Adopted By Janiel {Book 2}

VII

"You can be anything. I can do anything. Just out your mind to it. Just do what you want. Don't let others bring you down by words or actions. Words nor actions can bring you down."

Also, I have so many drafts omg. Im going to publish them more frequently.

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"I forgive you."
His eyes widen and so do everyone else's.
That's what mom would've wanted me to do. Forgive him.

I finish my way to my real fathers and sit in the middle of them.

Everyone's eyes are still on me.

The judge looks surprised.

She clears her throat and everyone else's attention turns back to her.

"We're taking a recess to determine the sentencing for Jim Richard Fidstone."
She bangs her wooden hammer on the wood box thing and the cops escort Jim out of the room and the other police officers get everyone else out.

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4 hours later.

I swing my legs to and fro on boredom.

Okay how much longer is this gonna take?
I was suppose to hang out with Kyle but these folks are taking forever.

"You okay?"
Daniel asks look at me.

I'm not okay.
I don't know when I will be.
I'm so embarrassed that Jim is my birth father.
It's humiliating.

I can't even look at Daniel.
I feel like I've just committed a crime or something.

I've been such a burden.
They have to go through all this trouble.
Paying for psychologists, clothes, they've done so much.

I hate that I've done that.
I feel somewhat guilty that I've put them through all thing trouble.

I shake my head.

Joey puts his hand over mind and rubs his thumb over it softly.

"It's okay"
Joey says quietly.

But it's not!
It's not okay.
It's never okay.

Good thing my therapist told them I might go through a defense mechanism because of the "trauma I've been through" or something.
I think that's happening now.

I grab Joeys phone and type in the notes.

"Can I call Kyle?"

Joey gives me a small smile and nods.

I pick up his phone and walk just outside of the "Grand Court Of California"
And dial his number.

Ring. Ring. Ring.

"Hello?"

"Hi Kyle"
I say quietly.
I feel my eyes getting blurry. But in not falling asleep.

My eyes are watering.

"It's okay. You're fine"
He says softly into the phone.