I'm Finally Wanted

Chapter 14

Today makes three months of having my father in my life, and six months of Steve still harassing my family. Steve found Tyler and I's phone numbers so he kept calling us. Threatening to kill us, blah blah blah, typical Steve behavior. Daniel ever so kindly said that we could come stay with him and Amelia at their house, since Steve could track our phone numbers or something to the penthouse. So right now we're all packing up and getting ready to temporarily move in with Daniel.

"Hey mommy, when are your legs going to be fixed?" Wyatt asks me. But before I can answer, River starts talking.

"Wyatt, mother is awaiting a surgery to fix her spinal cord injury. There's a chance she might not get into surgery, and a chance the surgery won't work. Until then, she'll continue to be a paralyzed from the waist down. We have no idea when she'll regain the use of her legs, but until then we can support her by being helpful children and not asking questions that could potentially send her into a state of depression."

Wyatt's jaw drops as he looks at River, then he turns to me. "Not only was he born first, but he's smarter! Rivy, you better teach me your ways."

"All you need to do is pay attention to everyone, and have conversations with adults who use a much stronger vocabularies and talk about much more serious topics."

"Oh ok. Well, I'm off to find father." Wyatt says grinning. Once Wyatt is out of sight, River runs his hand down his face and sighs.

"What is he gonna do without me? He's so clueless." Then River walks off as well, probably to bother Tyler as well. Meaning I'm free to pack without my children distracting me.

"Hey Rae, I have a question."

Never mind.

"Yeah Chris?" I ask looking up at Christian.

Christian comes to me and stands shyly by my side, looking at my lap like he wants to sit down, but doesn't want to hurt me.

"You won't hurt me bud. It's fine." With that Chris hops onto my lap and starts fiddling with my fingers.

"You're adopted right?"

"Yeah, up until I was 12."

"Did you ever call your adoptive stents mommy and daddy?"

"Yes, I did. But I was just a day or two old when I went to them. I was just a baby, I didn't know my mommy and daddy before that."

Christian frowns, but soon smiles. "If I was your parents, I'd never give you away. You're great!"

I smile as well. "Thanks Chris. I'll never give you away either."

"Well, since you are my mom, and Tyler's my dad, is it ok if I call you mom and dad? I know you aren't my birth parents, but is it ok? Jess and Bobby never wanted us to called them mom or dad."

"Tyler and I would love for you to be comfortable enough to call us mom and dad. But it's ok if you don't want to. We love you the same."

Christian smiles so brightly at me, it melts my heart. "I don't remember much of my mom, except she wasn't very nice to me. But you're so nice! And you've never hurt me, I know you never will. And we even angry ain't together! So of course I want to call you mom. You're more of a mom to me then my birth mom ever was."

I'm not crying, you're crying! Gosh dang it I freaking love Chris so much.

"And for Tyler, he's the bestest dad ever! He's never hurt me, and I know he won't hurt me just like you. Neither of you will hurt me. Tyler is really nice, and nothing like my birth dad. Tyler is much better then stinky Steve. You two are my parents, and have always been my parents. Even if I had to wait 7 almost 8 years to finally meet you. Kinda like you and your dad and mom. They were always your parents, you just hadn't met them yet."

Ahahahahaha...... I think my heart has stopped working.

"I love you so much Christian." I say wrapping my arms around Christian.

"I love you so much too mommy."

Ok, I've died and gone to heaven. It's really something when your adopted child calls you mom or dad. It shows how much they trust, love, admire, and adore you.

Christian pulls away from the hug, and smiles at me. "Why are you crying?"

"Because I'm happy bud." Chris rolls his eyes.

"I love you."

Chris gets off my lap, and says he's gonna go finish packing his clothes. Leaving me to pack my own clothes.

...

We park the car in front of Daniel's house, and it's honestly a nice house.

I wait for Tyler to get my wheelchair from the trunk for me, and he picks me up and placed me in it, instead of me having to lift myself into it.

"Aw thanks babe! You should do that every time!"

Tyler rolls his eyes and unbuckles Keely and hands her to me, then helps the boy's out of the car.

Once everyone's out, Daniel and Amelia come outside to greet us.

"Oh my goodness! I'm finally meeting my grand babies!!" Amelia squeals. She wasn't able to have children, so she's been dying to meet our kids.

Daniel comes to me and just stands next to me. I think he doesn't want to rush me into anything, and maybe he's scare he'll scare me away by hugging me. But really, I've excepted he's my dad. And honestly I'm happy about it. Sure I've only known him for a few months, but it feels like I've known him my whole life. Also, I've matured as a person. I've forgiven my family for everything, except for my parents and Zane. Like I forgave them before, but now I've forgiven forgiven them. If you know what I mean.

Tyler shakes Daniel's hand. "Thank you for letting us stay here."

Daniel nods. "Of course. Anything to keep my daughter- anything to keep your family safe. Also it's just terrible what this Steve guy is doing."

Daniel always does that, acts like he isn't doing everything he does for me. Like I said, he doesn't want to scare me away.

"Hey Amelia, wanna hold Keely?"

"Really?! I'd love to!" Amelia carefully takes Keely from me, and then goes back to the boy's. I hold my arms, wanting a hug from Daniel. But he just looks at me. I drop my arms.

"You're not scaring me away. I'm here for good. No need to worry."

With that Daniel quickly hugs me so tight I think I'll die from suffocation. But that's fine with me, he's been looking for me my whole life, always wondering where his daughter went. Never being able to hug me, he's been waiting over twenty years for this moment. Im not taking it away from him. And this is my first hug from a parents who actually cares about me.

"I love you Raven." Daniel whispers in my ear. 

I remember earlier when Chris finally called me mom. He said I have been a better mom then his mom was. Well, Daniel has been a better dad to me then my dad, and I've only known him for a few months. That's really saying something.

"I love you too dad." I whisper back.

"Danny! You're gonna suffocate the poor girl!" Amelia yells.

Dad immediately lets go and straightens his back. "Sorry. I just waited almost 23 years to do that."

"It's fine. I waited 23 years to hug my real dad."

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Wassup tic tacs??? I hope you all are having a good week. I'm stuck between two decisions for this book, so I'm gonna ask y'all to pick 1 or 2. It's funny, I did this same thing when I was stuck between two paths for I'm Unwanted.

(I'll be updating on Tuesdays or Fridays depends on what's going on durning the week. Or if I'm not busy I'll also be updating both Tuesday and Friday)

Peace out✌️