Rider is an 8 year old boy who's life has revolved around rejection and disappointment. What will happen when he meets his new foster parents? Will they ditch him like all the others?
I stayed awake that night and thought about what I've done. I'm the one who caused that argument and I'm the one who ran away from it. I've let Rider down and I've let Hayley down. Why did I even say something so dumb?
*Flash back to the argument* ///
"That was so much fun. They loved him!"
"I know. We basically have no life now," I laughed.
"What do you mean?" She asked looking pretty serious.
"Now that we have Rider we've basically thrown our careers away. I love my job and Jordan doesn't think that us having Rider would be good for my career."
"Chad, Jordan has kids of his own why would he say that? And if you're saying that you'd choose NFG over Rider then fine, do it. But I'd choose Rider over my career any day. How can you be so selfish! You're earning thousands a day and yet you still care about money more than our child!"
"I never said that! I'm just saying that maybe we should go back to weekly fostering."
"No. Chad, that is not happening. We've only just started permanent fostering, it'll crush him."
"Well I'm finding it all too much."
"Chad, you signed up for this as well as I did. We were talking for over year about fostering and you told me how much you wanted it! Why are you backing out now?! Fuck what Jordan thinks, he isn't a part of this family! You're a great daddy," she said as she touched my arm. "He adores you. You don't mean this babe, you don't."
"Fuck this shit," I said before storming out.
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I'm so fucking stupid. I love Rider more than anything. She was right, fuck what Jordan thinks.
I rolled over and looked at her back as she slept. I just want to tell her that I didn't mean it but I doubt that will work. I wish I could go back in time and say none of that. I love our little family.
I sighed and got out of bed to get dressed despite it being 1:00 am. There's a local pet store down the road that's open 24 hours. I'm gonna make it up to my little man.
I drove to the pet store and walked in.
"Hey," one of the ladies working there said.
"Hi. Could I have a look at some hamsters please?"
"Sure, follow me," she said.
She led me over to where all of the hamsters were and let me have a look around. One of them caught my eye straight away. Rider would absolutely love it!
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I looked around at all of the others in case I found a better one but I didn't. I called the lady over before saying, "I've decided on one."
"Okay. Why don't you look at some cages if you don't have one all ready and then we can fill out a form."
