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Chapter 6

Foster me? Why would anyone want to foster me?

I look up at Ben with a confused look on my face.

"Ben you don't want to foster me. I'm so much trouble and I'm always running away from my problems and"
I start before Ben interrupts me.
"But we do want to foster you. No 12 year old should have to be going through what you're going through right now." He gets up and walks over to the bed. He grabs my hands and looks me in the eye. "We are going to find a way to foster you. No matter what your going to be safe."
Just those words made me start bawling my eyes out. Ben wraps his arms around me as a cry into his shoulder.

"Thank you so much. Nobody has ever wanted to foster me." I say, still crying into his shoulder.

Ben unwraps his arms and gets off of the bed.
"I'm going to go get the rest of the cast so you can meet them." He says, walking toward the door.
"You mean the cast of Newsies is going to be in my hospital room." I immediately feel dumb for asking that.
Ben doesn't seem to mind though and chuckles a little bit. "Yes, they have been wanting to meet you, especially if we end up being able to foster you."
Ben walks out the room.
Foster me. He seriously wanted to foster me. I've never felt this loved before, and now I might be fostered by some of my idols. I mean, I only met like 3 of them a day ago, but the thought of them fostering me just makes me so happy.
Ben returns a few minutes later with Sky and Josh.
"The rest are waiting outside. We wanted to talk to you in private first." He says. Josh and Sky walk over and sit in the chairs.

"Ok, so the legal age to foster is 18 (I know it's 21 but it's it's fan fiction). I'm still 17 until until December which is like 2 months away.  Josh and Sky are old enough to foster you. We were thinking of maybe having one of them foster you until I turn 18, then I can foster you." Be says. I look around at them. I still can't believe they would do this for me. "That sounds fine. I honestly don't care because at least you will be fostering me."
They all smile at me.

"Well would you like to meet some of the others?" Ben asks.

"Of course. Bring on the crazy." I chuckle.

They smile as they open up the door.
Lots of people come in and I recognize several of them.

"Hi I'm Jeff!"

"Hi my name is Chaz, and I play Buttons."

"Hello, I'm Meredith."

"Hi, I'm Dan and I play Jack."

"Hello there, my name is DeMarius!"

"I'm Zachary, but people call me Zach."

After everyone introduced themselves the nurse cane in and brought a tray of food for me. She set it down and took the lid off. Cheese ravioli. Basic but I guess it's ok. 

"So did you already know who most of these people are since you saw the show last year?" Ben asks me.

"You saw the show last year?" Dan asks me with a surprised look.

"Yes I did. It was wonderful. I do know who most of you are but i never thought I would meet you all." (AN: I live in Texas and it's so hard not to type y'all)

The door opens and a man walks in.
"Ok has she met everyone?" The mans voice booms.
"Yes she has." Ben says.
"Ok well then," he starts, then turns to me "my name is Jeff Calhoun. I am the director of Newsies."
So that's who this is.
"Nice to meet you." I say, shaking his hand.
"So the plan right now is to see if one of us can foster you until Ben is old enough to foster you. It sounds complicated and it would be easier but Ben really wants to foster you." Jeff says, sending Ben a playful glare. Ben just looks around, acting all innocent.
"How would you like that Mia?" Sky asks me.

"I would absolutely love that." I beam. "My foster home right now isn't really the best."
"Yeah the doctor said they cleaned up some of your wounds, as well as the billet wound." Ben says. He looks at me sympathetically.
"Would you like to explain where they came from?" Jeff asks me.
I look down at my hands. I really don't want to give my life story in front of all these people I just met. Not even Ben, who I only told part of the story to.
"I don't want to talk about it yet." I whisper. I look up and everyone has a face of sympathy.
"Well by the looks of how you're healing you can leave in 3 days." The doctor says as he walks in.
"Well then, we will start the process of fostering you today. That way we can foster you as soon as possible."
"Thank you so much for everything you're doing for me, but I'm really tired right now." As soon as I say that I let out a huge yawn.
"Of course. You need rest right now." Ben says as he guides everyone out the room.
As soon as they leave I quickly doze off into a peaceful sleep.

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I am so sorry this took long to publish, but I hope you enjoyed.

Last Sunday was dress up as your favorite Disney character at church. Totally didn't go as a newsie.

Also I was showing my friend some of the dancing scenes in Newsies Live and she was just like
"How can they do that?!?!" And I'm like "don't ask me I ask the same thing every time I watch this."