The girls were happy to have heard the news and were pleasantly surprisedat the quick adoption. Valerie sat them down and explained, "Sometimes it'sin... the best interest of the children to forgo the wait time and allow theadoption to happen quickly especially if the people involved have beencleared by courts. Your new father and mother went through this before withyour sister, Judge Perez wants to meet your new daddy so she knows that itis the right thing for you. And we believe it is, you need. We decided to watch the movie Pulse, which Emma had not yet seen. Even though I have already seen the movie, it still scares me. About halfway through the movie, we started getting really scared. At one of the really scary parts, Emma's house phone rang, and we screamed, jumping right into each others arms, holding each other for dear life. We started laughing, and then she went to answer the phone. It was just her mom calling to say goodnight. After the phone scared us half to death, we were. It's only Wednesday. For the next two days, it will be business as usual at work, then the limo will whisk you away." "Can I take my daughters with me?" "I don't see why not, but do you think that will increase, or decrease, your husband's acceptance of the deal we offer?" "Good thinking. I think it would be good for him to have to take care of them for a while, let him know that trying for sole custody might not be so pleasant, but I'll miss them so much." "You can call them, maybe skype. Given Izzy’s problems with home movies, I was very uncomfortable with the idea of any more recordings of my infidelities existing. But my husband knew nothing of his daughter’s growing reputation as a slut and, having seen my first highly amateurish video with Will, had insisted we would both want souvenirs.He had promised to delete everything if I really wanted him to and was being so sweet and excited about it all that I didn’t feel I could make a fuss without giving Izzy’s secret away.Once.