Mike pov

I tried to catch Sophia as she ran past me, but she was too fast, and carried on running down the hall and down the stairs.

"Let her be alone for a minute." Gina said. "She´ll come back and talk to us if she wants to, in her own time yeah." I nodded, Gina was right. Then I turned around and walked over to Stan.

"What were you thinking?" I lifted him in his shirt up on his feet, and checked the wound on the side of his head. I was almost shaking of anger, I just didn´t think I had ever been as angry with one of my kids as I was with Stan right now.

"You´re gonna be fine, it just needs some plaster and cleaning. We can do that in the kitchen."

"Though the question is if Sophia´s gonna be the same… fine I mean." I heard Joe´s voice behind me.

"What are you doing here Joe?" Stan began. "You were supposed to be in the off… ice. "Stan made a pause as he seemed to realize what he was saying.

"You two are both coming with me to the kitchen, Gina get the first- aid- kit, the rest fo you, do what you like." I grabbed the collars on the twins´ shirts and led them down to the kitchen. Where they both sat down on either side of me by the kitchen bench.

"What were you THINKING?" I grabbed Stan´s hair to make him keep his head still while I was wiping away blood from the wound. "How could you even come up with such a stupid idea."

"It was Stan´s idea," Joe said. "I was out of it already when he told me his plans. But then I had already said I was in."

"But you could have said no, couldn´t you." Gina said, and for once, she seemed a lot calmer than me.

"Yeah you could have said no Joe." Stan spat out. "But you didn´t huh? Because from the beginning it was you… I made up a plan so you could get into the office and read her files."

"I didn´t say I wanted to read her files, I said I was trying to find out which country she comes from."

"But I…" Stan started but Gina cut them off.

"Okay, okay boys, we get the point, but it doesn´t really matter who started it yeah? You were both a part of the plan, and just because you could have done it that way, it does not mean you should have. I think Sophia will tell you where she comes from, and other stuff about herself, in her own time yeah?" Stan and Joe nodded.

"You boys…" I said. "You could go start packing. I´m calling Rob and moving you two to another care- home as soon as I´ve found Sophia." Joe stood up, and said.

"I heard Sophia run out in the garden through that door." He pointed to the door in the kitchen. "Where she ran later I don´t know." I nodded thank you, and then walked out in the garden. I supposed I better search through the garden before I called the police.

"SOPHIA" I shouted, and walked through the trees to the old arm- chair in the back. No one was there. "SOPHIA." I shouted again. "Nobody´s mad at you. If you just came out, then we can talk. SOPHIA."

"Right here." I heard Shawn´s voice in the trees. "Sophia´s with me." I ran through the trees, and between the trees I found Shawn sitting, Sophia laid with her back against me, with her head in Shawn´s lap. I smiled, and could feel the anger disappear. How proud I was over my kids when they stood up for each other. Sophia sat up when she heard me coming, she put her arms around her knees, but still had her back towards me. I showed Shawn to go up to the house, and promised him a biscuit when I would come too. Then I sat down next to Sophia.

I had always thought that the hardest kids to deal with, is the ones who´s quiet. I can deal with kids crying, or the ones who just gets angry. But I never learned how to deal with the ones who´s just watching, and keeping quiet. Not really showing any feelings at all, like Sophia.

"You´re okay?" I tried. Mostly to have anything at all said.

"Why wouldn´t I be? It was just a toy."

"You´re sure." I asked.

"I really don´t wanna talk about that. Or wanna think about that, like at all… or anything else."

"You know you can talk to me right?"

"yeah, well what if I don´t want to talk." Sophia said. "Sorry, look… Mike. I really don´t wanna talk about it, not right now."

"Okay. But I´ll tell you this before anyone else does, I´ve told Stan and Joe to pack their things, we´re gonna move them to another care home. And it´s just their own fault." Sophia looked up at me, then she jumped up on her feet and ran out of my sight.

Sophia pov

I ran out of the bushes, and up towards the house, where I ran through the kitchen, through the hallway, and upstairs, I lifted my hand to knock the door to Stan and Joe´s room, but the door wasn´t really closed, so I could hear one of them shouting on the other one. I started listening.

"Isn´t this great Stan" Joe said with an ironic tone in his voice. "Now you´ve got us kicked out of another care home. Do you realize we´ve been in nine care- homes the last two years, but we´ve never stayed as long as here at any place. We´ve been here since December, and you know what? I liked it here. I don´t wanna go, I´m gonna ask Mike and Rob if we can be separated, because you´re the one being up to mischief all the time, and I can´t take it anymore. I wanna stay here…." Joe kept on shouting, but I didn´t listen anymore, as quiet as I could I tip- toed around the corner, and then I ran down the hall again, and down the stairs where I ran into Mike.

"Mike," I said. "I think we should give Stan and Joe a second chance."

Preview for the next chapter

"So… does that mean we´re staying?"

"Oh no" I gasped, when the map I just had held in my hand, slowly fell to the floor.