Hope

Messing Up

Amy walked down the stairs her hair still wet as she arrives in the dining room to see Lisa, Katherine, and Christina are setting the table. Dani and Lauren are sitting on the side, Laurens eyes immediately darting away from Amy however, Dani waddles over holding up some type of painting that looks like a murder scene, just with tan, brown, and black. 

 "Likey?"

 Speechless, Amy just stared at it.

 "Uh-Ummm yeah? Its... Beautiful... " Amy looks concerned as she looks at the drawing, not judging but, staring 

Amy can feel the death stare of Lisa who looks pissed at the fact that Amy didn't respond like one would to a child if you were a 'normal' person.

If course Amy had to mess it up. She just had to mess it up already... Not even 24 hours. Amy doesn't say anything and just tries to hold back the tears. She wants to stay somewhere but... She can't seem to fit in anywhere.

Amy feels the tight noose on her stomach tighten.  These adoptive parents were so nice to let her in but, she upset their CHILDREN. They were going to drop the boot anytime soon.

Amy sighs in defeat and sits down in a seat E at a massive dinning table. In her last few homes the most siblings she had were 2 and the tables (normally) didn't even have enough room for her in it. This was a massive change from what she was used to and, she will have to go back to the foster system soon. 

She heard a stern cough behind her and Amy flinches. She looks behind her to see Christina (that's her name... Right?) giving her an emotionless facial expression while holding Lauren. Lauren has tears running down her face and is just pointing at Amy. Christina doesn't say anything just puts Lauren down. Picks Amy up. Moves Amy to a different seat. Then picks Lauren up again and puts her in the seat previously occupied by Amy. Laurens tears stop

Amy gives her a confused look but, Christina just sits down and puts her chin on her knees, feet on the chair, arms wrapped around herself as Lauren waves her arms around animatedly while facing Christina.

How has Amy messed up even more? She should have just waited for everyone to sit down. Then she wouldn't have upset Lauren and Christina wouldn't have been mad at her. thinking about it, Christina looks like she's mad at everyone. Even her parents. 

The adults out down the food on the table and pray over the food. The only person to also pray with them was the deaf girl (She may only be hard of hearing but, for all intensive purposes, to Amy, she was deaf). The maroon haired girl has a plastic bag covering her hair, her clothes have small patches of different colors on her shirt. Dani is washing her hands with cleaning wipes while at the table. Christina is in the same position as before and Lauren is already eating her food, spilling it in various places, the floor getting pretty dirty. To Amy's surprise the Dad whistles and a dog comes running. A small brown dog with a jingling dog tag. The small brown dog immediately begins cleaning up the mess.

However, Amy doesn't miss how the plastic bag headed girl and Christina both flinch and tense at the loud whistling noise.

Amy begins eating her food, quickly devouring it as soon as she tastes the warm food. She eats as much as possible as to fill up because she didn't know the next time she was going to have a meal.

Lynne and Mike notice this and grown when They meet each others eyes. They have a silent conversation resolving to talk about it later, in private.