A Different Way To Finding Each Other

Birthdays

July 15th rolled around and the park was packed to celebrate the shared fourth birthday of Ian and Isabella Foster. All the kids were on the play structures at the park and Ana came huge as ever and smiled in a sad way. The big twins ignored her and were disgusted when they found out she had IVF done and used their dad's junk to get pregnant.

Mike even rented bouncy houses as all the kids were inside them and bouncing like mini jack rabbits on sugar. Callie was in one of them as Isabella tripped and Callie got her before she fell as the younger girl who really likes Callie smiled in a slight way.

"Thank you Callie," Isabella replied as the older girl nodded and smiled and later Ian came for Callie. Ian is like Jesus where he is for his sister and not for her and Isabella is like Mariana, but getting help.

"Hi Brandon and Bradley," she replied as they just walked away. She sighed and expected it since she was a screw up. 

"Don't take it personal," Nicole added. "They have a right to be mad. Me too after what you did, but this is for Ian and Isabella. You really hurt Mike by doing IVF."

She nodded and sat down as Nicole left to find the birthday twins and took them to get their faces painted. Callie got a Star Trek Enterprise on her face well all the other kids got what they wanted.

Ana sat on a bench and Lena sat near her. "Hi Ana," Lena added.

"Hi Lena. How are you?" Ana asked. 

"I'm good and you?" Lena asked. "How are you feeling?"

"Better," she replied. "I know you know what I did."

"We all do. Mike told us," Lena said. "And I get it. But why can't you get Mariana out of foster care? It wasn't you, but a sister you never knew you had?"

"I'm a huge liability," Ana said. "And it would be neglect on there part."

"I hope she gets the help she needs and does it for her."

"Me too. I want that too."

Callie came running over as Ana eyed her. The girl was older, but still looked the same.

"Mama I need to use the restroom and hi Ana," the girl added. She still had her manners and all.

"Hi Callie. How old are you by the way?"

"Eleven and soon to be twelve."

Ana nodded. Jesus and Mariana just turned eleven in June and she sent them something and she took Mariana out for lunch, a movie and a toy store and she got what she wanted.

"It was nice seeing you," Lena replied. "But I need to get my baby girl to the restroom."

"Likewise," Ana stated. She was about to give birth soon as Mike came over.

"Hi," Mike replied. 

"Hi. I'm sorry. I just wanted to have a baby with you again."

"It's fine," Mike added. "We do make cute babies."

"We do," Ana added. "You did great with them by he way."

"I did and I also put my big twins on the back burner because of it."

Ana sighed. "Well they have three parents."

"They do," Mike replied. "The big twins turned out okay with having three parents, but there will always be issues and resentments and I even put Jesus and Mariana over them too and I never should have done that."

Ana nodded. "At least Ian and Isabella have parents. I never did and looked how I turned out. If they were good to me I wonder how my life would have been."