(A/N): Happy Halloween! Sorry for the wait, I have been a little busy and also sorry for this short chapter. I promise the next one will be longer! X)
It was about an 85% chance I was going to leave Little Wonders. I thought my idea-well, Thor's idea would have been a little quieter. Though, it's Thor, so it probably won't. The owner and I went deeper into the room, stepping on all sorts of toys to choose from. There were candy wrappers everywhere, drool, and broken crayons. I was beginning to feel overwhelmed with their power.
So, these little people come out a woman after nine months? Why on the streets when they are with their parents they seem so innocent? I thought as I scrunched my nose after smelling a soiled diaper somewhere.
The owner turned around to face me. "Alright, you can choose now if you like." She shouted with a smile as she held her clipboard against her chest.
I began to look. There were about twenty kids in the room and I was only choosing one. It was stressful. It was the same feeling when I enter a club and choose between the women. I continued to walk a little more ahead and left the owner behind as she watched me. As I walked, I noticed two kids, a boy and a girl, sitting beside a small bed only a toddler could fit in. They were playing with a toy about farm animals, laughing and giggling at the music the toy played. I continued to watch them, crouching down to my knees.
The boy seemed to be maybe one year younger than the girl as he was snuggled up in a blue sweater he couldn't fit perfectly yet. What confused me was his messy, white hair on his small head that perfectly matched his eyes of a mixture of two blue hues: admiral and sky. Could he be sick, I thought as I turned my attention to the girl. She had the biggest smile on her face as she pressed another button on the toy. Her cerulean colored eyes glittered with excitement while her porcelain colored hair was braided over her left shoulder. I'm assuming she was into princesses since she was wearing a blue dress with a cape that reached her ankles.
"You must like the two over there, Mr. Odinson?" The owner asked as I heard her walk up beside me. I slightly shuttered after hearing her say my last name.
"…What are their names?"
"The boy's name is Jackson, but everyone calls him "Jack". The girl's name is Elsa."
I had realized after I asked for the two kids' names, I knew I was going to choose between them, but both were worth it to take home. I thought it would have been best if I had taken Jack since he was a little different than the kids around him.
"Why does Jack have white hair?" I asked while rising back to my height.
"He was born with the white hair. His parents didn't know why since they both were brunettes. Though, the doctors have checked him and said he was completely healthy. Maybe he's albino, but the doctors would have recognized it."
I glanced at the owner as she watched Elsa and Jack. So, I did the same and finally came to my decision.
"…I would like to adopt Jack."
Suddenly, there was a pause between us. I glanced at her again, now finding her looking at me. "I'm sorry," The owner begins to say. "Jack and Elsa come as a package. For some reason, they do not want to separate."
"What do you mean?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, it's a long story if you have the time."
I continued to stare at her as if she was kidding, but she looked to be a serious. "Alright, tell me."
"Well, we'll begin with Jack…"
Jack was abandoned by his parents during his few months of being out of the womb. We don't have his exact birthday, but we do know it's sometime in the winter, so we made his birthday the first day of the winter season. He was left in the woods and a camper had found him crying on a frozen lake in a basket. Luckily for the camper, he had found a long enough branch to grab Jack. The camper came to Little Wonders with Jack in a blanket and left him there since he already had enough kids to take care of. The police still haven't found his parents.
Elsa was only four when her and her family went on a cruise. The ship had bumped a rock and began to sink. Her parents went down with the ship since there were no more boats and allowed someone to grab her and her younger sister, Anna. Because of the tragedy, Anna fell into a coma at the age of three from having such a bad memory. It has been two years since Anna fell asleep while Elsa was taken to Little Wonders.
After staying at Little Wonders for a few months, Jack and Elsa met. They never leave one another's side and always played together alone. Elsa had begged that if someone adopts her, Jack is coming with her or vice versa. We had problems before when they would find their ways out of the orphanage to be with each other if the staff tried their hardest to keep them apart, but it never works. So, we are following their wish for now on.
"So, are you willing to adopt both, or would you like to see the other children?" The owner asked.
I was tongue-tied. Both of their stories were tragic, but I knew I couldn't take care of them both, but then I realized that I was taking this adoption seriously. I was supposed to be only adopting a child to get over myself being lonely. So, I chose the most stupid, but smartest idea I could ever have:
"…I would like to adopt both of them." I answered with a grin.
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