Adoption
892 Words
They adopted me, I was 17 when they adopted me I was almost out of the system but they still wanted me. At first, I thought I was going to be a babysitter, but I wasn't. I was part of their family. I wasn’t scared anymore. I had a life and a family now, I belonged somewhere. After I thought I had a family and a home until I went to school the next day. It was my first day back to school. It was horrible. I was bullied but I didn’t care. Until everyone found out why I was a runaway, everyone asked questions. People stared and a lot of people were told to stay the hell away from the slut. I was an outcast at school. Even the freshman hated me until the next new guy came into school this guy had been in jail 3 times for stupid reasons when he heard of me, he wanted to meet me. At lunch when I sat down at my usual table all by myself he sat down too. I didn’t know if he wanted to talk to me or if he didn’t want to talk I didn’t know what to do. Then he looked up and said, “Hi I’m Jake Hollister.” I just looked at him and I didn’t know what was happening.
“And you are?” he said.
“I am uh Mary Grover,” I said.
“Well nice to meet you, Mary,” Jake said. I just looked up at him wondering why he was talking to me. I was super confused, so I asked: “why are you talking to me?” He looked at me like I was an alien from another planet. It was weird, but then the bell rang and I packed up my stuff and went to my next class. He followed me to my next class, and he just kept on staring at me. I was freaked out, so that night when I got home from school I told my adopted mom and dad what happened, they just stared at me like I was speaking in another language. I didn’t understand why they were looking at me like that. But I didn’t care either.
When I went to school the next day, Jake watched me do everything. It was a little creepy, I went up to him when I got fed up with it. I said “hey, why are you staring at me?” He looked at me and said, “well for starters I recognize you from somewhere, but I don’t know where.”. Then he looked at me and said: “were you by any chance in foster care?” I looked at him and nodded yes. He looked at me again and then he just walked away. I didn’t know why he just stood and left but I didn’t see him for a while after that he wasn’t in school or anything, at first I thought he was like a vampire like in twilight and then I remembered that Twilight is fiction. I know that I am thinking way out of the box, I had a rough childhood and now that I can be myself for once. I don’t think I could actually just let go of my past seeing as my past is what makes me, me!
I went to look for Jake to see why he just walked off all of a sudden that day when I found him he looked at me and smiled and then left again. I was so frustrated, I didn’t understand why he kept on doing that. This time I followed him, and when he looked back to see if I was following him he stopped dead in his tracks. I bumped into him by accident, and he turned around and looked at me. Everyone saw what just happened and everyone stopped talking and looked at us. Jake just looked at me and I was really embarrassed, I didn’t know what he was going to say next. I braced myself for the next thing to happen to wait to see how bad it will be. He just looked at me, and everyone was looking at us. He took my arm and took me into a janitor's closet. He looked at me some more. I didn’t understand why he would just stare at me without saying anything, so I asked him “what are you doing?” and he just looked at me some more. This drove me insane. I couldn't stand it anymore so I went to walk out of the closet but he held my arm still, he held it tighter when he figured out what I was trying to do. He looked deep into my eyes and then like all guys did in my youth he kissed me long and hard when he was out of breath he released me and waited for me to say something. I didn’t say anything, I just looked back at him. He then said, “well are you going to say something?”
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