Chapter 2. New Family

It was still dark when I suddenly had the urge to pee. As pink as my room was, I knew that they could still sense me. That they would come for me, I stood up from the bed, grabbed my teddy, and was about to start walking to the bathroom, when a hand held me from under the bed.

I screamed, and not a minute later Anthony burst through my door, his wild eyes were searching for the cause of my scream. He instinctively pulled me into his chest, then caressed my hair trying to calm me down.

Then he pushed me away abruptly, hearing his parents coming down from the hallway. The lights were immediately switched on, and Janet and David embraced me right away. And Anthony slowly retreated to his room. Our eyes met for the first time, then he walked away.

The next morning at breakfast Janet and David told me to try and call them mom and dad, just like Anthony. I just nodded, but it was hard for me to do so. Feeling that my previous parents had died and abandoned me, and ha