Taking care of children is hard enough when you're a parent. It's harder when you're a seventeen-year-old high schooler.

Lucy Hastings is the caretaker of five foster siblings -Seth, Serena, Derek, Oliver, and Ariel. The six of them have been together for years, under the love of their foster parents. When their foster mom passes away their foster dad needs to work more to make ends meet. The kids want to be a family, so Lucy steps up to take care of the kids.

Keeping everybody around her at arm's length, Lucy finds it difficult to hide her true self from new student, Wesley Reynolds. He seems to be everywhere, why can't she escape him?

Lucy has denied feelings of affection for anyone. She pushes away anyone who could care about her. What's she to do when she can't deny her growing feelings for Wesley Reynolds?

Meant To Be is created by Samantha Auz, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Meant to Be

I’ve been going between both rooms all night long. 


Whether it was Ariel coughing her lungs out and needing to get her cough medicine and an excessive amount of water. Or it was Ollie having a hot flash and bringing him fans from the garage. The nightmare was that Derek was the opposite. He was shivering in the middle of the night, so I grabbed him extra blankets from my bed since I wasn’t sleeping last night. 


When it hit the time for school, I called the elementary school and the preschool to tell them that Derek, Oliver, and Ariel wouldn’t be in school today. 


Jasper came to pick up Seth and Serena for school. He agreed to pick up any of the homework that I needed, but it’s Friday, so there probably won’t be a lot of schoolwork for me to catch up on. 


“Do you guys feel okay?” I asked, before letting the twins in Jasper’s car. “No fever, no sweats, no stomachaches?” 


“We’re fine. Take care of the little ones,” Seth said. 


Chapter 32: Sick Day