Chapter Four
After her mother left she, of course stayed with The Brady's. She didn't hear a thing from her for a while. She was starting to get worried. But then, they got a phone call the next night.
She was watching TV with Peter. It was a rerun of Bonanza when the phone rang. She went and picked it up.
"Hello?" she said.
"Laura this is mom, can I please speak to your uncle?"
She looked at Peter who was looking at her and she mouthed "just a minute".
"Hold on" she said. Then just at that minute Mike walked in the kitchen and she showed him the phone.
"It's for you" she said. Then she went and sat back down on the couch with Peter.
"Who was it?" he asked.
"My mom, but she wanted to talk to dad"
"Oh okay" he said.
Then a few minutes later Mike walked into the room.
"Laura, that was your mother, she's coming over next weekend because we have something important to discuss with you" Mike said.
"My guess is that it's something bad then"
"No, it's a little bit of both I guess you'd say, but we'll be discussing it next weekend" he said. Then he left the room.
Next Weekend
She was sitting on Bobby and Peter's bunk bed. Greg was sitting at his desk, Peter was sitting on the top bunk, Bobby was sitting on the bottom bunk and she was sitting on Greg's bed. Greg already knows about the 'news' that Mike mentioned and Laura was desperately trying to figure out what it is.
"Oh come on Greg can't you just tell me about it a little?" she asked.
Greg shook his head "No, dad specifically told me not to tell you"
She flopped down on the bed "Man it must be pretty bad then" She was coming to conclusions in her head, Had her father not been found? Had they quit searching for him?
Then they heard the front door to the house open and slam shut and voices downstairs.
Then Mike's voice yelled up the staircase "KIDS COME DOWNSTAIRS LAURA'S MOTHER IS HERE!"
Laura got up from Greg's bed and headed downstairs with Greg, Peter and Bobby following behind her.
Once they got down there she saw her mother holding what looked to be official documents in her hands.
"Come on kids, let's go to the den" Mike said and everyone followed him into the den.
Once they got in there she settled down on the sofa in there and Bobby sat next to her on one side and Greg the other.
"Now, we've gathered you in here today to discuss something rather important, I don't know if I told you all this but the other night when Laura's mother was here she got a phone call saying that her husband, your uncle, stormed out of his brother's house. Well, it turns out that they found him and he was looking for Laura's mother and when he got to their house they got into a big argument and are still trying to sort things out. So, Laura's mother would like me to adopt Laura"