Mustering Up Courage

One week passed by and nothing productive happened. Throughout the whole week Zafyra had been trying to tell her fosters that she was going to go to H.S.O.G this year.

At first she thought that it wasn't going to be too hard to tell them. It's just an 'in and out' type of operation. She tried telling them in the morning without angering them twice but it just didn't seem like the right time to do so.

She thought of a better idea. She made a list of things that would benefit her fosters if she goes to H.S.O.G. She thought about it for a couple of days. Finally, she came up with three main reasons.

Firstly, she knew that they hated seeing her in the house like a leech. Which was very obvious to how she has been treated throughout those 11 years being here. So the first reason would be that, she won't be spending any of they're money. Which only meant more money for them to spend on themselves.

Second, she could brag all she wanted on the fact that her child that she raised is going to H.S.O.G. Mrs. Wagner had a thing for bragging a lot especially to her friends from college and high school. Zafyra remembered when she accompanied her foster mother and accidently bumped to one of her college friends. She couldn't stop bragging about all her highs in life.

Lastly, she could get favored by her mother. It's true Mrs. Wagner came from a family that didn't have equality. Some of her siblings were favored than others. She hated her younger sister especially since she always stole the 'limelight' from her. Therefore, having a child that is way better than any of the past family members would mean she accomplished to educate a child 'correctly'.

Zafyra wrote everything out and finally knew how to backup her request. Obviously there were more pros than cons into letting Zafyra go to the school.

The good thing about Zafyra was that she didn't anger any of the two throughout the whole week which was something good since that meant that they weren't in any of a bad mood. Although they could always good under some sort of mood swings one way or another.

Zafyra gathered up all her courage and finally decided to tell them when they were eating. She finished washing the dishes that she used to make the food. She walked up to the wooden table and pulled out one of the wooden chairs to sit in it.

She sat in the chair and looked at them with a contemplated look. 'It's not too late to back out, right?' She thought. Then continued thinking 'Screw it, I already made up my mind'

She gulped and finally mustered up courage while making direct contact to Mr. Wagner. She maintained contact with him the whole time not trying to change the direction. If she looked anywhere else she might go of topic and stop talking.

"I-I wanted to um.. talk to you guys about me moving schools." She flinched when she finally got the attention of them both. "So Someone from H.S.O.G decided to scout me and wants me to move to their school... And um.. well school is supposed to start in two weeks so it's a tight change but she said that she will be able to make the change happen..." Zafyra stopped to look at them and well they didn't look like the most happiest people in the world.

"And why does this matter to me?" Mrs. Wagner said annoyed while she glared at her.

"Well I need to get permission from you guys to well move to that school. Because... Because I will have to move to the school in order to attend it. And well they can't let me move without your permission." Zafyra's voice sounded very sheepishly while she was trying to avoid their glare.

"And how is this going to benefit me?" Mrs. Wagner arrogantly asked while fervently glaring at Zafyra.

"Well I-I know that you love to go shopping. S-So you will not have to spend any m-money on me and you could possibly earn the favor of your mother. Well if you don't know, I-it's hard for anyone to get into H.S.O.G. Which means you raised a child correctly and well you ex-excelled in uh..uh raising a child." Zafyra finally said it all.

You could feel all the tension in the room building up. There was complete silence for a while they all started to just look around. But they were all in deep thought. After a while finally Mrs. Wagner spoke up.

"Okay, I'll agree with this but don't come back here unless I ask for it!" Mrs. Wagner said while she had an evilly look in her eyes. Zafyra on the other hand had finally left a sigh in relief.

Mrs. Wagner immediately agreed whenever Zafyra said about not spending money on Zafyra anymore. She knew what Zafyra was trying to say and she got her there.

Zafyra went to her room after she got the signature from the old woman. She gave a call to the coach and finally hung up. She told her that people that were going to move into the school would be moving in next week on monday.