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The next day Money woke Amore up around nine. They had to clean the dorm rooms of the players. Amore groaned and quickly got dressed. They walked to the dorms and Amore dragged her feet. Money laughed and nudged her as they walked.
"Purple." Amore said thinking they had been talking about something random.
"Well we know she's awake." Angel said sarcastically. Amore smiled tiredly as the walked into the dorm building. "I'll take the first floor."
"I'll take the second." Fly announced happily.
Fourth!" Street said with a smile.
"Fifth." Money said then smiled at Amore. Third floor had the USA teams. They had left her with them. She smiled and headed that way. The others knew they'd be done before she was even close. They watched Amore walk away and they all nodded at Angel. Angel nodded in return and walked away. When she was out of sight Money did the same thing, leaving the two boys to clean the first and fifth floors.
Practice Arena
The USA team was practicing in the arena when an unknown girl entered the arena.
"Um… Excuse me. we still have practice for half an hour yet." Bombay called.
"Are you Bombay? Gordon Bombay?" the girl asked walking down to the ice. Bombay looked over at his team curiously. None of them acted like they knew the girl either.
"Yeah, may I help you with something." He asked walking up to the girl. Slowly the team started to migrate closer so they could hear what was being said.
"I know where that Lo…Amore is." The girl said. Bombay's heart almost stopped. He couldn't tell if this girl was telling the truth or just pulling his leg.
"Amore Jane Witts?" Bombay asked and the girl looked nervous.
"Listen, I only knew her as Love. She's been living with a family of homeless kids here in LA." The girl said with a sigh. "The mother of the group is known as Money. She's the oldest at I believe seventeen. Then there are the other kids. Street and Fly are the boys. Street is about fifteen and Fly I think is ten. Then there is another girl Angel. She's the same age as Love. They've been known to stay at Carol's Sanctuary."
"Ok hold on a minute. How can Money be the mother at only seventeen. And what is this Carol's Sanctuary?" Bombay asked.
The girl sighed and quickly looked around her to make sure there was no unwanted eavesdroppers around. "Homeless kids call the group they are in a family. As in the one that Love…Amore was in. they called themselves the Misfit family. Now about Carol's Sanctuary. There is a school teacher that has been taken in homeless kids. They stay at her house for a week then leave so another family can stay there."
"So that's where I can find Amore?" Bombay asked the girl smiled. He was finally getting the hint.
"That's a start." The girl said then started to walk away.
"Hey," Bombay called after her. The girl looked back at him over her shoulder. "Why come to me? out of all the people to come to about this why me? why not call the number on the missing flyers?"
"Because…I thought her father deserved to know first." The girl quickly raced off and Bombay turned to look back at his team. He knew they were listening.
"What did she mean by her father deserved to know first? I mean she could have told Charlie considering he's her new stepbrother." Averman said and Bombay quickly looked at Adam and Charlie. Bombay nodded but he couldn't find the words to say.
"Mike isn't Amore's father." Adam said looking nervously down at the ice.
"What!" the team seemed to all erupt. Bombay held up his hands to silence them. When they became quiet he still couldn't speak.
"Bombay is Amore's real father." Charlie said but before the team could erupt again he went on. "Amore and Bombay only found this out last year. Adam found out the same time they did when Amore's mom called her the wrong name."
"Jane had called her Amore Jane Bombay." Adam piped up. Charlie nodded then went on.
"Then when Amore got hurt during the Cardinals game she called him dad. And that's how I knew." Charlie said. "Then later Amore and Bombay told me and my mom."
"Mike was the reason Amore was sent to live with her mother. He believed that if he separated Bombay and Amore, then no one else would find out." Adam said shaking his head. "After she ran away. Mike sort of forgot about her and decided to make a new family for himself and married Charlie's mom."
"That's why if we do find her we cant let him know till there is a secure way to make sure she doesn't run away again." Charlie said. "So if any of you see her only let us know."
Charlie looked over at Adam. They both knew she was right under every ones noses but they didn't want to spill that just yet. Amore would have to come to the others on her own.
