LucasI looked in the direction of that thud and I was stuck staring at the scene in front of my eyes. It took me three seconds to realize the situation then I moved, running towards the figure on the ground. Devon must have seen me because he immediately got out of the car and followed me.I knelt next to the girl who groaned in pain holding a hand on her swollen abdomen while under her a pool of blood had formed. "What’s going on?" Devon asked, leaning over to the other side of the girl."I don’t know, I heard a noise and then I saw her," I said looking at him, "Hey baby," I said, "How can we help you?" I asked, trying to stay calm.The girl must not have been more than sixteen, she was petite, with red hair that fell on her back and blue eyes like those of a lake that had some shades of green here and there.The girl looked at me completely terrified, tears running down her cheeks covered with freck

LucasI left the room and closed the door behind me, Madison didn’t want to reason with anyone, she had it in her head that we had to adopt her children and she didn’t want to accept anyone’s suggestions.I watched as Devon put his hand over his face, sighing."What do you think?" I asked him with my back to the door.Devon looked up and looked me in the eye, "I don’t know, that’s all we ever wanted, but I feel bad thinking that she’s not going to have anything and we’re going to have everything," he said."She took this choice long before she met you," Mrs Green said to our side.The social worker left the room just before, to answer the phone while we talked to Madison. She had told us about her life, about the fact that her parents were separated and both had remarried and she had stayed with her mother and her new husband.When she found out that she was pregnant, her mother becam

MayaWe walked into a room in the maternity ward. Jess and I were diligently following Lucas who, strangely by his standards, was dressed casually unlike Jess who thought he was doing a fashion show."Don’t look at me like that, May," Jess said, admonishing me."You’re out of line in a hospital," I said."But at least I have class," she replied, moving her hair behind her shoulders in a dramatic gesture.I rolled my eyes as Lucas opened the door to the room and walked in. Jess and I followed him.In the room, sitting on the bed there was a girl, long red hair was tied in a high tail, freckles covered her face, and blue and green eyes were pointed at Lucas the moment I entered. Next to her was an elderly woman, leaning on a stick, her eyes looking like the girl’s, caressing her back gently."Jess, May, this is Madison," Lucas said, introducing himself.The girl looked at us and nodded her head, before

MayaDecember had arrived and gone as well as another year. We were already in January, and if I had thought about everything that had happened in the last year I would have seemed to have lived a hundred lives of different people. A year ago, Nate and I had just come out of limbo, and we decided to be together, to give ourselves a chance, despite the many doubts and fears we had chosen.And now, a year later, we were in a house of our own, with a wonderful child growing up every day in the midst of happiness, a baby coming, and our wonderful wedding. I was happy, yes. If a few years ago they asked me what I wanted to be happy, I would never have been able to imagine such a life, I would never have thought of a family like the one we were creating, and yet now, I couldn’t imagine myself without them."What are you thinking?" I heard Nate’s voice come up, and I looked up from the ceiling to the door of the walk-in closet where he was standing as he put his tie around his neck, his hair

Nate I was enchanted to look at my little girl in the arms of the woman of my life. Maya was sobbing in my arms as she gave little kisses on her head with some dark tufts until the nurse came up to get the baby. I watched her face off while Maya carefully passed the baby. My eyes did not detach in the slightest from her, I watched as the nurses weighed her, measured and washed her, in the meantime the midwife was still between Maya’s legs and finished her work. After several minutes, I got out of bed and waited for the nurse to come back with our little girl wrapped in a blanket, she had a hospital bracelet on her wrist, she had a pink hat on her head and her eyes were closed as she yawned. The nurse placed her in Maya’s arms and then tied the same bracelet to her wrist. Maya held our baby close to her chest as she passed her nose across her face. I stood next to her as I watched her, feeling her heart pumping in her chest, only something was