Meeting Zoey's Parents!
So Elliot and Zoey started walking towards the clothes for little girls.
When they were at the food isles, half way to the clothes they heard a pair of voices.
When they turned around they saw Zoey's parents coming towards them.
"Mom? Dad? I've been looking for you." Zoey said as they came up to her and Elliot.
"We were looking for you too sweetie." Suzie, Zoey's mother said.
Elliot noticed that Zoey looked more like her mother then her father.
However, the first thing that Adam, Zoey's father noticed or rather who he noticed was Elliot, and then he noticed Mai sleeping in the back of the cart.
"ZOEY MAY HANSON! WHO IS THIS BOY AND WHY IS THERE A LITTLE GIRL IN THE BACK OF THAT CART?! SHE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE YOU AND THIS BOY! YOU HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO LITTLE MISSY! I THOIUGHT YOU WENT TO ENGLAND WITH MARK! INSTEAD YOU DID THAT WITH SOME BOY THAT I DON'T KNOW! BOY IF YOU EVER TOUCH MY DAUGHTER AGAIN I'M COMING AFTER YOU! INFACT I SHOULD COME AFTER YOU NOW!" Adam yelled causing a scene.
"Adam, hunny you're causing a scene." Suzie said softly.
"I DON'T CARE! THIS BOY VIOLATED MY DAUGTHER! MY BABY GIRL!" Adam yelled infuriated.
"Dad! She's not my daughter, and I did go to England with Mark! This is my boss and that little girl is his daughter!" Zoey yelled back.
"WHAT?!" Adam yelled calming down a bit.
"Yeah…Mai is Elliot's daughter. Another thing, Elliot's my boss, a friend, nothing more, nothing less." Zoey said as her father calmed down more.
"Oh I see, but she looks so much like you. So boy…how old are you, and how olds the girl? Who's the mother?" Adam asked.
"Dad! That's personal!" Zoey cried…
"It's ok Zoey…I'm nineteen, Mai's three, well, she will be on Monday and her mother was Mara Poppie who is not a good person at all. She took advantage of me…it was the sixth anniversary of my parents death and I was really down that day and she got what she wanted, but also what she didn't want. She didn't want Mai at all. Of all the stuff Mara, her sister Amanda and her boyfriend Nate would do to her it's a wonder she's still alive." Elliot said softly.
"What do you mean?" Zoey and her parents asked at the same time.
"Huh? Oh that's right, you don't know. Well, her mom and her mom's boyfriend Nate killed her grandparents in front of her. For punishment they would lock her in a small, dark closet and make scary noises, and then apparently after that they would make her watch various horror movies and porn I do believe. I don't know of any other punishments and I don't want to know. That's no way to punish somebody, especially a little girl." Elliot said only to be taken aback by Zoey and her mother crying, while her dad was getting pissed…again.
"Why would somebody do that to a little girl? That's just terrible!" Suzie cried.
"That's so sad, that explains why she's afraid of people so much." Zoey said softly.
"Those bastards, that's not how to treat someone so innocent." Adam said pissed off.
"Yeah I know, which is why I now have custody of her, I guess." Elliot said as they looked up.
"Yeah that's a good thing. But why are you here? Shouldn't you be getting to know her more?" Suzie and Adam asked.
"The reason for that is when I got custody of her yesterday. Then this morning I found out that the bag of stuff they gave me only had one other outfit, (that doesn't fit) toothbrush and toothpaste. Then the outfit that she was wearing yesterday and the pair of shoes are too small on her. She also only had one stuffed animal, her favorite stuffed animal, Mr. Bear. So basically I'm here to get some things. So far we've gotten her blankets, pillows, movies, CDs, stuffed animals, dolls, books, puzzles and a big ball; our next stops are clothes, shoes and pajamas. So as for getting to know her; I am getting to know her more and more little by little. I'm just going at it slowly, I learned some yesterday and a little today." Elliot said simply.
"Oh we see. I'm sorry I accused you Mr.…uh…" Adam said not knowing Elliot's first or last name going to shake his hand.
"Grant, Elliot Grant." Elliot said shaking Adam's hand.
"Well Mr. Grant, I'm sorry for wrongly accusing you." Adam said.
"It's fine…I'll probably be very protective of Mai like you are to Zoey." Elliot said smiling.
"Yeah, trust me; you'll be really protective of her." Adam said looking at his own daughter.
"So you plan on taking care of her from now on?" Suzie asked softly.
"Yeah, that's the plan, and it's not just because I have to, but rather because I want to." Elliot said calmly.
"Awww! That's so cute! You are so responsible, so grown up!" Suzie squealed in delight.
"Thanks." Elliot said simply, while thinking, 'Wow…I see where Zoey gets it from.'
"She's right you know. Not many teens take on the responsibility of child care." Adam said simply.
"Yeah that's unfortunately true. Most teens don't want to take the responsibility and they deny any part of it." Elliot said calmly.
"Yeah…teens like that are just plain stupid." Adam said annoyed by that fact.
"Yeah… they should be using protection or not at all." Suzie said.
"Yeah and that would be an understatement, half the students at my school are having sex." Zoey said.
"You better not be part of that half young lady." Adam warned dangerously.
"I'm not!" Zoey complained.
"Ok good. Because if you were, you'd better pray that you'll make it to next day and the boy better just run." Adam warned.
"I Know." Zoey said.
"So you said you needed to go get her clothes? Maybe we should go. I'll help you out and so will Zoey." Suzie said softly.
"Right let's get going." Zoey said as he dad followed them closely behind.
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