Killed by Cancer

Chapter 62

'My body literally aches at the thought of not seeing you again,' - Unknown.

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I told her. She cried. She cried and cried as I held her. She screamed for me to bring him back. It was awful. It was horrible. All she wanted was to see her big brother. Sometimes people can be so cruel and heartless. Ariana didn't deserve this. No one did.

"I want to go home with you," she said, wiping her tears away and burying her face into me.

I looked up at Mum and then at Ariana's aunt.

"I'd love for Ariana to stay here but it'd be impossible, I've been really struggling to take care of her as well as my other kids, there's not enough space too. I'm trying my best but there'll come a time where I'll either have to give her back to Sarah or I'll have to let social services take her in and she can get adopted because she's still young," she said in a quite voice.

"I don't think it'd be helpful to her to send her under local authority care, I can take her in," Mum said.

"Are you sure? I mean, do you have like the space and money to look after her?" She asked.

"We've got a room that's empty, I can just get some new furniture in and yeah, we're quite lucky, me and my partner both work so we are more than able to look after Ariana," Mum said.

"Okay, I'll give you my number," The aunt said.

She exchanged numbers with Mum.

"I'll collect her tomorrow morning if that's okay?" Mum asked.

"Yeah, that's fine," she replied.

"I just need you to get hold of her birth certificate and passport if you can do that, I'm going to get some adoption forms printed and I'll have to see Sarah to get them signed," Mum said.

"I can get hold of the birth certificate and passport but I doubt Sarah's going to sign any forms," she said.

"Lucky enough, I know a police officer and a lawyer who I can bring with me," Mum said.

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow then," her aunt said.

I kissed Ariana on her head and told her I'd be back tomorrow for her. Whilst driving home, Mum called her boss and told him she'd be unable to come into work today.

"Are you actually going to let Ariana stay at ours?" I asked.

"She's a kid, she's a kid and she's gone through so much, I feel inclined to look after her, I want to give her a better childhood and make her live life like a normal child would," she said.

"Honest to god, you are the most kindest and nicest person I know, I'm so glad you're  my mum," I said.

Mum kissed me on the forehead.

"I love you," she said.

"Love you too."

We arrived at home and Mum started emptying the spare room we had. It was a pretty big room but Ryan moved out of that room because he didn't like that the view outside the window was the front yard. He said he preferred having the backyard view. The room was painted white and it had white carpet. The only thing in the room was an empty cupboard.

When Lilly came back from school, she helped me and Mum to shop for some nice furniture for the room online. We managed to buy a pink bed, a desk and a set of drawers. Mum ordered them all so that they would come by tomorrow.

We also got some other things like hangers for the cupboard, colours for Ariana, clothes for her, a mirror for her room, books, photo frames and many other items. I went to my room and saw the flower on the window. The one Tyler got for me. The one we watered together. I changed the water.