🌊 FREEDOM 🌊

A New Life

I snapped back to reality. 

I was finally here. Out of the slammer. I had done my time. 

Well, of course, I didn't want to end up in here. I didn't even mean to kill my parents. It just sort of...happened.

But I was dreading what would happen after I got out. Would I be sent to an orphanage? Would I be adopted? I hope not. I couldn't imagine what living with ather parents would be like. Right now, my lawyers were talking about what they should do with me. 

"Ahem! Um...I'm almost eighteen, I think I can take care of myself."

"Um..according to these files," one of the lawyers said, scrolling through a laptop, "you just turned seventeen." He peeked his eyes over the top of his laptop and arched an eyebrow. "And I don't think we can trust you to wander around by yourself after what you did."

I rolled my eyes. "Really? Hey, Mr Hutchins? What do you think?"

Mr Hutchins was my other lawyer, and he didn't seem interested in his work at all. He chuckled at something on his laptop, and then suddenly jerked his head in my direction and said "Hm?"

This time, I arched my eyebrow at him. "Were you even listening?" 

But before he could reply, a middle-aged couple rushed through the crimson wooden doors.

The woman said "we'll take her!"

Both lawyers looked confused.

The woman continued talking. "Sorry. Hi, I'm Jennifer, and we've always wanted a child, and we haven't been able to have one. When I saw that you put Sage Noelle up on that adoption site, we rushed here immediately." 

My first lawyer, Mr Brooks, looked incredibly flustered. After a minute of awkard silence, he finally spoke:

"Um...why would you want Ms Davidson? You know there's that adoption centre downtown?"

"Yes," said the man, "and we know what she did, but we've always wanted a exotic child, unpredictable. You know? Oh, forgive me. I'm Benjamin."

"Um..okay," started Mr Brooks. "But I assume you have all the appropriate papers?"

I wasn't listening to the conversation after that. I was so overwhelmed. Huh. A new family. A new life. I guess this is really happening. 

"....I see. Well, it looks like you're both qualified. Now it's up to Ms Davidson."

All eyes were on me. All I could manage was a meek "okay". But that was all it took. 

Jennifer and Benjamin practically sprinted toward me and gave me a huge hug.

"Oh, Sage Noelle. You will have the time of your life with us."

"It's just Sage."

And that's just the beginning of my story.