"She can't get away with this!" Stef yells at the Janice across the kitchen table.

"Yesterday, she was taken into custody by the police for what happened with your oldest daughter, she'll be going to Juvenile Detention. But she has a great lawyer. He convinced the judge that her sentence for that is punishment enough."

"No, she needs to be sentenced for longer, she broke a million laws, privacy, deceit, the list goes on. A six-month sentence is not long enough!" She's almost crying. I, however, am all out of tears. Lena manages to calm Stef down and gets her to sit back down.

"As of right now, all I can do is get her more community service and get a restraining order."

"I want to talk to her," I speak up. I've barely spoken to anyone over the past two days. I haven't known what to say.

"That can be arranged," Janice says.

"No, it can't, Gracie, you can't talk to her, she's only going to hurt you." Stef squeezes Lena's hand.

"She's already hurt me. I need to know why, if you expect me to get through this you need to let me understand it," I say with a poker face.

"She's a bad person, that's why Gr-"

"Stef!" Lena stops her. "Gracie, if that's really what you want then you can see her, for 10 minutes with supervision but after that, it's done. You're not to talk to her or anyone to do with her again. Do you understand?" I've never seen Lena this mad.

"Yes," I say. Stef sits back in her chair; she's almost as shaken as I am about this whole thing.

"In that case, you can see her today, before it's determined what facility she's taken to."

"Can you take me now, Lena?" She nods her head.

Soon enough we're in the car on the way to the police station. Lena made Stef stay at home with the other kids, she said being at the station might be too much for her right now. I thought it would take an age for us to get in to see her, but I'm in there with a few minutes. Lena follows me into the room, it's like an interrogation room. There's a metal table bolted to the floor and four chairs around it. We're escorted in by an officer, he goes out of the opposite door and moments later returns with Rachel. He's holding her by her arm. She looks awful.

"Gracie!" She tries to run to me, but the officer pulls her back.

"No contact." He makes her sit down and cuffs her to the table. My hand tenses up around Lena's.

"Why?" I say with a lump in my throat.

"I was protecting you!" She's not quite shouting, but she's talking loud and erratically, she's shaking too, "You talked about Jason, I knew he was bad for you. I wanted to make sure no one would hurt you. Like he did."

"What are you talking about? He didn't hurt me. You did. Why did you post those videos? The whole world saw what I almost did to myself, and they encouraged it."

"I thought it would make you see that there are more important things in the world, like us, we're meant to be together!" She's crying, but she's smiling like a crazy person. That's what she is.

"You told me you loved me, you made me fall in love with you," I yell at her.

"I do love you!"

"Oh please, you're just as sick and twisted as he is." I stand up.

"Who?" She tries to stand up too, but the officer pushes her back down.

"Your dad." I kick my chair back and leave the room; my eyes fill up with tears. The second we're out in the hall again I flop into Lena's arms as we collapse onto the floor. "I thought she loved me, Lena, I'm sorry, I should never have gotten involved with her." She strokes my hair.

"It's okay sweetie, we all make mistakes. It's over now, you don't have to see her or talk to her ever again. You can work on yourself now."

She takes me back home and lets me lie down for a few hours. I spent most of last night in Jesus and Jude's room with all the others. Brandon spent the night too. They sat with me while I cried, I didn't get any sleep. None of us did. They comforted me, got me water when I was breathless, they were amazing. I long for the day when I can repay them for their kindness. We all brought our comforters and pillows in. so when I got home, they were all tidying up after themselves. When I walk through the front door, they all gather around me and bury me in their embrace.

"How was it? Mom told us you went to see her," Brandon says. We all sit in the living room.

"It was weird, but it's done now. She's out of my life for good."

"We're just going to try and get back to normal now, right Gracie?" Lena says.

"Right, I don't need more drama." I don't know how I'm supposed to get past this.

"The videos have all been deleted now, and your accounts have been deleted too. Emma helped me," Mariana says.

"Thank you. I don't ever want to see them again." I give her another hug and go upstairs to get into my bed.

I managed to fall asleep but a few hours later I was woken up by Jude telling me they need me downstairs for dinner, they're all sat at the dining room table, we never eat in here. Callie told me it was only for special occasions or when they have guests, I guess they just had a lot of food or something.

"What's going on?" I rub my eyes, I'm still half asleep. I sit down at the table sluggishly start eating. Stef and Lena stand up. Stef's smiling now, and Lena's not as mad as she was before. They're both in weirdly good moods. I look around me, everyone's smiling... at me.

"Gracie, despite the ups and downs, we've loved having you here and we've all grown close over the past few weeks," Lena says. All the other kids are looking at me, all smiling.

"So, we wanted to say," Stef pipes up like it's rehearsed. "If it's okay with you, we'd really like to adopt you." I had forgotten about the adoption thing completely, this must be another dream, like the one I had before, just more real, right?

"You've become a daughter to us." Lena comes to my side and puts her arm around me. Her hand rests on my shoulder and I know this is real. It's actually happening.

"You're serious?" I have to take a step back and process this, I had my hopes up, but I didn't think they'd want to keep me. Why would they? All I do is cause trouble.

"Of course!" Mariana says. "You're our sister, Gracie." Sister. Family. I still don't believe it.

"So?" Brandon looks willingly at me. "What do you say?"

"Um, yes-" I know I sound underwhelmed. "I'd love to." I'm in too much shock to be jumping up and down. I hug Stef and Lena and hug them both, I start to cry, and all the others tear up. "I love you guys." They all stand up and join the group hug

"We love you too, Gracie," Jesus says. They're all so amazing, and they're going to be my real family.