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Summary: Raising kids isn't easy, but Clarke is certain she got the short end of the stick. She never expected things would be this difficult. Ontari is 1 step away from ending up in jail. Zeke's been suspended again! And Maddie, well Clarke is thankful she is only 8. She's resorted to returning to Arkadia, a town with less bad influences or so she thought.
Bellamy Blake should have been every womans dream. Handsome, successful, honest, hardworking and quiet wealthy. Except he came as a package deal, 2 teen daughters. Octavia and Raven. Bellamy seems to have raised good girls, straight A students.
So naturally, when Ontari must attend a semblance of community service, she is found working with Arkadia most upstanding citizen and perfect dad. Except nothing is ever as perfect as it seems.
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Chapter One
"Why are you doing this? I don't understand. You have a bright future ahead of you and you continue to throw it away." Clarke gripped the steering wheel tight, pulling the car out of the parking lot. Barely able to hold onto the disappointment and anger that she was feeling. "I thought...I thought we agreed to put this behind us after last time."
"I never..."
"Is this the kind of example you want to set for Maddie?" Clarke referred to the eight year old in the backseat. "You should..."
"Why do I have to set an example? I never asked to be her sister. I don't even l..."
"Don't you dare! I took you in Ontari, this was supposed to better your life. You didn't ask for it, I know, you would never let me forget but do you honestly think that the foster system would be any better?"
"I didn't ask to be one of your stray rescues, Clarke. I would have done fine on my own. Maybe you should think about that."
"Fine on your own? You wouldn't have had half the opportunities given to you if you lived in a group home." Clarke tried to steady her breathing. "You weren't just some stray kid, Ontari; you are Roan's kid sister and I...I couldn't let that happen to you."
"I should have stayed with him."
Clarke bit her bottom lip, she knew that part of the teenagers anger still had something to do with Roan but it had to be more then that. "You couldn't. He wanted you to have stability."
Ontari scoffed, pulling her headphones out of her pockets. "I had that with him."
"No you didn't." Clarke could see that she didn't truly believe that. "You're grounded and while you're grounded you need to think about what you want for your future."
"All I want is to be away from you."
Clarke watched the teenager stuff her ear buds into her ears. The 16 year old was clearly putting an end to the conversation and Clarke couldn't help but draw a deep breath as she tried to calm herself. The last thing she wanted was to say or do something that she would later regret.
In all her years she had never expected that this would be who she would become. No as a child she had often thought that she would travel the world painting til her heart was content. That was however, before the car accident at 17 that killed her father and took away any hope of having biological children.
That event begun her downward spiral where she found herself married at 18 to a 24 year old who was a monster in disguise, and a stepmother of a little boy.
That little boy just happened to be the reason she survived those six years of hell. The reason she found herself wanting to help others in the same situation.
It wasn't long before they pulled into the driveway of their small unit and Ontari was out of the car and in the house before Clarke could unbuckle herself. "What am I going to do?"
"Get out of the car."
Clarke jumped, glancing in the rear view mirror at Maddie who she had forgotten was in the car. "You gave me a fright." She shook her head when the girl laughed.
"She means what are we going to do with the criminal upstairs."
"Not we, I and don't call your sister a criminal." Clarke sighed as she wound up her window and stepped out of the car.
"1, she is not my sister. 2, she just got arrested for the 2nd time in 3 months. She's a criminal."
"She hadn't gone to jail yet." Maddie skipped towards the front door.
"With any luck they'll put her there this time."
"Zeke." Clarke snapped, before breathing deeply. "Don't speak about your sister like that. Now, both of you inside and start your homework." She wasn't sure when Zeke had got home but she knew he wouldn't have bothered to start it.
"Zee doesn't have homework, he got suspended yesterday!"
Before Clarke could speak her sons name he had bolted inside the house, she found herself questioning how she hadn't known about this and what he had done all day. "Why?!" She closed her eyes, internally wrestling with herself. Perhaps this was her punishment for some long forgotten sin. "Is there anything you need to tell me, Maddie?" God, no, say no. She pleaded within her mind.
"Um, Grandma called yesterday and I forgot to tell you."
Clarke shut the front door and leaned against it heavily. "Grandma?!" Just great, her mother was the last person she felt like speaking to.
"And you have to call her back, she said immediately."
"Immediately would have been yesterday, honey." Clarke sighed, she honestly thought she had to have committed some awful act in a past life to be stuck with a day like today. "I need a vacation."
