I was up in my room doing my homework, dreading when Paul, would come over. I kept thinking about what Scott, had said. That was the last time I saw him. Over and over it played in my mind.
"Charlie, telephone!" I shook my head, shaking away the last day dreams, and reached for my phone.
"Hello?"
"Hi Charlie, it's Scott." It's him, I was so happy I could scream. And, he called me Charlie!
"Hey." I replied, trying to act calmer then I was feeling.
"I was wondering if you had Holly's number?" There goes my hope. I'm probably green with envy! I laughed quietly, when I looked in the mirror and saw I was still the same.
"Oh, I don't know her number. I can tell you where she lives though," I say, crossing my fingers, he wouldn't say something like, I'll just look it up.
"Ok." He responded. I smiled, gosh I'm such a freak!
"Well, I know you go down Birch St, then turn when you get to Carlton dr, and then it's the seventh house on the left, it's number 540." I told him, wishing I could tell him the directions to my house.
"Thanks Charlie. For telling me, I'll by you a shake later." He promised.
"Later when?" I questioned, trying to sound casual.
"Tonight, if you can?" He asked. Of course! Screw Paul!
"Yeah sure." I replied.
"Good!" I could hear the smile in his voice. "I better go. I'll call you later ok?" I nodded, but then remember he couldn't see me.
"Sure. Bye Scott." I said.
"Wait Charlie, be careful of Paul." He warned. I frowned, why should I be afraid of Paul?
"Ok, but why?" I questioned curiously.
"No reason, just ok." He stated in response.
"Ok." I replied. I was now dying from curiosity.
"Bye Charlie, I'll call you." And, with that we both hung up. Be careful? Why?
I walked down the street, to Holly's house. Everything in Roswell is located so closely it's walkable. When I approached Holly's house, I saw what Charlie had seen the day before. A old Victorian house, with shutters falling, and the whole outside untended. When I reached the door, I knocked, using the old fashion knocker.
"Hello?" I looked to see Holly, open the door. I noticed then how stressed and tired she looked. It was hard to think that I gone from kindergarten till now with Holly, and we've never really talked much.
"Hey Holly." She looked shocked to see me there. I looked past her in the house. Where I could here kids screaming and a baby crying. The house was a mess, there were toys everywhere and junk, it looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a while.
"Uh, what are you doing here?" She asked, looking around outside.
"The project?" I replied, she nodded a few times.
"Right." She stated smiling. "Want to do it somewhere else, it's kind of hectic here." She explained. Just then a pick up pulled in the driveway. I watched as a couple of sketchy guys, around twenty four got out.
"Hey Holly!" One called up, the porch. Holly stepped outside, and looked down at the men coming up the steps.
"Kevin, your going to have to look after the kids." She said. Moving away for the men to go in.
"Sure, I guess." He replied, leading the other men inside. I observed the guys, they all patted her head when the walked by.
"Guys, no letting the kids stay up and eat chocolate, while you watch Jerry Springer." She lectured, to the grown boys.
"But…" One of the men started off.
"No buts." She replied, grinning. "I just have to grab my stuff." She commented to me, walking into the house. She turned around and called. "You can come in," I walked in the house, looking around at my surroundings. She grabbed her stuff and was on the way to the door.
"I'm going out!" She called, down the hallway.
"Where?" I looked to see a boy, our age coming over.
"Nick, I'm just going…?" She looks at me, "Where?" She asked.
"We can just go to the Crashdown." I reply. She nodded.
"So, we're going to the Crashdown." She repeats to the boy. He looks questionly at me.
"See ya!" She called locking the door. We walked down the path, in an awkward silence.
"Is that your family?" I asked, looking back on her house.
"Some of it." She replied, looking away. I could tell she didn't want to talk about it. We walked the rest of the way in silence. Not that I don't like her, but I'd be so happy if she was Charlie right now. We walked into the Crashdown, to see the usual crowd. My parents, Isabel, Maddie, Kyle, Jack, Rob, and Matt.
"Hey." I said to them, as we grabbed a booth near the back. She looked nervous a bit.
"How about I interview you first." She commented. So, for the next hour she asked me question after question about my life. I told her everything, except the whole alien secret. My life was pretty ordinary, I was an only child with parents, I went to school and had lived here my whole life.
"So, my turn?" I asked, she just looked at me.
"Well, I'm kinda hungry, so can I eat first?" She questioned. I nodded, and called the waitress over. We both had a meal, and then she kept procrastinating, like she went to the bathroom 2 times. It was obviously she was avoid telling me about herself.
"So, what do your parents do?" I asked her, when she came back from the bathroom the second time. I noticed how when I asked that question she look startled, she practically jumped.
