K. U read summary. You know why this is a thing. Same concept as my other basketball story but with more elements to it
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Year 2010
Player Cards
Quinn Gillette
Age: 10
Height: 5'3
Weight: 75
Position: N/A
Jordan Gillette
Age: 10
Height: 4'9
Weight: 50
Position: N/A
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BANG
His body fell to the ground in front of him. Blood streaming from his forehead and down his face. He looked to his sister to see her shot through her arm "Quinn... Help. Quinn QUINN"
He jolted up from his bed sweat pouring from his face. The first thing he saw was his sister worry all over her face. "Quinn. You said the nightmares were over" She said
He was silent trying to get his mind in control "My bad. I haven't had one in years. Lets get ready" He got out of bed. His bedroom was clean, surprisingly. His sister just have cleaned while he slept.
They lived in an abandoned apartment complex in the heart of Baltimore Maryland.
"Quinn. We ran out of food" Jordan yelled. They had to fend for themselves. Stealing was pretty much grocery shopping for them. Quinn looked out the window to see it was still dark out.
"I'm gonna go get some right now" With that Quinn put on the Black hoodie he found on the street and head out.
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Quinn snuck into an open window of a somewhat wealthy looking house and searched for the kitchen. When he found it he opened it up and his eyes glowed. This fridge had a months supply of food in it. He slowly and silently packed food into a bag on the floor. He only took about a quarter of the food in the fridge. He was considerate enough to understand that the family who's food he took worked hard for it. When he was done he walked right into a hard structure. He looked up to see a man with a bat. He was a tall man around 6'6 and looked buff as hell. He was in his pajamas and looked tired.
Quinn started to shake. He had never got caught robbing someone. All of the possibilities ran through his head. He started to cry. Nothing he could have done. He thought he was going to jail
James Howard. In all his years of life he had never seen something like this. A child wearing raggedy clothing was robbing his house. He picked him up. The boy was tense. His body was cold. He smelt like he didn't know what a shower was yet. His wife walk down the stairs to see him hugging the child.
"It's ok youngin" James said. The kid cried more. He didn't know that he was holding the most remarkable person he would ever meet
3 hours later
After Quinn went to get his sister the couple told them to take a shower and gave them clothes. While the twins were shocked by the kindness they didn't take it for granted.
"Now mind telling us why you were taking food out of our house" James asked nicely.
"I guess we should start from the beginning..." Quinn said
Flashback Year 2005
The twins just had their 5th birthday yesterday and were ecstatic. They would start first grade soon. Their life was at its brightest. Until a knock on the door changed everything. Quinn was by the door playing with his toys and his dad went to answer the door. His sister was standing directly behind it in the kitchen as her mom taught her how to cook. Everything moved in slow motion as his father opened the door
BANG
The bullet went right through his head and continued its path hitting Jordan in the arm. Quinn watched his father's body fall right In front of him. His fathers wide open eyes staring into his. He looked up to see 2 police officers. One with his gun drawn another with his hand on the hilt of his gun. The one with his gun drawn looked on with no remorse as he quickly put handcuffs on the frozen figure of his mother.
Jordans scream was what snapped Quinn out of his trance. The officer without his gun looked at Jordan ready to apply first aid
"Forget the kid. WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE DRUGS" The first officer yelled. Their mom spit in the officers face. The officer in return shot her in the head. Quinn screamed in horror. His parents died right in front of him. And his sister was on the verge of bleeding ou sty
"What the duck is wrong with you" The second officer asked "They had a family"
"Does it look like I give the slightest fuck. Grab the kids and take them to the hospital. Not a fucking word" The first officer said. The second officer looked reluctant but he did we he was told. He grabbed the frozen kids who had long been frozen from shock. He put them in his car and took them to the hospital
Present Time
The twins started to tear up after reliving the moment "We bounced around the roster care system for a while until one of our 'caretakers' kicked us out that was last year I think" Jordan concluded
"And you've been living by yourselves this entire time" Denise Howard asked. She was tearing up. These kids had experienced too much for their age
"Yeah we have. Thank you for being so nice. But we have to go" Quinn said. He was stopped with a hand on his shoulder from James
"Theirs no way we're letting you go back to live by yourself. Your staying here" James said. The twins wanted to believe them. They had grown up learning not to trust anyone but these 2 nice people were offering them something they hadn't experienced in 5 years... A home
(Important) Yes James Howard is a basketball coach. And yes they do have a son named Nick Howard. And shameless plug most of this story will be based off of a discord in in so if you want an invite look in summary