Okay, so this is my first story, which would explain if it's bad. This is going to be AU, but I'll try to keep somewhat in-canon. No promises though.
Ned, and the other characters may also seem OC,because I haven't seen the show recently, sorry. I got the idea from hearing Ned saying his mom was going to kill him if he didn't do well on his report card, and it transformed into a long and complex story. He doesn't have a dad in this, and his mom is not the nicest person. So on to the story.. WAIT, SLIGHT WARNING, this chapter might contain slight abuse, physical and mental, it depends on how far I get into it. But some good news is it won't contain Profanity, unless dang, crud, or ijit counts, because I don't believe using Profanity helps the story. Okay, now thanks for being patient with my rambling, annndddd on to the story. I made a few changes to the first few chapters, mostly involving grammar .

A Problem With Families

"I'm going to be so late!" Ned said, as he rushed to the bus stop, hoping to catch the bus at the last second. If he was late one more time, Sweeney would have his head, and his arms, and every other part of his body. Just as the bus stop came into view, he remembered that today was report card day, and he still had a D+ in science. He hadn't been able to finish the extra credit assignments, that would raise his grade.

"Dang!" he mentally yelled, his mom was going to kill him. Just as he was reaching the bus, it started to pull away. He tried to catch up but he was left in the dust. so he stood there for a moment pondering if he should just try to run and catch it at another stop, or take the risk and ask his mom for a ride. He decided that the first choice would rather unlikely to happen , but he decide that asking his mom would mean he would get there faster, and get the ordeal over with.

He ran back to his house and ran into his mom in the kitchen, who wasn't in such a good mood. "Ned! , What are you doing here? Your supposed to be at school, and I need to get to work!" She practically screamed as she ran through the house getting her last preparations.
"I..I need a ride to school, I missed the bus." Ned said nervously. "Why did you miss the bus." She said with her chillingly calm voice. " I missed it because I was up late so I woke up late,and wasn't up in time to get to the bus." He said. " You plan to tell me why you were up so late?" She asked as she slowly walked towards him. " I had to clean up after last night and cover up that bruise you gave me." Ned said before a hand quickly slammed against his face.

The force was enough to knock him unbalanced , causing him to stumble into the wall. " YOU LITTLE IJIT, YOU DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, OR BLAME ME FOR YOUR MISTAKES! YOU HEAR ME"She shrieked." Ned quickly nodded, holding his throbbing cheek. "You get in the car and you better come home with good grades or tonight is not going to be fun." Ned's mom said through clenched teeth. She pushed him all the way to the car and shoved him roughly inside. She then put the car into drive and zoomed out of the driveway, to his school.

"If anyone asks ,you hit your cheek on the door, understand?" She questioned. Ned simply nodded, he knew the drill. If she hit him, make up a lame excuse to try to cover it up. So far no suspected anything not even, Moze or Cookie, his best friends he'd known since Pre - K.
They both thought she was the best mom ever and always told him they wished their mothers were more like his. She would win an oscar, for the acting she'd done all these years. Everyone just thought she was wonderful , but only Ned knew the truth. She was a mean, lying bitter drunk, child abuser. Ned thought about it and came to realize that using the,he ran into the door excuse, was pretty pathetic especially when the bruise was shaped similarly like a hand.

When they got to the front of the school, she yelled for him to get out quickly so she wouldn't be late. She started to leave before he even got out of the car all the way, causing him to stumble. He took one more look at the fading figure of his mother's cars direction, and made his way towards school. He put on his, I'm just a happy go lucky troublemaker, who makes up crazy plans, and creates a survival guide for his school, mask. One so good,no one had been able to see through.

Okay, this is the first chapter, sorry for it being so short. Please read and review.