A raindrop falls on my arm
Looking up at the grey sky a sudden pounder of rain comes down
I grab my sister's arm who grabs my brother's and run into the local park bathroom
"It's cold"
Acho
What do I one cold with wet clothes and the other one sick or at least getting sick
I set my backpack on the floor and rams through it are blanket is wets
"Can I see your backpacks"
"Uh sure"
"Here you go"
Going through there wet backpacks I grad them an outfit
"Can one of you press this till I tell you to stop"
My brother walks over and holds onto the hand dryer button as I dry our clothes
"Why did we run away"
Sliding down on the wall to the ground next to my sister
sighing
"It not like they notice us"
"Are parents"
"Can you even really call them that "
My younger brother climbs on my lap cold and still wet but dryer than before
I rub his head
"What else do we call them"
"Margret and carter"
"Do you think they're looking for us"
"No there probably happy they have more money for..."
"Drugs"
"Yes that"
"Do you think brother knows"
I look down at my brother who starts to fall asleep cuddling more into my lap
"No"
My sister twinkles with her fingers
"I mean like the love from a parent"
"I don't think any of us know that feeling"
"And why can't we"
I sigh and retie my hair at a ponytail that filled with dirt
"I don't know why people get addicted to drugs and why some choose to love it over their own children and why some love their children more but I know we don't need them because we have an each other"
She smiles at me
"Yea I have you and brother I have another question"
"Go ahead"
"Why did our parents keep us"
"Are you asking why Margret didn't get an abortion"
"No, I was asking why didn't they send us to the foster system"
"I don't know"
"What about our aunts, uncles, grandparents"
"How do you know we have those"
"Does everyone"
I shrug
"If we do they don't know about us and we don't know about them"
"Oh"
She kinda just looks around
"I guess I do I have a question about of mom every thought of abortion"
"Well she didn't with me because there was a time before drugs and too with you and brother and she found out too late"
"Oh"