Third floor of Dorms
Amore left the hockey team's dorms for last. She knew it would take her longer to clean. She entered one of the dorm rooms with only two beds in it. Amore would have thought it would have been the girls dorm room till she saw all the punk guy clothes scattered around the room. Amore smiled she knew it had to be Fulton's room but she wasn't sure who the other person would be. She quickly made their beds and dusted. Then to be nice she folded the clothes on the floor. She wasn't sure what clothes went to each person so she put them in the middle of the floor and left them a little note.
Fulton and other disorganized boy,
I folded all of the clothes that were on the floor, yet I cant tell who's belong to who so I folded them and placed them here. Next time I clean I would enjoy it if these were put away. Its easier to clean up after you guys that way.
Oh and nice choice of music. Green Day is a good band.
Your maid
Slick
Amore quickly left the room and entered the next. She groaned when she saw that some one had been pulling pranks the night before and didn't clean up. One bed was covered in what looked like dried shaving cream. She quickly cleaned up the shaving cream and made the bed. She then folded the clothes laying by the bed and neatly placed them at the end of the bed. She then folded the other beds. Behind one of the pillows she found a stash of goodies.
"Goldburg." Amore said with a laugh. She put the goodies in the nightstand by his bed and also left him a small note.
Goldie,
Put your stash in your night stand. Remember that food attracts bugs. I'd hate to see you wake up in the morning looking like a red spotted Dalmatian.
The maid,
66
Amore looked around the room. She decided it was clean then went to the next room. She skipped Adams room, she wanted to leave that one for last. So the next room was the girls room. She was glad to see it was in tip top shape. The only thing she had to do was make Connie's bed. She knew it was Connie's because there was a picture of her and Guy sitting on the night stand next to the bed. She sighed in relief knowing that she only had one room left. She entered Adam's dorm room and shook her head. It was about as messy as the other two guy's dorms. The side of the room that was clean was Charlie and Adam's side. She was surprised of that. she had seen both of their rooms back at their houses and they were nothing to be proud about. She guessed that they were trying to make them look good. She made the other beds then sat down on Charlies.
"Love?" Street said from the door way. Amore looked up with a weak smile.
"You ok?" Fly asked sitting down next to her. Angel and Money walked in after Street and sat around the room. Amore gave Fly a hug. She knew that soon she was going to have to leave them. There was nothing she could do for them when she left.
"You know they really miss you." Fly said wiggling his nose. "I've heard them talking about you."
"Oh yeah and what do they say?" Amore asked with a laugh.
"Well there was this one story of how Charlie and Adam thought that a guy named Alex had a little bit of a crush on you." Fly said and Amore's mouth dropped.
"Oh nuh-uh. He's like seventeen now. There is no way. He could have any girl at Eden Hall that he wanted." Amore said and Fly shugged.
"I donno, the girl seemed to think that too. She also thought you might like him as well. Something about you two not being able to keep your hands off each other." Fly replied and Amore pretended to gag.
"Alex is like my brother. And that is so gross." Amore said and the girls laughed. They knew even though she was a teenager now, she still hadn't become interested in guys.
"They also talked about how they were so happy that you came back to the team in Pee-Wees." Fly said with a smile. "And that they called you Slick and I think the other name was Squirt."
"Oh my god, you heard Adam call me that!" Amore said as her cheeks turned red. "That's what Adam, Alex and Jason called me. Soon both my family and Adam's family just called me Squirt. We all had nick names. Adam was All-Star. Alex was Monster and my brother Jason was Blitz."
"You have a brother?" Money said in surprise. Amore smiled.
"Yeah Jason. He's seventeen now and living with Adam and Alex." Amore said with a sigh. "Mike, Jason's dad, Married Charlie's mom and so now Charlie is not really but sort of my stepbrother."
"Why did you leave?" Money asked. It was against the family rules to get to know each other that much but they already knew a lot.
"Mike sent me to my mom's because he couldn't stand knowing that his wife had me with his best friend. I didn't want to move and I knew there was no way they'd listen to me. So I ran away." Amore said knowing it was a selfish reason but the others didn't seem to judge her.
"Well maybe things will work out this time." Angel said with a smile.