As expected, Gabriella was a girl who was seldom in trouble. On the few occasions that she had found herself across from a parental figure lecturing her, it was almost always a misunderstanding or blown up into something quite bigger. But even standing across from her biological parents and being scolded for getting anything beneath an “A minus” on a test or standing in front of her Foster parents and defending her ‘siblings’ when they were the ones making the immoral decisions and she took the brunt, she had never been quite as nervous as she had been standing in the dining room that had been left vacant for her presence. Not even as she had stood before a room of medical professionals upon a board that would decide her future had her heart raced like this...Because she knew this man on
