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"How'd you know I was here?", I asked him as I played with the black cord on the phone.

"Why are you there?", he asked me as I stretched my arm out and I seemed to not know the answer. He asked me a question with a question and yet I felt I already knew the answer to the first one.

"He's the only one who knows where she is, she's the only family I have", I told him over the phone. I had been so excited when we first started looking, the foster system is messy especially that she's never been adopted. The fact that it had been a month and still nothing angered me to pieces. I had learned that maybe the most reasonable ways aren't the most ethically safe, but I wanted her to be there and as the wedding neared it feared me everyday where she was and if she knew that there was someone out there in this big, bad world that cared about her.

"Hey, you have me and we can start our own family, we can get some dogs and in a couple of years we can have our own little family", he comforted me