Melinda Pettit

Melinda Ruiz is the adoptive daughter of Aaron and Crystal.

She lived in a foster home that closed, and it was on the same street as Aaron and Crystal’s house. Social Services asked Aaron and Crystal to take care of Melinda, and at first Crystal didn’t want to because she felt that she and her husband were too young to take in teenagers, but she still invited Melinda to eat at her house. When Melinda came to eat at their house, Crystal loved her directly and knew immediately that Melinda was meant to be their daughter. A week later, she moved in with Aaron and Crystal and asked them to adopt her two weeks later. However, she could not be legally adopted because her biological parents had not lost their parental rights. However, Social Services gave sole custody of Melinda to Aaron and Crystal until she was 18.

She learned at 18 that she was pregnant and later had a daughter she named Scarlet. She lived with Aaron and Crystal until she was 22.

Trivia
When she first met her, Crystal thought Melinda looked like Selena Gomez.

She called Crystal and Aaron "Dad and Mom" just two weeks after she arrived home.

She asked Aaron and Crystal to adopt her about two weeks after she arrived home.

She was 17 when she moved in with Aaron and Crystal.

She wanted to go to college to be a marriage counselor, but she dropped out of school when she had her daughter. Her father, however, is convinced that she would one day return to university.

She’s very close to Logan, who was only seven months old when she moved in with Aaron and Crystal.