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Octavia Blake skipped through the school halls to catch up with her sister, immediately looping her arm through the unsuspecting teens. "So, first day of the year. Tell me, how is it?"
Raven rolled her eyes. "We've been here for a total of an hour, check back with me at the end of the day."
Octavia reached over and plucked the schedule that sat on the top of Raven's books she was carrying in her other arm. "Do we have any classes together? Oh, we had first period together."
Raven raised her eyebrow. "Where the heck were you?"
"Uh, bathroom?"
"You idiot, literally the first class of the year and you skipped it!"
"Would you relax, it was just English."
Raven snatched her schedule back, unlooping their arms. "Our deal has always been the first week of school we give our best effort. Come on, O, you know if we screw up on the first week then our teachers make things difficult." She saw O's sheepish look. "Try harder, this week determines the rest of the year."
"Alright, sorry. I got carried away with Lincoln."
"He was here?!" Raven's voice raised an octave.
"Geez, are you Bellamy?! Quit yelling at me."
Raven held the classroom door open for them to enter. "Why are you breaking all the rules? Lincoln can't come here. Do you want Bellamy to skin you alive, then me?"
"Sorry." Octavia apologised for the second time. "I'll do better."
Raven plopped down in her seat. "Please, just this week. Then we are free to return to normal behaviours."
"Speaking of, cheerleading this year?"
"Of course. Between that and swim I am going to be spending a lot of time here."
"It's going to be harsh. I'm the same, that and tennis."
Raven only smiled. "This year is going to be crazy."
"Yes, but it keeps Bell off our backs and gives us an excuse."
"Ladies."
Octavia rolled her eyes at Wick as he strolled by them. He was the resident snitch in their grade level. "Remind me to make his life hell this year."
"Literally the highlight of dragging my ass out of bed to come to this place."
3 Weeks Later
"This is really where you lived?"
Clarke couldn't help but laugh when she looked across to the passenger seat, the eight year old had her head pressed up against the window. "Calm down, Maddie, it is just Arkadia." She had never brought any of the kids to the town she had been born in, while she had only lived in Arkadia for the first 13 years of her life, it truly was one of her least favourite places.
"But you lived here when you were little?!"
"Yes." Clarke confirmed, glancing into the rear view mirror, she saw the two sullen teenagers staring at their phones with headphones in. She breathed deeply and reminded herself that this was for the best. "Do you think you'll like it here?"
"Yes!"
Clarke smiled as they drove past Arkadia Private Institution, her old school, the one where she would work. It had been a while since she had taken a job at a school, as of the last few years she had just worked where she could. Restaurants, cafes, cleaning at a local hospital. It would be nice to be back to the sound of voices at rapid speed, laughter and running feet through the halls. While it was a long way from her once dream of being an artist, she did feel as though she was meant for this. Helping kids who struggled, listening to them and inspiring them. She was a counsellor, yet somehow that profession did not help her with her own teens.
"Is this it?"
She was a counsellor, yet somehow that profession did not help her with her own teens.
"How long?" Zeke grunted from the back.
"Not much further." Clarke mumbled.
"Mommy, is our house going to be like these?"
Clarke heard Ontari huff at the kids' question. "No honey, not like these." She took note of the house Maddie was pointing out. A newly built home with rich green grass, and large black gates that surrounded the property. The slick black car and red jeep in the drive told her that those people had money. It would have been nice, but it wasn't her life and she didn't fancy dreaming of something she could not have.
Only a few more minutes went by before Clarke pulled into the driveway of there new town home, it was a set of three all connected. While she longed for a proper home, this was the best she could do, even if it was a tight fit for the four of them. "This is it."
"Huh, trust us to have the most run down looking." Zeke huffed as they climbed out of the car.
Clarke tried her best to not let the words affect her, in fact she tried to ignore them all together. "It'll do for now."
"I think it is perfect, mommy, and all ours."
Clarke felt the car shake as Zeke and Ontari got out and slammed the doors closed. "You are my reason for breathing, honey." She leaned over and gave the little girls hand a squeeze. "Come on, let's go see inside."
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"O. Rave. You home?"
Octavia turned around to face her bedroom door, feeling relief spread through her body when she saw it was still locked. Quickly she put the lid on the bottle of alcohol and stashed it under her pillow. Hearing the sound of her brothers boots on the stairs, she popped a mint into her mouth and hurried over to unlock the door, quickly turning around and sprinting back over to her bed, she just managed to open her history textbook before he opened the door. "Hey Bell." She smiled up at him.
