Finding Hope

Chapter 2

It was later that night and Emma had crashed on the couch snuggled up in between Kevin and Dani. Emma was so tired and looked like an angel sleeping there in between them.

"What should we do?" Kevin asked as he looked down at the little girl that touched his heart, he didn't think he could ever get rid of her. She was so sweet and precious. It is unbelievable how sweet she actually is.

"I don't know, I mean I don't want to call the police and report her missing, but I think we have to." Dani was having the same feelings about Emma that Kevin was, she didn't want to give her up either.

Kevin was already thinking that they could adopt her. From what Dani told him he knew they would be able to give her a much better home. She was scared to death of getting in trouble. At first, she didn't want to eat at the table for dinner. It took some coaxing, but she finally sat at the table with them, but when she did, she hardly ate anything and only ate after they had started eating.

"I think we should call the police and have them come and take a look at her, who knows we might even be able to adopt her, if the circumstances are right," Dani thought out loud.

Kevin pulled out his phone and called the non-emergency police number and told them the situation. "Hi, my wife and I found a little girl in our basement tonight, and thought that we should report it," Kevin said into the phone, praying that they didn't have to give her up.

"Okay Sir, we will come in about an hour," the police chief said after he took Kevin's address and information and then hung up the phone.

"They will be here in an hour," Kevin sighed. He really did not want to do this. He just wanted to adopt and keep her. He was hoping the police would just let them keep her.

"Emma, wake up," Kevin said as he smoothed her greasy hair out of her face, so she could somewhat see.

"Yea," Emma said as she stretched and woke up some more. This is when she realized that she had to go potty, but she didn't want to ask so she just sort-of sat there wiggling, but she couldn't hold it for very long because soon she went potty all over the couch and floor.

"Please don't hit me, please don't hit me, please don't hit me," Emma keeps on repeating when she had realized what she had done.

"Emma, what's wrong?" Dani said as she looked over at her from where she and Kevin were talking.

"I went poops not on the potty but don't hit me please, I didn't mean too, please don't hit me," Emma cried.

"Emma, shhh, it is okay accidents happen, shhh, let's get you to the potty though," Dani said soothingly. "Come on Emma," Dani said as she held her hand out to her and led her upstairs to Kevin and Dani's master bathroom. She was going to give Emma a bath and it seemed just as easy to do it in the bathtub.

"Emma, do you have to go potty anymore?" Dani asked the little girl who was following her, when she nodded Dani pulled down her underwear and sat her on the toilet and again held her while she pooped.

They didn't have a potty chair or anything like that. Dani had thrown out all of her clothes except for her underwear the last time she went to the bathroom. She now didn't have any underwear either, she would just have to go commando tonight.

"Come on, Emma, let's get you all clean," Dani said as she lifted Emma into the bathtub for her bath after she was done going potty. She had found a plastic cup that she gave Emma to play with while she cleaned her up and she talked to her too.