Parentless

1-Again?

Over these eight years, the egg donor has dropped off five more bundles of blankets. The youngest Akia almost died because of it. She dropped her off in the middle of winter when we were out training and exercising a couple of feet back. We don't know how long she just laid out there on the porch till we finally came back inside.

She almost caught pneumonia which would have probably killed her if the hunger didn't first since she looked starved too. We all went into panic mode, Ravo was making a bath, Ash was making her some bottles, Idria was picking out the warmest clothes for her, while Rian & Ale prepared the swaddle, blankets, and baby bed for her.

Anyway, that was then, and luckily because of our teamwork, she survived. Now more pressing matters are that winter is coming up soon and it's going to be freezing so we need to stock up on wood for the fireplace, some more food, and another mattress. Even though we still live in the same two-bedroom house from when I was ten, we still sleep in the living room to be by the fireplace, my old room is still used as a kind of utility room now and the same with my parent's old room still being used as storage for all the useful stuff that we find on our trips.

After making sure Ash can handle being in charge for a couple of hours while I and Ravo go and get more supplies we grabbed our backpacks and wagons and headed out to gather the items we needed to get through this winter. While we were out I was able to find some thermal heat items, out of all the times we have come out to find more supplies I have never been able to find the thermal heat ones. They will come in use for if we need to do something during the winter we won't freeze to death.

When we got all that we need plus some extra stuff so that it didn't go to waste, we headed back home to show the others the new stuff we found. Once we were done putting all of our findings away in the storage room after showing the others the new items we got, I started a fire in our stove thing so I can make us some lunch before it was time to train since today we are going to be eating soup.

After I got out our big pot and grabbed the needed cans of soup before opening them so I can put them into the pot to cook. While the food was cooking I stirred it occasionally so it doesn't burn at the bottom while I worked on my next book and helped my siblings with their work. Now that I'm 18 I was able to get the needed work for seventh through twelfth grade since i just asked my teachers where to get it and bought a couple of boxes worth of them to make sure I had enough for my siblings when they got to that grade.

At first, we only had workbooks up to sixth grade so I had to go to school for the other grades so I can get those books for my siblings with the help of my best friend. I still can't believe I made a friend even though I mainly stayed to myself. Anyway once the food was done I started to plate it while Ravo blended the chunks of meat and noodles for Arrow.

After filling up the tray so I can bring it to our food eating mat, I headed to the mat as Ash Grabbed the baby chairs and Idria strapped them in so they can eat. After Ravo got done mixing Arrow's food he plated it then sat down with the rest of us.

Once I set the bowls in front of everyone we all started to eat till the whole pot was empty. After everyone was done eating it was clean-up time I started the dishes while Ravo cleaned the mat, Ash cleaned the chairs, Idria bathed the babies, Rian got the clothes out and Ale got them dressed after drying them.

We were done in minutes and about to head to training when I saw a bundle laying on the porch as soon as I opened the door and freaked out because it was too cold for a baby with so few layers on and yelled "CODE BLUE" as I picked her up and brought her inside.

Ravo started making her a bath while Ash got her some warmer clothes, Idria started making her a bottle, and Rian grabbed blankets and pillows so Ale can make a warm little caccoon for her. Once she was fed, bundled up, and cozy we put the other youngest to sleep for their nap then continued to go and train before coming back inside a couple of hours later to start the night routine and go to sleep after dinner.

Throughout a couple of days, there hasn't been anything eventful except for the occasional rogue here and there other than that our days have been uneventful. My younger siblings are getting better at the training day by day and I couldn't be any more proud of them.

The newest addition to the family finally has a name now since we put it up for a vote between the top two favorite suggestions and the name Akia won, my youngest sibling, little sister is now named Akia. That name is such a nice name and it's so unique I love the name, whenever we have a new addition to the family we always throw out suggestions, and the ones that we like more go on the list to be voted for till we get the perfect name for them.

Since the egg donor always shows up unannounced and drops off the bundles without so much as a noise letting us know that either of them is there, we created a code system to help us know what to do in that situation so that what happened to Idria doesn't happen to anyone else.