~ In New House ~
"Here is your new home" they pulled into a big white house with flowers and trees surrounding it.
"This is where I will be staying?" Meagan asked.
"Yes, until you dad gets some help and gets his life straightened out." the man said.
"Yea like that’s ever gonna happen." she mumbled to herself. The car stopped and they got out. There were kids playing in the yard with their dogs. They walked up the steps and rang the doorbell. Meagan stood there patiently waiting for someone to open the door. "
Coming" a woman, yelled. Meagan realized her hair was falling out of the ponytail. So she tried to fix it.
"Meagan they aren't going to care." he said. Meagan sighed. The door finally opened.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
"Yes we're here from the Foster Care Agency." he said.
"Oh yea come in come in." they walked in very quietly.
"So this must be the young girl you were talking about earlier on in the week." she said.
"Yes this is Meagan Richards." Meagan was shy when it came to meeting new people.
"Hello Meagan I am Jane." she said holding out her hand.
"Hi." Meagan spoke softly and shook her hand.
"We’re going to let you two talk and we'll go and get your bags." the men walked out to the car. " How about we take a tour around the house?" Jane suggested getting up. Meagan nodded her head. They first walked into the kitchen.
"This is the kitchen. Sorry it's such a mess right now we didn’t have time to clean, but help yourself to anything." Jane smiled and they continued.
"This is the family room. If you like to play video games there is a Nintendo to play on." they walked out into the hall and stopped.
"Down there is the basement. Here is one of the bathrooms. Oh yea and the laundry room is there too. Do you do your own laundry?" she asked.
"Yes I do." she said.
"I'll have Bobbie Jean teach you how to use it." They walked back out into the living room.
"Let's go upstairs."
"This is mine and my husband, Bob's room. This is the master bathroom." Meagan couldn’t believe how big the house was. And that wasn’t all of it either.
"As we go down this hall all the kids bedrooms are here. This Leslie's and BJ's or Bobbie Jean. Over here is Angel and Aaron's, they are twins. And the last of the bunch is Nick. He is not here right now he is with the Backstreet Boys over in Europe so he should be here in about 2 months or so."
"Where is my room?" she asked.
"In here. Your mom had called the foster home in advance. She didn’t want to going into it until she had left. We worked hard getting it together." Meagan walked into the room and sat on the bed.
"Thank you." she softly said.
"Your welcome. How about we go get your bags and unpack them?" Jane suggested.
"Okay." Meagan started to warm up to Jane. She hasn’t met the kids yet though. She can't wait.
"Here you go Meagan. Now Jane if there is any problems please give us a call." he said handing her the piece of paper."
"I don’t think there is going to be any problems." Jane smiled. "
Well Meagan you have found yourself a good home." Meagan smiled. The men walked off and got into their car and drove off. Jane helped Meagan carry her bags up the stairs and into her room.
"Before you go and unpack. I want you to come and meet he kids." Meagan nodded and they went downstairs and outside where everyone was sitting at.
"Kids come here please." Jane ordered. They all came running.
"I want you to meet Meagan. The one from the foster home." Everyone was quiet.
"Well since you all don’t wanna introduce yourselves I'll do it for you then. You might want to pay attention. Okay starting down the line. This is Bobbie Jean, but you can call her BJ, next is Leslie, and last is Aaron and Angel." Meagan thought to herself and was putting the names to the faces.
"Isnt there another kid that isnt here right now?" she asked.
"Oh yea Nick… he's the oldest." Everyone was still kind of quiet no one was talking. Everyone was kind of TOO shy to talk.
"Well why don’t you go and unpack and I'll call you down for dinner sound good?" Meagan nodded. She walked back into the house and upstairs to unpack her things. She thought about asking if she could decorate her room right she didn’t think it was the right thing to do at the moment. Meagan heard a knock on the door.
"Come in." the door opened and there stood BJ.
"My mom wanted me to ask you if you needed any help unpacking?" she asked.
"No.. I think I am okay."
"You are very quiet aren't you?"
"It depends really. I don’t have a lot of friends that I can talk to, but I am very shy but once I get used to being where I am at I am not so quiet anymore." Meagan laughed.
"Well you can come and talk to me any time you want. Mom too and Nick, but he isnt here of course, but he is very easy to talk to." BJ said.
"Okay thanks for letting me know. I do have a question though will I be going to the same school or will I be changing schools?" Meagan asked putting her clothes into the drawers.
"You're probably be home schooled like the rest of us. I thinking anyway."
"Okay I think I am going to ask later."
"Sure you don’t need any help?" BJ asked just to make sure. Meagan shook her head no.
"Okay I'll see you when it's time for dinner." BJ walked out and shut the door behind her. Meagan had finally gotten everything unpacked an hour later. She took out a picture of her mom and put it on the night stand right next to her bed and prayed to God that she was alright and nothing has happened to her since she left just that morning. There was another knock on the door.
"Come in." Little Aaron walked in.
"Mommy told me to tell you that it was dinner time."
"Okay thank you Aaron."
"Who's that?" Aaron asked looking at the picture.
"That’s my mommy" she said. "
"Do you miss her?"
"Yes very much."
"Will you ever get to see her again?"
"I don’t know. I hope so."
"Meagan! Aaron! Dinner!" Jane yelled. " We should get going downstairs." Aaron nodded. Meagan shut the door and walked into the kitchen.
"I hope you like chicken." Jane said.
"I love chicken!" Meagan smiled and got her plate and sat down at the kitchen table.
"Do you usually sit at the table?" Leslie asked. "
"My mom and I did. My dad just watched TV." Meagan said eating her chicken.
"Kids instead of eating wherever why don’t we all sit at the table."
"But mom." Aaron whined.
"No but mom met." Jane said pointing her finger. They all gathered around the tale and ate their dinner.
"So Meagan are you all settled in?"
"Yea I think so." Meagan nodded her head and continued eating. They started a simple conversation.
"Whose turn is it to do the dishes?" Jane asked.
"I can do them." Meagan offered.
"You really don’t have to."
"Since I am going to be living here I should get used to doing some of the chores around here." Meagan insisted as she gathered up the dishes from around the table.
"BJ you can put up the dished that are already in the dishwasher." Jane stated. BJ rolled her eyes and got up and put the dishes away. When BJ was done Meagan rinsed of the dishes and neatly put them into the dishwasher.
"Did you have any animals?" Aaron asked.
"No I wasn’t allowed to. My dad didn’t like them." " Oh." Aaron sat there and watched Meagan put the dishes into the dishwasher. Meagan was finally done and started to walk upstairs.
"Do you wanna play Nintendo?" Aaron asked. " Sure." Meagan and Aaron ran out to the family room and sat down on the floor.
"Do you have Nintendo?"
"No… I don’t think I have ever played it." Aaron's eyes bugged out.
"I can teach you."
"Okay." Aaron got out the controllers and put a game into the Nintendo.
"The "b" button is to jump and the "start" button is to pause. And the arrows are for direction. Oh yea the "a" button is to go." Aaron explained.
"Thanks." Meagan and Aaron sat there and played Mario Brothers.
"Aaron time for bed." Jane yelled.
"Okay mom." Aaron and Meagan stopped playing and Aaron turned off the game and went to his room.
"Jane am I going to a public school? or will I be home schooled?" Meagan asked as she picked up Aaron's mess.
"You be home schooled like everyone else if that’s okay with you." Jane started to help Meagan. "
It's perfectly fine with me." Meagan smiled and put the last of the Nintendo stuff n the drawer and walked upstairs and got into her pajamas and went to sleep.
Chapter 3