Adopted by Janiel ✔

Chapter 5 - Connecting with Daniel

I woke up to Lark licking my face.
I giggle and sit up"Lark you silly pup." I say as I gently push her off of me.

Then I go to my new walk-in closet to pick out something to wear for the day. I was just about to finnesh getting dressed when there was a knock on my bedroom door. I quickly finnesh and open the door to find Daniel looking down at me.

"Hey Kayla, I was wondering if you'd like to take a walk with me. So we can bond. But you don't have too if you don't want to." I look at him and smile. "Sure, I'd love to." I say and with that we went downstairs.
"Joey, we'll be back in a bit!" Daniel called as we walked out the door. "Ok be safe, love you!"

We walked in silence for a while and it was Daniel who broke it. "I know how it feels." He says as I stop to look at him. "You know how what feels?" I ask confused. "Too loose your parent's." I look at him and start to get redeyed as he continues "My father was killed by a drunk driver when I was only 13, the same age you are now. About 5 years after his funeral, my mother started to drink almost every day, and it only got worse as time went on. I could see she was suffering, by this time I had moved out to go to college but she was too drunk too notice." He paused as he choked back the tears. "I felt like I had lost the only parent I had left, though she is still here physically, I don't think she's all mentally there. I keep putting her in a rehab but she always finds a way to sneak in alcohol." He said as the tears started to fall.

I look at him and we both hug each other and start crying together.
Even though this is a sad time, I feel like I'm closer to Daniel than before.
"Thank you Daniel" I say as we're hugging.
"For what" He asked between the tears. "For adopting me, and for sharing that with me, I know you don't like to open up about your emotions." I say in response and we start to laugh. "It's nothing really. When you said your story yesterday in the car ride home I felt like I had to share mine." He says as he wipes away his tears, then wipes away mine with his thumbs.

"Let's go home shall we?" I ask, using one of Joey's phrases. We then burst out laghing. "We shall." Daniel says tring to mock Joey's voice witch he fails at and we just laughed harder as we walk home.