Endless Winter Box Set by Theresa Shaver

Author:Theresa Shaver [Shaver, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theresa Shaver
Published: 2019-04-05T22:00:00+00:00

Joslin

I take a deep breath and suck back the sob that wants to climb up my throat. I’m tougher than this. I’ve spent my whole life being bounced from one foster home to another, never knowing where I’m going next. This is just one more time that I have no control over my fate.

The problem is, I finally landed in what I thought would be my forever home two years ago. After years of being shuffled from one house to another, I was finally handed over to the Dubois’. It was the first time I didn’t feel like I was only in a house so that my foster parents could collect an extra check every month. They actually seem to want to get to know me - my thoughts and my feelings and my opinions on things. I’ve never experienced anything like it before in my whole life. They are warm and caring people who work from home as computer programmers and one of the first things they did was teach me how to use electronics, something no one had ever given me before.

When they started teaching me the basics of coding, it seemed like my brain just came alive for the first time. It was a rush and I loved every minute of it. They gave me the gifts of acceptance and unconditional love.

It took me a while to trust them but once I finally let my guard down, we became a family and with the adoption papers filed a few months ago I started calling them Mom and Dad. Now I was going to lose them. Back to being alone again with only this boy beside me.

Because of the conditions I had lived with, in multiple foster homes, I’d had to learn how to deal with all types of bullies from adults to other children. When I started at the school where Jackson attended, he was one of the first people to single me out and not in a good way. He would make fun of my curly black hair and the way I would use it to screen my face whenever I was nervous.

I knew that he would just keep at me if I didn’t do something so one day at lunch when he bumped into me on purpose I took the bowl of spaghetti he had on his lunch tray and dumped it on his head causing the entire room to laugh at him. For some reason instead of hating me for it, he ended up liking me and took the time to get to know me. It feels like he hasn’t left my side since that day.

My hand’s gone numb from how tight Jackson’s been holding it. It’s like he’s using it as a lifeline but that’s okay because I’m holding on just as tightly to his. I use my other hand to wake up the tablet laying on my lap and see that we’ve been traveling for just over 45 minutes. I don’t know

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