"My parents, my parents are… I uh have to go to the bathroom." She commented, getting up.
"But, you just went." I said confused.
"Oh right." She mumble sitting back down. "My parents are accountants." She answered.
"Accountants?" I questioned. She nodded several times. "Both of them?" I asked.
"Yeah. Mom's an accountant. And, Dad's an accountant." She said, looking around.
"For what accountant company?" I questioned.
"What accountant company?" She repeated my question. I nodded. "Oh, J and C accounting." She responded.
"Never heard of it." I commented. "Wonder why?"
"Probably, because it's only a small company." She commented.
"Everything in Roswell is small, I should know." I retorted. I don't know why, but I was getting alien vibes that she was making this up. I can pick up things like that, it's one of my powers. And, I certainly picked up that this was a lie. "Holly, look me in the eye and tell me that." I said commandingly. She looked up, and at my eyes and then back down.
"Scott, I really have to go." She stated getting up, I grabbed her arm and brought her back down in my side of the booth. "I have to go!" She said in a demanding whisper. I looked and saw no one was looking at us, everyone was just doing there own thing.
"Holly I want to know the truth, now!" I demanded. She groaned, and tried to get up, and I just pulled her back down. It wasn't about being right anymore, I wanted to know the truth. The secret behind the Holly Bennett, I'd had always known.
"You want to know my life story?" I nodded, very happy to have gotten my way "Cause here I go, so it all start's back when Carrie meets Johnny at age 13. He's 15, then. She falls head over heels, and we're not just talking about some gr. School crush, she had fallen so hard it's doubtful she'll ever get up again. So, when she's 15 and he's now 17, and he starts hanging out with her 16 old brother, Sam , she the happiest thing ever. It turns out however Sam and Johnny aren't actually hanging out, they're getting high, on whatever drugs they can get. So, being totally in love with Johnny she starts it, trying to impress him. Well, he is impressed, so she continues it. They start to do it normally you know, every week turns to every day. Soon they're so addicted they can't stop. They did everything drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and they actually start sleeping together. Now, Carrie worships him practically. Your probably wondering what Sam thinks of all this, well his stash was found, so he was off at military school, boot camp. That's why, Johnny and Carrie started hanging.
So, they did this for a year. Sure, they managed being practically stoned all the time, without getting caught. Then the horror hits, Carrie finds out she pregnant. They didn't have enough cash for an abortion, so that was off the list. Carries and Sam, had been living with their Grandmother, cause they're parents had died in a drunk driving accident. So, there was no way, her Grandmother could help. So, she breaks the news to Johnny, he said he knows some people, otherwise known as dealers, pot sellers. They run away, and get hitched in Vegas. They move to New York and make money selling pot and other things like that. Again luck stayed with them and they didn't get caught once. Johnny would have to leave for several weeks, though, whenever he delivered big shipments of the stuff. They lived in some crap apartment, where you'd be lucky if you weren't mugged or shot in a drive by.
One night, while Johnny was away Carrie went into labor. She got to the hospital, by the neighbour, Rob, across the Hall. He loved Carrie, so he was practically nursing her when Johnny was away, so he was over anyway. To make the story go faster, they have a girl, and name her Anna. When she is four, they realize, New York is not a place for a child to grow up. They also wanted out of drugs, so they could build a good family. Carrie who had been corresponding with her Grandmother, who kindly forgave her, Carrie learnt that Sam was now living in a place called, Roswell, New Mexico. Learning that a new start be easier, then moving back to her Grandmother, and then having to face her past and the nosey community. So, she decided to move to Roswell, to be near Sam. She and Johnny pack up and move themselves and their daughter Anna, to New Mexico.
So, three years later they both have solid jobs. They decide to have more children, to really build the home they have always dreamt of. They have twins, Holly and Nick. Everything is fine, until the market goes down, and the companies they work for can't afford to pay so many people. So, people have to be laid off, including them, and it's terribly hard to find a new job. They stayed at home for awhile, getting depressed. They kept craving pot, and soon they were smoking it when the kids were at school and daycare. The bills stopped getting paid, and soon there were blackouts, and then they had to use candles everywhere. They needed money bad, they were far in debt, and bills were getting unbearable. Also, they had the death of Carrie and Sam's Grandmother, which they had to fly back home for. They turned to the only place they knew they could go, drugs. They got back into business, hiding it from their children. And, soon the bills were paid, and they even had more then enough money. So, when Anna is 11, and the twins are 4, they decide to again add to the family, resulting in Tristan.
