Hii! If you’re familiar with The Fosters, I would like to make a request about Stef and Lena helping Mariana with her pill problem. If you’ve seen the show, you would know that she took Jesus’s adhd pills for a while and eventually she got very sick. The show didn’t go very deep into that, but I’d love to see how Stef and Lena handled that<3
Hii! I’m not extremely familiar with the fosters but I hope this one-shot is pretty accurate :)
“Mariana, can we talk to you for a second?” Stef asked as she put her hand on her wife, Lena’s shoulder, staring at her daughter from across the dinner table. Exams were coming up soon, and the school year for Mariana was tougher than ever. The two moms couldn’t help but notice their bright daughter become sluggish and seemingly under the weather.
“Yeah, what’s up?” Mariana asked as she sat back down at the table. Stef opened her mouth to speak, but realized she didn’t exactly know how to bring up the topic. Both herself and Lena noticed Mariana’s bags under her eyes, slow answers, and sluggish behavior. All they wanted to know what what was going on.
Her wife, Lena, beat her to starting to conversation. “Is everything okay? You’ve been seeming under the weather lately,” she asked, concern in her tone. Mariana immediately fixed her posture.
“Everything’s fine, why?”
But Stef knew her daughter better than that. She knew how Mariana acted when something was bothering her. “Mariana, honey, if there’s something going on we need you to tell us,” she finally said, hoping that Mariana would speak up.
Mariana went quiet, setting off alarms in Stef’s head. Something was definitely wrong. It was only when the tears flooded her eyes that Stef went to sit next to her.
“What’s going on Mariana?” Lena asked as she reached over the table to hold her daughter’s hand.
“I’m sorry,” she finally said. “I took his pills.”
Stef immediately looked at her wife, Lena, who had the same expression of concern. She knew it had to be Jesus’s pills she was taking. That would explain why she had been acting so sluggish lately.
Stef was speechless, but took her crying daughter into her arms anyway. Mariana mumbled about how school taken such a toll on her, and how she thought his pills would help.
Lena came to the other side of Mariana, and began hugging her also. Stef wished she would’ve realized just how pressured her daughter felt because of school, but was happy she opened up. There was a lot of work to do, but opening up was the first step.