Helped

Chapter 4, Home

At the staircase I sat on the bottom few steps trying to hear their conversation over the girls shouting and watching TV in the other room"I apologize for her, she is a difficult child, unadoptable if you know what I mean" Madame said once I had left. Tony, becoming interested asked "what's her name?" I could imagine the look of disgust on her face at that question "Winter Adams, but sir I doubt she is the one you want-" She was cut short by Tony "May I see her file?" he asked. She scoffed and I heard a noise indicating she had tossed it across the table. "Wow, murder, that must have been pretty traumatizing..." He said lowly. "She was too young to remember it, I don't think she even really loved her parents, but I'll be honest once you can get her to she does clean pretty well." There was an awkward spot of silence and I heard him scoff ever so lightly. "I think that I might want to meet with her privately, see if she is the one." He said. I scurried up the stairs as fast as I could away from her when I heard her chair scoot across the floor, and her heavy footfalls get louder. "WINNIE!!" She shouted up the stairs. I stumbled out of the hallway and down the stairs to her side. "He would like to meet with you privately" she said obviously angry, but trying to hide it as she ground her teeth together. "Yes ma'am" I replied, trying to hide the smile that was on my face. She grabbed my arm and pulled me towards her "Wipe that stupid motherfucking smirk off your face" she growled quietly in my ear. I pulled away and walked into the room with Mr. Stark. "Hi" I said quietly, sitting in the chair across from him. "Sup' kid?" He replied, a big smile on his face. "So I'm just gonna be honest okay?" he started, and I nodded. "Okay, I'm already planning on adopting you kiddo, I just want to make sure that you want to be adopted, and more specifically by me" He said smiling when he saw the expression on my face. "Of course! Oh my goodness yes of course!" I said, tears welling up in my eyes. So this is my knight in shining armor, more like a dad in iron though  I thought, smiling as big as I could. He looked at me with soft eyes and smiled as kindly as he could "what happened?" He asked gesturing towards my black eye and cut on may face. "Oh, well some of the girls here are a bit rough" I said gesturing to my eye and laughing lightly. "What about the cut on your cheek?" He asked. I looked down, my mind immediately thrown back into bad memories. "Don't wanna talk about it" I said. He looked at me nervously and said okay, he didn't bring it up again. We talked for a while about our similar interests and dislikes. 

I learned that we both love AC/DC, but I like the beatles more.  We both hate shrimp, we both love learning new things, but suck at focusing. We both love animals and are allergic to peanuts. And we both want him to adopt me extremely badly. He said he would be back in a week, that everything would be finalized by then and I could go home with him. I was so exited! I couldn't believe he wanted me! But he doesn't  Said a voice in my head, He doesn't want you, he just wants to seem like a good person for popularity and business, he doesn't love you and no one ever will, Despite the cheerful news of the day, I still cried myself to sleep.  

When Tony arrived the next week I became suspicious. "Why did you pick me?" I asked him as we walked up the stairs to my bedroom to get my things. "I liked you the best, we have the most in common, and you seem a bit sassy with an attitude, but not so much of an asshole as the other girls"I smiled to myself and continued walking up the stairs, limping. "Hey why are you limping? Are you okay?" He asked when he noticed. "Yeah, I'm fine" I replied with a forced smile and I started walking normally, and pushed down the pain in my leg. When we got to my room Maya was in there on her phone, but she immediately put it down and stood up when Mr. Stark entered the room. "Hello mr. stark" she said extra sweetly, putting on a fake smile while glaring daggers at me. "Hello" he replied, without even looking at her. She looked put out and sat down on her bed, watching me put the small amount of clothing I had into my backpack. Tank top, Shorts, Sweater, socks, underwear, sports bra. I also picked up the small box of razor blades and tried to discreetly place them in my bag. "what's that?" Tony asked, gesturing towards the box. "Hm? Oh just colored pencils, ya know?" he nodded and zipped up the bag for me, placing it over his shoulder. "Ready to go kiddo?" He asked me "Mhm!" I replied, exited for the new sensation of having a family, even if it is just one person, at least it was one person that cared.