Lincoln finally came out of his room and called for a family meeting, everyone were now sitting in the living room. Lincoln was still holding Lily or more so she was holding onto him. The whole family sat there in silence for a moment before Lincoln finally spoke.

"I'm going to ask you one more time and this time I want you to tell me the truth."

His parents nodded

"Where did I come from?"

Flashback

"Rita I think we should adopt." Lynn said as he and his wife sat on the couch while their 5 daughters were all around the house playing.

"Adopt? Why adopt?" Rita asked

"Well we've had 5 girls already...and I just get the feeling that..." he paused not really sure how to word it, his silence caused his wife to giggle.

"I started to notice that pattern too...but are you sure adoption is what you want?" She asked, a bit unsure about this, Lynn sr took her hand in his own looking at her straight in the eyes.

"I'm positive."

"But what about the girls, what if they don't like him? What if they hate him? What if they treat him terribly? W-what if..."

"Rita calm down! I'm sure the girls will love him just as much as we will."

Rita was quiet for a bit still...she thought about it for a bit before deciding

"...Ok..." she took a deep breath "Let's do it."

First we had to get ourselves approved for adoption, I'll skip all the complicated paperwork we had to fill out. We got approved and went to different adoption homes looking for the right boy.

It took a long time before we finally found the perfect little boy, you.

"Oh Lynn, look at him he's so cute." Rita cued at the little white haired baby sitting in the crib

"And his hair looks just like Pop Pop." Lynn added they both looked to each other then back to the baby who was cooing and playing with Rita's finger.

"Well what do you think Rita."

"He's perfect."

They explained to us that you were an abandoned child, that you were left on their doorstep in a basket with a note saying your mother was homeless and could not care for you. They had to report you in an attempt to locate your mother, but no matter what they did they could not locate a single homeless mother who's now missing her child.

End of Flashback

"You were such a sweet child and you deserved a better life so we adopted you and named you Lincoln." Rita finished explaining

"We're really sorry son, we wanted to tell you but we were just so worried as to how you would react that we always put it off." Lynn sr finished

Lincoln was silent for a moment before standing up

"Can I go back to my room? I need time to process this all."

Both nodded as Lincoln went back to his room without Lily, much to her dislike.

Hours later there was a knock at his door, he waited for a moment before answering.

"Come in.."

It was Lori with Lily, since the youngest had been wanting to get back in for a while now and was already struggling to get out of Lori's arms and into Lincoln. He took her and she immediately went to hug him which caused her big brother to laugh a little. After a few moments of silence Lori finally spoke.

"Well at least we know your mother loved you very much."

"Huh?" he was confused

"Think about it, your birth mother was homeless you would have ended up in the system either way. I can't speak from personal experience but I'm certain that any parent would never want their children living on the streets. Giving you up would have been very very difficult for her, but I'm sure she just wanted her son to have a happy life."

"Now that you put it that way...do you think she...that she would still want to see me."

Lori pulled him into a hug

"I'm sure she would."

"I just wish I knew how to find her...just so I could meet her...I mean so I could at least know who she is..."

"Maybe there's still a way to find her?...How about tomorrow we go down to the home where you were adopted and see what we can find out."

"You're really going to do that for me?"

"Oh course Lincoln! You're our brother we would do anything for you."

Lincoln felt tears run down his cheeks but this time they were happy tears

"T-thank you Lori."

"I'm sure your birth mother would love to meet you."

...But what they don't realize is that is far far from the truth...