They won't let me go with you today. There's a process. They'll want to know more about you; where you live, what kind of jobs you have, stuff about money.

[ they're her parents, but even Emma knows they're not going to make this easy on them. they might even make it harder if her parents claim to be what they really are. they'd have an easier time adopting her if she wasn't their real kid.

sometimes there are even judges, and those judges are pretty strict. she doesn't want to have to wait through all of that.]

But if we go, they'll just think I ran away again.

[ yep, again.]