Caring

'Smash!'

Gwen heard a sound of glass smashing, and she wondered if it was the new neighbours. She looked out of her kitchen window and saw a stool with shattered glass around it in their backyard. She was really worried if it had something to do with their oldest, Charlie.
He was different. He was autistic with ADD. She didn't know what their life was like, but all she could think about was that the father, Simon, could be abusive. She couldn't imagine one of the boys throwing a stool out of the window. They would have some sense that throwing things at the window and making them break is bad and not right. Surly Simon could get angry enough to throw the stool, but then he wouldn't do that because it would cost money to get fixed.
It would be hard to live in the Mollison household.

2 days later
Gwen was thinking about when Simon was yelling at her once the social workers left. She was worried about the children.
And the mother, Maggie, was in hospital so she couldn't look after the whole family. She was the one who had all of the control over the family, including Simon. He was as irresponsible as the kids themselves. She could hear him talking to someone named Rex, but she discovered that Rex was just a teddy bear. He wasn't mature. Thomas would be the most mature male in the family.
Gwen shouldn't have yelled at Simon like she did yesterday, but she was just so angry and he yelled at her first. Once he had walked back into his house, she regretted what she said. Why did she have angry issues? She was always like this when someone yelled at her or anything irritated her. It wasn't her fault that she was like this.

4 weeks later
Gwen couldn't sleep right for a while. The noise that the Mollison family have been making has been way too loud. Between the oldest, Charlie, tapping with his wooden spoon and all of the moans and then there was the baby, Shirley, who would scream, then Maggie yelling to Simon for him to change the nappy, Simon yelling back at her. It was overwhelming. Gwen had squirted Charlie with her hose because he wouldn't shut up.
She was over it. She was just over it all.
Why did they have to live next-door to her anyway?
What did she do wrong to deserve this? She had never had anyone as bad as the Mollison's for neighbours, but it was nothing compared to some people. She just had to live through it until they moved because of Simon's job in the army.