Adopted

Chapter 6

Stephanie was too excited to fall asleep. She was thinking about Alex and Vale. Will they be good parents for her? Could she to let go of her parents? Will she has to leave her uncle for that? Many questions were running inside her mind and prevented her sleep.

On the other side, Vale and Alex were sleeping peacefully, knowing that Stephanie agreed to help them.

***

In the morning, Valeria actually decided to take her time to wake up, unlike her active husband. She had such a good sleep, she didn't want to wake up.

But Alexander had other plans. He decided to wake her up as they used to do to each other – hitting her with a pillow until she wakes up.

"Alright, alright, I'm awake!" she said in defeat.

"But just so you know, I hate you for this."

She got up and got dressed, and then she went downstairs to her husband.

"Hey, Alex... I was thinking about it, and... I think we should also talk to Stephanie about the whole thing."

"I think there's nothing to talk about. She knows now everything about us, and all we need to do is the DNA test, that's it." He tried to calm her down.

"Hey... Everything will be ok." He said, putting his hands on her shoulders, looking at her in the eyes.

"Can you stop telling me that? For the past 10 years you keep telling me that, but not anymore! We're that close to have our daughter back, so you can stop saying that." She told him.

"Ok. You're right, I'm sorry." He laughed a little and gave her a hug.

As they walked out the door, Vale smiled a little and said "But I'm still going to talk to Stephanie." And shut the door behind her.

***

The couple found all the little kids playing in the park and having fun.

"You know..." Sportacus began "Maybe we should talk about it. But to the other kids. So they can understand and maybe support Stephanie more."

"Well, how about you will do it while I will talk to Stephanie alone?" Valeria suggested.

"Alright." He rolled his eyes at her.

The two walked up to the kids. Well, more like Valeria walked and Sportacus ran. He's still Sportacus, you know.

"Good morning, guys!" he jumped in front of the kids, who were busy playing basketball.

"Good morning, Sportacus." They all said at once.

Then he saw Stephanie coming from behind a small wall, bringing back the ball that was thrown over it.

She smiled at him saying "Hey."

Sportacus was about to say to her something, Valeria interrupted.

"Hey..." she panted, "you should've waiting for me."

"Sorry about that." He apologized, giggling a little.

Then she noticed Stephanie. She wanted to talk to her so bad, but she couldn't find the courage. So the courage found her.

"Um, Stephanie? Can I... Talk to you for a few minutes?" she blurted out.

"Uh, sure." She threw the ball to Trixie and the two went to sit on a bench far away from the park to get some privacy.

"Um, Sportacus? What's going on here?" Pixel asked confused.

Sportacus sighed. He wasn't sure if he needs to tell them, but he knew he will have to when the test results will be out.