Adopted By Matthew Espinosa (Hayes Grier)

Chapter 1

Let me introduce myself, my name is Charlotte and I am 14 years old. I have been in an orphanage for 6 years of my life since my mother and my little brother died in a car accident. After my mom died, my dad went out of control, he wasn't really acting like a dad since that day. I was 8 years old when this happened, I went into the orphanage when I was 9.

I was sitting in my room that I have been in for the past 6 years. It really hasn't changed in 6 years. The room has plain white walls with a large window that you can see once you walk through the door. I share my room with a girl called Sophia, she is only 10. I treat her like my little sister, but she always leaves the orphanage and comes back. This is the third time that she has came back to this place in 2 years. I have been here for a while, but at least I don't get fostered for a month then have to come back to this dump.

The lady that always comes up to tell Sophia that someone wanted to foster her came up. She knocked on the door, Sophia's face went white. "Charlotte, there is someone that wants to adopt you," She said. My head came up immediately, I thought no one would ever want to adopt me. "Are you serious?" I asked. "Yes Char," She said with a smiling on her face. I ran up and hugged her. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I yelled while I hugged her. "Come down once you have your bags packed," She said before she walked out of the room.

I quickly ran and packed all of my belongings that I had in a large pink suitcase. "Good luck, I am going to miss you," Sophia said as she sat down on her bed. "Hey, I will come and visit you as much as I can!" I told her as I wiped away a tear on her cheek. "You promise?" She asked. "I promise!" I said before I hugged her. "Charlotte, you need to go," The lady said standing from the door. "I love you Soph! I will see you soon!" I said as I hugged her tightly and then walked away. A tear escaped my eye, trust me I wont miss this place, but I will miss Sophia more than anything in the world! I walked down stairs expecting to see my new Mom and Dad, maybe even a sister or brother, but actually I see a man standing there that looked like he was only 20!

MATT POV.

I have been wanting to adopt for a while, so 6 months ago I put applications in to adopt a child. I didn't tell anyone just in case it went wrong, I didn't know what I was expecting. All I knew is that I was getting a 14 year old girl, the lady that stood behind the counter that called me to tell me that there was a child waiting to be adopt went upstairs to tell the girl to hurry up. She came down stairs, she looked so scared. She had long brown curly hair, with brown eyes. "Hey, my name is Matt," I told her as I walked up to her and took her bag, "Um, hi. My name is Charlotte," She said while looking up at me. She was pretty short for her age.

"You ready to go?" I asked her just after I signed the last piece of paper work. "Yep," She replied, you could tell that she was scared by looking in her eyes. She went and said goodbye to the lady behind the front desk, I'm pretty sure her name was Felicity. "Good bye sweet young girl! I will be thinking of you," She said as she hugged Charlotte. "Thank you for everything! I will miss you," Charlotte said with tears starting to stream down her face. "Good bye," Charlotte said before she walked out the door with me.

"So tell me about yourself," I asked her as I put her bag in the back and she got in the front. "Well, I'm 14, I've been in this place for 6 years and I have a brother well had a little brother. He died with my mom when I was 8," She told me. My heart broke. A girl so young, only 14 years old and she was alone. "I didn't know," I replied trying not to cry. "Yeah, well it has been a long time now," She told me. "Where do you live?" She asked me. "I live not to far away, only around the corner," I replied to her. We drove into the drive way, "Is this your house?!" She asked while her eyes widened. "Our house now," I replied, she smiled at me.

CHARLOTTE POV.

Matt drove into the drive way of his house, "Is this your house?!" I asked with a huge smile on my face. "Our house now," He said. I just smiled, I was pretty nervous but excited at the same time. He got out of the car and got my bag out of the back and opened the door for me. "Want to have a look inside?" He asked me with a grin on his face. "Yes!" I replied with a huge smile on my face. I finally had a house.

He walked in front and opened the door to his well our house when 2 guys came and jumped out at him. I screamed with my hand over my mouth. "Who is this?" The one with bright blue eyes asked. "This is Charlotte, I adopted her today," Matt said. Both of the boys eyes widened. I just smiled. "Come on, lets go inside," Matt said as he walked pass the two guys who both looked very similar, I think they are brothers, anyway I just followed behind him. "Let me show you your new room," He said. "Oh by the way, this his Nash and his little brother Hayes," He said as we walked up the stairs, "Hi," I replied quietly under my breath.

He took me upstairs, the house was massive! "This is your room, we can go shopping tomorrow and buy what ever you want for it," He said as he showed me the second door on the left. I fell in love with it. "Thank you so much!" I said as I hugged him. "It's okay, you go and change into something more comfortable as I get lunch ready for you," He said before he walked away. I was so happy right now. I quickly got changed in my own bathroom! I always had to share a bathroom with someone before so it was pretty cool that I had my own. I walked down stairs to see 10 guys just standing there at the bottom of the stair case, including Matt, Nash and Hayes. "Um, hi," I said with a smile on my face. They all starred at me besides Matt, Nash and Hayes. It kinda creeped me out.