Abducted Then Adopted

Prolouge

The wind was howling it was a bit cold out I try and get warm and comfortable but I'm still cold.

-Flashback(8years ago)-
"Mommy I'm still cold," 8 year old Bella says, her bottom lip quivering. Her mom comes over and wraps her in a warm hug and says. "I know baby." A knock sounded at the door and her mom walks up to go answer it. Upon realizing who it is little Bella dashes to the door. "Daddy!" she squeals, "hay there princess look at what daddy bought you." Pulling a small necklace from his suit, Bella looks at it her eyes sparkling. "It's pretty daddy. thank you."

"Your welcome princess, can you turn around for me. Turning around Bella felt her dad pull her hair to the right side of her neck. "Now princess I want you to remember no matter what with this necklace your mom and I will always be with you. Even when your all grown up and you feel scared or nervous just remember we're always right here." He point to the necklace which was in the shape of a heart with a white diamond in the middle. Bella gives both her parents a hug. "Come now sweetheart it's times for bed."

He says picking up Bella. Laying her down, he pulls her covers from there neatly position and pulls them over his daughter. Leaning in and kissing her forehead. Bella's mom doing the same. "Goodnight princess." He whispered looking into his daughters eyes. " goodnight my little Cookie Monster". Her mom gushed looking at her little family, and Bella closed her eyes. Drifting off into her dreams.

-end of flashback-

Tears burned my eyes and my lower lip started to tremble. Wrapping my hand around the necklace, Closing my eyes I thought about what my dad said to me. "Now princess I want you to remember no matter what with this necklace your mom and I will always be with you." I missed my mom and dad so much after they were killed I had been put in to foster care where I had been adopted by Monsters. The people who adopted me were abusive and so mean towards me, they treated me like I was a maid. They barely fed me, I always got hit if I made the littlest mistake. It was just horrible.

  I remember crying my self to sleep every night until I couldn't take it anymore and ran away, I'm 16 and I have been on the streets for about 3 months sometimes I get so hungry I steal things. I know stealing is bad and I know I shouldn't be doing it but without having money or a family what am I supposed to do?

"Bella is everything ok?", asks Zoe, Zoe was my friend she is currently going through the same thing that I'm going through but her parents didn't want her. She had been adopted plenty of times and has been in and out of homes until one day she just decided to run away. We met while I was looking for food in the garbage can. Yes, it's disgusting but like I said what can I do?

I shrug my shoulders, "I-I don't know," I respond trying to fight the tears that started to come to the rim of my eyes. But that was a lie, I did know, it was my parents. But I couldn't tell Zoe that, she didn't know how my parents had died or that I was an orphan. All she knows is that I ran away from who she thought was my real parents.

  Stretching both her arms out she pulls me in for a hug while I silently cry on her shoulders. "It's going to be ok, I know we both have it rough. Just two teenagers with no place to go, eat, or sleep. With no family to go to," she tilts my chin up to meet her eyes. " but hey, you cry. I'll hold you."

Wiping my fallen tears I smile at her. "Thanks for being there like always Zo." She gives me a small smile. "No problem kiddo." She replies, slightly ruffling my hair. She calls me kiddo even though she's two months younger than me. "Hey, we should go back to that cabin and catch us some Z's," Agreeing we walked, the strong yet warm breeze swaying our hair from side to side.

  Coming upon the cabin we see that there's no one there, like always. We always leave the window half-cracked so we can sneak our way back in. The window was cracked just how we'd left it yesterday, so we know that no one has been up here. Lifting up the window till it's at a perfect size was both our tiny bodies can squeeze through, Zo shimmies in. Me not too far behind her.

  "Hurry up Bel!" She yells in a hushed tone, "I'm coming! Geesh!" Zoe was really Afraid that we'd get caught, she puts on a tough girl act but deep down she was afraid like I was. Swiftly, I shut the window all the way and lock it, so no one breaks in. Even though technically we were the ones breaking in. Zoe checks the entire cabin making sure no one was really here.

  "Clear," She says, "ok uh Remember extra covers are in the closet, foods in the fridge, and we leave at dawn." Nodding I check the clock by the bedside, it was 11:27 pm so that should give us a good 7 hours of sleep if my calculations are correct. I walk over to the closet grabbing the extra cover, tossing it on to the bed. "I'll go make us some popcorn and water." Shouts Zoe as she's already heading towards the kitchen.

  Mumbling an "okay" I spread the cover over the bed. Kicking my shoes off I climb in, the softness of the bed giving me a warm greeting, literally. 5 minutes pass and Zoe is back with the popcorn and the water. She tosses me the water bottle and sets hers on the nightstand closest to her side of the bed. "Here's your popcorn m'lady." Laughing at her silliness I take the popcorn and open the bag. The buttery smell instantly hitting my nose. My eyes almost rolled to the back of my head, I was so hungry. 

Munching on the popcorn like a maniac Zoe looks at me and starts dying of laughter. "What's so funny?" I ask my mouth full. "You have popcorn all over your face!" My mouth fell down into a frown like a cartoon character, she was really laughing at my hunger.  With her mouth wide open from laughing I tossed a single popcorn into her mouth.

The look on her face when it touched her tongue now had me dying of laughter. "Oh, so that's funny?" She asks now looking at me devilishly. "Take that!" She laughs throwing popcorn into my face. And is threw it back. For the past hour all that could be heard was our laughter and the crunching of the popcorn bags when our hands went in to take the popcorn out and flinging it and each other.

And let's just say we had a big mess to clean up before we went to bed...

Hey guys! So I'm going back through all my stories and editing them, 12-year-old Alexis really didn't know what she was doing😂 but hopefully I can try to at least make it better. Love you guys!

Alexis💕