Adopted by Jennifer Morrison

Chapter 9: Sweet 16 (Part 1)

I was woken the next morning at 8:30AM by a knock on my door. When it was opened I saw Jen walking in with a tray full of food.

"Happy Birthday to you," she sang very enthusiastically. That's when everyone else followed her into to the room. They were carrying presents and they were all singing the top of their voices.

"Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to Rebecca, Happy birthday to you!" They all sang in unison.

"Happy sweet 16 Becca" Jared screamed at me.

"Thanks Jared" I laughed "you guys needn't have gone to so much trouble."

"Rebecca, this is only half of it." Ginny told me."Jen wanted this to be special so she has gone all out. You can't get away from your birthday this year or any other birthday where you are with us."

I laughed and everyone came into the room more and put all of the wrapped gifts onto my bed.
"Open mine first Becca." Jared told me. Jared had gotten me a bracelet that looked really expensive. "Emilie helped me pick it out. I really didn't know what a girl would want."

"It's really nice Jared, Thank you." I told him as I gave him a hug.

I carried on opening the presents that everyone had brought in and I had got a bunch of movies from Josh and Ginny, a few of Emilie's favourite books from her, a watch from Colin and Robert told me that when we are back home a builder is going to come out here and build me a hude bookcase that will go around the bed. Jen came in with a big trolley full of wrapped gifts.

"Happy Sweet 16, I hope you think it is special." Jen said as I looked at her astonished. There was everything in those boxes from a dress for the party to a little blue box from Tiffany that had in a pair of diamond earrings.

"Thank you Jen, and all of you as well." I said "Although I really don't know what I have done to deserve this."

"You are here. You are living with us. You are my new daughter. You don't need to do anything." Jen told me. After they had all left my room I sat there eating the breakfast that Jen had brought in when Jen walks back into the room, she was followed by a woman with short brown hair.

"Hey, You must be Rebecca. I'm Jen Rade, I'm Jen's stylist. She has asked me if I will help you to get ready for your birthday party today." Jen Rade told me "I meanif that's what you want?"

I told her that it would be wonderful to have her help me and then Jen left us to it. Jen Rade took about an hour doing my make-up and it was the first time I had ever seen myself in make-up. I looked really different. I didn't just look in the mirror and think 'Oh great, this is as good as it's going to get'. I actually thought 'Hey, I look nice today'. Which was a great thing to think. With my hair shedidn't do much but she managed to tame the curls, which very few people could do. For outfit choice we picked a blue playsuit that I could wear with flats, since when I tried to walk in heels, I fell flat on my face. After we were done I text Jen to come and see thefinished product.

"Oh my god! Becca you look stunning." Jen said as she walked through the door. "You realise I am going to take like a million photos of you today."

"I sort of guessed." I said as I laughed. "Who is even coming today?"

"Well there is a few of the crew's kids. My niece,so your cousin is here she is 4 so she might not underrstand who you are. Oh and Bailee Madison is here aswell." Jen said "So you can meet her before she comes back up to Vancouver next month."

I still had about half an hour until I was allowed downstairs so I just surfed the internet. I found a lot of stories about me. My name was everywhere. When I logged onto facebook I had thousands of messages. I turned the laptop offafter just a few minutes because I couldn't handle seeing my name everywhere.

After a few minutes there was a knock on my door. "Who is it?" I asked.

"Uhh, My name is Bailee, Jen sent me up to meet Rebecca."The voice behind the door explained.

"Oh, um come in" I told the voice. If this was Bailee Madison, I didn't want to keep her waiting. She walked in and it realy was her. We spent the next 20 minutes talking about things like school and stuff like that, and then the alarm went off.

"We should go downstairs now. The party is going to start without us." I told Bailee and with that we left my room and began to make our way to the patio at the back of the house. Jen introduced me to a bunch of random people that I will probably never see again, but I mainly spent the day with Bailee. We would have been with Jared as well. Well that is, if we could find him that is.

At around 4PM we saw Jared for the first time. He was pushing a trolley that had a huge cake on it. The cake said 'Heppy Sweet 16 Rebecca'. I must say that even though I am not an emotional person, I may have teared up when I saw it. Everyone at the party sang happy birthday to me and then I blew out the candles from the cake. I gave Ginny a hug afterwards and thanked her for the cake. I also did the same to Jen. Then I went over to give Jared a hug and to thank him for helping to bring the cake out. After I hugged him I looked up and he was looking at me in a way that seemed familiar but also seemed very rare. He then madehis excuses and left me and Bailee satnding there alone.

"Awwww, you guys are so cute together" Bailee stated.

"What are you talking about?" I laughed.

"You and Jared. He likes you, you know?" Bailee said.

"And where did you get that ridiculous idea from?" I asked her

And Bailee said that thing you hear being said in every movie, you think it will never be told to you, and usually it isn't, but you still want to hear those words.

"I saw the way he looked at you."