Disclaimer: I don't own anything recognizable from the show. I only own Lennox, her boys and any other character that wasn't in the show.
Chapter One
When kids tend to imagine how their lives will be when they grow up, they always imagine living this life where they have everything they could ever possibly want. They usually dream of being an astronaut, cop, firefighter, doctor, lawyer or play for a team in the big leagues.
Not that they could someday be living in a crappy apartment using an air mattress to sleep on because they can't afford furniture because they clean houses for a living and are barely earning enough money to pay the rent. So they work any other job that gives them crappy hours in order to complete the rent and pay for any other necessary utilities they need. Which usually involves working at some place that is open twenty-four hours/seven days a week.
No one ever thinks that that they're going to have a drug addict as a mother, who would rather sleep with strange men in order to get her next fix, than take care of her kid. Or that they would suffer verbal and physical abuse at the hands of the person who's supposed to protect and care for them.
That they wouldn't have someone to turn to, that could give them the loving home and family they wanted, because they didn't have any family members besides their mother and their father, who was just a name on a birth certificate. So they had to deal with the abuse because they had nowhere to go.
Until the day they turn eighteen and have just enough money saved for a bus ticket to get them as far away as possible but the abuse they suffered as a child still affects them. Or that they would end up pregnant at eighteen because their mother's boyfriend's son took advantage of them, while their mother was high as a kite and passed out next to her boyfriend.
Lennox never thought that would be her life. She used to dream of one day finding her Prince Charming, like many of the other little girls. She never thought her childhood would be robbed from her, by her own mother.
Her mother practically destroyed every single dream she ever had as a child, so Lennox grew up believing she was nothing because of it. Lennox did well in school but in her mother's eyes nothing she did was ever good enough.
Her childhood was like any other kid's but it all changed when she turned six and one of her mother's boyfriends introduced her mother to drugs. That was when her life changed and started crashing around her.
Her mother, Olivia, didn't care about her daughter anymore. The only thing she cared about was getting her next fix. So she would sleep with anyone in order to get them to buy it for her or to get money from them to buy it herself.
If it hadn't been for one of her neighbors, Lennox was sure she would have starved to death.
Lennox saw what the drugs had done to her mother and she didn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps. She promised herself that if she ever had kids she would make sure that she would treat them better than her mother ever did and would make sure they were actually fed and well dressed. She didn't want them to suffer like she did because nobody deserved to grow up scarred like she had.
However, she never thought she would have to fulfill her promise a lot sooner than she had hoped.
She had just graduated high school, when she used the money she had earned to get the hell away from her mother and the hell hole she had called home her entire life.
She had suffered too much to continue living in that place. She had lost the one thing she actually had that belonged to her, to a guy who she didn't love and was following the same footsteps as her mother and his father. So she left and it wasn't until much later that she had found out that she was carrying his baby.
Who would have thought that after being on her own, struggling to financially support herself and her son, she would meet a guy who didn't mind raising a kid that wasn't his. Unfortunately the nice guy act didn't last long and the only thing she got out of it was a split lip and bruises on her body. She knew she couldn't stay in a hostile environment and risk not only her life but the life of her child as well. So she left while he was on a "business" trip, where he would screw anything with a nice rack and was willing.
By the time he came home, she was far away and living with Lucia and Maria, who were mother and daughter and had taken her into their home, after seeing that she didn't have enough money to pay for a room in some motel, hearing her story had been what officially sealed the deal.
Maria happened to only be a year older than Lennox and the two had quickly bonded. It was with them that she had gotten into the house cleaning business.
The four of them lived in a two bedroom apartment in a real sketchy neighborhood in Lodi, when Lennox found out she was pregnant again. She had thought about leaving so she wouldn't burden Lucia and Maria even more than she already had, but they had convinced her to stay saying that she was going to need all the help she could get in order to raise both of her babies the right way.
If it hadn't been for them, Lennox didn't know what would have happened to her or her babies.
Lucia was the one who had helped Lennox get the apartment she was currently living in, which happened to be in the same lot as Lucia and Maria except that her apartment was in the building across from them and was a one bedroom apartment.
While Lennox and Maria cleaned houses. Lucia would watch Lennox's sons, Christopher and Gavin.
It was because of them that she was able to make sure that she could give both her boys a better life than she had growing up, even if she couldn't get them anything but the essentials, they would still grow up with the love of a family.
Lennox never imagined that her life would turn out this way. Especially that one night could lead to so many events that would change her and her sons' lives. She never imagined going from rags to riches or in her case rags to leather. Or finding a home and love with the people that society deemed outlaws and therefore looked down upon them. But sometimes you find what you need the most in the most uncommon of places.