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Chapter Twenty-Two:
"Come Amy, I want you to meet some people." She guides her to the family.
"I don't think so. I don't want to interrupt your introductions." Lita excuses as she might not handle meeting Joan's new family well.
"Don't be silly they will love to meet you." Joan guides her and Jeff to the family. "Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, I would like to introduce you to Amy." Joan introduces.
"Nice to meet you Amy, Joan has spoken very highly of you." They shake Lita's hand.
"Please to meet you. Joan is a smart, beautiful girl. You are lucky to have her." Lita responses.
"Yup, this shelter is lucky to have a helper like her. Excuse us, we have some business details to work out with Michelle." Mr. Henderson excuses.
"No problem, please to meet you both." Lita smiles.
"So what do you think of them? They are a nice couple, right?" Joan asks not knowing that Jeff didn't tell her that they are not adopting her yet.
"They are a nice couple. You will be very happy with them." She gives her a small smile.
"Yes, the shelter will be happy to have them to give your parents a break."
Her statement confuses Lita. "What do you mean by that? I thought they are adopting you."
"What? Mr. and Mrs. Henderson are here to help with food and clothing. They will help the shelter when your parents can't. Michelle wanted them to take a break."
Joan is confused. "I thought Jeff told you." She looks at Joan who signals that he didn't.
"No he didn't." Lita glares at him.
"I am going to find Johnny." He scurries off to get away from the situation.
"So, they are not adopting you?" She looks back at Joan.
"Nope, you are the only person that I want to adopt me." She gives her a big smile.
"You will wait maybe a year or two until then?" Lita teases.
"Oh Jeff told me that you are going to adopt me today." She is a bit upset that she would a year.
"He said that didn't he?" Joan nods. "Well, he is right. I want to adopt you." She speaks in an excitable tone.
"Really? You want to be my mom." She gets very excited.
"Yes, I always wanted to be in your life. However, when I came here this time, I notice I wanted to adopt you. I want to adopt you before anyone else could." She smiles at Joan's excitement.
"No one else can adopt me because I know in my heart that you are going to. I turned down many nice families just to wait for you to adopt me." She hugs her.
"Well, you don't have to wait anymore. I am going to adopt you and you will be my flower girl at our wedding." She requests.
"You and Jeff are getting married." Joan gets more excited about this request.
"Not right now, but definitely in the future."
"Oh is that so?" Jeff speaks with Johnny beside him. "You think you can handle me and wait so long to marry me." Jeff teases.
"Oh I can, but the real answer is can you resist this body to not marry until then." Lita teases back.
"I don't know it is one smokin' body. What do you think, Johnny? Do you think I have what it takes?" He asks.
"Maybe." He chuckles.
"Wow, thanks for the support there, buddy." He messes up his hair.
"Hey, no one touches the do." He fixes his hair up.
"Oh I am sorry Mr. Johnny it won't happen again." He pleads for forgiveness.
"You are forgiven." He acts like the leader of a group.
"You are two are funny." Joan giggles. "Guess what Johnny, Lita is going to adopt me." She shares the good news.
"That's great, Joan." He walks to hug her. "You always wanted her to adopt you. You finally get your wish." He is excited for her.
"Yah, it is very exciting." They hug until Johnny ponders that this means Joan will leave him.
"So you won't be with me anymore. You will live in Lita's house far away." He sulks.
"Oh my goodness, yes I will leave her. I will leave without you. We will always dream to get adopted together." She sulks as well.
"It was our dream, but this is your dream. I can't take that away from you. Just promise you will keep in touch. I want full details of your life." He smiles.
"Of course." She hugs him tight. "Maybe, they can adopt you in a year or two."
"Maybe." Johnny hopes.
Jeff and Lita feel sad that they will be separate. "Wait." Jeff calls out.
"I think I have an idea where you two won't be separated." He ponders that this might work.
"What is it, Jeff?" Joan asks.
"What if I adopt you?" Jeff requests.
"What do you mean, my baby?" Lita questions.
"What if I adopt, Johnny? Yes, we are a couple, but we still can adopt different children. You can adopt Joan and I can adopt Johnny. After we get married, you two will be siblings." He explains his plan.
"Can we do that?" Lita asks.
"I don't see why not. We can ask Michelle if that is allowed."
"It sounds like a great plan, Jeff." Johnny compliments happy there is a chance for their dream.
"Okay, when Michelle ends her meeting with the Harrisons, we will talk to her." Jeff offers.
"Sounds great, I can't believe we are going to be siblings." Joan is excited as well as Johnny, although he won't show it too much.
Back at home someone rings the bell.
"Hello Edge, what are you doing?" Mrs. Dumas greets with a shock expression.
"Hello Mrs. Dumas, may I come in?" He greets with a big smile.
"No you are not welcomed." She stands her ground.
"Oh come on Mrs. Dumas, I don't want to force my way in." He smirks.
"Leave or I will call Mr. Dumas." She warns.
"That is not possible because he left five minutes ago. Now please let me in." He holds the door with a devilish smile. Mr. Dumas went out to the clothing store to get clothes for Joan. If they know why their daughter rushed out, then she would new clean clothes to wear.
"Just leave Lita alone, she is happy with Jeff." She utters knowing she can't out power Edge.
"That is what I want to talk to you two about, Jeff is not good for her. He is related to a bruiser and lies about everything. He is not good to her." He tries to degrade Jeff's personality with actions he did.
"We know he is related to Matt. He explained he is not like that. He was willing to wait until we gave him permission to date her."
