The next morning Dylan had such a happy smile on his face while sleeping soundly in his Captain America Pajamas that is, until he felt me staring at him with my beady little eyes only a few inches from his face "AWWW!" "Good morning handsome, I didn't mean to startle you!" There was juvenile laughter in the background! "Sorry Aphrodite, you scarred me, by the way how did you get in my room?" Aphrodite said "Well, sweetie, you're in my room actually, and by the way, I love your Captain America underoos ha-ha!" Dylan was blushing and said "It was a gift ok?" Aphrodite winked at him and said "Don't worry honey, your secret is safe with me, and for your information, I like to sleep in my Wonder Woman underoos too, so you are in good company my brother ha-ha!"

     Dylan was still trying to get oriented and had a lot of questions so we tried to comfort him as best as we could because this morning is going to be the start of one of those "Crossroad days of so many people's lives!"

     Oh Sunshine don't you just hate when you reach a crossroad day in your life when you have to make a decision that will affect your life forever? It just seems like a few years ago that Astraea's biggest crossroad decision in life was what type of bubble gum she wanted to get stuck in her hair for the day ha-ha! But as we grow older those decisions become real and sometimes hard! Do we go to college, or get a job? Should I buy that car? That house? Should we get married or stay single? Everyday our life is affected by the decisions we make and sometimes our decisions affect other people's lives as well. That is why we, as human beings, are all connected and dependent on each other by the life we live and the decisions we make! Hopefully we will make the right decisions, so that we can help, and not harm the precious people in our life. At least that is what we try to do! Anyway my love, we have to ask Dylan some difficult crossroad decisions that is going to affect him the rest of his life but don't worry, we will give him plenty of time to decide, ugh! ;)

     "Dylan" "Yes Astraea?" "I have to ask you a favor if you don't mind?" "Sure Astraea, what is on your mind?" "I was wondering if you would let our mom and dad adopt you into their family?" "Wow Astraea, that is intense, I thought you were just going to ask if I could take you girls to school today, but this!" He became speechless so I smiled at him and said "It's ok Dylan no pressure, it's just that I know you and Lucy are orphaned like I am and your Aunt Wu is looking after you, but your sister is going to disown her because she is going to send her to alternative school for a while since she got in trouble with the police at school last night. If you allow our mom and dad to adopt you and Lucy, we'll be able to save her and help you heal too!" "Oh, Astraea this is really hard! Can you give me some time to think it over?" "Sure Dylan we can give you all the time you need or maybe in just 5, 4, 3, 2, 1" ;)

     That is when mom came in the room after knocking on the door and said "Oh Dylan you're awake, good! Listen honey, I just wanted to let you know that your aunt called and said that Lucy was detained at school last night by police for making a false report and Ms. Wu told them to send her to an alternative school for a while. She will be back soon, and when she does, we will be a family I promise! oh, and one more thing. I just want to thank you for all the wonderful times we had over the months and how happy you made your future mother and father for being here with us, you truly are an Angel Dylan thanks!" Dylan weakly said "Ok mom thanks!" "Oh by the way, do you want dad to take you to school or do you want to drive your car today?" Dylan wasn't sure if his car was at their house so he asked "Isis, is my car here?" and Isis laughed and said "By some miracle or magick Dylan your car is parked outside!" cool, but then Dylan had a worried and shocked look on his face when his possible new mother asked him "Who are you talking to dear?" That's when Dylan realized that Isis mom could not see or hear her talking to him and he had that scared deer in the headlight look when he looked over at Isis "No Dylan, our mom can't see or hear us anymore, we put a spell on her so she could forget us and concentrate on adopting you and Lucy. This is really hard for us but we don't want to break her heart, sorry my love but that is the way it has to be!" That's when mom asked Dylan "Honey, are you ok? you blanked out on me for a moment, did you need to talk?" "Oh no mom, it's ok, sorry, I was just thinking about a history test I'm going to have to take at school today, I'll go ahead and drive if you don't mind, I promised I would pick up Gina for school today!" "Ok Dear love you with all my heart!" As he smiled and walked away Isis said "Dylan this is what it would be like to have a family that loves you, think about it and take your time, Astraea was only teasing you about making a decision right this minute, love you brother!"

     When Dylan left we all let out a sigh, "It's going to be hard leaving our parents! Are we doing the right thing?" Oh Sunshine, as we were talking we started to pack our belongings and decided to stay with Miss Wu; so that Dylan and Lucy can be adopted by our former mother and father. We told Miss Wu everything that happened, all the magic we did and why we had to leave our temporary parents so she knew what was happening and promised to take care of us for the short time we were going to be here. As we were getting ready to leave our happy home for the last time though, our mother said "And where do you think you're going!" That is when we looked at each other like we were the deer in the headlights when we said "She can still see us, Oops!"

     "Of course I can still see you silly! I know you are powerful witches and all, but do you really think your spells and magick can make a mother forget the children she loves with all her heart?" that is when she came to us and hugged us with all her might! This was also the first time our magick ever failed! Perhaps we really are human after all! ;)

     "Oh I'm so sorry mom, it's all my fault! I just didn't want your heart to break when we left, we love you so much it hurts, but we're going to have to leave you when we catch the demon and send him back to where he belongs, that is why we put a spell for you to forget us and hopefully adopt Dylan and Lucy to take our place!" Mom said "Oh Isis, I don't know why you have all these powers, but I do know that I love all of you!  Don't ever feel like you can't talk to me, I'm here for you I promise!  Dylan is a good kid and Lucy is very a very troubled teen! I don't know what is going to happen, but we will find a way to make it all work out as a family ok?" and all three of us said "Ok mom! We love you!" Mom sounded relieved and said "Good, let me call work and school so that we can stay home and talk some more!"