A/N: I own nothing. Bad author not updating sooner, but I had a busy week so I typed this up just never posterd it. but here it is. I finally got a chance to introduce the other characters instead of Joanne and Maureen.
"Elsie? There are some people who would like to talk to you." Sue said opening the door to a room full of identical beds and small dressers. And in the corner farthest from the door was a fourteen year old girl strumming a guitar on her bed. The walls were painted the same hideous powder blue color that Maureen detested so much.
"I'm going to be blind from all of this blue." Maureen whispered to Joanne
"She doesn't talk much. She just sits here and plays with that silly guitar." Maureen, Joanne, and Sue were all standing across from Elsie next to a glass door.
Elsie's face (from the women's position) was hidden behind a curtain hair. Black streaked through her shoulder length blonde hair covering up her pale blue eyes and nose piercing on her pale skin.
"Ellie?"
"Let me finish my song." She said strumming her guitar "And don't call me Ellie."
"She's a bit anti-social as you can tell. She doesn't get along with the other children." Sue said in a hushed tone
"Why not?" asked Joanne
"She gets into 'disagreements' with the other kids." Sue replied
"I can hear you." Elsie snapped, walking over to the window door "It's not my fault everyone in this place is a freakin' bigot." She exclaimed
"Hey. Watch your language." Scolded Sue "Elsie, these ladies would like to talk to you about adoption."
"Ladies? You guys are lesbians?" asked Elsie turning to face them for the first time revealing her face to the sunlight streaming through the glass door.
"Yeah. You're not gonna freak out on us are you?" Maureen asked smiling. Knowing or at least having a good idea that
"Me? No. The rest of these bigots might crucify you though." She said pretending to choke herself
"Elsie, are you going to cooperate or not?" asked Sue in a stern matter
"I never said I wasn't." She sat back down on her bed "So where are you guys" referring to Sue "shipping me off to now?"
"New York, New York. And you may actually stay there for more than a week; if you behave yourself."
"Like that'll ever happen." Elsie mumbled under her breath
"We still have to-"
"Go through basic procedure. I know. You can leave now." She said waving her hand towards Sue who left the room. "You can sit on my bed; you two must be tired of standing." Elsie said walking up to the glass door.
"Thank you." Joanne said a bit shocked at her sudden change in attitude.
"I may not be the nicest person on earth; but don't say I was never taught manners." She said looking out the door "What are your names again?"
"This is Joanne my girlfriend, and I'm Maureen."
"You guys live in New York City?" Elsie questioned
"Yeah. Alphabet City to be exact."
"Is it nice there?" she asked distantly watching a fly scatter across the glass door
"It's nicer than it used to be. But still Bohemia."
"Sounds nice." She said facing them and letting a strand of hair fall in her face
"So Elsie, you play guitar?" asked Maureen fingering the instrument lying on the bed
"Sort of." She shrugged
"Did someone teach you?" Joanne inquired
"I sort of taught myself." And by that she meant, her old father had taught her before he had died. Pushing her old memories from her mind Elsie dragged herself back to the present. "So what exactly made you two want to adopt?"
"Our friend got pregnant with her husband. I guess it just hit me; how much I want a family I mean." Maureen said
"We're all sort of like an extended family: Us, Roger, Mimi, Angel, Collins, and Mark." Joanne elaborated
"Do they all live with you?"
"No, they share a loft on Avenue A. We have an apartment on Avenue B, not too far from it. We all live in the East Village."
"Alphabet City." Elsie let a small smile grace her lips and an awkward silence filled the room. "So, why?"
"Why what?" asked Joanne
"Me. Why did you choose me? As you can see; my record isn't exactly the best."
"That's the reason though." Explained Joanne "We thought a misunderstood-"
"Doesn't anyone get it? I am NOT misunderstood this is exactly who I am. Today's society will mold you into a copy of the 'perfect' child. That's why I have these streaks" she said running a hand through her hair "and these piercings." She sighed "But I'm really a good person, honestly I am." She said in a quieter voice
"Elsie? We're lesbians. Collins is gay, Angel is a cross dresser, Mimi's an exotic dancer at a strip club; and half of us are infected with AIDS. We're understanding." Joanne said
"I'm not looking for understanding though. I just want to be accepted. For who I am. Not what the rest of the world wants me to be."
