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STEF

"Ok, what do you need to talk to me about," Lena asked me still holding Frankie.

"Well there is this woman outside; she has to be around 20 years old. She was crying and I went up and asked her what was wrong and she told me that she lost her baby, she had a stillborn and her boyfriend's well I guess ex-boyfriend now won't let her live with him, and her parents disowned her. Lena I saw that look in her eyes, we have to help her," I said to my wife and she looked worried.

"Whoa, Stef. We don't even know this woman; I can understand you being concerned. But I know you we have no more room in our house, and we have a fairly new newborn, there is no way we can offer her a place to stay.

"Lena, wait to you see her, she looks about as innocent as a five year old, and did you forget that I am a cop, I can easily read people," I said to Lena.

"Umm, ok if we do help her, where is she going to stay? We are pretty packed in our house.

"Well for now she can stay on the couch and she put her clothes and stuff in the girl's room. And since Brandon isn't really with the band anymore, we can do a small renovation on the garage. Something very small that will be cheap and we can afford, and if she wants anything else she can pay for it herself. This is just to help her get back on her feet. Lena I can't just leave her like that.

She looked at me and I knew she was thinking hard about this. I grabbed Frankie from her arms and placed her in the bassinet next to her bed. I laid down next to her, enough to make sure she was comfortable. I grabbed her hand and kissed it.

"I wouldn't do this if I didn't think it was a good idea. We can just help her temporarily."

She sighed and looked at me. "Alright, but we have to ask the kids first and ask them. I think there input matters too."

"Fair enough, but I'm going to go talk to her first and see what she thinks. I left her in the waiting room."

"Ok, after you talk to her, we will bring the kids in so they can meet her and we will all talk about it together, then after that I am taking a nap. She said yawning, I knew she was tired she just gave birth an hour ago or so.

"Ok dear anything you want," I said kissing her lips and leaving out the room to talk to the girl.

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When I walked to the waiting room, the girl was sitting there with her head in her arms, leaning on the chair and she was watching TV, even though I can tell she was dozing off.

"Hey there sweets," I said to her.

She just looked at me and smiled softly at me. I sat next to her and she lifted her head to face me.

"Well, since we didn't properly didn't introduce ourselves, I'm Stefanie Adams Fosters, but please call me Stef.

"I'm Ashley Hillman," she said to me.

"Nice to meet you, how old are you," I asked her.

"I'm 19," she said looking down and playing with her fingers.

"Ok, you're a little older than my children, can you tell me about yourself.

"Well, I'm 19 like you said. I'm from Florida. I met my ex- boyfriend when he came to Florida for a mini concert he did down here. I moved to Cali with him and abandoned my family, who wants nothing to do with me anymore. So now I'm stuck down here with no friends or family.

"You didn't make any friends down here," I asked her.

"Not really, he kept me sheltered and I could only hang around him. I had so many friends in Florida when I was in school, but of course I dropped out and I really regret it," she said tears small tears streaming down her face.

"We all make mistakes, and you just learn from them."

"I know, but I really regret even getting involved with him, I lost everything because of him."

"I know, but don't down yourself because of him. You got to pick yourself back up," I said to her.

"Yea, but why are you so interested in me," I knew she was going to ask that.

"Well, how would you feel staying with me and my family," and she frowned her eyebrows at me.

"I know this might seem weird or even creepy. But me being a former foster parent and being a cop I see a lot of your cases. But I want to help you.

"Um, who lives with you? Well I have a wife; we have been together for 10 years and married for a year. I have 5 children. My oldest came from my previous marriage, the twins which we fostered 10 years ago, but we adopted them 5 years ago. And then there is Callie and Jude we got them about a year ago. Callie we just adopted about 2 months ago. Her brother 5 months ago, we had issues with her adoption. Then my little Frankie who was just born today, my wife just gave birth to her. We had a donor for her. But we are a big family with a lot of love.

"That is a lot of people, never been apart of something so big," she said to me.

"Me neither, but I love it, wouldn't have it any other way."

"So your family is ok with me staying there," she asked me.

"Well I just talked to my wife she is ok with it, I have to talk to my kids and they should be in the gift shop somewhere."

"Will they be ok with that," she asked me.

"Well let's go find out," I said to her.

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