SUMMER'S RAIN

CHAPTER 47

CHAPTER 47

My parents along with my brothers were blinked to what is going to be their new home in the Florida Keys. I am pleasantly surprised by the house. Everything we came up with had evidently changed. I thought we were moving them into nice middle-class residents my mom would work in a bank, and my dad would be an accountant. Imagine my surprise when we arrived at a house that looks like something out of the magazine of life styles of the rich and famous. When I ask Harris and Summer about it, they told me they had talked about it and decided Raymond and Kristie had suffered enough because of them, and this was their way of saying thank you.

Their new names are Terri and Douglass Wardlaw, and my brothers are Kenny and Jessie Wardlaw. They will now be retired millionaires with all their money made from the stock market. I hug Harris and Summer both thanking them for what they have done. Then I take a look around the house. It is beautiful, and I know that they will all be happy here.

I also know that I know longer belonged with them. I will always care about them, but my life is in the Keepers' World with my birth parents, Case, Cain and Lisa. They are my family now, and I have grown to love them as much as they love me. It’s strange nine months ago I was torn away from my family and wanted to die and hated the people that gave birth to me but, somewhere and somehow along the way things changed, and now I can’t imagine not being a Keeper or having Harris and Summer in my life. I am proud Summer and Harris are my parents, and I’m also proud to be a Keeper. Walking back to the family room I tell everyone “let’s do this.”

“Would you like to do it or should I?” Harris asked.

“Think I’ll let you do it. I don’t want to mess anything up.” I answer.

Smiling Harris said, “Honey, I have all the faith in the world in you, I know you wouldn’t make a mistake after all you're my daughter and you’re just like me.”

Summer rolls her eyes and looks from me to Harris laughing and said, “Even when you’re giving your daughter a compliment you still manage to stroke your own ego.” Shaking her head she walks over to me and puts her arm around me. She said “do it already would you handsome” then she winked at him. I stood there with Summer’s arm around me and Case holding my hand and watch Harris create a new life for my old family.