For the next few weeks Andy would sit next Meagan. But she wouldn't talk to him, not exactly pushing him away. But Andy kept coming, sitting next to her but not talking. Eventually they did start to talk to each other. At first it was just about simple things, like the casserole they had at lunch. Then they started talking about their school, sharing stories about their friends.

One day Andy even talked about home. "My dad was abusive, always high or drunk, throwing punches whenever he felt mad or sad or was just plain drunk. My mom always made excuses for him, blaming it on herself. Then one day, while he was drunk, she let him drive... the next thing I knew I was here."

Andy and Meagan had become such great friends that they hadn't even notice the months go by. But every time he saw her, he began to like her even more. Andy really wanted to tell her. He hated keeping it anything from her. She was just so honest all the time, never afraid to give her opinion. But what would she say? Would she reject him? What if she didn't like him and it ruined their friendship?

Andy though about it over and over again until, he found the perfect solution. He didn't want to risk seeing her and saying it, otherwise he might say something stupid. So he could write a note and slip it in her room. Then if she didn't like him, he just pretend like none of it happened. Now all there was left to do was write the note.

Meagan was just about to go down for breakfast when she noticed a note jammed under her doorway. She scooped up the note and read it to herself. "I don't know how this is going to work out, but all I know is that I like you. Andy." A few months ago, Meagan would have flat out rejected him, but now they we're friends...

At that moment there was a knock on the door. Expecting to see Andy, she was shocked to see Mr. Mc Tore and a middle-aged woman, who she's never met before, standing in the doorway. The women had copper colour skin, green eyes, and brown curly hair pinned away from her kind face.

"Hello Meagan, nice to see you again. This"-he gestured to the woman-"is Clair."

Meagan nods, waiting for them to say more. The woman -Clair- cleared her throat and began to speak. "Hi, I'm here to adopt you, but, of course, that's only if you want. I understand that I will never replace your mom, and that's not what I want to do. I would love to raise children of my own, but I can't. So this is the only way I can have a kid. Please, consider it."

Meagan really felt for Clair. It must be devastating to want to have children so badly and not be able to. She looked at Clair. Clair really looked concerned and kind.

"I would like that" Meagan smiled, hoping to reassure her. Clair face flooded with so much relief and joy, that she knew she wouldn't regret it.

After Clair and Mr. Mc Tore left, Meagan packed all her belongings. She took a quick sweep of her room when she remembered. The note! How could she forget about Andy? She looked for him everywhere, but she couldn't find him. So before she left the orphanage, she slipped him a note under his door of his room, hoping he would get it.

Andy was so absorbed in his thought that he didn't even notice a note slip under his door. Meagan had missed breakfast and lunch. Maybe he was avoiding her. Maybe she didn't like him back and couldn't stand to see him. Andy was so tired and frustrated that he stormed straight to her room and was planning to ask her, when he found the room empty.

"Where's Meagan?" he asked the receptionist. At first she seemed shocked that Andy was even talking to her, and then, realizing what he was asking, she looked sad.

"I'm sorry, she already left"

"She's l-left?" Andy asked, perplexed.

"Yes, she was adopted"

Adopted! Meagan was adopted! Had she even got his note? Did she even get the chance to read it? Andy had so many thought running through his mind; that he had to trip, to snap back into reality.

That's when he noticed the note. It was the note he sent her, but what was it doing in his room? Andy racked his brain trying to figure out when it had returned to him. Finally he unfolded the note. It looked exactly the same, until Andy flipped the note over to see a new addition.

"I don't know how this is going to work out, but I do know that I like you too. Meagan" She what! He looked over the note over and over again, but couldn't seem to find the word jokes anywhere. He had finally got what he wanted, for her to like him back, but she wasn't even there anymore.