Adopted By Janiel {Book 2}

VIII

I want food.

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"Okay. The Jury has come to a conclusion."

Oh gosh. Oh gosh. Oh gosh.
Nervous. Nervous!

"Jim you have been charged with 1st degree murder, child neglect, assault, and drug possession. You've been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole"

Oh my god.
Should I be happy or sad about this?
Life?
Like his entire life?
I don't know what to think.

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Joey

"At least that's over."
Daniel says as he crawls into the bed beside me.

"Yeah."
I mean I'm glad it's over, but Norabella seems sad. Well then again she had to re-live her mothers last day.

"How do you think she's holding up?"
I ask turning off the lamp beside me.
"I'm not sure. It seems like she only talking to Kyle."
Daniel says turning off his lamp to.

"Should we just ask Kyle what she's saying?" I ask
"I don't think so. If she wants to talk to us she will. I think she just needs time to process everything."
I nod.

"But I think everything will turn out how it's supposed to"
He says closing his eyes.

"How's it suppose to turn out?"
I question, whispering.

"Okay. It's suppose to turn out okay."

I hope so.

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Norabella

"Entire life?"
Kyle says shocked.

"I know. I'm still having trouble at that. Entire lives are super long"

"Yeah. But you could visit him if you wanted to?"
He says.
I dunno if I want to, but I also don't know if I NEVER ever wanna see him.

"I guess. But I'm not sure."

We sit down on the couch and turn on the TV.

"Are you talking to your dads?"
He asks then takes a sip of his apple juice.

"No. Do you think they regret adopting me?" I ask looking straight at Kyle.

"I don't think that at all."
He softly.

"But what if they do? They're stuck with me for at least 10 more years.
What if they don't even like me? When if they adopted me out of pity or something?"

"Don't say that. That's not fair to them. If they didn't like you, they wouldn't be this great to you. Just accept the fact that guys can care about you, to."

Why must he disagree with everything I say?

"Yeah yeah. Anyways, what have I missed in school the past few days?"

They have me sometime off cause if the entire court thingy.

"Nothing really different. I have your homework in my backpack that you missed. Oh and this girl Kessica and I hung-"
Hold up.
Kessica? What kinda name is that?
Who's Kessica? Did her parents mean to name her Jessica?

"Who's that?"
I ask.
Are they friends now?

"Oh she's that red head in the back. The girl who sits next to Tyrone. She's super nice. We had lunch together and then did hom-"

WHAT?
Excuse me!?

I give Kyle a look of annoyance but he's to busy talking and "Kessica" to notice! What the heck.