Chapter 7 – Unwanted Noise.
The 27th of October. The days were flying by in Ronnie's opinion. If she had remained at home and Liam had gone instead she would be helping Tiana get ready for Tiana's family concert that they held for charity every year.
The money they raised, which was usually a lot depending on how bad the weather was, was for babies that were born with diseases that doctors hadn't found a cure for yet. Ronnie helped by playing the drums. Usually she'd only get an hour or two's sleep during the week the concert does be on for but this year she wasn't even going to be there let alone play. With this sinking in as Ronnie sat infront of the TV with the Hecks made her sigh as the ads came on.
"Ah don't worry Ronnie, it'll be back on in a few minutes" Mike said while taking a swig of his beer.
"Something wrong?" Axle asked which received a very strange look from his mother.
"That was odd" she thought to herself.
"Ahh sure its nothing. Cant do much about it now can I?"
"What was it?" Sue asked, automatically jumping into the conversation.
"Well just thinking about home. I'd be helping my neighbour with her concert for charity"
"Carroll or O'Donovan?" Axle asked smirking.
"Carroll" Ronnie responds smiling.
"The one with the purple hair or the one with the red hair I forget"
"Purple"
Ronnie had been talking on Skype the night before and Axle had walked into the landaury room to the only good wifi connection in the Heck house, unless you count Sue's room or Axle and Bricks but Ronnie wasn't about to kick them out of their rooms so she could chat online with her friends, even if Tiana and Lorna had managed to stay in he same room in the Castletown library without killing each other. Thanks be to god.
"He's so cute!" Tiana had gushed in Irish as Axle left.
"Ya getting with him?" Lorna asked.
Ronnie couldn't help but remember the kissing and blushed. Her two friends started to cheer and laugh really load, even exchanging wide smiles at each other before the librarian told them to "Sssh!"
"What sort of charity?" Sue asked bringing Ronnie back from her thoughts.
"Oh for diseases that doctors cant find cures for yet"
"Oh my god I could become a rock star. So moving to Ireland now"
Ronnie couldn't help but laugh. He'd be a rock star alright but only the small village and if he was lucky Mullingar would get wind of him.
"So they do it every Halloween? Are there celebrities?"
"Yeah Irish ones. One year we got Bressie. It was the best week of my life. He's amazing!" Ronnie gushed about Bressie, the Mullingar star that became known throughout Ireland.
"woow woow slow down" Mike said. "Your getting all excited about this Breslie guy"
"His names Bressie"
"Okay"
"Just look him up, he's just so hot" Ronnie had to stop herself before she embrassed herself even more.
She couldn't help it. It was Bressie. The man that according to all the women in Ireland had the voice of an angle and amazing hair. Every women in Ireland wanted to be with Bressie.
"Alright, alright I'm sure he's not that good looking" Frankie said laughing slightly. "What he must be one of those actors that look like their teenagers but their really twenty four or twenty six"
"Not Breassie, he's in his twenties and looks like it"
"Alright can we stop talking about Breslie now?!" Axle snapped not liking the conversation about this Irish singer that was so great.
The room went silent. Nobody even dared to breath but it didn't last long because the Nightmare Before Christmas came on.
"Ooh this is the movie of my childhood" Sue said getting glued into the movie.
Everyone but Ronnie and Axle shifted their gaze to the tv. Their eyes stayed glued to each other.
"I'm going to go on Skype, Tiana'll be up by now" Ronnie said as she got up and quickly made it down to Sue's room and closed the door.
She didn't have to kick Sue out until that halloween/christmas movie was over. Hopefully that'll be awhile.
Ronnie set up her computer and facebooked Tiana to go on Skype. Ten mintues later there was no responce. Tiana was online and she would be up by now. She'd be in Art listening to her music on her phone beside Ash inbetween and Kelly wondering why Ash wasn't talking to her. She checked to see if Lorna was online but groan when she saw she wasn't.
But someone was and once Ronnie saw his picture beside the little picture of him on Facebook she quickly logged off.