"Oh really, did you know the Jeff lied to Lita so they can make love? He lied on who he was twice. I am surprise that she didn't tell you. Every time she would come to me and yell at me. She said she couldn't believe he did that to her. So Mrs. Dumas, let me in and we can help Lita get away from Jeff." He fakes his sincere tone and expression.
"I don't know. I have to speak to Mr. Dumas." She starts to believe his words.
"Okay, call this number when you have made your decision." He hands her a piece of paper.
"Okay." She takes the paper and closes the door. She doesn't know what to do. She likes to give people second chances and the benefit of the doubt.
Edge snickers as he walks back to the house across from their house. "This is too easy." He already assumed that Lita's parents will break them up.
"You can each adopt a child, but the adoption agency will investigate you separately. You two must provide separate homes that are safe for them. You have to show them that individually you can raise them alone. I hate to say this, but you might have to stop your relationship for this to work." Michelle informs them.
"What do you mean end our relationship?" Lita wonders.
"I think it will be easier if you two are not involved until you sign the adopting papers. If they find something bad in Lita's investigation, it might also affect Jeff investigation and vice versa.
"What you are saying is that we have a better chance to adopt Joan and Johnny if we break up?" Lita wants clarification.
"I think it would be the easier way than staying in a relationship. I don't want you to break up. Although, there is another option which takes longer. You two can get married and prove that you have a safe environment for them. They might question on why, but you can explain to them that you would do anything to adopt them."
"Thanks Michelle, we have a lot to think about."
"I can put this on hold until you come to a decision. Until then there will not have families come to adopt them." She offers knowing that Joan's dream is to be adopted by Lita.
"Thank you, Michelle." They come out of her office with a whole lot of thinking to do. They head to the play area where Johnny and Joan are.
"How did it go? How long until you officially adopt us?" Johnny asks.
"You two come here we need to talk." Jeff waves them over.
"Oh no, they can't adopt both of us." Joan sense the bad vibes.
"Actually we can, but the best chance we have is for us to break-up."
"What, you two can't break-up." Joan is surprise. "I like Jeff. I thought you two are going to get married in the future. This is not fair." Joan pouts.
"We are. This will only be temporary until we official adopt you two." Lita explains.
"No!" Johnny argues. "If you have to break up, then it is okay. You should just adopt Joan and I will stay here." Johnny offers. "This is Joan's dream and I won't get in the way of it." He already acts like a brother to Joan.
"I appreciate the offer Johnny, but Jeff and I will find a way to adopt the both of you. You two stay here and will come back when we figure it out. Michelle inform us that no families will come to adopt you." She gives her hope.
"Okay, Lita we will wait." Johnny hugs Joan.
Lita and Jeff head to the car as they don't know how to make this happen.
"Maybe your parents will know what to do?" Jeff starts the car and drives to the house.
They enter the house to Lita's parents sitting on the couch. "Hi mom and dad. I am sorry we just left so quickly." Lita greets.
"Baby girl, sit down we need to talk." Mr. Dumas requests. When he returned home, his wife told him what happen with Edge. He suggested they talk to their daughter before assuming anything.
"What's wrong, dad?" She can see the consider expressions.
"Amy, when Jeff was the mystery guy, did you two do any sexual acts?" Mrs. Dumas asked.
She already sensed this is going to be awkward. She is also confused on this sudden personal question. "Yes we did. We did some making out, well we did a lot of that." She smiles. "We did some sexual activities to celebrate some situations."
"By sexual activities you mean sex." Mrs. Dumas clarifies not looking at her daughter.
"Yes, we did make love a few times before I knew it was Jeff." Lita answers honestly.
"You didn't care that you didn't know who it was." She asks again.
"I did want to know, but I respect his decision up to him. If I knew then he wouldn't be here with me. I might have miss out on this; him and I." She says confidently.
"So he never forced you to do the sexual acts." Mrs. Dumas questions.
"No never, actually most of the time I wanted him to, but he refused. He respected my wishes and wanted it to be special. He would ask if I was ready and listed to me when I don't want it. Why do you ask?"
"Well guess who came." Jeff and Lita roll their eyes as they know who it is. "Edge came here and told me that Jeff lied just so he would have sex with you. He said that you would run to him every time you two did it to yell at him." Mrs. Dumas restates Edge's words.
"None of that is true. Yes, I yelled at him, but he deserved it. He would yell at me for being late for his match. He injured my wrist as well as didn't respect me. He didn't care if I was in a match with Matt as long as it benefits him. The mystery guy showed me how I should be treated. Yes, I know it was fast to do any of that, but as I said before he is the one. I will not stop doing all those sexual acts with him." She tells her parents.
"Jeff, you feel the same way?" Mr. Dumas asks surprise by his daughter's confidence.
"Yes I do, sir. I love your daughter. I want to show her how much I love her; both physically and emotionally."
"Good, now how did it go with adopting Joan?" Mr. Dumas changes the subject. They shouldn't have entertained Edge's words. They know their daughter.
"Difficult." Lita answers. "You see Joan and Johnny always wanted to be adopted together. To make that happen, I will adopt Joan and Jeff will adopt Johnny. The problem is that we might have to break-up to have a better chance."
"Yah that would be the easy way, but you can do it with you two still together. It will be hard and difficult, although it can be done." Mr. Dumas request. "How willingly are you to adopt these two?"
"We will do anything to adopt them."
"Then let's get started." Mr. Dumas orders.
"Wait you didn't believe Edge's story?"
"Of course not, sweetie. We never liked him." They confess.
Edge is across in his rented home to see that his plan failed. "Damn, what wil it take to puts some tension on them.
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