Ethan pov

"I… I just wanna know who they are you know… like, talk to them, ask them…" Ben stopped talking, we- I, Ben and Mr. Schue sat in a row of three chairs in the audiotourium, this was where Ben had went to after storming out of the choir room.

"Ask them what?" I ask, after almost ten seconds of silence.

"Why did they give me up?"

"Ben… I would love to have an answer for that." I said. "But I don´t. I´m sorry, but this thing I know, that my… our parents… they love you, just as much as they love me, to them, you´re their son just as much as I am…"

"Where do you wanna come Ethan?"

"Was it something we did wrong? Is there something you´re missing?"

"Guess not."

"So it´s… whoever they are, your biological parents… it´s their loss isn´t it?" Ben thought for almost two minutes before sighing.

"Yeah, I guess."

"That´s my brother… come on, we´ll go home."

"I promised Marcie I would come with her home today."

"Go on then." I took my bag and my coat from my locker before walking, Ben sure had spent loads of time at Marcie´s lately. And I´d have to admit,, I´d never seen Ben look at anyone with the same eyes as he looked at Marcie with.

I grabbed the post outside our driveway and riffled through the letter. Commercial, coupons, bin, bin, more commercial, bill, bill, nothing interesting until the last one. It was addressed to me, and it had a tag from University of Arizona college of medicine. I picked up my phone and called Liam.

Liam pov

"I really feel sorry for both Ben and Lex." Mariah said.

"So, those two there are who have got problems with their families, who more can it be?"

"Well, there´s Alice, her brother´s still missing and Hayley, because her dad´s dying, and Ethan of course, because he worries for Ben!"

"So that´s five, I just have a feeling we haven´t gotten all of them yet." Mariah opened our mailbox and got out the post, she riffled through them.

"And maybe we have some problems too." She said after I had turned around towards the house. I turned around again, and saw her holding two letters, one addressed to me, with a tag from University of Arizona college of medicine, and the other addressed to Mariah with a tag from San Francisco conservatory of music. I swallowed, I knew, she knew, it had been clear for a long time. But now it felt real for the first time, we were going to be split up for College.

I was awaken from my thoughts when my phone started ringing, ETHAN, read over the screen, I pressed the green button.

"Liam!"

"Have you gotten your letters from college?"

"Yes."

"Halfway?"

"Yes!" Ethan hung up.

"Ethan´s got his letter too, we´re meeting him halfway. I started running, and could soon hear Mariah coming after. Halfway between the Morison´s and us, was on top of a hill, where you could look over the whole town. Ethan was already there. When I and Mariah arrived we were out of breath, and it took a couple of minutes before we could breathe again. Then we took each letter, I looked to Mariah.

"You first!" She nodded, opened her letter, and got out the letter.

"I got in!" I couldn´t really tell if she was happy or not. Of course she was happy, but a small part of each of us had wished we wouldn´t get in, because then we wouldn´t be split up. I nodded.

"You next Ethan." I said, Ethan got out his letter and read.

"I got in." Now at least, if I got in, I wouldn´t be all alone. I opened my envelope and got out the letter.

"I got in."

Lex pov, next day, glee club

"You know!" Liam said, he was leaning against the piano, Mariah sat on the piano chair. "A part of each of us, is really, really happy that we both got in where we wanted. But at the same time… we don´t want to be split up. We´ve always been together."

"But at the other hand," Mariah said. "Maybe this is for the best, maybe we have to learn how to be independent. It´s just that, without each other, we feel so lost. And that´s why we´ve chose this song."

They stopped singing when they had done the whole song, Mariah was crying, Liam seemed to have a hard time not to. He laid his arm around her shoulders and they walked back to their places. After a couple of minutes Alice stood up, she leaned against the piano, and started.

"As you probably noticed," she said after finishing the song. "I changed one word. And I…. I… no… oh gosh… the police is stopping with looking for Josh, and I just… I just feel like, this is it, no one´s ever gonna find him. B- b- but if he ever comes back, I´ll be right here for him. And I´ll never lose my hope… never." Alice´s voice broke. Teeghan stood up and embraced her, and one after one we all did the same, until we had created a big group hug in the middle of the choir room.

When I arrived home that day, Carole and Burt both sat by the kitchen table, I sat down on the kitchen couch next to Burt.

"We have done some research," Burt said. "About the adoption."

"Yeah?"

"We´re gonna need your mother´s permission to adopt you!" I laid forward and hit my forehead on the table. This couldn´t be happening. I turned around and saw Katheryn and Zeb standing on the road.

"Where´s the papers she´s gotta sign?" Carole reached me a paper, I took it and walked outside.

"Sign this line!" I pointed to the line Katheryn would have to sign. "Please Katheryn, please. It´s what I want."

"Adoption?" Katheryn said. "Katheryn? Why are you calling me Katheryn?"

"You´re not my mum. You didn´t do things a mum does. Now sign it."

"Can I think about it."

"Yes," without me noticing it. Burt and Carole had showed up behind me. "Take all the time you need."

"Oh great!" I said "Oh, now she´s never gonna sign that paper" I turned around and walked into the house again.

Playlist
Lost without you- Delta Goodrem
Right here waiting- Richard Marx