"We understand" said Joanne "But we can only do as much as anyone else."
"Trust me. You've already done more." She said, a half-smile on her face
"Well we'll go talk to Sue and come back in a minute." Joanne said walking out of the room, Maureen following close behind.
"I like her. I like her ALOT." Maureen whispered into Joanne's ear
"I know. So do I." and the door shut behind them leaving Elsie alone once again.
Elsie looked at the room around her the half smile on her face. "I hate this color." She said and flopped onto her bed covering her eyes with her palm.
The couple walked out of the room and back into the main hall. "So how did you like our own residential 'Miss Sunshine'?"
"Actually we quite liked her." Joanne said
"When and where do we sign?" Maureen piped up
"Well naturally we have you wait a week. So we can prepare the child and let the parents think the decision over; in case of second-thoughts. But Elsie has been through this for her whole life;" Sue paused "We'll send the paperwork home with you and she can come home with you within the week."
"May we go say goodbye?" Maureen asked eagerly
Sue paused as if to ask why anyone would WANT to say goodbye but bit it back and said "Of course."
They opened the door to the room. "They're giving you a week and promised to ship me off within said week." Elsie said without looking at them.
"Actually yes."
"So you're going to leave. Pick me up again. Then-"
"You live with us." Maureen finished reaching to lay her hand on Elsie's shoulder, but she pulled away at the contact.
"I'll see you guys next time then. Just one question before you go."
"Anything." Joanne said
"What is it that you exactly do? You know for a living."
"Well, Miss Ivy League is a Lawyer, and I'm a performance artist."
"So she's the brains and you're the party." Elsie said pointing to Joanne then Maureen
"I liked her. She knows how to call them." Joanne said smiling "We'll see you tomorrow. Bye Elsie."
"Later Else." Maureen said waving and the couple left her alone with her guitar.
"Else." The name rolled of her tongue smoothly "I like it." And for the second time that month she gave another half-smile.
"Hey who started the party without me?" said Maureen as she entered the noise filled loft
"We was goings to call you." Said Collins holding up his phone in the hand not holding a bottle of whisky
"Well what's the celebration for?" said Maureen tossing her jacket aside.
"I got a gig." Said Roger, Mimi hanging off his shoulder
"No way!" Maureen squealed "Where?"
"The Life Café, during Thanksgiving weekend." Said a three month pregnant Mimi
"No way! Roger that's the busiest time for Life. Congratulations."
"So where were you? We went by your apartment but no one was there." Said Mark looking up from his camera
"Oh yeah. So Jo and I were talking a few nights ago and-"
"There you are." Said Joanne bursting into the loft a bit out of breath from running after Maureen "Honey? Would you like to join me in the stairwell?"
"Not really I was going to tell everyone the good news."
"News? What news sugar?" asked Angel
Joanne gave Maureen a look saying how am I supposed to do this?
"Mark turn off the camera." He kept on filming "Now." She said putting her palm in front of the lenses
"Fine." He let it fall to his side while secretly filming.
"Um guys. How am I supposed to tell them this?" Joanne asked Maureen
"Like this. We're gonna have a kid." She exclaimed
"Wait you're pregnant?" asked Roger his face twisted into an unreadable emotion of shock, confusion and slight disgust
"No silly. You know we can't get pregnant. Together."
"Wait so Maureen-" Mimi began
"We're adopting." Joanne cut in
"A babay?" asked Collins piping up
"Not a baby; I don't think any of us could handle two babies. The kid's a little older."
"Like eight?" proposed Mark
"Try a teenager." Said Maureen
"And a slightly angstful one." Said Joanne
"But she just wants to be accepted. And we figured what better place than here?"
"Good point." Said Angel "So when is the little devil coming?"
"Tomorrow. Her name
But no one heard a word after that because they were all too busy celebrating. The coming of a baby, a break for Roger, and a beginning of a family for their favorite lesbian couple.