AN: This is the 4th chapter. Hope you'll enjoy it. Feel free to leave a Review. Sorry for any misspelling.

Mariana was sitting next to her brother on the floor in his room, he was playing with Lego. But Mariana just sat there not feeling comfortable, because Stef and Lena had told them that Brandon their foster brother was gonna meet them now. And that was never good, foster siblings weren't usually nice. Especially when they where the biological kids of their foster parents. Maracas sucked in a sharp breath thinking about her previous foster siblings, they'd all been mean. Well except one. Emma . A girl that Jesus and Mariana lived with for a month. She was a year older than them and she would always take the beatings to protect them. She had a little sister named Sarah they had been separated. Put in different homes and Emma would do anything to try to find her. One day when Jesus and Mariana came home from school they found Emma lying on the floor, bloody. She had a cut on her upper arm, her head was bleeding, she had bruises all over her body and she was un conches They helped her to the hospital. After that Bill came and picked them up and moved them to a different foster home. They never saw Emma again. They didn't even know if she survived. After that Jesus had been the one taking all the beatings and he was trying to protect Mariana just like Emma did.

Mariana sniffed a tear away at the thought of Emma and that foster home.

Jesus looked over at his sister, was she crying?

"Are you crying?" He looked at her with concerned eyes

"No" she answered looking down

"Are you nervous to meet our foster brother? "

"Yeah, a little. Are you?"

"No.." Jesus answered trying to sound brave. The truth was that he was terrified that this Brandon guy was gonna try to hurt Mariana. Because if he did, that just meant another beating for Jesus. And he was so tired of being a punishing bag. But that was never something he was gonna tell his sister, she could never know that he was tired of protecting. He had to be strong for her and suffer through every beating and every verbally abuse, so that she didn't have to. He smiled at his sister trying to reinsure her that he wasn't scared.

Stef and Lena walked in to Brandon's room where he was standing fully dressed with a big smiled on his face.

"Can I meet them now?" He asked jumping up and down in excitement.

"Yeah, in a minute B" Stef chuckled

"We just need to tell you a few things before you go, ok?" Lena smiled any her son

"Okay.." Brandon said "What?"

"So B, Mariana and Jesus might be a little shy" Stef begun " So you might need to take it easy with them at first" she looked at her son

Mhm, okay" Brandon said nodding his head.

"Just be yourself and I'm know they'll love you sweets" Stef smiled taking her sons hand.

The three if them went back I Jesus room. Stef knocked on the door frame

"Hi guys, can we come in?" she smiled

Jesus nodded and smiled

Stef,Lena bad Brandon made their way over to the twins

"This is Brandon" Lena gesticulated towards her son.

"Hi" Brandon said stepping forward

Jesus looked at the boy, he looked nice. He was kinda small, Jesus could probably win if a fight against him.

"Hi I'm Jesus " Jesus nodded at Brandon's way

"And this is Mariana" he said as he always did, she never presented herself.

"Can I play?" Brandon asked trying to be as friendly as possible.

Jesus nodded, it wasn't like foster siblings to wanna play with them. They usually just ignored them or was really mean. But Brandon seemd different.

Brandon sat down next to Jesus and started building a Lego house.

Stef and Lena smiled at the sight of Brandon playing with Jesus.

The women decided to go down to the kitchen to make some food for the kids.

"This is going well love" Stef smiled walking down the stairs.

"Yes it is" Lena smiled back at her girlfriend as they entered the kitchen.

"What do you think they'll like?" Lena opened the fridge.

"I don't know" Stef answered "Well they are kids so they should like pancakes" she said with a cheeky smile.

"That's a safe card" Lena smiled and took out the frying pan.

Stef and Lena made the pancakes and called the kids down when the it was ready. Brandon where the first one to be down followed by Jesus. Stef looked around confused, when she didn't see Mariana.

"Hey where's your sister?" She looked at Jesus. He gave her a confused look. What did she mean? Jesus looked around the room for his sister. She wasn't there. Why hadn't he noticed that she didn't come down with him and Brandon?

Jesus sucked in a breath "I.. I.. I don't know" he turned around running up the stairs desperate to find his sister. Stef jumped up and followed Jesus up the stairs. He ran into his room where he found Mariana sitting in a corner with her knees pulled up to her chest. She stared in mid air.

"Mari?" Jesus said siting down next to her. Mariana didn't answer.

"Mariana?" He tried again as he gently shook her shoulder. But Mariana stayed quite.

Stef approached the kids carefully. Taking the sight in as she sat down next to the girl.

"Mariana sweets, what's wrong?" Stef asked as she gently put her hand on the girls back. That made Mariana pull away and look over at Stef with panic in her eyes. Jesus saw her sisters reaction and quickly said "Mariana it's just Stef and me"

Mariana looked over at her brother "Jesus?" she asked with a shaky voice.

"Yeah it's me" he took her hand trying his best to comfort her.

She gave him a small smile.

"What's wrong honey?" Stef tried again seeing that Mariana had snapped out of her trans.

"Nothing" Mariana answered glancing over at Stef.

Stef bit her lip and let out a sigh, clearly something was wrong but Mariana didn't trust Stef well enough to tell her.

"Are you sure?" Jesus asked not believing that she was ok.

"Mhm" Mariana nodded

"Do you like pancakes?" Stef asked not wanting to push Mariana to talk. Stef figured she just needed some time to get settled in and than she would come around, hopefully.

Mariana looked up at Stef, nodding and smiling.

"Well lets go down than" Stef grinned standing up. She put her hands out for the twins to take, Jesus grabbed Stefs hand. Mariana hesitated, but took Stefs' other hand and the three of them went down together.

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