New Beginnings (undergoing editing)

Chapter(28) this is it.

Recap: Marks POV
"I couldn't sleep. I had a panic attack when I woke up from a lovely night terror and then I didn't want to sleep until you were here." He tells me.

Currently: Sam's POV:
I wake up with the stereotypical birds chirping, but the weather didn't get the memo that it was supposed to be a beautiful day out and it's all cloudy. The birds are even taking shelter in the trees, they know rain is coming!

I sit up and rub my eyes, staring at the ceiling, when Toby comes into the room looking slightly nervous. "So Sam, I want to check your ribs today and your weight. Is that okay?" He asks me. I nod, still staring at the ceiling.

I sit up and pull the shirt I'm wearing up, so that he can do the examination. He makes little notes to himself out loud. Nothing bad, I just need to rest and make sure that I don't get hurt right now. Then when he finishes, his face gets all excited and he tells me to put a shirt on.

I slip my shirt that I was just wearing on, and then Toby opens the door to my room. James comes into the room, holding a box that was wrapped with a ribbon. "Okay kiddo, we wanted you to have this when your ribs were better. Now that they are, we decided to give you a congrats present for getting better and healthier. Now open up the box!" He says to me, putting the present unto my criss-crossed legs.

I slowly open the present, being careful of the ribbon and when I take the lid off the box, I get excited. It's a binder, a nice, real, quality, binder. My eyes go wide, and I pick it up from the box very gently, like it was going to break if I picked it up wrong.

I hold it to my chest and hug it tight. I've wanted one of these for a long time now, and I finally got one. I squeal like a teenage girl and hug them both. "Thank you both so much! Can I try it on now?" I ask, hopping up and down with excitement. They nod, and I run to the bathroom down the hall, still holding the binder against my chest.

I lock the door, then take off my shirt and bra. I put it on and it's tight, because I need to break it in, but it feels awesome and they got the right size and it's not hard to breathe in at all. I put my shirt back on, and my chest looks flat.

Flatter than it did even when I wrapped it and then put sports bars on. Flat like a cutting board or a desktop. Flat in a healthily formed way. I feel the tears well up in my eyes, I've waited for years for this day to come. A day where my chest is flat, and I can feel confident about myself even just a little. Now the day is here and it's everything I hoped it would be and so much more. My chest is flat, I have a good family and a healthy form of binding. I couldn't be happier right now.

I unlock the bathroom door and throw my bra over my shoulder as I walk down the hall to my room. The boys are still there when I come in. I feel confident finally, I feel like me. "Holy crap Sam, you look great. Are you happy?" Asks Toby sounding somewhat nervous that I would hate it.

Instead of answering, I just jump on to him. My hands around the back of his neck and I stand on my tippy toes to get my hands to rest around his neck. "Thank you so much Toby. Thank you" I tell him before pulling away from him and hugging James, I say the same thing to him and then I say, "lets go downstairs!" I skip all the way down the stairs, in a happy mood.

We walk into the kitchen, and because finally I don't feel as insecure, I say "hello!!" in a chirpy sing-song voice and everyone sits down at the table with food already put on to their plates. "Everyone, I have something to say!" I say standing up and raising my glass like we were going to have a toast.

"I am non-binary and I'm gay. My pronouns are whatever you want them to be and today I got my first quality binder!! Now let's toast to new beginnings!" I say practically jumping off the walls. Everyone smiles and then we all raise our glasses and have a toast to new beginnings.

After breakfast finishes, we decide to work on my room until it's done and that way there, I can have my own room that will feel like my room. It won't just be some random room, or the guest bedroom anymore. It'll be my room!

We finish the second coat of paint and then eat lunch. We clean up after lunch as quick as possible and then go back upstairs to finish moving in all the new furniture and things like that. In the end it looks amazing.

I fall on to the bed and we all lay down. Weeventually fall asleep after a few minutes because we are all tired from allthe work on my room that we did earlier.

When we wake up, it's four in the afternoon so we all head downstairs for a late night, and lots of junk food. All the boys go get the food, throwing all the food into bowls for us and then me and Liza turn on Brooklyn 99 and get the blankets fluffed so they're ready to be slept in.

Eventually, we all get to sit down, and we watch Brooklyn 99 until we fall asleep on each other.

~One year later~ 3rd person POV

It's been a year since everything went down.
Since Liza was adopted.
Since Sam was adopted.
Since Toby and James got married.
It's been one hell of a ride.

Now everyone is better, Toby and James have their kid that they've been wanting now for forever, and they love her to death.

Lewis and Mark have Liza, and have finally made a full out family that they were secretly hoping for.

Liza has been reunited with her older brothers and their significant others. She was given a home, a new life, a proper family, and the love and support that she needed. Now she weighs a healthy amount and is still being homeschooled but loving it and she's got Sam right beside her.

Sam developed into a sweet, kind and badass kid that didn't take anything from no one. And became the person that she wanted to be, and then with the help of her newfound confidence after getting her first binder, she really developed and became a wonderful human.

They all still live in the same house and no one has any plans on moving out. Sam and Liza are so close that it might kill them if they were moved even a house down from each other.

Sam and Liza's anxiety has gone down and now they are able to be in public without completely freaking out, their panic attacks are less frequent, and their nightmares are less... violent.

They still happen, (the nightmares) but not as much. They even stopped the sleeping pill they were on and are now doing fine. They may have their ups and downs but all in all their life is perfect in their own special way.

The girls got the 'New Beginnings.' That they so desperately needed and deserved.

Author:
Hey hey hey! It's me the author and this book is coming to an end. But don't worry! I already have an idea for a new book and when I work out the details and stuff I will give out a description!

Love you all!
Thanks for reading this crap!
Have a good day/week/month/year/life/ afterlife/ etc. See you later everyone!

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