I barely slept last night thinking about Jesus, I can't believe how quickly I've fallen for him. I didn't even realise I liked him until he brought it up. He meets me at school in the spot where Rita dropped me off. The first thing he does is grab me by the waist and kisses me. Then we hear the sound of someone clearing their throat. It's AJ.

"Sorry," I laugh, "I'll see you in homeroom," I say to him. He kisses my cheek and walks away, recieving a look from AJ, "Everything okay?" I ask, we walk in together.

"Yeah, I just want to make sure you're good, like you and Jesus, we aint got any parents so I feel like I gotta-"

"You don't need to do anything, AJ, I'm not a kid, I can look after myself, you don't need to worry,"

"I know, I can't help it, you're my sister. I just want you to know I'm here for you," He puts his arm around me.

"Thanks, anyway we're not even official or anything, we're just havin fun," He raises his eyebrows, "Just dating, okay, nothing else, "I'll see you at lunch," I run off after Jesus but before I catch up to him, Lena stops me in the hall.

"Cressida, can I talk to you?" She asks, I look down the hall and watch Jesus go into class.

"Uh sure," I follow her into her office, "Is everything okay?" I assume it's to do with how bad I'm doing in math, I can't help it, I just don't understand it at all.

"So I talked to Stef," My eyes widen, I completley forgot I asked her to foster me, "She's okay with you coming to stay with us for a while,"

"Seriously!" I jump out of my seat, "Thank you so much oh my God!" I hug her, "I promise I'll be so well behaved and it won't be for long, just until I make enough money for my own place, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She laughs at my excitement I run out of her office to tell Jesus the good news, and then it hits me, it's agaisnt the law for foster siblings to date. I come to a stand still in the hall, then a hand touches my shoulder. I jump and turn around, "AJ, why aren't you in homeroom?"

"I saw you coming out of Lena's office, my homeroom is right opposite, you looked pretty happy, but you don't right now, what happened?"

"She and Stef are going to foster me,"

"That's amazing!" He hugs me, then he realises, "But-"

"But I can't date Jesus, it's okay, I guess you have to give some things up in life, I need a stable home more than I need a boyfriend,"

"Good, I'm glad you're making the right choice," He starts to walk me to my class.

"You just don't want me dating him," I laugh.

"Hey, I'm your brother, I don't want you dating anyone," I playfully nudge him, "Just tell him, okay? Secrets suck," He says as I walk into my class.

What he says hits me, secrets do suck, I can't keep what I did from him, I have to tell him eventually or it'll just keep eating at me, but one thing at a time, I'll tell Jesus we can't date first. I sit next to him and he leans over to kiss me but I give him the cheek.

"Is everything okay?" He asks, he knows me so well already.

"Yeah, um, no, I need to tell you something,"

"Okay, go on," He holds my hand but I yank it away.

"I'll tell you after homeroom, we'll go somewhere,"

"Alright," He realises that it's something pretty serious and he stops trying to be all coupley with me.

Homeroom feels like it lasts hours, but eventually it ends and I take him to the courtyard, it's pretty empty cuz no one walks through here between classes, I sit down at a bench.

"So what is it?" He won't sit down with me.

"Yesterday, before anything happened between us, I asked Lena for something, and she said yes,"

"What?" He crosses his arms.

"I asked if her and Stef could foster me,"

"Well that's great, you can live with us," He finally sits with us, "Why is this upsetting you?"

"Jesus, I really like you, but we can't date if were brother and sister,"

"They're not adopting you, your not reallly gonna be my sister, why can't we just keep it secret?"

"You'd lie to your moms?"

"Yeah, for you."