The Adopted Sister

Prologue

*2 years ago*

Daniella's POV

Yay, another day of not being adopted. I mean who am I kidding, no one wants the American kid. It's been two years since my parents died in that car crash. I wish I died with them in the car crash. At least then I wouldn't have been sent to this orphanage. I mean really, who decides to send an American kid to an orphanage in Australia. It's nice to know that I wasn't the only American here though.

Thing is that he got adopted and leaving me all alone. His birthday is tomorrow too, and we were supposed to celebrate his 15th birthday together.

Well, someone's knocking at my door. I might as well get it.

I open the door to see Joel standing there. Great! I can't let him see me in tears.

"Hey Daniella, are you okay?" he asks me.

"No! You're leaving me all alone! And we won't be able to spend your 15th birthday together like we planned!" I yelled at him.

He comes up and hugs me. "Hey, don't worry. We're still spending my birthday together. It'll just be me and you like we planned. My family is letting us. The good thing is that I'm going to be able to visit you everyday." His words just made me break down in tears. Joel then pulls me into a tighter hug.

"I'm going to miss you," I cry into his chest.

"Don't worry. We'll still see each other everyday, and we still have tomorrow."

We remain hugging until we hear the caretaker say that there was a family coming by who was looking for a teen.

"Want me to help you get ready?" Joel asks.

"Yeah," I say.

"You know I can still tell that you're not happy." I can see him smirking and I know what he's about to do.

"Don't you dare," I say backing up. He walks closer. "You better not do it!"

"I better not do what?" he asks all innocently. As I bump into my bed, Joel lunges towards me and tickles me.

"Please...Joel...stop," I say in between laughs.

"Say I'm the hottest guy in the world," he says as we both fall onto the bed.

"Fine! You're the hottest guy in the world!" He stopped tickling me and laid down next to me. Our laughs settled down and we both turned to look at each other. "I'm really going to miss you," I admit.

"I'm going to miss you too," he says. Joel then gets up and helps me off of my bed. "Come on, let's meet the family coming by."

"Carry me?" I ask giving him my puppy dog eyes. He groans but still bends down signaling me to climb onto his back. I get on his back and we make our way into the lounge area. He sets me down on one of the couches then sits right next to me.

"Daniella, get over here," the caretaker calls. I head over to the front door where the caretaker was standing with a family. There was only a mother and son there.

"My husband is just leaving work at the moment and will be here soon," the women who I take as the mother says.

"Well you can start meeting the children," the caretaker replies.

"Well we want a teenage girl," the mother says.

"Well here's Daniella." The caretaker puts her hands on my shoulder and slightly pushes me towards them.

"Hello Daniella," the mother says. "I'm Mrs. Sahyounie."

"Hello," I say cheerfully.

"And this is my son Daniel." She then lightly hit the boy's arm.