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AN: Can someone help with a better title?
Batman Beyond
A Broken Family
Melinda McGinnis peered out at the emptying stands of the baseball field. She swung her baseball bat over her shoulder and adjusted her cap so the bill faced the front. She stopped on the pitchers mound and glanced at the stands again. They were empty.
"Great game Mel!" A boy in the same uniform as Melinda's waved from his bicycle.
Melinda smiled and waved back. The ballpark lights flickered out as she walked towards the field exit. She watched the taillights of the last car fade from site. She dropped her mitt and bat as she flopped down in the grass and waited. She sighed deeply, gathering her things as she stood up and started for home.
They had forgotten. They never remember anymore, they always forget her. Melinda knew she should be used to it by now, but she wasn't. Ever since her dad died, her mom Mary McGinnis, and her two brothers Terry and Matt never seemed the same. But then again neither was she.
Matt and Mom used to come to Melinda's games, recitals and practices whenever they could. But with Matt as young as he was it made coming to these kinds of things rather difficult. Matt never could seem to sit still. So mom would stay home with Matt while her dad and older brother, Terry, would come and be in the crowd listening, cheering, watching, or whatever they needed to do.
Melinda knew it was hard on her mom now that her dad was gone and that's why Terry took the job with Mr. Bruce Wayne. Now it was like she didn't matter. It's not just the fact they don't come to watch her, because she knows she does a lot. She has Baseball games and practices; she takes Dance, Piano lessons, she even takes martial arts classes. But it was like her family wasn't even a family anymore. Because ever since her dad died Melinda and her family never seemed to spend anymore time together.
She and Terry used to be close and do things together. Now it seemed all they do now was fight, if she ever gets to see him. When she did Terry was either to tired or to busy for her now. They never used to fight but now that's all they seemed to do when he was around. Every time they would fight she would hate it.
Sometimes she hated her dad for dying, Mr. Wayne for taking Terry even further away from her, Terry for trying to be dad, Matt for taking all of mom's attention and her mom for be more worried about her sons and her job then her own daughter.
She wondered sometimes if she was being selfish. She didn't know. All she knew was that her life had been turned upside down, her family was falling apart and there was nothing she could do to help it or change it. She wasn't even sure if this broken family she had could even be called a 'family' anymore.
She entered the house and started up the stairs to put her things away. As she came down the stairs to see Matt looking at her from over the coach, "Your in trouble Melinda, Terry, is really mad."
Melinda looked at Matt, "Really?"
"Really!"
She turned to see Tarry glaring at her from the kitchen doorway, arms folded, "Where were you!"
"I was at the park..."
"THE PARK" Terry's voice was rising, "I told you I needed you to watch Matt today while I was at work!"
"I'm sorry," she pleeded, "I didn't think..."
"YOU DIDN'T THINK!"
"But Terry, let me explain..." Melinda cried, as tears filled her eyes.
"You are GROUNDED Malinda!"
Now she was mad, "You are not my DAD!"
Melinda turned on her heal and darted up to her room and slammed the door. She watched out the window as Terry left the house and headed to work. Melinda whipped the tears from her eyes and fling herself on her bed. She wanted everything to go back to the way it was. She sadly knew that that was impossible. Things would never be the same, but, what right did Terry have to try and be dad! Why was Terry trying to replace him!
Melinda closed her eyes and whispered, "Please let me find a family, in this new life."
Theres this chapter! What do you think? Please review and Please NO FLAMES!