Adopted by Thomas Sanders

Breathin'

Ben J Pierce's POV

I've decided to adopt someone. On the way home to Texas I realized how much Evie had wormed her way into our hearts so I figured why not adopt someone for my own family.

By the time I got off the plane I knew I wanted a girl around the ages of 15-17. I go home, put my stuff away and decide to go to the local orphanage tomorrow.

-----------Tomorrow-----------

Today is the day. I set up a room for my future adopted daughter and at around noon I decided to go to the orphanage. Once I got there I saw a girl sitting in the corner, she was maybe 16 or 17 and it was obvious she didn't like socializing.

"Hi I'm Jenni. I love Makeup and Puppies and you should totally adopt me!" A girl with a face full of makeup came over to me. I like makeup too sure, but this girl had it caked on her face. I had a simple natural look versus her bright purple and neon pink lips and obvious foundation and concealer not even blended in properly.

"Um, No thank. You're makeup is a bit too, well, much." I lightly push the teen away and start walking over to the girl in the corner.

"Hello, I'm Ben. What's your name?" The shy girl put her book down and looked at me.

"I'm Daniella." So she didn't want to talk. I get it, but I did kinda have to get to know her in order to know if I want to adopt her.

"Whats you favorite things to do?" I try, Daniella looks at me like I have 3 heads.

"I like to read fanfiction, I watch YouTube, I like art and painting, I consider myself a pretty good singer, my friends say I'm a good singer as well but I don't like crowds and preforming that much. I enjoy dancing. I have ADD and I have issues reading words sometimes. I take adderall for my ADD, and I enjoy listening to music." Now we're getting somewhere

"Well, do you know who I am?" I question her, she shakes her head.

"Ok, well I'm a YouTuber and I make makeup videos, and singing videos occasionally." I tell the brunette.

"Really! That's awesome!" Daniella looked down, "Sorry, you should talk to the interesting people. I'm just taking up your time." She walked away with her book in hand. I decided to adopt her, I didn't need to meet the other girls to know that their fake and Daniella is actually the nicest person in the orphanage.

"Daniella! Pack your bags!" The caretaker, whose name I forgot, called for Daniella. Pretty soon the girl came downstairs with a suitcase and two bags.

"Hey, are you ready to go?" I ask her, she nods. "Got anyone you want to say bye to?" This time Daniella shakes her head.

"I was sent to this orphanage 3 years ago, after my two best friends were moved to a orphanage in Florida from New York which is where I am Originally from." She explained. An idea started forming in my head and I made a mental note to talk to Thomas and Dodie later.

We both get into a taxi and I tell them my address.

"So, Whats your favorite song?" Daniella looks over at me,

"Well, It changes almost every week. So far it's Wheels on the bus by Melanie Martinez" Daniella looks at me then looks away quickly,

'So she's very antisocial' I made a mental note to arrange another get together soon, maybe Thomas and Dodie will want to meet up next month, its only three weeks away. New York is a possibly since I'm only a two hour flight away from there but Dodie is about eight hours and Thomas is almost three hours. Overall, it's still expensive. I'll sleep on it tonight, but in the meantime, I have a daughter now. Holy Shit, I'm an adoptive father. i didn't think about this, I don't have a room ready, I got nothing. It was a spur of the moment deal, no thinking just did it.

We need to go shopping, we need to get clothes, more food, and other necessary items for Daniella. How do you raise a teenager!? I'm freaking out, on the outside I probably look like I'm staring off into the distance but in reality I'm freaking out.

"Are you ok? If your regretting this i can just go back to the orphanage." Daniella speaks up, and I nearly snap my neck to look over at her.

"No, its just, w-well I don't really know how to take care of a teenager." I try to explain, I start stumbling over my own words with urgency and desperation. I want to care for her, but I don't know how and if Daniella thinks I don't want her because I was worrying about it then I don't know what to do.

"Oh, teenagers are fairly simple. Don't worry, I don't exactly know how to be a good daughter either. If it makes you stress less than you could be by adoptive brother instead." I like that idea, I don't feel old enough to be a dad, and Daniella clearly doesn't feel comfortable being a daughter so maybe we could be Brother and Sister. I'll be her adoptive brother and care for her like she was my little sister instead of caring for her like she was my daughter.

"Yeah, adoptive siblings it is." I tell her, we shake hands like it will make anything professional and then burst out laughing.

"Sir, we have arrived." The taxi driver says and we get out. I paid the driver then went to help Daniella get her bags out of the trunk.

"This is our home" I tell Daniella as I push the front door open. I let Daniella go in first and then I followed.

"This is, wow." She seemed speechless, I'll give her a tour later, it's a good thing I have a guest room that she can stay in.

"I'll give you a tour later if you want, it's not the biggest house ever but it's nice." I tell the still awestruck teen. I start walking toward the hallway and Daniella follows me. I open a door and let Daniella step in.

"Here is your room, we'll need to decorate it but go ahead and unpack. I'll be in the kitchen probably ordering pizza." With that I walk back out to the kitchen.

-----------POV SWITCH---DANIELLA---------

I have a home, sure my friends are who knows where, but for now I have a home. I set my things onto the bed and begin to unpack. I have a few posters I hang up, I also unpack some of my clothes into the dresser that was set up in the corner of the room.

When I turn around I see a mic. It was like something Youtubers used so I guess it wasn't uncommon to find one in a youtuber's home. suddenly I got an idea, it's been forever since I was able to sing freely so I decided to try it again. One of my favorite songs to sing are Breathin' by Arianna grande, I like to sing God is a Woman as well but my favorite is Breathin'. I like to try and hit all the notes, it's a great vocal exercise, and a lot of fun to sing.

"Here goes nothing." I play the background music from my phone and at the Que, I start singing.

"Some days, things just take way too much of my energy, I look up and the whole room's spinning. You take my cares away, I can so overcomplicate, people tell me to medicate" I take a breath.

"Feel my blood runnin', swear the sky's fallin'. How do I know if this shit's fabricated? Time goes by and I can't control my mind, Don't know what else to try, but you tell me every time. Just keep breathin' and breathin' and breathin' and breathin'. And oh, I gotta keep, keep on breathin' Just keep breathin' and breathin' and breathin' and breathin'."

"And oh, I gotta keep, keep on breathin'." I finish the song, by the end I'm half glad that Ben didn't come in and interrupt me. speaking of Ben, I thought he was going to order a pizza, it doesn't take 3-4 minutes to do that.

-----Bens POV------

I heard Daniella singing, she has a gorgeous voice, unfortunately I don't think she would want me to mention it, she seems like the kind that mind clam up if I mention her voice. For now though, the pizza is on its way and I still need to tell Thomas about her, so I go to call him.