Social Services talked to Marilyn and I about our circumstances, and they told the Court that we were suitable. Again the Judge spoke to my daughter i... private. He granted an interim order for residency to be reviewed in six months. Sarah left the Court with us. A policeman accompanied us to Jane's house so that we could collect my daughter's things without harassment. At one point he had to warn my ex mother in law to keep a civil tongue in her head. Sarah sat in the back of the car chattering. The list of charges I had on her was impressive. A conviction would put the girl in jail for a week with over a thousand dollars in fines. Money I knew her mother couldn't afford. And if the downcast look on her face in my rear view mirror was any indication, Adriana was aware of this too. Paying the normal bills was hard enough on Mrs. Hernandez, and this would only add to her burden."So where did you get the car, Adriana?" I asked her."It's a friends car. They let me borrow it, since Mom has. Shit, the world didn’t need more of them. There were too many already. So I squeezed the trigger and the life went out of those brown, innocent eyes.Later I went to where Johnny was waiting. The kid was practically jumping up and down in joy at my arrival. I motioned for him to quit it but secretly I was happy to see him, too. Since our parents died, we had been looking out for each other. Even though I was the big brother, Johnny was more intelligent. He soaked up knowledge and it was his. She say me and said “wow you lost a lot of weight, Look at all these muscles” grabbing my arms and chest. I was proud of what I looked like now. I guess all the PT helped me out.We then went to the pool and the water was great, another couple was there lying out by the pool but the wife had nothing compared to my mom, even her husband was looking at my mom as she walked into the pool area.She dove in the pool and I joined her. We were laughing and talking of old times in our pool at home. The.