The two of them had been packed and ready for this day since the day the had gotten the phone call six months ago.
"The plane doesn't leave for another three and half hours!" She yelled back.
She began to head down the stairs, but soon stop before rushing back to the bathroom to empty the contents of a nervous stomach.
As she finally came down the stairs Jake wrapped a comforting arm around her waist.
"Are you sure you're okay? I've never seen you this nervous."
Peyton just smiled and nodded.
"Mom! Dad! Come on we've got to go...now." Jenny came in through the open front door, having already dropped her luggage off with Lucas, who was driving them to the airport.
Peyton laughed, "Look like somebody takes after her father."
The ride to the airport was thiry minutes full of an anxious Jenny, nervous Peyton, weather reports, and an army of potholes.
As they sat waiting for the announcement that their flight would be leaving Peyton went through the everything again.
"Denver to New York to Frankfurt to China, get the luggage, meet the rep..."
"Mom? Why do we have to go to Denver before New York, shouldn't we have gone straight to New York? Or why don't we go from California? It's closer isn't it."
"This way was cheaper."
"That's suppossed to make sense...how?"
Jake leaned over, "It's not."
"Flight 3342 to Denver with continuing service to New York...now boarding..."
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"Where's Jenny? What's that suppossed to say?"
"I'm right here and that says 'Baggage Claim'"
"How do you know that?"
"'Cos I can read English."
Peyton looked at the sign again, to find that it was in fact written in English. Her nerves were getting the better of her. Speaking of nerves, she located the nearest bathroom and made her way to empty the contents of her nervous stomach...again.
When she made her way back out, Jenny and Jake where standing next to a young woman.
"I found her." Jake stated proudly as the woman stepped forward.
"Mrs. Jagielski, I'm Jesse, I'll be your representative while your here. You are the first to arrive, we just have to wait for the other three couples.
Soon they were joined by Elise and Roger from New York City, followed by Katie and Ty from Sante Fe; both couples were about the same age as Peyton and Jake. The last couple arrived nearly an hour after the Jagielskis had arrived, the two, Adam and Kara, were in their mid forties. With them they brought their twelve year old, Milo, with whom Jenny found a friend.
Jesse ushered the eight to a moderately old bus and on their way to the hotel she explained what would be happening.
"Right now, we'll be going to the hotel to give you all a chance to recover from your flights. Then tomorrow you'll get to meet the children. You'll be able to spend an hour and a half with them. Then on Monday we'll finish all the paperwork, get everything finalized, and on Wednesday their officially yours. After that I'll show around the country so that you know the place your children come from. While your here, I ask that you don't wander anywhere without me, for your safety."
With that Jesse sat down and the couples fell into conversation.
"We're getting two." Kara said, proudly pulling out two pictures.
"She'll be a year old in a week, she was abandoned in an alley way infront of the orphanage. And he's four years old, they said he lost his arm in a farming accident."
Peyton, Katie and Elise all pulled out their pictures, all worn out around the edges from all the times they had pulled out and looked at.
"Rog, wasn't too sure about coming over here. We had always talked about adoption, but we didn't even consider a forgein adoption, much less China until his co-worker mentioned."
"How long is always for you two?" Peyton asked.
"We got married two years ago. How about you?"
"Jake and I have been married seven years as of last week."
"Congratulations." Katie said, "You want to know the weirdest thing, my mother bought two of your paitings at Christmas last year for my sister, she's a fan of your work."
"Thanks."
The bus finally arrived at the building that was crammed on the street among numerous other hotels and bussinesses. The four couples were all put on the same floor; the Jagielski next to Roger and Elise with the other two directly across.
"Mom? Can we go to the pool?" Jenny asked as they began to unpack.
"Sure, why don't you see if Milo wants to go too."
"Can we go now?" Jenny returned with Kara and a prepared Milo standing behind her.
"One second." Peyton made a quick stop at the way too small restroom.
"You okay, dear?" Kara asked as the made the way to pool.
"Yeah, I've just been so nervous, with all this excitement, I can't hold anything down."
"Are you sure it's just nerves?"
"Yeah, that's all it could be."
Author's Notes:
I'm finishing up this story...I'm posting all three final chapters, and if there are any big questions I'll come back and answer.. I'm winding down and finishing all of my One Tree Hill fics to focus on my Wicked and Rent fics. So, if you read any of my other stuff, and are waiting for an update know that it will be up soon...I'm working on them in alphabetical order...so, any how I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Oh...if you are waiting for an update for a story and you don't see an update withing the next two weeks check my profile page to make sure it hasn't already been listed as complete.
OneTreeHillGirl: So it wasn't very soon but I hope you're still reading.
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Michelsita: Glad you love it...Just wait and see.
hilaryhilary: Good to hear and Thanks for the spelling tip.
ReaderO7: Had to speed it up a bit...and Thanks.
on to chapter 6