"Hey, didn't you here me call out? Is Rave home?"
"No and no. She should be home soon though, swim practice ran late." Octavia still didn't understand why Raven had had swim practice for the last 3 Tuesdays when she wasn't supposed to.
Bellamy nodded, even though he had specified that dinner was at 6, he understood that the girls were committed to their extra curricular activities. "I brought dinner." He glanced at her textbook. "Leave the homework and come eat, before it gets cold."
Octavia could feel the nervousness in her stomach, the last thing she wanted was to be in close proximity to Bellamy, just encase he could smell the alcohol on her. "Let me just finish up this reading."
Bellamy raised his eyebrow, a little stunned that Octavia wanted to do homework. "10 minutes."
"Sure Bell." She waited until he had left the room before she scrambled out of bed and to the bathroom to brush her teeth.
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"What did you get..." Octavia snapped her mouth shut when she rounded the corner and realised that he was on the phone, she just took her seat quietly, filling her plate with food. Chinese. She should have known, he tended to always get the same foods.
"I'm home."
Octavia rolled her eyes, watching as Raven came round the corner. "Bell's on the phone."
"Oh, sorry." Raven mumbled, taking her seat. "Chinese. Damn, I was hoping for pizza."
Octavia snorted. "Yeah, right." She passed Raven the water jug. "How was practice? You're late." She gave the girl a knowing look.
Raven smiled innocently. "Coach had me swim extra laps."
"Your coach seems to be a hard ass, this is what, the 3rd practice that has run late on a Tuesday. Super weird since you aren't meant to have practice on..." Octavia flinched when Raven kicked her under the table. "Ow."
"Shut up." Raven hissed, knowing that Bellamy was on the opposite side of the table on the phone.
"Where were you?"
"I'll tell you later."
Octavia glared but nodded. "You better."
Bellamy hung up. "Sorry girls. Work call." He explained. "How was practice, Rave?"
Raven swallowed her water. "Good. Sorry I'm late, B."
"Algood. Cramming in the extra practice before the meet in 2 weeks?"
"Yep, just working on some of my techniques." She glanced at Octavia but she knew the girl would stay silent. They would never tattle on each other to Bellamy.
"Everything alright at work, Bell?" Octavia changed the subject.
Bellamy nodded. "I've got some kid coming to work with me as part of a community service program." He frowned when he realised his beer bottle was empty. "I may need to take a trip down south, so you might be left alone this weekend. Anyway, enough about work. How was school?" He stood up to get another beer from the fridge.
Raven and Octavia shared a smile the second his back was turned, a trip meant he would be gone all weekend. They immediately bumped fists in excitement.
"Party?" They mouthed at the exact same time, causing them both to giggle under their breath.
"Girls, school?"
"Oh, school was fine."
"We are getting a new guidance counsellor, seems like the last one finally went crazy." Octavia snickered.
Raven nodded, scooping some food onto her fork. "I think I heard something about that, Miss Griffin I think."
Bellamy raised an eyebrow. "Interesting. The new kid I just mentioned is Ontari Griffin."
"Trust the new guidance counsellor to have a messed up kid."
"Octavia." Bellamy spoke her name in a slightly disapproving tone. "Don't judge."
"I'm not. I'm just saying."
Bellamy shook his head. "What will you girls get up to if I go out of town?"
The girls shared a look, mentally jumping for joy that he would be leaving for the whole weekend. "Oh nothing, maybe have a movie night. Nothing to exciting."
Thoughts? :)
Questions:
1 - I have Bellamy in mind as a very strict but loving father. Now, I am going to need some ideas of consequences for his kids.
2 - I have all kinds of mischief planned for these teenagers but do you have any requests or scenes that you would like to see?
I want you as an audience to be involved in this writing as well, I want to know what you want to read so this can be enjoyable. I know that sometimes I read a fanfic and I really wish that a particular scene would occur but it doesn't...I want you to be able to share it with me and then I can perhaps place it into the story somehow.
Information (Ages) -
Bellamy 28/32ish
Octavia 16
Raven 16
Clarke 28/32ish
Ontari 16
Zeke 16
Maddie 8
Monty. Jasper. Maya. Harper. Murphy. 16
Lincoln. 18
Other adults: Miller. Jackson. Lexa. Costia.
Of course there will be other characters, I have not made a complete list as I am uncertain who else will be adults and who will be children.
Much Love. x