Disclaimer: I don't ownPokemon or any of thc haracters.
a/n i got this idea because im pretty much on the verge of miserable.
summary: Zoey Bruno has no friends, and that's the truth. once she came to middle school, all her elementary school friends left and became clones. now that she's alone,
can she find someone to relate to? enter Paul Samuels, who only hangs out with his cousin, and her friend, and his brother and sisters. Can the two become friends and learn that... they aren't alone?
AGES:
Paul: 15
Zoey: 14
Manny: 14
Brian: 15
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CHAPTER ONE:
When you look up the word miserable in a dictionary, you get wretchedly unhappy,
uneasy or uncomfortable.
When I thought of the word miserable, I thought of myself.
Hi. I'm Zoey Bruno and I have probably the WORST life imaginable. I live in Veilstone City with my five brothers and 10 sisters, my pregnant mother and third step dad, but that whole... process is a story, one for another time.
Because we have 16-and-one-more-on-the-way kids, we are the second biggest family in Veilstone. The biggest is 18 kids, and that's the Jovato family, who have 9 girls and 9 boys, all one year apart. I don't hang out with them, because they are upper class and I'm middle class, and becasue they are richer, they MUST be better.
Anyway, I also don't hang out with them, or pretty much anyone, because I'm a loner. When I came to middle school, my only three friends, Dawn, Kayla, and Jen left me to become popular trend-followers, leaving me to be myself by myself.
I'm in eighth grade now, still alone. But I guess I don't mind as much, because I do have my family, well, my REAL family. Three of the boys and one girl are my real brothers and sister. Maylene is older than me, and is older than all the girls, who are all 16 (every single one of them), but a year younger than the two other boys, who are 18 (twins). Me, and two of my brothers, Percy and Angelo are triplets. Joey, the other boy, is younger by two years.
I guess I should explain how all the girls except Maylene are all sixteen.
Remember how I said this was my third step dad? Well, only four of the kids are his. The two boys and two of the girls, Pete, Zak, Melissa and Marrissa. The girls are twins and so are the boys. From my mom's third marriage (step dad number two, came two more girls, Aliana and Alexandra, or Ali and Alex. Then came step dad number one: the rest of the five girls, Tracii, Lacy, Macy, Kaycee, and Stacey.
Before was my real dad, and my mom kicked him out the door when I was six, so Joey was four and Maylene was nine. All the other husbands have been put in jail, forcing my mom to take care of their daughters and sons because their REAL mothers are all either drug addicts or also in prison or just refusing to take care of their own kids.
We have a pretty big house for all these kids, but me, Maylene, Tracii, Marrissa, and Melissa all share a room. All the boys share, and the rest of the girls share a room. Somehow, we're able to afford a TV for every bedroom, including my mom and Ritchie's room (Ritchie is step dad number three's name), the living room, the family room, and the computer room. Speaking of computers, we can also afford at LEAST 10 laptops and three desk computers. (I actually have my own laptop that I saved my birthday money for for about 3 years. I got about $200 each time, plus with more coming in from my relatives, aunts, uncles, my many grandparents who all "love" me even though I've only known them for like two years then their sons get put in jail.)
Anyway, that's where I am now: lying on my top bunk in the bedroom I share, clicking on my laptop. I didn't really do anything except listening to music and play games. I didn't really like a trackpad, though, so I would bring up a solid platform (most of the time a broken down cardboard box) and put it on there with a mouse. Also the reason I'm here is because my step sisters have their friends over. Angelo, Pete and Zak went to a skate park, Percy is at the library, and Joey is over his friend, Antwon's house. Maylene is reading underneath me.
"ZoZo, we gotta do something." Maylene is the ONLY one allowed to call me ZoZo, because she's my favorite sister. Joey is allowed to, because that was the nickname he gave me when he was four and still couldn't say Zoey properly.
"Do what?" I said not looking up from my crossword as a mix of pop, R&B, alternative rock, hard rock and country played from PokeTube.
"I don't know, go to the mall and look at FYE or Border's or something. Just get away from the girls worrying about their nails and their hair and make-up."
See, this is why I love Maylene, because she knows that there is more to life than looking your best. Like Pokemon training. I don't really tell too many people, but I'm a trainer. In fact, my four out of five of my Pokemon are on my bed now, Glameow, Misdreavous, Shellos (the pink kind), and an Eevee. Maylene, Percy, Joey, Angelo, Marrissa, Melissa and Tracii are trainers too. Maylene is the Veilstone Gym Leader, and the girls are Co-Ordinators, as I am. Percy, Joey, and Angelo get badges. When they go to a city to get them, I sometimes go with them.
"Yeah I guess so." I saved my crossword puzzle, shut my lap top and put my pillow over it. I returned all my Pokemon to their PokeBalls, and hopped off my bed onto the ground. I probably gave Maylene a heart attack because she jumped a mile off the bed, which probably wasn't a good idea because we're on the second level.
"Really?" Maylene looked totally dumbfounded, because I don't really go out in public, because my step sisters say that if anyone found out that we live in the same house, they'll be embarrassed since all I wear is black and I'm really pale. Plus I refuse to do anything involving the color pink.
Anyway, we went to the mall, and just walked. I still had money left over from my laptop, which was about $120. I did spend some on three CD's, Avril Lavigne's Under My Skin, Linkin Park's Metoera, and Carrie Underwood's Play On. That was about $30 but whatever. Maylene got a CD too, Justin Bieber's My World. I would have bought it, but I knew she was going to get it. So what's the point?
We got lunch there, then walked home. That night as I lied in bed around midnight, my headphones in my ears, my Pokemon snuggled around me, I couldn't help but wonder...
Is there someone else out there? I thought, Nobody's Home on Avril's CD blasting in my head, Is there someone like me? Miserable, trying to find... something, a miracle to fix everything. To make me happy again. Make my life enjoyable.
If there was, I wanted to meet the person that would help me.
I did.
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A/N and there is the first chapter! I have three more written, but my dad's computer is messed up, so I can't save all of them so I'm holding them as drafts on AOL. xD lol there isnt enough space on our hard drive disk to save anything else, so I have to wait until my uncle comes to Connecticut from North Carolina and fixes this stupid thing. =) haha. oh well. after i post this i'm gonna delete it so I can upload the other chapters.
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