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Chapter four

The following Saturday Lux woke at 9 am and walked into the living room of the two story four bedroom house. As she walked in she saw an arm dangling over the arm of the couch. Curious she walked around the couch. A deep in sleep Avery lay on the couch. The teen was stretched out, her legs hanging over the opposing arm of the couch, black hair still in a pony tail, blanket wrinkled and only half on the girl. To top it off Avery's laptop sat open on the coffee table, the screen had gone dark from not being used, and her cell phone was on Avery's stomach still emitting music. This all indicated to Lux that Avery had once again stayed up very late searching for answers to help Henry.

Shaking her head Lux left her sister and went into the kitchen. Out of all the choices for food to eat Lux managed to wrangle up a nice hearty bowl of Frosted Flakes and a pop tart. It was not unusual for Avery to fall asleep in the living room. It was very common. However, the usual culprit was a new season of a show on Netflix that Avery decided to binge watch. As Lux ate she checked her phone. She had asked some of her friends if they wanted to hang out, most of her friends had already made plans.

Henry had been awake for about an hour. After staring at the ceiling he finally got up and headed to the kitchen. The "family" was having a "family fun day" according to Madeline and Elise it was a common thing and they had been surprised the Lester's hadn't done one sooner. Today they were going to the Zoo. It didn't seem like anything big. The biggest thing was they let Henry drive following their directions. It was almost as fun as when Charming had let him drive, back before he regained his memories. The difference was Henry had his permit this time and knew how to drive better.

At the Zoo, Henry stayed mostly to himself, though he gave Neal plenty of attention. The Lester's could see he wasn't really enjoying himself so they decided to talk to him when they got lunch. It had been almost three months since Henry and Neal had been left. Henry was almost done with his Freshman year of high school. Neal was a year old. Sitting down at the table for lunch the Lester's told the two girls to wait in line with Neal for food. Henry stood there since they hadn't said anything. Besides he knew the routine of wanting to talk to someone in private. Henry had been sent away multiple times in cases like when he met his father.

"What do you guys want to talk about?" was all he asked the couple.

"Well, we wanted to make sure you were okay. We know that you are putting yourself into your studies and all but it seems like you aren't doing much socializing," Mr. Lester began.

"Henry, the police officer has contacted us, they are giving up on looking for your family," Mrs. Lester continued.

"No, he said he'd keep me up to date. My family is still out there! It's only been three months!"

"Henry, the officer is certain you and your brother were abandoned by them. We are willing to adopt you and your brother," Mrs. Lester smiled.

"No! Neal isn't even my brother! I lied, he's my uncle! My family didn't leave me. They are trapped. I don't want you to adopt us! We have a family!" Henry yelled, attracting the attention of other people around them.

The Lester's looked at him, they were shocked to say the least. Getting up the couple leave Henry at the table and meet the other kids in the line. Henry texts Lux what is going on. Henry looks around at the crowd of people.

No one really talked the rest of the day. Henry didn't even want to drive home. When they got to the house he got his stuff and went straight to his room. Locking the door behind himself, Henry went to his bed and looked at the photos of his family. Suddenly his phone started to buzz. It was Lux.

"Hey, sorry I didn't text back, I was busy. What's going on?" She asked once the phones connected.

"The Lester's want to adopt Neal and I. They said the police station has contacted them and said they were giving up the search."

"What?! They thought you would be okay with that?"

"Apparently so. They said my family abandoned me and Neal. I got pissed and told them Neal was actually my Uncle."

"What are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I don't want to be bounced from home to home like my mom was and I don't want to put Neal through that either."

"Well I guess we have to take the fight to this Author guy. Speed up this process."

"Yeah, the only problem is there is no way to find Isaac."

The next day after school, Mrs. Lester dropped Madeline off at the house but asked Henry to stay in the car. Leaving the driveway Henry looked at her oddly. She wasn't the type to do anything before homework was finished. It didn't make sense until the car was pulled into the parking lot. Henry internally groaned before sending Lux a short text. Following Mrs. Lester into the building he sat down. She walked up to the front desk and signed him in. She sat down next to him and waited. She was called back. Mrs. Lester was only back there for about ten minutes. When she tapped out so did a woman who looked to be in her forties. She called Henry back. Rolling his eyes he got up and walked into the small room, sitting down on the white leather sofa in the room.

"Hello Henry, my name is Katrina. Now your foster mom told me you were having some trouble. What's going on?" The woman started softly.

"Nothing, I'm fine. I'm not crazy," Henry states looking her dead in the eyes.

"It's okay to talk about what ever is bugging me. I can't tell anyone, if that is what you are afraid of."

"Look, there is nothing to talk about. They want to adopt me but I have a family. I'm not crazy, and I definitely don't need a shrink," getting up he walks out of the office and leaves the building completely. Mrs. Lester had made the mistake of not making sure all the doors were locked. She had only clicked the lock button once. In order to lock the entire car the button had to be pressed twice. Henry opened the passenger door and grabbed his bag. As he shut the door Mrs. Lester walked out of the building, heels clicking on the concrete.

"Henry what are you doing?"

"Doesn't matter," Henry says slinging the bag over his shoulder and jogging off down where she couldn't follow. He pulled out his phone and called Lux

Henry stayed with the Kennedy sisters until about nine that night. He had Avery drive him to the Lester's. When she got there she told him that both her and Lux were available if he needed anything. He thanked her and got out of the car. Avery watched as he used a tree next to the house to climb to the roof by his window. He popped open the window and climbed into his room. She smiled a bit and went home. When she got to the house she found Lux in the kitchen. Avery looked at her sister.

"He's got it kinda rough over there."

"Yeah, that's got to suck, knowing what happened to your family and knowing that the only way to save them is to find one person."

"Yeah," Avery agreed, "what if We took him in? And Neal of course."

"I don't know."

"Why not?"

Lux's cheeks tinged pink.

"No way," Avery smirked, "You like him, don't you?"

"I don't know what your talking about," Lux said blushing another shade of pink.

"Oh my god. Well offering Henry a place is out of the question then!"

"What! Why?"

"Well, I don't want to have to worry about a blossoming romance between you two. I don't want to have to be keeping an eye on you constantly."

"Okay, mom," Lux teased.

"Lux has a crush! Lux has a crush!" Avery sang loudly causing her sister to cover her face trying to hide the blush.

"Stop, Av, I don't have a crush!"

"Bull! My baby sister is growing up so fast," Avery faked a sniffle while whipping a fake tear, "I can already hear wedding bells. Announcing the marriage of Henry and Lux Mills! Or is it Swan?"

"Stop!"

"I'm just teasing Lux," Avery laughed at her red faced sister.

Avery walked up the stairs to her room, smiling. Avery had gotten the second biggest room. The biggest room being the master bedroom. Sitting all spread out on her desk were notes about this whole mystery. With some added questions pertaining to herself more that the entire operation. She had photo copied some pages from the big book. Including the page that was going to be in there but got changed. Sitting at her desk Avery stared at the pages hoping to get something.

"Av! I'm going to get a shower!" Lux called from the other end of the hall.

"Okay!" Avery called back through the door.

Avery turn her attention back to the notes. Then she saw one of the people in the book that got her thinking. She had gone from a help Henry mind set to, get some information for me mind set. She went to her closet and found a box labeled with her name on it. She pulled it out and opened it on her bed searching for the papers she needed. Then she found it.

*gasp* What is it that she found? I guess you'll have to keep reading to find out! Muahahahahahaha!