anymore. Today Abby said a social worker is coming to talk to me. I don't know what I want to do. I don't want to leave the hospital. I think the lady's name is Chantal or Cheri or something like that. Not that it matters anyways, I don't want to see her. I already tried to get Dr. Carter to send her away. He wouldn't do it. Instead Abby is going to sit through the whole thing with me.

Her name is Cheri. When Cheri arrived I didn't want to talk about anything. All I wanted to do was go home to my house. But that was what I had to talk about, it's not my house anymore. Cheri told me that I needed to decided what I needed to keep from the house and the rest of it would be sold. My parents did have a Will, but it didn't leave me anything like the house so it all belonged to the state now.

The only thing I have I some money, which is all in accounts. Cheri didn't want to get my hopes up so she just told me that at my age there was a very small chance that I would be adopted and instead I would probably be going from foster home to foster home until I was eighteen. If Abby hadn't have been there the whole time I don't know what I would have done.

Cheri said that the house needed to be taken care of and so I would probably never get to go back before the sale. That meant that I needed to decide what I wanted to keep. My mind went immediately to Murphy. She was our new, nine month old black lab puppy. She was so cute! I loved her to pieces. And in that moment I realized I couldn't loose her. Murphy was the only piece of family I still had alive. There was no one else that I could count on. I needed that dog. Cheri said that I couldn't take her with me to foster care and that they would need to give her to a shelter. I couldn't hold back the tears any longer. I needed that dog. Abby gave my hand one more squeeze and left the room to talk with a silent Carter who was waiting outside.

She came back after a short conference and said that she and Dr. Carter would adopt Murphy if I thought that it would be all right. In that moment, it was exactly what I needed and I hugged Abby. I think she was surprised with my sudden display of affection because it took her a second to respond to the hug. Behind her I could see Carter watching us, well really her, He was the audience for a few more seconds before Chuny grabbed him for an incoming MVA.

Murphy was taken care of and from then on I knew that I would always be able to trust Abby and Carter. I had lost my family and my life in one day. Now, things were barely starting to come together. But they were starting. Then Cheri said something that can't be true...it just can't.

"Molly, sweetie. These papers were found with your parent's Will."

I looked at her. "What?"

"Here." Cheri handed me a bunch of papers. Included were my birth certificate and a few other things.

"I'm confused." I put the papers down on the bed and Abby picked them up.

"Oh my god." Abby's voice fell into a whisper.

"What, you're scaring me."

"It's fine honey." Abby was trying to comfort me. "It's just that according to these papers, your parents adopted you."

REVIEW RESPONSES

Caitlin015-I'm planning on it. ;-)

Kattybaby2318-I am continuing. I love your stories and thank you for reading mine! Ps. I switched my review settings, anonymous people can now review.

Charley-thank you. I plan to keep going. I haven't figured out if there will be any chapters from Abby or Carter's POV, but if other people have opinions on that matter I am open.