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Summery: An abused boy meets the Camden kids. This is before the twins were born and Simon and Ruthie were little.
Finding A Home
Jesse Miller looked around to make sure that there was nobody looking to see what he was doing. He ran to the dumpster to find out if there was any edible food he could eat. He lifted the lid and started to take something out where there was a noise behind him, dropping the food into the garbage and turning to see whom it was.
"Are you okay?"
Jesse looked at the two children and wondered if they were like him.
"I'm fine. Who are you?"
"My name is Simon and this is my little sister Ruthie. We were shopping for Christmas and we saw you."
"Oh."
"Why don't you come with us? You can get some food at our house."
"What about your dad because he'll see me."
"We'll hide you in our room."
"I can't go back to my family."
"We won't tell them."
Jesse followed Simon and Ruthie into the house, but before they did that Ruthie went ahead to see if their parents were home. Seeing nobody there they took Jesse up to Simon's room.
The next day Mary got curious why Simon and Ruthie were taking food up to Simon's room, so she barged into his room. Seeing the startled children in the room she looked at the young boy who had a cookie halfway to his mouth.
"Simon, who's this?"
"His name is Jesse and he ran away from his parents. You can't tell Mom and Dad."
"He needs to be with his Mom and Dad, Simon. We have to tell Mom and Dad."
"No, I won't go back there. Never again."
"Why not Jesse?"
"My parents weren't very nice. I couldn't stay there anymore, so I ran away."
"I won't make any promises, okay."
Mary went to her room and thought about it. There was no way that she couldn't tell her parents, so she went downstairs.
"Mom, Dad I have to tell something. It's not about me. Simon and Ruthie have been hiding a boy upstairs. From what he told me he was abused by his parents."
They all went upstairs to see the three children playing a game.
A year later.
Jesse Miller was had been a ward of the court for a month. His parents didn't want him anymore after he ran away and all custody rights were given to the government. A nice family had adopted him and his last name was no Thompson.
Jesse and his new family stopped the car in front of the Camden's house and walked up the driveway to the house. They rang the doorbell and waited for it to wait. Jesse wanted to thank them for finding him a good home. He had been a foster child in the Thompson's house for a while until Keith and Megan Thompson put in an application to adopt him and they got to do just that.
The door opened and there stood Mr. and Mrs. Camden.
"Hi. Mr. and Mrs. Camden."
"Hello Jesse. Please come in."
Mary, Simon and Ruthie had just come down the stairs when they heard the doorbell rang.
"Jesse." Simon said.
"Hi. Simon."
"I wanted to thank all of you for what you did for me. I found a wonderful home now."
"Your Welcome, but we really didn't do that much."
They talked some more and then they left. Jesse was going back home. He was smiling because he finally found a home. A home that he could be safe in and be loved.
The End