A Different Type of Family

First Family Visit

Lena Adams Foster smiled as she eyed her kids in the van. They all agreed to come see AJ and this will be the first time the kids would come see their jailed brother. Lena knew the kids missed AJ, but it cost them a lot. Lena pulled into a visitor parking and met up with Frank and Sharon.

The extended family walked in and got a huge table to wait for AJ. He was shocked to see his family there and his siblings. He had been out of solitary confinement for a week now and was glad to see them. "Hi," AJ mumbled out.

His siblings eyed him and nodded. Lena came over to hugged her son and he hugged her back. 

"Thanks for coming," AJ added. They nodded and Lena sighed. "I miss being at home."

"So AJ how have you been?" Sharon asked.

"Okay I guess," AJ added. "How is my druggie sister?" he teased. Ty stood up.

"Alexander Joshua. How dare you," Lena reprimanded.

"That's it. I'm done," Ty added. "How dare you. Look at where you are? You are a screw up and always will be," Ty added. "Callie is not a druggie you are."

"I'm out," Callie added. "I need to get some fresh air. This place is too much."

"We are out too," the others added. Lena sighed as she eyed her eight babies leave. 

"Let them leave," AJ added.

"I'm leaving too. You can't push us away," Lena added as she got up to leave.

"Mama?" AJ asked. "Where are you going?"

"To be with your siblings. They took time out of their busy schedules to come see you. And you trek Callie like crap. I screwed up with you and never should have let you have a free pass. Once you get home, you will punished and things will change. I will not allow one of my sons' to thros his life away, like you are doing," Lena added.

"I was probably better off in foster care," AJ added. Lena began to cry and AJ knew he pushed to to far. She left and did not bother to hug her son back. She was too hurt and upset. Once she came out, her eight other kids were gone and she sighed. "Damn," Lena added.

Sharon and Frank eyed him. "What is going on with you?"

"I don't know," AJ added. "No one was talking and I wanted to make a joke."

"Callie has been through a lot," Frank added. "She didn't deserve that comment."

"I'm sorry," he added. "Now they all hate me."

"They don't," Sharon added. "You just pushed them all away."

Lena went back home after not finding her kids. She cleaned the house and did meal prep and decided to make a pasta, wings and salad for dinner. She heard the front door open and she eyed her eight kids come in.

"Where have you been!?" she asked.

"The park," Callie added. "We needed to think."

"How long have you been here?" Ty asked.

"Since you all left," Lena added. "I wasn't going to stay after he acted like that."

"Oh," the kids added. "Were sorry."

"And I'm sorry too. How are you baby buggy?"

"Fine mama," Callie added. "Do you need help with dinner?"

"Sure sweets. You can set the table," Lena added. Callie nodded as she went to get the dinnerware and cups. "Ty can we talk?" Lena asked. He eyed her.

"If this is about AJ? No," he added. 

"It is not about your brother," Lena added.

"Then what?" he asked.