What up? I'm back with a new fic! vampire1031 told me to work on a fic about most of the pack living in their own pad, so I chose Max, Marcus, Diego and Zeke to live it up in their own place, but I decided to add someone from group home with serious anger issues. So, I hope you guys will like this one. This is for you, my awesome friends, vampire1031, Whozonegirl and lightfaith0606.
Never Alone
by: Terrell James
Chapter 1: The New Kid
One day in Whoville, Max, Marcus, Zeke and Diego were hanging out in their own home, just playing a few video games and adapting to independence for a while. Diego looked at the others and said, "So, how do you think we'll be able to adapt into living in this new house?"
"I honestly have no idea." Max answered.
"Well, it's new to all of us and we've got a lot of responsiblities we've got to take on anyway."
Marcus scoffs and said, "Don't mention 'responsibility'. I'm still doing everything I can to keep a job as a pizza delivery guy."
"But isn't it worth it, though?"
"Yeah, if you count getting paid $8.50 an hour to keep up with everything."
Zeke looked at the others and told them, "It's not so bad. I mean, at least we left behind high school with all the memories of being bullied all the time."
"You have a good point." Max replied.
"I mean, it helps that I'm helping you guys keep this roof over our head with all of our jobs. My job at the Who-nese restaurant as a waiter is okay. Still can't understand their language, but at least it's a lot to help us stay afloat."
"Don't forget-Max is in his senior year in high school, so he's like ahead of us." Diego said.
"Very true."
Hours later, Max was sitting in his room, playing with his guitar while writing a song about his memories being bullied back at the group home by Nate and Hector and how their bullying behavior still haunts him dearly. He sighs heavily and he continues writing and then playing a little tune. Then, he receives a knock on the door and said, "Come in."
The door opens and it's Diego coming and he asked, "What's up?"
"Nothing much. What are you doing?"
"Just coming in to check in on ya. Heard your guitar and it sounded great. You writing something?"
"Yeah, I'm just letting out all the emotions about my memories about feeling isloated and alone back at group home. This is what I got so far." Max said.
He showed Diego the song he wrote and the lyrics were so capitvating that it really caught his attention and it really related to him as well as Max as well. He sighed heavily and one lone tear fell from his eye as he looked at it. Max then asked, "What do you think?"
"Um...it's a very good song. I see that it's got a lot of deep meaning into it. I gotta say-it's awesome." Diego said, tearfully.
Max could see it in Diego's eyes-that it really moved him, even though he just started. He chuckled and said, "Thanks for your approval."
"I think you'll make an awesome singer-songwriter. Don't ever let anyone tell you you can't do it, because you can."
"Thanks, bro."
He hugged his friend and he received one as well. Max then sighed sadly and said, "I miss Frankie and Manny."
"I miss them too. But we can keep in touch with them on Whosebook and when they call us. It's gonna work out fine."
"You promise?"
Diego puts his hand on Max's shoulder and said, with a smile, "I promise."
"Diego?"
Diego and Max turn around and it's Marcus, looking concerned. He then asked, "What's wrong?"
"There's someone at the door."
With that, Diego proceeded to follow and Max asked, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know, but I'm gonna find out."
Diego left the room and Max followed as well and as they went downstairs, they went in the front door and saw a young who-black and grey stripes, 17, 5'9, brown eyes, dark midnight hair with green bangs and a spiky blue mohawk, wearing blue jeans and a red T-shirt and has piercings on his face and tattoos on his arms-came in the house and Diego asked, "Who are you?"
Then another person came and explained to them, "Sorry to intrude on you, but I am from the group home. My name's Wallace Hamilton. This is Angus Salinger. He prefers the name 'Spike' and he just came from group home and he had some downs with some foster families that really couldn't do anything they could to control his anger issues."
"Anger issues?" asked Max.
"Yeah, he would punch holes in walls, doors, slam everything down, lash out at anyone, just everything. And I wasn't sure who would keep him for a while, so I thought maybe you guys could-"
"Take care of him?"
"Yes, please. Most of the people at the group home are at their wit's end with him and I hope that you guys would give him a good home. He's been a bully victim most of his life and most of his anger has been released way too quickly."
"Is there anything we can do to help?" asked Marcus.
"I just told you that."
"Well, we have an extra room upstairs, but I'm not sure if we're able to let another person in this, because we bought this house and-"
"Please. It'll only be a short while until we find a home for him."
Diego thought about this long and hard and suddenly, it hit him really quick and asked, "Why not let him live here?"
"Are you sure about this?" asked Max.
"Yeah, why not? We are part of a pack after all and we should always help anyone out in any way we can. If anyone feels like they're alone and misunderstood in the world, that's when we reach out to whoever it could be and we always have each other's backs."
"I don't know. He's kinda hard to deal with."
"We'll take care of him. Max, can you take him up to the guest room?"
"Sure thing."
He lets him in and they both walk upstairs to the guest room and the person said, "I'm not sure how it'll work out, but I want to thank you guys for taking him in for us."
"No problem. Anyone who's part of our pack is like family and we will treat Angus like he's our own."
"He likes to be called 'Spike'. Angus doesn't really fit him."
"Sure thing."
"Thanks again."
The person left the porch and Diego closed the door and Marcus asked, "So now what do we do?"
"He said Spike's hard to deal with, but I think we can help this guy out."
"Think we can?"
"Yeah, why not? Regardless of his temper, he'll really feel like he belongs to our pack."
Marcus sighed and said, "Okay. I guess we can work something out."
"Plus, I can kinda get anger issues. I used to have one of those back at group home and even then, I was difficult to even deal with."
"Oh, yeah. I remember. You were really harsh on most of us, Max, even."
"But that's all in the past. Maybe I can really help his guy out and maybe show him what our pack does."
Diego walks away for a while and Marcus sighed nervously and whispered, "Dude, I hope you're right."
This is only the beginning. Stay tuned for more. I hope you guys like this new fic. This one is for vampire1031, lightfaith0606 and Whozonegirl.
