When they got out of the car there were so many FBI agents that were pretty much surrounding their entire house. Carlos just quickly ran over to Ava hiding behind her.

    "Ava I'm scared I don't like this," Carlos whispered. The baby in his arms seemed to agree with him as she squirmed and kicked starting to wake up from her nap. The wailing quickly following after this.

Ava closed her eyes in frustration wrapping her arms around Carlos holding him protectively to her as she pushed past all of the people blocking her from their house.

"Move this is my house!" Ava shouted out as she continued to push past everyone and get to their door.

     When they reached the door they were immediately stopped by an FBI agent that was basically guarding the entrance to their home. "Are you Ava Jalali?" The agent asked the clearly already frustrated girl. Ava glared at the agent.

"Yes and why does it matter?" Ava's voice was cold. She was already having a horrible day and didn't need to add getting investigated by the FBI on there as well.

      The lady just gave her a pitiful look when she noticed that Ava wasn't alone. She had a young boy with her that was holding onto what appeared to be a sobbing newborn baby girl.

"Can we go inside? We need you to answer some questions about your parents and their whereabouts this shouldn't take long," the FBI agent told Ava making Ava sigh as she didn't want to be difficult with Carlos and Mal present. She didn't want to look suspicious and get herself investigated too. She was the only family that Carlos and Mal had right now other than their older cousin Jay and she didn't want to get Carlos and Mal thrown into the system.

       She just unlocked the door and allowed the lady inside. "Look I don't want to be difficult, but I don't have any clue where my parents are. They just left us. They took off sometime between last night and this morning because I was woken up to my twelve year old brother freaking out because our parents had left and taken everything with them," Ava told the agent her attitude clearly making it's way through. She didn't want to cause trouble but she couldn't help but find this whole thing to be ridiculous.

It wasn't her fault that her parents had done this to them. Why were they being questioned right now? All she wanted to do was try to figure out what was even happening, but she couldn't because of some FBI agent that clearly had some agenda with this.

         "I see and your parents just left their three children alone. Two of which are young minors. I find it very hard to believe that they would do that. So I'm going to give you one last opportunity to tell me where your parents are. I find it very hard to believe that they would just leave you three behind, especially a young child and a newborn," the agent told Ava. Ava's face grew red as the anger boiled up inside her body. She was trying to not be difficult, but this lady wasn't listening to her.

           She already told her the truth. And Carlos was practically shaking from fear. The smaller boy practically engulfed in her shirt staying as silent as he could. It was obvious the younger boy was terrified to do anything else while he also held on protectively to his baby sister.

She hated how scared this lady was making her younger siblings and she just wanted this lady to leave. She was already having a very difficult day.

           Ava just carefully pushed her little brother behind her and stood up tall in order to protect him and their baby sister from the FBI agent. She was the oldest and she loved her little siblings. She would do anything for them, they were all she had left and she wasn't going to let some stranger get to them.

          "I already told you they left us with nothing.  In fact the reason we weren't even here was because we had to quickly go out and buy formula because our own mother couldn't even bother to leave some breast milk for her newborn daughter, so that she doesn't starve to death! I told you everything already. You are scaring my little brother and my baby sister. This is still our house so get out!" Ava practically growled out at the agent. She had too many other things to deal with already and she was also trying to protect her brother and sister.

         The lady just sighed as she quickly left the practically empty house. Once she got into her car and all of the FBI agents finally left their house Ava let the air fill her lungs again. 

They were safe for now at least. Once Ava was sure that they had actually left she carefully picked up the tiny newborn from Carlos. Quickly and quietly making her way to the bassinet, so that she could let the baby sleep while also trying to figure out what to do next.

           When Ava left Carlos became curious by the sliding door by the window. His father had always warned him to stay away from it, but he was really curious now and Ava was busy with Mal. He just quickly slid the door and completely froze when he found a duffel bag full of money and a note from their dad apologizing for leaving them.

            Carlos had no clue where all the money came from, but he was pretty sure it was the stolen money. "Ava! Ava! Ava! Ava!" The young twelve year old hollered out for his big sister. He didn't know what to do about the money. Ava quickly came running into the room as she looked at her little brother in worry.

              "Carlos what happened?" Ava asked the young boy. Carlos quickly held up the money to Ava and Ava froze when she saw it. "Where did you find this!" Ava's voice deepened. He wasn't supposed to find that money ever. Her dad had told her about his hiding spot and made her promise to never tell Carlos about it.

                  Carlos just froze in fear as he looked at his big sister. "I just found it under there. Ava we have to turn that money in! That is probably the money that dad stole! Maybe if we turn it in then mom and dad can come back!" Carlos told his big sister as he began to get hopeful that if they turned in the money that his parents would be off the hook and everything would be normal again.

                Ava closed her eyes placing the money back in the hiding spot and picked Mal back up.  "Carlos we can't turn this money in. You need to forget that you saw this. And Carlos I know that you want mom and dad back, but Carlos they aren't coming back. They are criminals right now. Especially now that they are on the run. Turning in the money isn't going to help our parents. We are on our own now," Ava told the young boy making Carlos start to cry as everything just finally hit him. His parents were really gone.

                "Ava what's going to happen to us now?" Carlos asked as he was really scared now. He was afraid that he and Mal would end up in the system as Ava was their only relative besides their cousin Jay and Jay wasn't eighteen yet and Ava was barely eighteen.

                Ava just sighed as she honestly didn't know what was going to happen, but she couldn't tell her little brother that. Carlos was relying on her right now. "I don't know yet, but everything is going to be fine. Just go work on your homework that you didn't do yet and just don't worry about this. Everything is going to turn out just fine I promise," Ava told her younger brother. Carlos didn't even argue like he normally would as he just quickly grabbed his backpack and ran off to go do his homework.

                 Once Ava was sure that Carlos was out of reach she placed her newborn sister in the bassinet and just collapsed onto the floor the tears flowing down like a water fall as she could finally let her emotions of the day out. Mal was sleeping and Carlos was in the other room with headphones working on homework. She couldn't believe that her parents had just left without even saying anything and they had just left her behind with her two little siblings. She had no clue what to do.

                Before Ava could compose herself the doorbell rang immediately waking up the newborn and making her cry. Ava just groaned as she wiped away her tears trying to compose herself as she picked up Mal and opened the door. Ava felt her world crash in on itself when she saw who was at the door. It was social services. "Oh you have got to be kidding me," Ava accidentally said out loud. She couldn't believe how unlucky her day was.