A Different Way To Finding Each Other

A Need

It is the third week of school as Callie sees that her fellow classmates from school had old clothes, used the same clothes everyday and had holes in their shoes and she felt sad for them and she at her young age of five wanted to do something about it, but what and how?

She also noticed that her classmates who weren't in her class didn't eat and it wasn't just the elementary students it was the middle school kids and the high school kids as well. They looked poor and she knew they needed the help.

All day during school, she was distracted in class and during recess. She didn't even go to recess she went to the library to read instead as her mama, her brothers and her friends wondered where she was. "Have either of you seen your sister?" Lena asked.

"No mama!" the boys replied. Lena bit her lip as Stef came running up.

"Anything?" the blonde asked as Lena nodded her head no. Robert came running up too.

"Have you checked the library?" Robert asked. "I remember you at her age."

"I went to the library to get away from the taunts and teasing," Lena replied as her heart sank and her color paled.

"What?" they asked her.

"What if she's being taunted and teased because she doesn't look like me?" Lena asked.

"Then the boys would have went with her and she's too young," Robert replied. "You were older."

"Don't remind me," Lena replied. "I hated that and it hurt me."

"I will check the library," Lena replied as she ran toward it and walked in. "Hi Gates. Is my baby girl here by chance?"

"In the back near the book treasuries," Gates Finley replied as Lena nodded her thanks and walked toward the back. Callie was into her book and didn't see her mama there.

"Hi my love," Lena replied. "Baby girl?"

"Oh I mama. I know I can't be here," Callie replied. "I just wanted to read. We didn't get to last night when we got home."

"I know. You were all tired," Lena said. "But what's really going on?"

"There's kids who come here who don't have what we have," Callie replied as she let her mama know. Lena sighed. "I know," Lena replied. To her mama, her baby girl was older than she was.

Lena was in the shower as Callie got her cell phone and called her granddaddy Robert Quinn Sr. and called him. "Lena?"

"Hi Granddaddy," Callie replied.

"Hi my girl. What's going on?" he asked.

"We need to talk," Callie said. "It's important."

"I can pick you up," he replied as she ended the call and put the phone in a different spot by accident and not where her mama had it. Callie decided not to let her brothers know, but wanted them to come along.

Robert Quinn Sr. rang the Adams Foster doorbell as Lena opened it was surprised to see him and smiled as they hugged and he filled her in.

"I will get her," Lena replied. She was okay with the fact that Callie called him, but why not come to her if she needed something? It hurt Lena, but she didn't want to feel jealous as Callie and her two womb mates came and were dressed.

"I get all three. What a treat," he replied. Lena hugged them all and even if it was last minute, she wanted her babies to feel safe to ask their granddaddy for something and to feel safe with him and have a good relationship with him as well.

"So what's going on princess?" he asked as Callie filled him in. "And you need help?"

"Yes and I think my school should have a food pantry, as well as a school supply/hygiene item pantry, clothes and shoes one one a toy/book one," she said.