Justin’s POV:
Selena was in full tears when I opened my door. She leaped into my arms and cried on my shoulder. I picked her up like the time when I picked her up when we are at the beach in Hawaii and took her upstairs to my bedroom.
“Shh baby its ok,” I whispered to her trying to calm her down. I laid her down on my bed and she put her head on my chest. I didn’t know what the right words were to tell her at that time so I just let her cry until she fell asleep on me.
I kissed her forehead when I saw that she had fallen asleep and then I started falling asleep also. I made sure I was holding Selena tightly next to me as I started to doze off.
Selena’s POV:
I was in the middle of a dream when I felt my phone vibrate, waking me and Justin up. I reached inside my purse getting my phone and saw that it was my mom calling. “Oh great,” I said rolling my eyes.
“Who is it?” Justin asked. “My mom,” I replied. “Answer it babe,” he told me.
“Hello?” I answered with an attitude. “Selena please come home.” my mom told me. “We really need to talk about this.”
“I guess,” I told my mom, “but I’m taking Justin with me.” I told her.
“That’s fine,” she responded. “Just come home quickly” she added before hanging up.
I looked at Justin laying down looking at me. “Do you mind going with me babe?” I asked him. “I really need you there with me.”
“Of course I’ll go with you baby,” he told me sitting up and giving me a kiss on my forehead. He grabbed my hand and we walked outside to the car.
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We got to my house and walked into the living room where my mom and Brian were sitting at. They stood up and gave Justin a hug and then we all sat down.
“Selena, I know this is hard for you to comprehend but we gave her up for our own good and for her own good.” she explained. “You know how hard it was for us to get by. We ate spaghetti almost everyday from the dollar store and we had to look for spare change in the car to afford some gas. Honey, you know if we would of kept Sophia, we wouldn’t of been able to make it.”
Tears started piling up in my eyes and Justin wiped them away as they fell down my cheek.
“Why didn’t you tell me when I got older?” I asked her.
“Because I knew you would of wanted to get her back but I didn’t want to rip Sophia away from her family that she had grown up with. That wouldn’t be fair to her. Of course, that was before I knew that her adoptive parents had passed away and she was put into foster care.” she explained.
“Can we get her back now?” I asked. “Do you think she would want to live with us?”
“That’s what we wanted to talk to you about,” Brian said. “ We wanna go back to the foster and adoption home and talk to Sophia about it and ask her if she would like to come and live with us.”
“Really?” I asked excitedly.
“Yeah, we wanted to go tomorrow.” my mom said. “But you have to act normal with her just like the first time we saw her. Wait until we tell her everything.”
“Okay!” I yelled. “I can’t wait!” I said with a huge smile on my face. Justin kissed my cheek showing how happy he was for me. “Can Justin come too?” I asked. “Of course he can,” my mom answered.
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Justin’s POV:
“You ready baby?” I asked Selena as we got into the car. “Yes!” she exclaimed. “I can’t wait to see her again and hug her!” “Remember babe, you have to act normal when you see her,” I told her. “I know, I know,” she told me as we pulled up to the foster and adoption house.
“This place looks creepy,” I whispered to Selena as we got off of the car and was greeted by this lady. I’m guessing she was that lady that Selena told me about. She looked really mean but she was trying to hide it as best as she could.
“Hello Mr. Bieber, I‘m Ms. Scott” she told me as she shook my hand. “Hello,” I told her back. “Come on in!” she told us as we all stepped into her office.
“So you all are here to see Sophia?” she asked Mandy and Brian. “Yes,” they both said.
“Why?” Ms. Scott asked. “I mean she’s old.” I felt Selena’s hand tense up. She was getting angry that Ms. Scott was talking about her sister like that.
Brian and Mandy explained the whole story and Ms. Scott was in shock. “Oh,” was all she said. “Well she should be back getting her in a bit. She is in softball practice.” she said.
Selena’s POV:
“She plays softball?” I asked. “Yes.” she simply stated back. “Do you ever go to her games?” I asked again. “No. I don’t have time for that.” she remarked. The way she was talking to me was really pissing me off but I kept my cool.
Just then we heard the front door open. “Sophia!” we heard a little girl call out to her. We saw a little girl pass by the office door and then we heard Sophia.
“Hi Lily,” she said. “how was your day at school?” she asked her. “Grreaat!” the little girl yelled. We all giggled when we heard the little girl and then Ms. Scott called out to Sophia.
“Sophia! Can you come in here!” she yelled. Sophia stepped into the office carrying Lily on her hip.
“Sophia look it’s Justin and Selena!!” Lily yelled when she saw me and Justin. “Hi sweetie,” Justin and I said to her. She looked like she was around five or six years old. “Lily go to your room!” Ms. Scott yelled harshly to her. Sophia put Lily down, kissed her on her forehead, and then Lily ran away.
I noticed Sophia had some bruises on her arm where Ms. Scott grabbed her that other time which got me really upset but I tried not to show it. She had brown thick hair and brown eyes just like me. Now that I saw her more and more, I can see that she looked like me.
“Hi,” she said shyly to us. I got up and hugged her. I finally had my sister in my arms again. Justin got up and gave her a hug too. “Nice to meet you,” he told her. “You too,” she replied. My parents also got up and hugged her and then Ms. Scott told Sophia to sit down.
“Sorry I’m really dirty,” Sophia told us. “ I just got out of softball practice.” We all laughed and told her it was fine.
“Sophia, they would like to tell you something.” Ms. Scott told her and with that my mom started telling her everything.
Sophia’s eyes were full of tears when my mom told her that she was her real mother and I was her sister. She looked at me and I reached for her hand but she pulled it away.
“No!” she yelled as she stood up. I was shocked. “This isn’t fair! Selena got to grow up with her family and I was moved around from house to house all my life! How fair is it that even though you all struggled, Selena had two people that loved her and cared for her and I had nobody!”
“Now Sophia calm down!” Ms. Scott yelled at her. My mom’s eyes were starting to tear up and so were mine. I didn’t expect for her to react like this.
“No! I won’t calm down!” Sophia bit back. “While Selena got to live out her dreams and became everything that she wanted to become, I was being raped by my foster dad’s since I was eight years old!” she yelled out while she began to cry.
“Sophia! You know you’re not suppose to talk about that!” Ms. Scott exclaimed to her.
“Yeah well I’m sick of keeping it bottled up and you never did anything about it! You just got fed up and didn’t want to press any chargers so you moved me around from house to house until I ended up here!” she yelled and then ran out of the room.
I sat there frozen and analyzed everything that Sophia had just said. I looked at my mom and she was crying her eyes out while she held on to Brian’s arm. I felt my tears rolling down my face but I couldn’t move.
My baby sister was raped.
I thought to myself over and over again. Justin held onto my hand while he wiped away my tears. This could not be happening.
