The social worker came into the room with a warm smile on her face.
"Mr and Mrs Iero it's so nice to see you again" she says cheerily as she takes a seat on the opposite side of the desk.
She shuffles through a few papers before saying
"We've recently had a case brought to us, a young boy aged 8. He's been through a lot in his short little life and he needs more care than most." She pauses, hesitant to continue as she knows the boy has been through so much and he really needs to be placed with a family that will give him the time and care he deserves, having been adopted and returned three times already in the last two years since he was orphaned. Mrs Iero opens her mouth after a long second.
"Is there something wrong with him?" The social workers cheery expression drops as she says "He's had a very tough life and has been mute for the last two years since losing his parents. He's been adopted three times and every family has given up and returned him, he needs support and most of all, stability. Although he doesn't speak we can physically see the effect being taken and returned has had on him."
Mr and Mrs Iero share a brief look before Mrs Iero speaks up again and says
"We'd like to meet him, if that's alright." The social worker smiles and nods as she stands, leaving the office and thinking about how she thinks Gerard may have finally found the home he needs and deserves, knowing that Mr and Mrs Iero have their own tragic story and will be able to offer the love and support Gerard so desperately needs.
The social worker walked down the mint green hall and opened a brown door on her left, she looked in the room seeing gerard kneeling at the table that was placed in the middle of the room, drawing a big blue circle in the centre of the page
"gerard?" the worker smiled sweetly, gerards big hazel eyes were placed on hers, he gave her a hopeful looked making her nod he smiled and grabbed his ruck sake off of the chair and put it on his back

they walked out the room in silence and back to the Iero's, he held the workers hand as they entered the room,
"gerard this is linda and anthony, they're going to take you home" she spoke sweetly gerard glanced at the strangers then at the worker and squeezed her hand
"oh dont be silly they're nice" she laugh
gerard huffed and walked over to linda and smiled
"oh honey" she laughed as gerards eyes began to water she pulled him into a tight hug making gerard stiffen, he wasnt one for human contact since what happened, he guessed he had to get used to it.

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The car ride was quiet until they pulled up outside a large house, linda turned around from the passenger and faced gerard, gerard's head snapped around to look at her from the window he looked at her with a face like he did something wrong, he was such a nervous child, linda could see that but even if he didnt say anything she fell in love with gerard when she saw him all she wanted to do was take him home like her own son.
"you ready?" linda smiled
gerard blinked at her for a second before nodding at her, they unclipped their seat belts and walked to the house, as soon as the door opened a very small boy came running down the steps laughing as a older girl around 16 was laughing chasing him around,
"hey guys just in time i was going to call i have band practice so i needed to leave franks been a pleasure like always" the girl smiled walking up to anthony, he handed her 10 bucks and she headed out not even seeing gerard as he clung to linda's leg like a leach.
The little boy came running up to anthony shouting over and over
"daddy!"
"hey frankie" he laughed hugging his son
"whos that" he pointed to the boy with shaggy brown hair and pale skin hiding behind his mothers leg
"lets go in the living room first huh?" linda smiled, she took gerard hand and he still didnt come out from her leg they all sat down on the white leather couch,
"frank this gerard, your brother" anthony said nicely patting franks long hair, frank was quiet for a second before going up to gerard, gerard held a tight grip on linda's hand has frank moved closer, frank reached out and touched gerard's cheek, gerard looked at frank with wide eyes, gerard didn't move and frank held his hand in place of gerards face
"do you like cars?" frank suddenly said
gerard frowned and shook his head
"mommy why doesnt he talk?" frank moaned
"because he doesnt want to dont ask question like that frank" linda said strictly
"go show gerard to his room frank" anthony butted in
"come on" frank smiled pulling gerards hand, he pulled him out the room and up the stairs,
they walked down the hall way, pictures of frank were on two different tables that had flowers in vases on them and wedding pictures of linda and anthony on the walls, frank opened the door to a large red room with a metal silver bunk bed, toys lined the windowsill and almost every corner of the room, plus a big wardrobe
"this is your room, my room in opposite, you dont take my toys especially mr woppy, if you take him ill tell santa" frank frowned
gerards blood ran cold at the thought of santa knowing he did a bad thing which meant no presents
gerard nodded fast, frank smiled and walked over to the toy box
"wonna play dress up?" he giggle pulling out a fairy costume and tiara
gerard held his hands around his mouth and giggled
he didnt like is smile to be shown to many but frank seems nice
gerard just wasnt used to being played with so much

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