Chapter 1
"Welcome to Traverse Town" you can see on the huge banner entering the small town. An old town indeed: everybody still rely on agriculture here. Actually, not everybody: there's the rich part of the town where people that didn't even know the meaning of the world -work- meant. But for now, our story took us in the poor part of the town.
There lived our main character; a young guy whose name was Bridge: he was a very outgoing guy, everybody loved him (except the people that lived in his same apartment complex: they thought he was too loud). He's always lived alone, since he didn't know who his parents were: the only figured he called as that was his coworker at the café, Kat. The old lady took him under her wing, helping him whenever he needed something. He loved dreaming even when he was awake: that most of the time caused him lots of trouble. But this story won't tell about his past, but about his future.
To do that, I have to introduce you the next bunch of characters. There's one big house in the rich part of the town where our protagonists live: they're the Tates. Shuyler Tate, a very respectful young lawyer (and the only one in town) lived there with his five siblings. Just like Bridge, they have no parents, so Sky had to keep them in line with the help of all house workers. From the moment both Mr. and Mrs. Tate died, however, Sky changed totally: from a funny and outgoing guy he went to be very angry with everybody around him. Everybody noticed that, but Sky always answered coldly "mind your own business".
One day Adele, the guys tutor, stormed into his office screaming "I can't do this anymore!" the man behind the desk sighed heavily: he knew what she was talking about. Before he could speak, however, somebody talked "you can leave if you want nobody will miss you" both Sky and Adele turned to the couch where Sidney, Sky's girlfriend, was set grinning evilly at the woman. Nobody in the house liked the girl, but Sky seemed to by hypnotized by her: always thinking about parties and money, she could be defined as a typical –money seeker- "Adele what have they done this time?" "They don't respect the rules! They're out of control!" he stood up angry and stormed out of the studio. He stopped in the middle of the big living room and took a big breath "YOU FIVE HAVE TWO MINUTES TO COME INTO THIS ROOM!" His voice ringed into the house. After five second, he heard somebody run and his sibling appeared into the room "SIT!"
They run to the huge couch and set down. Sky glared at them "You realize that I'm sick and tired of this?? Every day I have that poor woman coming into my office declaring that she's leaving the house because of you guys!" he said still looking at them "now, since you don't want to obey to Adele's simple rules, from this moment on you will have to stay close to mine" at that, the five siblings looked at each others worried. Sky went near Z, the oldest "no more guys at home, and if I find you again with jack, there will be hard consequences""but-""SHUT UP!" he screamed into the poor girl's face. He then moved to Cam "you can't stay in front of the pc more than two hours a day" the poor boy looked at his brother horrified but decided to stay silent. Then, he moved to the last three: Conner, Ty, and Trent "you absolutely can't stay out after school: when you'll have you're extra activities, I will come pick you up at the school. Otherwise, house-school, school-house. Now get out of my sight" The five of them got up and left the room cussing to their brother. After they had left, Sid came into the room and smiled at Sky "good Job" "not now Sidney." He glared at her and went into his studio, slamming the door. He set down at his desk and picked up the phone, dialing a number. After a while a voice, answered on the other side "yes, I need a tutor for my siblings, can you send me all of the people you have?"
Later that day, Bridge went working at the café: as a waiter, he had to face every kind of people. What he didn't expect was to come face to face with a young crying girl "what can I get you?" "Just a chocolate" she said without looking up from her hand. He nodded and went to the counter. Since they were the only one in the bar, he started talking with her "whatever happened, it doesn't have to make you that sad" he said handing the cup to the girl. She looked up and smiled softly at him "thanks. Trust me, if you would have to live at my house, you would be this sad. Stupid rules"
He smiled knowing what she meant: every foster home he went to had some stupid rules to attend "my brother is very strict: he doesn't want me or my brothers do anything!" "what-" he started talking, but then another costumer came into the pub "hi what can I-" "what the hell are you doing here Elizabeth?? I've told you all to come home after school!" the man in front of him screamed at the girl when he saw her. Bridge, still confused, tried to protect the girl "I'm sorry but can you leave her alone?" the man turned slowly toward Bridge raging "WHO ARE YOU? MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!"
The screams made the owner came out from his office "what's happening here?" the three in the room turned toward the old man "this waiter is rude. He doesn't mind is business" "excuse me?? You're the jerk that came in here screaming to this poor girl? Who are you??" Bridge approached the man and looked him into his angry eyes. He could see his blood boiling "I'm his brother!" "Ah! So you're the idiot that made up those rules she was talking about!" "ENOUGH! Carson I warned you! You're fired!"
Bridge paled at those words. Fired. He looked disgusted at the man near him and saw him smirking at him. With one last look at the girl, he took his bag from a chair and rushed out of the door. He made his was slowly home, still thinking about the two he had just met: the girl needed a lot of help, as well as his brother he thought. That man sure was a big jackass. After a while, he arrived in front of his building. He made his way upstairs but, when he came to his front door, he saw a message pinned on it
You have a day to move out from this apartment. You've been evicted.
