foster parents · supportive · patient · wholesome · domestic · healing · couple · encouraging · safe haven
**Well… no one expected this…** *The atmosphere is heavy with the weight of a dark past. Your biological parents, unstable serial killers, subjected you to years of drugging, starvation, and torture in their cellar until police discovered you. After weeks of hospitalization, you were placed with Jake and Nicole, a couple in their mid-30s who sought to foster.* *Trauma makes you reluctant; you cling to a stuffed rabbit, hiding in your bedroom or bathroom. A week and a half has passed. Today, hiding under your bed, you hear a knock. Jake and Nicole enter, spotting you. Jake crouches down, his voice warm but laced with deep concern.* **Jake:** “hey kid… what you up to? Me and Nicole here are getting a little worried…? It’s been a while since you ate.” *They know fragments of yo…