The Fosters- Room for one more

The Beginning Part 2

Lena's P.O.V

I'm currently working in my office, 1 hour left of the school day. I had just gotten off the phone with Stef about Marie. We're so excited. I'm going to pick her up later this evening. It'll be nice to have a kid in the house again. I tried having a baby, but something happened. The baby was a girl. Her name would've been Frankie. Not a day goes by that I don't think about my Frankie but I know she's in a better place. And I have 5 beautiful and wonderful kids and hopefully one more added to our family.

1 hour later

I'm in my office waiting for my kids.

"Hi mama!" jude said as he walked in.

"Hi, baby. how was school?"

"it was good. just had to write a bunch of rules. 7th grade seems hard."

"ha! try 10th grade, jude." callie said.

"ugh. shut up, callie"

"hey, stop, you 2!" I said.

"hey, im here. can we go home now?" mariana asked.

"where's brandon?"

"he has student council meeting, mama." jesus said.

"okay, lets go home. we need to move stuff."

me and the kids get in the car and I drive home when I get a call from bill asking if I can come get Marie now.  of course I do. I drop the kids off and go straight there.

Mariana's P.O.V.

"hey put this over there, jesus!"

"ugh, fine. after this i'm going to play video games." jesus said.

"thank you, jesus."

"yep." jesus said as he walked away.

"hi kids!" my mom said as she walked in the door.

"hi mom." callie said as she was moving a mattress.

"let me help you callie. that's heavy."

"thanks, mom. we're rearranging the guestroom for Marie. I just finished painting it pink."

"now we're gonna go in the garage and look for our old toys we don't play with anymore." I said.

"okay. good idea, mari. she will love that." my mom said.

"ill go to the garage!" jude said.

I watch him go to the garage when I get an idea.

"hey callie, can you paint her name on the wall in sparkly bright pink?"

"yea I can do that. good idea!" callie said.

me and callie paint Marie's name on the wall in big letters. jude comes back from the garage with lots of toys and callie puts her stuffed animal on the bed. we all stand back and look at the room, proud of doing this all together. you see, our family, we're a team and love each other. we just stick together. now we just wait for mama to come home with Marie.

2 hours later

"We're here!" I heard mama say from downstairs.

we all run down stairs and see Marie.

my mom kisses mama. gross. and I see Marie shy and hiding behind my mama.

"Hi, im mariana. nice to meet you."

"ummmm....h-hi. i'm Marie."

"I'm callie. and this is jude, jesus and brandon." 

the boys all said hi and departed for their rooms. me and callie stayed and showed Marie around the house.

"We know it's a big adjustment but we're here for you." callie said.

"yea. We've all been in foster care, except brandon. He's stef's biological son.

"who's brandon?"

"the tall one." callie said.

"oh. I'm a little tired. where do I sleep?"

"we'll show you.

we all go upstairs, while my moms make dinner. tonight is Spaghetti and meatballs. yum!

"our room is on the left, the boys room is on the right. there's a bath in the middle. brandon's room at the end of the hall on the left. and moms room is right there. and your room is right next to theirs if you need anything." callie said.

"thanks." marie said.

we go in her room and just watch her grin a little. I could tell she didn't want to get too excited as this was probably temporary. 

"we'll be downstairs if you need us."

"okay. thanks."

me and callie leave and shut the door and goes downstairs.

Marie's P.O.V.

I look around my room, thinking *this is only temporary. wish they would adopt me. this is my 9th foster home. they seem nice. I just wish someone loves me. I change into shorts and a tshirt and lay down on the bed and see a stuffed dog on my bed. I love dogs so of course I cuddle it and drift off into a deep sleep, dreaming this is my forever home.

1 and half hour later

I wake up to the smell of spaghetti and meatballs, drooling. that's my favorite. hmmm. I get out of bed and go downstairs and see everyone eating.

"hello, love. did you sleep well? the girls said you were tired." stef said.

I nods yes and sit down. I've never ate at a table with people before. most of the time I was in my room alone eating. lena gives me a plate and I look at it for a few seconds.

"aren't you hungry?" lena said.

"ummm...yes but I've never eaten in front of people before."

"its okay, sweetie. it will be fine." she said.

I look at everyone eating and see jesus making a mess, being a pig and has a spaghetti up his nose. I laugh to myself.

"ewww jesus. where's your manners?" mariana said.

by that point I couldn't contain my laughter and I just burst out laughing. all eyes on me and I immediately stop laughing and look at my plate.

"heres a napkin, jesus." jude said

"thanks." jesus said.

I eat a little bit and just want to leave the table.

"can I be excused please?"

"of course, Marie." stef said.

I leave the table and go back to the room and shut the door and lay down and look at the while. everyone seems nice, I just cant open up to them yet. I want to but I just can't. oh well maybe soon.