Hollis Woods Narrative

You might know the story of Hollis Woods and how she found a forever family. Well not everything works out so well for everyone. I am Lydia Holbrook and Hollis is my best friend. In case you have never heard of her, Hollis was an orphan who is a very talented artist and all she wanted was a forever home with the perfect family. A mother, father, and a brother. The foster home’s she was placed in weren’t right for her and every time she got tired of them or they got tired of her she would run away.
Then she got placed with the perfect family. The one that she had always wanted. But she made a mistake and her foster brother Steven got badly hurt. Long story short, she ran away and was placed with a retired art teacher named Josie and was happy there. She soon realized that

Josie needed to be with her cousin Beatrice because she could not take care of herself. Hollis was on her way to find a phone to call her social worker when Steven pulled up in a snowmobile and told her to come home. She now lives a happy life with the family she had always dreamed of having.
I met Hollis when we were 5 years old. I had just experienced the death of my parents and Hollis asked me why I was crying. I told her and she told me how she was abandoned as a baby. Then she hugged me and said that we would be best friends forever. throughout the years every time one of us couldn’t stand to be in the foster home we were in any longer, we would call each other, and run away that night.
But one day she was adopted and I wasn’t. I haven’t seen her in a year. She probably has a new best friend by now. During the year that I haven’t seen her so many questions went through my mind. Why didn’t she call? Why didn’t she visit? Did she forget about me? How could she forget me? She told me we would be best friends forever. What changed? Where was my dream family? I’ve barely been able to make it through the year without her.
The family I’m with right now is okay. Not that it’s much of a family or anything. I am living with a single mother, Amy, and her 10 year old son Jacob. He never shuts up. Literally 24/7 talking and asking whatever random question pops into his head. Amy is nice enough. She buys me clothes that fit and aren’t from Goodwill. Like some have in the past.
She makes sure that both my homework and Jacob’s homework are done. She feeds me the right foods and makes sure that there is never any peanuts in any of the food she cooks. I am allergic to peanuts. One difficulty with Amy is that she keeps trying to get me to take up a sport. I keep telling her that I have no athletic ability and that I don’t want to play a sport. She never listens and just says that practice makes perfect.
Sometimes I wish I could just fly away to a different galaxy where everyone one was happy and had a family that loved them. I guess I should forget about that dream because it’s never going to happen. One dream I will never give up on is having a family that loves me for me. One that I will make happy memories with. A family to support me no matter what and never give up on me. I know they’re out there, and they’re waiting for me.
December 14, 2015
It’s one week until Christmas and this is about the time that the foster families give us foster kids back because they don’t want to spend extra money. Amy hasn’t gotten rid of me yet, but she probably will soon. Eight years in foster care it’s been, and every single family that I’ve been with at this time of year has given me back before Christmas. Life is unfair, But who ever said it was.
December 20, 2015
I’m surprised that Amy hasn’t taken me back to the agency. Christmas is so close and I just don’t want to get my hopes up that I’ll have a real one for the first time in eight years. But what if I do? What if it actually happens? I guess only time will tell.
December 22, 2015
There are only two days until Christmas and I think Amy is actually going to get me something for Christmas. She keeps asking me what I want. I tell her that I want a family. She says that she hopes I get what I ask for and that all she wants is a husband. She also asks if I want anything else and I say not really, but that a guitar would be a dream as well. I love music. Last year I was living with a woman who owned a music shop and she taught me how to play guitar.
December 23, 2015
I overheard Amy on the Phone. She was saying that I was a nightmare and it was no wonder that no one liked me. I’m smart enough to know when I’m not wanted. I’ve already packed my things and I have the 50 bucks I took from Amy’s purse. I know it’s stealing, but I’ll pay her back one day, even though she called me a nightmare. I’m going to find Hollis. She’s still my best friend and I know she’ll help me, Even though I haven’t heard from her in a year. I’ll leave in the morning.

December 24, 2015
I’m on a bus on the way to Aurora, NY, that’s where Hollis lives.

It’s currently six in the morning and I’m getting really tired but I can’t fall asleep or I might miss my stop. I thought that Amy liked me. I know Jacob did. Just the other day Amy, Jacob, and I went out to dinner with Amy’s boyfriend Quentin, who likes me as well. I don’t know what I did to make her hate me. I know it’s a long shot, but maybe the Regan’s will adopt me too.
December 24, 2015 Later
I must have fallen asleep because one minute I’m writing, then the next thing I know I’m being shaken awake by the bus driver Grant. He told me that it was eight o’clock and that this was my stop. I got off the bus and realized that I have no way of getting to Hollis’s house. Luckily Aurora,being the perfect little town it is, there was a man renting out bikes. There was even a basket on the front for me to put my backpack in. I got directions from the same guy, and it turns out Hollis lives only five blocks away.
After renting the bike, getting directions and pedaling five blocks, It was nine fifteen. I was finally going to see Hollis for the first time in a year. I went up the stair, across the front porch and knock on the

door.
I waited all of ten seconds before Hollis opened the door. I could tell she was surprised to see me but that didn’t stop her from practically knocking me over by hugging me. She invited me in and we went up to her room which I could tell right away she had painted herself because it was beautiful.
She told me everything that had happened this past year and how sorry she was that she hadn’t called or written. I filled her in on the situation with Amy but her reaction was not what I had expected. This was her response: “Maybe she wasn’t talking about you. If she never said your name during the part of conversation you heard, it’s quite possible that she was talking about someone else. And if things were going as great as you say they were, then it’s very unlikely that she was talking about you. You should give her a chance to explain the conversation.” As much as I hated to admit it, She was right. I was so used to people not liking me and not wanting me that I forgot that Amy was different.
I knew she would be worried so I Hollis’s phone to call her and explain why I left, Where I was and who I was with. She explained that she wasn’t talking about me, she was talking about a lady who works at the supermarket. She told me that she was coming to bring me home, but she would wait a few hours so that I could spend more time with Hollis.
Hollis and I spent the whole day talking and playing games. For dinner we ate out at Taco Bell, which was amazing. If I never get the chance to have another frito burrito again I will be seriously depressed. When Amy arrived to pick me up I was happy to see her but sad to leave Hollis even though she promised to call and that we would visit each other. I said my goodbye’s to Hollis and her family then Amy and I went home.
December 25, 2015 Christmas
I wake up at nine and run down stairs to find Jacob, Amy, And Quentin cooking pancakes, eggs and bacon. I can’t help but smile. They all say good morning and then we eat. Breakfast was amazing but what’s even more amazing is the sight of Amy getting her wish. That’s right, Quentin Proposed on Christmas. It doesn’t get any better than this. Well I may have lied a little. They’re adopting me. I’m getting adopted! This is the greatest day of my entire life! I have a family. They will love and support me forever. And I know we will make Lot’s of happy memories together.