When A Part of You Family is Missing

Chapter 2 The Nice Strangers

The Hurtful Past

Luke

When I wake up I get a sort of feeling that today will be different. For the past ten years my family and I have been missing a part of our family. About ten years ago my brothers and my wife went into labor with our twins. One boy Michael, and a little girl Melody. When we got to the hospital our wife was rushed into surgery, because Melody's heart rate was dropping. So they did a quick scan and saw that the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck. Our wife Sang was rushed into surgery to save our children and wife. After about an hour a doctor came out and said that my wife and son were fine. But our little girl had died. When we asked if we could see our daughter. They said per hospital policy all still bornes were quickly cremated. Then the ashes could be given to the parent, or the hospital would scatter the ashes in the lake behind the hospital. When my younger brother spoke up, he was pissed off just like the rest of us. He told them they had no right to do that to our daughter. Plus not even letting us say good bye. Our little girl was a full term baby. The doctor then gave me a slip when we could pick up her ashes. I just broke down at the paper in my hand. About an hour later we were given three prices of paper. Two birth certificates and one death certificate.

For weeks my family and I have grieved for our little girl. Her brother Michael also was having a hard time sleeping. He was just a baby who was missing his twin. I know that my brothers Brandon and Corey knew what Michael was going through since they also have a twin bond. Michael is Owen's son. But he is all my brothers and my kid. We are all his father's. Melody was Raven's biological daughter. For you to understand this I will explain a little about my family. We are 14 men married to one woman. My Brothers are Corey, Brandon, Axel, Marc, Raven. They were part of an academy team called the Toma team. Then the other team was my original team I was in the blackbourne team. It had myself Luke, then there was Owen, Sean, North, Gabe, Silas, Nate, Kota, and Victor. We are all in a secret organization called the academy. Our main job is to help people that are in bad situations. Plus getting rid of the evils in our community. Like drug operations, human trafficking, and more. My brothers and I did not want to split up, plus we lived our wife Sang. So we all decided on a polyamory relationship. Some of my brothers are also married to one of our brothers. Sang even encouraged it. Owen is married to Sang, plus Sean. Raven is married to Sang plus Corey.

Present

I know it's mine and Norths day to help out at Uncle's diner. So we both go in Norths Jeep to start are shift at the diner. Soon after we get our morning preparation for the breakfast rush. We get swamped. This goes for about the whole morning. When we finally get a break between shifts. Uncle tells us that some random kid is on the swings that we gave to tear down, do to it's unsafe to have them. When we look out the door I see a little girl with a cast on her arm. I also see she has tears in her eyes. Before I can say anything to her. My idiot of a brother hollars at her. Which causes her to jump and lose her balance. Which makes her fall off right into her arm with the cast on it. I quickly drop everything I was doing to pick up this tiny child to bring her inside. When I pick her up she looks like she is hurting really bad but she makes no sound. She just has tears pouring out, plus holding her bad arm. When I get her inside, I lay her down on a cot in Uncles office. I quickly redline our brother Dr Sean.

Sean

We are just sitting down after making food for the kids. We have two kids age 15, they are both twins that we adopted. One is Max the other one is Dex. Then we have Owen's biological child Michael, he is 10 years old. Then there is Raven's biological daughter's Melody who died when she was born. She would also be 10 years old because she was Michael's twin. then we also have Alisa, who is 9 years old. We have the triplets that are 7 years old. Mason is Corey's, Jason is Nate's, kason is Gabe's. Then we have my son Caleb he is 6 years old. Then our Five year old twins. Scott is Kotas and Jewel is Luke's. Then we have Norths daughter is Star, she is four years old. Then Axels 3 year old Johnny. Then we also have Marcs Son Mick who is two. Then we have Sila's son Josh, who is 1. And our last son is Victors we named him Bradley. He is our 3 month old. All together we have 17 children. But only 16 alive ones. We all decided to bury Melody's ashes under the weeping willow tree in our back yard. This way we can visit her when ever we want too. The only one that won't visit her is Michael. He absolutely hates going even close to her memorial we made for her.

So as we are sitting down eating lunch I get a shock in my pocket. I quickly know it's a red line. I know it must be from North or Luke since they are the only ones not near me. So I quickly walk out of the dinning room. To call my brothers. I noticed a few of our brothers followed us out. I quickly call Luke because he is the one who redlined me. When he answers he tells me to come quickly. That a little girl is hurt at the diner. But she refuses to be taken to the hospital. Plus she already has a broken arm. They also said they think she is mute because she has not made any sound at all. When I hang up I quickly grab my doctor bag, Then Owen, and Axel and I head to the diner. When we arrive I see a very tiny girl about 6 or 7 years old. Holding her arm looking around scared as hell. I go up to her with my doctor silliness I do for my pediatric patients. When she sees me and hears me she lets a little giggle out. So I know she is not mute at least. I then check her over. First thing I see is she has the most beautiful eyes. They are an emerald green with tiny specs of blue in them. I then see chameleon color hair. The only person I know that has that hair is Sangs and our girls. I wonder if she is releated to the Sorenson's. I hope I am wrong about that. Because what I know what our beautiful wife Sang has been through. I noticed that the little girl also has a few bruises on her. It could of happened from what happened to her arm. I noticed how it is professionally wrapped. So I know she was seen by a real doctor. She also has one black eye. I wonder what has happened to this beautiful little child. I feel a sharp pain hit my chest. After I look her over I ask her how old she is. She looks in my eyes and shakes her head. She still won't talk to us. When I ask her where her parents are, she gets a frown on her face. Then shakes her head. About this time I hear the poor sweetheart belly rumble in hunger. So I have Uncle make her some lunch. I then decide to call up Corey and have him and Raven bring up Alisa and Michael. Maybe they can calm her down. Then get her to talk to us. With what uncle said, she has been here for a few hours now. Why won't a parent or caregiver check on their young child. She can't be no more the seven. She is tiny and only weighs about a toddler weight.

When Uncle brings over a plate of chocolate chip pancakes, apple juice, and peanut butter pie. She slowly pushes the pie away. I tell her that she can eat it if she wants. She then looks in my eyes and shakes her head. So uncle takes it away from her. I ask her if she is allergic to it or if she don't like it. She shakes her head at the allergic part. Wow I'm a doctor why would I give a child peanuts when I know a lot of kids have a peanut allergy. She then starts to eat the pancakes. But says she is full after only a few bites. I wonder if all the new people here make her nervous. About this time Raven and Corey show up with Michael and Alisa. When the kids see the little girl. They quickly run up to her trying to talk to her. She won't talk to them either. But she does answer Michaels question. She shows with her hand that she is ten years old. Michael says that he is also ten. Looking at Michael and this girl, they could be siblings. I also know this girl is very underweight. It makes me think something bad has happened to her. I quickly go into Uncles office and dial my mentor Dr Phill Roberts. When he answers the call I explain to him about the situation. He then tells me to bring her into the academy hospital. So we can check her over more than I can here. When I walk out of the room I noticed only two of our kids are here. When I asked them when the little girl went. They said she left and walked into the woods. Damn I look at my brother's and tell them we need to find this little girl. That I have a feeling she is being abused and neglected. So we all run out to search for this little angel who came to the diner. I just hope we can find her.