Adopted by Jennifer Morrison

Chapter 11: Home Truths

For the next two days there was complete radio silence between Jared and I. He refused to talk to me at all. We both spent the entire time in our separate rooms. The only contact I had was when people brought food and things like to my room, as well as when Jen came in every night just to check on me. I have never had anybody that cared about me as much as she seems to. Jen gave me updates on Jared as well, when I asked that is. Apparently Jared hasn't really been talking to anyone and has kind of been ignoring everyone that went to see him.

On the third day there was a knock on the door that woke me up at about 8:00AM. I sat up and got ready for my breakfast since this was about the right time but Jen wasn't the only one who came in. Bailee followed her through the door.

"What is this, some kind of intervention?" I asked them.

"Sort of" Bailee mumbled.

"Shut up Bailee." Jen said "This is not an intervention Becca. This is something that is going to get you out of your room and out of this house. Just for the day, but you me and Bailee are going to go and do something fun to get your mind off of him."

I thought about for a moment and then said, "I don't think so guys. I really just want to sit here in my bed and watch Netflix."

"Well too bad" Bailee said. "That is not going to happen. We are going to go to on a walk along the shore line and then we are going to go to a small ice cream parlour that it down the street. It will be a great day that will get your mind off of Jared."

She seemed really excited and so did Jen. "So get dressed" Jen told me "and then we can go." It took me 30 minutes to take a quick shower put my damp hair into a messy bun and get dressed. I put on a little black shirt Jen had given me, it had ONCE written on the front of it and I wore some dark blue denim shorts. I put on my sandals after deciding to do the no make-up look for today and left my room.

On my way past Jared's room I was so tempted to go in, just to see if he was okay, but I stopped myself just in time. I would probably make it worse and he had other people who could check on him for me. When I went downstairs Jen and Bailee were in the lounge as well as Ginny who was busy feeding Oliver.

"Look who it is Oli, it's your best friend Rebecca." The baby giggled as if he completely understood what his mother had said. "We haven't seen you in a few days have we. Are you feeling a bit better Rebecca?" she asked me.

"Yeah thanks Ginny. I think I just needed a couple of days by myself. It's been a complicated week." I told her. It was weird to think that a week ago I had been sat in a room I shared with three other girls back in a New York orphanage and now I was about to go out for ice cream with my favourite cast member from my favourite show. My life turned into the life I had in my dreams.

Jen, Bailee and I all set off to go on our walk. We walked for about 20 minutes in almost silence apart from Jen and Bailee making small talk. I walked a little bit closer to the shore that either of them did, the water lapped at my feet and for the first time in my life I felt like I could actually do whatever I wanted to do, like I could be whatever I wanted to be. I had nothing stopping me and Jen would actually support me.

When we got to the ice cream parlour Bailee ordered for all of us. I had a rocky road cone, Jen had a mint chocolate chip cone and Bailee had a strawberry cone. They made even more small talk until we finished our cones. After that Bailee walked home straight away whilst I waited with Jen as she paid for the cones.

We started walking back to the house not long after Bailee had left and on our way back Jen took the opportunity to talk about Jared, a subject I had been trying to avoid all day. "So, when are you going to talk to Jared again?" she asked me.

"I don't know." I told her. "I really don't think that he wants to see me."

"Becca listen to me." She said as she grabbed me so that I was looking straight at her. "I don't know how it happened but you guys have known each other for about a week and for some reason that you yourself can't understand but I and everyone else in that house completely do. He is crazy about you and when he asked you how you felt you said you didn't know. He isn't angry at you Becca. He had his pride hurt. Go and talk to him."

Then she walked away towards the house. I didn't move, I was scared that if I did that I would fall flat on my face. After a while I began to walk towards the ocean. When it started lapping at my feet I broke down. All I could think of was that however shit my life was before, even when my parents were alive, at least it was simpler that it was now. All I could think about was that I wanted my mom. I needed my mom.

I stayed there, crouching in the ocean until it got dark then I felt arms wrap against me and then whispering in my ear. "It's going to be okay" The voice repeated over and over again. I turned around and there was Jen. "Everything is going to be okay, I promise. Now come on, we need to get back to the house. Eveyone already went to bed." Maybe I didn't need a mom anymore. Maybe, just maybe, I already had one.

So we walked back to the house and upstairs to our section of the house. Jen carried on walking towards her room but I noticed a light shining out of the bottom of a door so I stayed outside. The light was coming from Jared's room, he was awake. So I thought, screw it, and then I knocked on the door.

~AUTHORS NOTE~

So the next chapter will probably be a short one because it is going to be where Rebecca talks to Jared. You guys need to tell me whether or not you guys want them together.