12. The New Roommate

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"Clare, theres four guys that live her and a lot of people who walk in and out of the house, but I promise you they are all lovely and they won't hurt you. Ok?"
"Where will I sleep?" Clare asks looking down at her hands
"For now in my room in my bed. I'll sleep on the couch until we get a second bed. Are you ready to meet everyone?" Clare nods her head and we walk out of the car and into the house where everyone is sat on the couch waiting for us "so this is Sam, Jake, Corey and Colby. They also live here. The rest don't but are always over. You'll meet them later"
"Hi Clare, welcome to our house. You don't have to be afraid of any of us we're like one huge family. Rose is apart of this family, now so are you" Colby says
"Sam can you ask Kat to go to the store on her way over and get some clothes for Clare?"
"Sure" Sam smiles taking out his phone
"Is there anything you'd like to do right now?" Corey asks
"Maybe a movie" Clare shrugs a little
"Sounds like a plan. I'll go and get some blankets" Colby says getting up off the couch
"I'll order pizza" Jake gets out his phone.
We all get cosy under the blankets, I'm sat holding Clare who is cuddled into me while I'm slightly leaning on Colby. Half way through the film Clare falls asleep
"So what's going to happen?" Sam says breaking the silence looking at Clare. I sigh and look down at her
"I guess I'll have to look for another apartment or something"
"Well that's not happening" I hear Colby say next to me making me look at him "your both going to live here"
"I really appreciate that Colbs but to be honest we haven't got enough rooms and mine is to small really to share"
"Rose can I talk with you outside for a minute?" Colby asks
"Errm sure" I get up carefully off the couch putting a pillow behind Clare's head.

Colby and I walk out of the house and outside. We sit down on the seating area
"This isn't really how I wanted to do this but we have been on a few dates now and we live together. I really like you Row so would you officially be my girlfriend?" Colby nervously asks
"Of course I would Colbs" I smile and Colby picks me up. I wrap my arms around his neck as we both share a gentle kiss. Colby puts me back down and holds my face in his hands
"Ok so now you can move into my room" I don't know what to say, I'm basically speechless. I smile at him
"You really are something Brock"
We wall back into the house and see Kat has just arrived with some clothes
"Thank you so much Kat"
"No problem. How is she doing?" Kat motions to Clare
"It's hard to tell, I think she's in shock. I've got to contact social services and hope they give me legal custody. Her grandmother can't look after her. If they do give me custody then I'll have to look at schools for her. On a serious note though how on Earth am meant to support a 13 year old?"
"Well your not gonna be alone for a start. We will all help out"
"I'm awake, I know your talking about me. It's ok Rose I understand if you can't look after me" Clare sits up
"No no no. Look yes I might not know what the hell I'm doing right now but we will get through this together. There is way I'm letting a random family take you away"
"Why are you being so nice to me when all I've done is be horrible to you" I sigh and sit next to Clare
"Because I know what our farther was like and your my biological family. Your my little sister so your staying here"
"The flights are already booked for three weeks to go to New York, what do we do then?" Corey asks
"I'll look after her" Kat says like it's nothing
"Wait are you serious?"
"Yes I am. Clare will be fine"
"Clare would you be ok with that?"
"Yeah I think I would be"
"Ok well as long as your both ok with that" they both nod their head "ok well I need to go and sort a funeral out. I'll see if we can have it before we leave. When we're back in New York I'm going to sort out both of the house"
"We can extend the trip to sort things out. And we could always go back to New York in the future"
"Thanks" I smile up at Colby and get my phone out of my pocket "I'll be back in a bit"

I walk out the house and get on the phone with the funeral company and then I phone social services, I end up being on the phone for over an hour before I walk back inside
"What did they say?" Colby asks
"They said that they will send someone here tomorrow and that because I'm biological family I have a good chance at becoming her guardian. So everyone get cleaning and I'll stock up the fridge"

 So everyone get cleaning and I'll stock up the fridge"

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