She logged into Yahoo to check her emails only having one from Liam.
"A Court dates been set"
Was all that was in the email. Ronnie knew then that something bad had happened. And she knew it had something to do with her father.
The next day was Saturday. And like every Friday since Ronnie got here Sue tried to keep her up all night talking, which Ronnie was fine with at the start but as the night grew on.. Ronnie just needed some sleep.
Ronnie had ended up moving into Brick and Axle's room to get away from her none stop chatter.
"Where's Brick?" She asked as she walked in.
"Staying the night at one of his friends from that socail group what are you doing in here?"
"Sue is driving me mad. I need sleep"
The sheets were on the floor and Axle, of coarse, was wearing his boxer shorts.
"Now I know you have clothes" Ronnie said crossing her arms and raising her eyebrow.
'Surely the child had P.J's' she thought to herself.
"Your the one that walked in here remember?"
"Yeah, sleeping in Brick's bed"
"Good luck.. He's complaining about needing a new one still"
"Still?" Ronnie asked.
The bed was small. It was a wonder how Brick slept in this everynight.
"You know you can sleep with me" Axle teased.
"In your dreams"
"They could be yours too.."
"No thanks, I'd rather the floor"
"Alright fine but don't come crawling to me when your all uncomfortable"
Ronnie could only sit on the bed before changing her mind.
"Fine.. Move over"
And that's where Ronnie stayed the night, cuddled close to Axle Heck. She had to admit, she had gotten a good nights sleep.
That Saturday Ronnie had seen the bright warm sun shine as she went outside for some air. With her hands In her pocket she smiled to herself as she watched the empty neighbourhood around her.
"Wow.. If only housing estate was as queit as this" she said to herself as she remembered her home.
There was a a lot of different though, if you compared the Hecks neighbourhood and Ronnie's. Ronnie's neighbours were load, someone was always screaming, fighting and dying on the street. The houses were ethier falling apart, damaged or getting burned down by all the rich kids with nothing better to do. Here, it was quiet, clean, no damnaged or burned out houses, no poor people begging on the street. No Carroll or O'Donovan killing each other. Ronnie sighed deciding it best not to bring up home and walked back inside to Sue and Brick watching tv and Frankie and Mike in the kitchen.
"Where meant to get a heat wave today" Frankie says smiling while going over to the fridge.
"Heat wave?" Ronnie was confused.
Ireland never had a heat wave, if they did Ronnie didn't notice. Ireland's lucky to see a blue sky once in a while.
"Its meant to go to about 90 degrees"
90 degrees?! What?! The only time Ronnie had felt 90 that hot was when she was standing too close to Janie Hedgeworths house when it went up in flames.
"Ronnie you okay? Your not sick again are you?" Frankie asked as she closed the fridge door.
"90 degrees.. I'll properly die in that heat"
Sue raises an eyebrow. Her eyes never leaving the tv.
"Didn't Ireland have any heat waves?"
Ronnie just looked at Sue and laughed. Ireland have a heat wave? Now that was funny.
As the heatwave struck Ronnie couldn't do much but lay on the grass outside and sweat. Her white shirt stuck to her skin, she was soaked. She and Brick had just finished a water fight but the heat was really taking its toll. The kids just lay around the house and back yard moaning. And sadly Mike Heck noticed this and had an idea.
"Alright everyone gather round" Mike called to his family.
He stood beside Ronnie who was half out with the heat on the ground. Frankie, Sue and Axle came out of the house while Brick just stayed where he was beside Ronnie.
Frankie stood and crossed their arms while Sue and Axle fell to their knees moaning with the heat beside Ronnie and Brick.
"Ronnie's going to teach us how to play a good old game of Rugby" Mike said as he tossed the ball to Frankie.
"She is?" Ronnie asked suddenly wide awake.
Oh this can not end well.
Hey guys so here's the longest chapter of this fanfic. I would have done more but sadly the bog is waiting for me to get turf. So enjoy this chapter and review and tell me if I screwed it up? Just wondering cause I've a nagging feeling I did.
DreamerCarroll15
