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Lacey, an eleven year old six grader was taken from her home of six months the day before and put with this family that seemed to promise to adopt her if all went well. In this family, she had an older brother, her senior by two years. Lacey was black, and what was more, she came from an area on the boarder so that she spoke Spanish much better than she spoke English, but all her moving between foster families over the past five years had finally landed her up North in Wyoming. By now, her English was better, but still, she tended to sound a little juvenile to other kids her age when she spoke in English. Here in Wyoming, there seemed to be far fewer Mexican children to talk to, so no one really spoke Spanish or any other language here. That day, the social worker explained a lot of things to the parents, but the brother would not have been exposed to half of what was said or believed about her. Before bed that night, the only thing that he would know for sure, was that she sometimes peed the bed and that she had a habit of sucking her thumb no matter where she was. That morning, his parents sat him down, and they his father told him that she had been through a lot in the last five years, and so she was not normal. His father didn't go into detail about how she wasn't normal. What he did make sure his son understood, was that the older brother was expected to look after his sister when the parents were not around. Then they were sent to catch the bus to the local middle school. Lacey had not really listened in on what the dad told the son, so she had no idea what the brother thought about her. She was nervous as she was going to a new school again, and she really didn't even know her brother that well. She had her thumb in her mouth as she sat next to him on the bus.
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The police were everywhere, looking here and there around the house. Carmen blushed as the officers pulled apart the bedroom that she and her foster sister shared for the last nine months, finding the wet mattress from her peeing in her sleep, and there being puddle stains in the carpet around the room from the countless times that both Carmen and Denise had waited in their room for the parents to get them and give them permission to use the bathroom, and one or the other not making it. The last nine months were hell for Carmen, but this was more like ten years for Denise. Denise didn't understand that what her parents did was wrong. If it was so wrong, why were they just now doing something about it, and why did Carmen come to stay with them if what they did was so bad? Both of the girls were extremely nervous when the social worker showed up. Lucky for the social worker, there was someone on the waiting list wanting to adopt, and with all the shelters for children already nearly full, it was a lucky break in deed both for the social worker and for the man she had in mind to tentatively foster the kids out to. Denise didn't say a word as the social worker took her and Carmen to the car and drove them to her office at 10:30 on one Monday morning. The reason the police had come in the first place, was to check on the home environment because the school called the social office since both girls had missed way too much school during this year, and the school was worried about neglect seeing that both kids seemed to smell like pee quite often at school. <Your character> got a call on his cell phone, his home phone, and his work phone all within minutes of the other with the social worker trying to find him. A lot of paperwork needed to be done and because they had nowhere to go, the social worker hoped to get them at least placed temporarily in his care until things could be checked out.