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

“Family court is a difficult place to be. Sometimes it’s filled with happy endings, and other times families are torn apart,” the judge said, giving her ruling. 


The kids and I all stood our hands tightly clenched together. Eric stood behind us, and even though we couldn’t see him, his presence was appreciated. 


We’ve done everything that we could. 


We spent hours in the courtroom, each giving an explanation as to why we deserve to be a family. No one’s opinion went unnoticed, not even Ariel. 


Her testimony went like this, ‘I want to stay with Lucy. I want to watch Disney movies and get bedtime stories from Lucy.’ She even mentioned her other siblings, but her explanation didn’t make much sense to people outside of our family. 


Oliver was the only one to cry while talking to the judge. He mentioned that he was brought to this family as an infant, same as Ariel, and that this is the only family he’s ever known.


Chapter 37: Here We Go