Young, Wishful Thinking(Ch.2)

With fear creeping up her spine, she collected her courage and quietly opened the door. Outside, the new morn welcomed her. She smiled to herself as she put Tony, her gray and white spotted, blue-eyed kitten, down on the dew-covered grass beside her.

"This isn't so bad", she thought to herself and she lay on the cool grass. She looked up at the sky and saw the horizon over her. After six months of not being outside(due to a punishment that even she had forgotten), she was joovial to see something other than the basement for once.
As she laid there, she starting thinking. Thinking things she knew if she said aloud, even out there by herself, they might reach the ears of her foster mother and then... well, Destiny tried not to think about what would happen then. She thought of her life before foster care; or she tried to rather. Before all the beatings and yelling. Before the heart-wrenching pain of hard labor with no pay, before she was separated from her little sister, her only family she had.1

Destiny's mother, Keyshia, had given birth to Destiny when she was 17 years old; a junior in high-school. She didn't mean to have a child born outta wedlock... That was the excuse she gave her parents.. Her parents, Tonya and Frank Robinson, were very religious and went to church almost every day. So when Keyshia came home from school one day announcing to her parents that she was pregnant, well, it wasn't a very good evening in the Robinson family. Instead of yelling at their daughter(like most parents would) they simply told her she had two options. 1) She could give it up for adoption or 2) she could have the baby and raise it on her own.2

Well, of course Keyshia chose adoption! Keyshia and her family lived in New York City, but in the poorer part of town. They had to get hand-me-downs from neighbors and close relatives nearby.
She gave Destiny to a young couple named the Turners. They seemed like pretty nice people. Seemed. 3

When the Robinsons first met Nancy and Jake Turner, they were sursprised to find that Nancy and Jake were African-Americans. Keshia, although she grew up and lived in the South, she was white, as was her new born baby. She was skeptical to give Destiny away to some strangers, but she didn't reallly have that much of a choice. It was either give Destiny away or leave New York, the only home she knew, to raise a baby by herself when she could barely take care of herself!