Puzzle Pieces

|~Sarah~|

TOMMYS POINT OF VEIW!
Tw: cursing

It'd been about a week since I've actually been capable of walking again, sure it took around a month but I've definitely improved , Sarah's pretty proud. Today was the day Jane finally decided i'd head to 'Lemon tree foster care'.

Jane had told me there's already a family interested in fostering me, that had given me quite a bit of confusion since I haven't been to the care yet, why had Jane put me on the listing!?

I packed my small amount of things into a backpack Sheila had given to me, I didn't have much but I didn't really need much anyway, not like I had a lot. I did have my cow Henry though, my grandmother bought him for me when I was around 3. She passed shortly after though upsetting enough I don't really remember her. I'd only had Henry since I had forced Jane to go back to our house and get him for me before they sold our home. Sold our furniture. And left our memories for the dust. After all as much as I loved our home, it meant nothing to me without my parents, so I could really care less.

I took Henry and gently placed him into my bag, on top of the few clothing items I had left. Quickly I zipped the bag up tightly. The bag was extremely light, but I figured it would be since I'd only had so many things inside it, I had a journal in there that Sarah had given to me to write about my feelings/problems in. I appreciated Sarah. I'm really gonna miss her, but people come and go that's life after all.

I figured Sarah would forget me after a few months, she has multiple patients why would she remember me? I'm nothing special. Just another 11yr old with no family. 

There was a soft knock on the room door, I wasn't in a rush to answer it, after all it's probably just Jane here to kick me out of the hospital and welcome me to whatever the future held for me.

"Come in I guess." It's a simple response, they wouldn't stop knocking so might as well let them barge in. The door quickly opened, hesitantly I turned around to see who it was. It was Sarah..? She wasn't wearing her usual, scrubs and a high pony tail with those vile Nike shoes. Instead she was wearing a normal pair of jeans and a bright yellow tank top, it was Saturday? Sarah only worked week days normally, well I'm not complaining Sarah's pretty chill.

"Tommy!" Sarah shouted excitingly, what's got her so jumpy?

"Hi Sarah." I responded much less enthusiastic than her. I'm not exactly in the best mood for my defense.

"I heard you leaving today, so I wanted to tell you something!" I looked at her confused? What did she have to tell me besides 'goodbye' or 'I hope you have a good rest of your life with no one to call mum or dad.'

Sarah walked over to me gently taking my hands, extremely confused my first response was to try and pull away, but the bitch tightened her grip and giggled. What the actual fuck man!?

"Uhh what are you doing??" I asked nervously, she just smiled and laughed again. What is wrong with her!?

"Uhm hello?" I spoke first once again. Sarah knelt down by me and sat me against the bed frame.

"Tommy, I'm going to be fostering you!" What!? Actually?

"You've got to be kidding! Don't get my hopes up." Sarah laughed

"Don't worry I'm not kidding, I'm going to foster you until we can find you a permanent position in foster care!" No way this was awesome, she may be a little crazy but this was definitely better than going to wherever Jane was taking me, the care had horrible reviews.

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I'd been staying with Sarah for around a week now, her house was alright, two bedrooms and one bath, the bathroom was decently sized so that was cool. It kinda sucked that she only had a mini fridge in her kitchen but it is what it is I guess. My room has a twin sized bed and a wardrobe it wasn't much, I really didn't mind though it made the room feel less cluttered. Surprisingly Sarah didn't have a cat or a dog but she did have a parrot, she called him "chip" I believe he was a green macow. I may be wrong, I'm not a bird expert. But he's decent I guess. Except when he openes the bathroom door while your bathing that's just pure evil.

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"Tommy!" I heard Sarah shout from her bedroom. It's two in the fucking morning what does she want? Is she dying? She's never up this late.

"Yes?" I hollered down her awfully long hallway hoping she'd hear me alright.

"Tommy come here!" Confused I slowly made my way down the dark hallway. It felt as if I was walking into a black void kidna terrifying if you ask me. I opened Sarahs door slowly peaking my head in, Sarah was sitting in her bed scrolling through her phone, she quickly glanced towards me and smiled. Why the fuck does she always smile??

"Hello..?" She was creeping me out now.

"Can you get dressed? My boyfriend is coming over. Oh by the way could you feed chip?" Isn't the bird supposed to be sleeping-?

"Uhm okay?" I quickly shut her door and made my way back to my bedroom pulling out my regular shirt and trousers, why is her boyfriend coming here right now?? It's two in the morning.. she hadn't even mentioned the fact she was dating someone.

I got dressed and made my way to chips cage. He quickly bounced up off his hammock he was sleeping on and made his way over to the cages door, I unlocked the latch pulling the door open. I perched my arm out in front of him so he could get of my way, to allow me to fill his food bowl. Chip climbed onto my arm making his way into my shoulder. I filled his bowl, before gesturing for him to go eat, rather than listing to me and let of a loud shriek in my ear.

"Was that necessary!?" I complained looking at chip annoyed, he knew exactly what he did.

"I swear to God, I'll let you outside and never let you back in!" Chip shrieked again much more quite this time. I guess that was his way for saying he wouldn't do it again.

A loud knock filled the room, Sarah's boyfriend was most likely here. As much as I hate loud children I did exactly what any 11yr old would do.

"Someone's at the door!!" I shouted as loud as I could directly down the hallway, I held a smirk on my face when I heard a bang from Sarahs room. I probably scared the shit out of her! She deserved it. I patted chips head since he had to listen to me scream from front row seats (my shoulder blade he refused to get off of.)

Sarah came down the hallway pretty quickly. "Next time you decide to almost make me piss myself I'll strangle you boy!" She had spoke jokingly waving her finger at me. I laughed, honestly it was funny seeing Sarah pissed in a bright pink robe and sandals, woman are weird. 

(I am a girl myself please I'm not being sexist! Nor is Tommy meaning to be in this story!)

Sarah opened the front door revealing a man who stood around 6ft, his head was shaved, he also had a medium length ginger beard, he was wearing a white tank top and dark blue jeans along with muddy work boots. He wasn't very well fit but could definitely knock someone out with one blow, with the size of those fists. I don't really know what to think of him but damn does he give me an off feeling especially since he was holding a beer bottle in his right hand.

"Tommy this is Earl, my boyfriend!" Sarah spoke cheerful, I quickly glanced towards the floor once Earl made eye contact with me. I patted my shoulder after I noticed chip backing into his cage, he quickly made his way back onto my shoulder nuzzling his face against my shoulder making me aware he's there. Chip was a good bird.

Sarah snapped her fingers towards me, Immediately turned my attention towards her.

"Tommy?? Hello??" She clearly didn't like the fact I was ignoring her boyfriends existence completely, but that didn't really bother me.

"I'm going to bed." I made my way back to chip's cage allowing him to crawl into his hammock, as soon as he was comfortable I latched his cage up tightly.

"Night buddy."

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1478 words!

Hi, hoping this story is going well so far, if I'm mistaking any of the things included in this book please lmk so I can fix them later on! This chapter could've been longer but I have some things I need to get done so I'll try to write some more within a day or two! :)