Chapter 59: SIAN

The others soon left and it was just Cass and I waiting for her dad to come get her. I thought it was a great time to talk, but she beat me to it. "How did you handle it when Maggie was born?"

"Um, well, at first I wasn't too happy, I was only about eight or nine and Jared and I were only a year apart, so we'd always been close. But this new person was going to be a stranger; at least that's how I thought of it at first.

I tried to get mom to send her back, I don't know how many times when she was still in her tummy." We both had a good laugh at that one.

"Then mom brought her home from the hospital. I'd heard horror stories from some of the other kids about being neglected and stuff like that, and I was ready to run away if that happened, I was gonna go to grandma's."

"But it was nothing like that, mom and dad took care of the baby of course, but they let Jared and me help with her, and they still spent a lot of time with us. Why? Are you having a little brother or sister?" could