Do you Believe in Fate?

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Eleven Days Until…

I wasn't sure what to do with myself, it had been a little over a week since I had my 'date' with Calvin and I am seeing him everywhere. I wasn't sure, at first, if it was just happen chance, but after over a week of 'running into him' I am quite convinced that it is very much on purpose. I don't know if I should tell Paul or not…

It's not that I don't trust him, it's just that I'm worried that he is going to go all berserk like the last time something happened. Besides, I don't want to seem all paranoid…

"Hey Meg… Could you help me with this?" I glance over at Tommy to see him sitting at the kitchen table with a text book out in front of him. He is glaring down at it as if it is going to jump up and eat him and if the way he is gripping his pencil is any indication then he means to defend himself by stabbing it…

Putting my current problem out of my mind, I smile as I walk over to him. Tommy had been much happier lately and due to Alexia he had been doing much better in school. Thankfully she knows how to kick his butt.

"What's up?" I question as I look over his shoulder at the text book.

"It's Biology… I don't get it…"

"What don't you get?"

"We're doing genetics…"

"I see. What don't you understand?"

"All of it…"

I nod, take the book out of his hand and begin to scan the text.

"Umm… I was also wondering if you could come to the Parent Career Presentation."

"What's that?" I ask absentmindedly as I continue to gaze down at the text in front of me.

"Well… our parents get to come and give a presentation on their careers… It's kinda so we can get a better understanding of careers and jobs."

"Yeah sure, I would love to come," I say happily as I glance down at him.

He glances up and gives me a hesitant smile back.

Our bonding moment is interrupted when his phone goes off; he quickly snatches it up off of the table and reads the text message. Without so much as a glance he jumps out of his seat and heads for the door.

"Hold it!" I yell, "Where are you going? You still have homework to do!"

"Sorry mom! I got to go!"

My eyes widen and I can't help the smile that spreads across my face, I don't even care that he didn't tell me where he was going, he only ever goes to one place anyway. He called me mom… and that's all that matters…

~~~~The Day of the Presentation~~~~

I heave a soft sigh, I'm a little nervous at giving a presentation to the teens in Tommy's class, they are a tougher crowd than elementary school kids. I walk into the school and up to the front office where I get signed in and directions to his class room. Upon walking out I run into Paul as he talks with Seth.

"Paul? What are you doing here?" I question.

Paul gives a soft smile and scratches the back of his head in embarrassment, "Tommy asked me to come…"

"He did? He didn't tell me that you were coming?"

Paul just shrugged and gave me a smile before heading into the office to get checked in; when he comes out he leads me through the small high school to a class room full of teens and parents. We walk over to the corner where Tommy is seated with Collin turned around in his seat talking to him. An older man is standing not too far away talking to a woman around his age; no doubt these are Collin's parents.

"Hey Tommy," I say softly as I walk up to him.

"What's up kid?" asks Paul.

Tommy looks up and a look of relief crosses his features as he takes in the sight of both Paul and I, "You made it."

"Yeah, of course we did," I said with roll of my eyes.

"OOOHHH!" exclaims a female voice to my left, "you must be Megan! I've heard so much about you! Thank you so much for taking in Tommy and taking care of my pig of a son Collin, since he practically lives at your house now anyway!"

"No problem…" I mutter in confusion.

"Honey, perhaps you should introduce yourself?" questions the man to her right.

"Oh! I'm sorry dear! My name is Cynthia and I'm Collin's mother, this is his father Allen."

"It's very nice to meet both of you," I say with a simple smile.

"Oh look how polite she is! She is going to have such a good influence on our little boy! Such a big heart too!" Cynthia says as she looks over at her husband.

"You must come over for dinner!" she says suddenly whipping back around to face me.

I give her a hesitant smile and a nod right as the teacher orders silence for everyone.

Paul and I lean against the back wall watching the presentations leisurely, clapping when necessary and all that jazz. Then a woman walks, no more like stumbles, up to the front of the classroom. Her ashy blond hair looks dirty and greasy as if it hasn't been washed in days, her clothes are too big as if she had lost a ton of weight and never went shopping. Her eyes are blood shot with dark bags under them and her skin is pale as if she hasn't been out of the house in a while.

A couple of the teens snicker and a couple look downright scared, the parents show varying looks of alarm along with the teacher.

"Miss. Yarman," begins the teacher, "perhaps you should wait to do your presentation…"

"I'ma do it now!" Miss. Yarman yells at her with a drunken slur to her voice.

"My name is Kate Yarmann and I'm Carry's motherrr," she says.

A girl with blond hair dressed in slightly tattered but conservative clothes, puts her head in her hands and slumps down in her seat as if she wants to do nothing but sink into the floor.

"I'ma what they call uuhhh 'lady… of the night,'" slurs Kate.

"That is enough," the teacher says sharply as she makes her way toward the front of the classroom.

Luckily for everyone the lunch bell rings and everyone heads for the door with the intention of getting out of the tension filled classroom. I look for the girl who had just been humiliated by her mother but she must have been the first one out of the door. I couldn't blame her, I would be too. I glanced over at Paul and Tommy to see a stone cold look on both of their faces, they obviously didn't like what they just saw.

I follow Tommy and Paul down the hallway as Cynthia walks beside of me talking nonstop about the woman that had made such a spectacle of herself. I'm not really listening to her as I head to the lunch room and find the table the boys are seated at. I wait calmly for the boys to get there lunch, and greet the guys already there and explain to them what I am doing there. During all of this, I don't really pay too much attention; I am too busy looking for the girl.

After fifteen minutes of waiting for her to show up to lunch I give up and decide I want to go look for her. After walking around for a few minutes I see a policeman talking to her, she is crying and the police officer looks very uncomfortable. Down the hallway I see her mother in handcuffs as she struggles and swears so as to get away from the officers leading her outside. The girl looks ashamed and scared as she tries to talk through the tears running down her face.

I walk up the officer and pull him to the side, "Do you mind if I have a word with you officer?"

"Now is not a good time ma'am," he tries to brush me off.

"I want to foster her though," I say calmly.

Both of them sharply look up at me, the girl in awe and the officer in confusion.

"Are you old enough to foster someone ma'am?"

"Well…. I already am, so I suppose so…" I murmur in slight annoyance.

"Child services are right around the corner, let me go get them so they can handle this…" he says uncomfortably as he hurries off.

"You want to foster me?" she questions uncertainly after a moment of silence.

"Yeah… I could use another girl around the house, sometimes there is just too much testosterone…"

Her eyes widen, "What?"

"OH! No no, nothing like that…" I reassure her quickly remembering what she had been living with, "I foster Tommy, and his friends seem to think that my house is the new hang out. They are all harmless… Just giant puppies… Sometimes though, I think that having another girl around the house would be nice. What do you say?"

She hesitates, but only for a second, before a smile spreads across her face and she nods happily.

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