Adopted by Gallavich

Chapter twenty eight:

3 months later

I return to work today I miss my kids already. We found a daycare for Mikayla and Logan went to school.  I drive up to the house where the police surround it. We got a call about  a little girl who was nearly beaten to death by her mother and  father. When I look at who they were arresting my heart stopped. My biological mother and father. He was finally out of jail and when the two got together they do what they are best at. Getting high and beating their children. Lacy. I remember her a year ago when we got in an accident. "there should be a child"I say the two police officers look at me. I go in the house myself "Lacy!" I yell looking for her. I hear a baby crying and follow the cry."help" I hear a faint yell I find the hidden entrance to the crawl space. It was just like all those years ago. She looked just like Kayla I crawled over to her and held her in my arms "it's ok beautiful just look at me." I wipe her tears and try to hold back mine. "I need a medic"I yell. Lacy struggles to breathe I held her hand. "SOMEBODY HELP"I yell once more. I watched as she took her last breath. She never changed.. It was just an illusion. "i'm sorry.." I set her down gently and crawled over to the baby. She was fragile so small she looked healthy Lacy must have been taking care of her. "I promise i'll keep you safe. I won't lose another sister. The officers finally came down "WHAT THE FUCK TOOK YOU SO LONG?".

I managed to calm down and get myself together. I can't take her but I know the perfect couple. "She's beautiful Rachel" Mickey says as he takes the baby "What's her name?" Ian questions as he smiles at her. "She doesn't have one" I explain "What do you think her name should be?"I ask my dads look at her "I have a name." Ian states "What is it?" Mick says rocking the baby back and forth "Monica. After my mother" although his mother abandoned him my dad always had a soft spot for her. He would talk about her a lot she really meant a lot to him. "after your crazy ass mother?" Mickey raised an eyebrow. "Yeah." Mickey shakes his head "Fine how about Monica Laura. After mine as well" Ian nods "Perfect." My parents will foster Monica for a six month time frame until they are cleared for the adoption.

6 years later

Eugenia Tripputi once said "To be able to move on, one has to learn to forgive not only the person (or people) who have done one wrong but also oneself." in order to move on from this pain and to be able to set my sisters free I have to forgive myself and the others who hurt me most. It's been 6 years since Lacy died a lot has changed. I will always carry what happened in my life with me but those bad things that happened to me are behind me. I will never forget those I have lost.

My daughter is 6 years old she's an angel. She loves to draw and has a big heart. Logan he's a good kid he's smart and he's amazing at basketball and baseball he's 15 and has his permit. Aiden and I are doing really well we've been talking about having another child but we are thinking of adopting. I love that Mikayla and my sister are best friends they love to do everything together. Mikayla and Monica were Elsa and Anna for halloween. Mickey adores Monica he spoils her every chance he gets. Him and Aiden agree on one thing and that is no boys until they are 30. Ian loves her as well Tyler is doing really well he's working hard to get into this nasa space camp I think he'll get it.

A knock comes from the door "I'll get it" I open the door "SISSY!"Monica screams and hugs me "hi beautiful" I pick her up and hug her right. "She demanded to come see you and Mikayla" Ian said "that's alright I wanted to come see you anyways" Ian smiles the girls run to Mikaylas room and play "how have you been? are you still taking your meds?" Ian asks "yeah I'm better now. I'm a lot better actually" for a while I was in and did my meds I took them when I wanted I was more depressed than manic. "what did you want to talk about?" Ian asks "how did you deal with your meds? Sometimes I feel like I don't need them that i'm better." I explain "Rachel princess I know it feels like you don't need them that you are better without them but it's not. Do you remember what happened when I went off my meds when we were in the process of adopting you?" I nod "Do you remember how bad things got?" I nod once more "The look of fear in your eyes as we got out of the accident. I knew that I needed to get better I vowed to never get off my meds again and that if my meds get messed up because of stress I go to the doctors immediately. I never want to hurt somebody I love like that again. I don't want you to have to do the same thing to know it for yourself. Baby you gotta stay on them." he holds back his tears as he tells me. "The moment you lose all you have is the moment you realise you should have done better" he was right. If I don't get it together I'm 28 and need to start acting like it. "Thanks dad I knew I could count on you" I hug him.

Sometimes it takes the bad to realise the good that goes on in your life. You need to learn from your mistakes in order to fully understand what you lost and why you lost it. I won't make the same mistake my dad made all those years ago. He has helped me learn how to handle this he made those mistakes for me. For a point in time I missed apart of who I was and how I lived but now, now I understand.