Things were going great. Christmas was more of a holiday, and clothes could be bought more, to Anna's delight. But, all good things have to change, when Anna was 14, another disaster took place. Anna had been hanging with the 'cool' kids, and Carrie and Johnny being the laidback parents they were never realized, until it was to late. Again an early pregnancy occurred, and when Anna was only fourteen, she had a son Blake. The Father did stick around, he was over almost all the time. He, Kevin became a part of the family from then on. Another birth was celebrated, the next year when Carrie and Johnny had their last child, Zach. Once their family was finished, and they had the home they had always wanted, things went down, seriously down. Johnny got caught delivering one of the shipments, the family waited like always in anticipation for his return. The night he was to be home, instead the police came. They said, that Johnny was going to go to rehab, since this was his first offense. He'd be home in a month they told Carrie and her children.
He came back from rehab a month later and he was on a sorta patrol thing, because every month he'd have a drug test. At first it was easy for him, Carrie stopped the drugs even so he wouldn't be tempted. When Anna's son Blake was three, she and Kevin had another son Owen. Which brought a lot of stress to the family, because now they didn't have any money coming in. They were depending all on saved up money. Johnny and Carrie started up again, and Johnny would get his children to go to the bathroom in a cup, so he could pretend he was clean. The cops made a surprise check, when they came to the house when no one was home. They suspected something was going on, because the family was acting weird. Holly, Nick, and Tristan came home from school, to find patrol cars in the driveway. The cops, had found the stash, resulting in rehab for Carrie, and jail for Johnny. The children went under the care of Sam, until there Mom was out of rehab.
Sam wasn't around much for that month, because he was a pilot, so the children pretty much were on there own. When Carrie came out of rehab, she was depressed. Johnny was in jail for years, and she had five children and no job. She started to cut herself, which really scared her children. One day the children came home from school, to find her lying in the bathroom. She had swallowed a whole bottle Tylenol. Kevin who now lived there on a permanent situation, drove her to the hospital, bringing Nick and Holly, while Anna took care of everyone else. She had tried to kill herself…" At this point I was practically sobbing. Scott was rubbing my back in a comforting gesture. I couldn't believe I was actually spilling this much, this was the secret I had always kept buried deep.
"Shhh… Holly it's ok." He whispered, wiping away my tears. "You can stop now if you want." Scott reassured.
"That's ok, I started now I have to stop… So, this was Carries first attempt, but not her last. In the next year, she would of tried to kill herself 9 times, each resulting in counseling which did nothing. The last time she tried, she, she, went to the bridge in town, the road bridge. It's about an hour drive from Roswell, she went and jumped. And, that morning she even drove us to school, normally we took the bus or walked. But, she, she told us she loved us, and… she knew, Scott, she knew she was going to die. She, just left us and dropped us of at school." I cried, I couldn't help, it these were my inner most feeling, the ones that made me different from everyone else. The ones that made my life miserable, the ones that crept into my mind everyday.
"Holly," Scott said quietly, and then without saying anything else, he gave me a hug. For awhile we just sat there hugging.
"Thanks, I really need one." I commented, whipping away my tears. I listened as the song in the Crashdown, turned to Tom Jones, Lean on Me. I laughed, did it ever represent this moment. Scott smiled at my, and for the first time since my Dad went to jail, I felt like I had a home, and a reason to live. It might seem cheesy, but I felt like I was finally happy.
'Lean on me when your not strong,
And I'll be your friend and I'll help you carry on,
For it won't be long,
Till I'm going to need someone to lean on.'
"Go on." Scott pressed me on. I nodded and began.
"She didn't die though, she was saved by a boat of fishers. They took her to the Hospital. Thankfully she wasn't paralyzed. Except, they took her away from us. They took her to this institution for people who wanted to die. It was only suppose to be for two years, but she was caught cutting herself. So, she'll have to be there extra longer. During that time, Anna and Kevin had another child, Zoë, she's one now. But, after Zoë was born, Anna left. We didn't know where she went, but we got a post card. She's in Vegas, she's a show girl, she was 21 and didn't like the idea of already being tied down. Even though it's her own fault. So, now I live with Kevin the Father of her children, Nick, Tristan, Zack, Blake, Owen, and Zoë. My uncle Sam is my legal guardian, except little did social services know, but he's now living in Europe, only temporally. And, that's it, that's my life. Not including everything, but that pretty sums up, my parents jobs and my living situation."
Scott just sat there in shock.
"Charlie, telephone!" I shook my head, shaking away the last day dreams, and reached for my phone.
"Hello?"
"Hi Charlie, it's Scott." It's him, I was so happy I could scream. And, he called me Charlie!
"Hey." I replied, trying to act calmer then I was feeling.
"I was wondering if you had Holly's number?" There goes my hope. I'm probably green with envy! I laughed quietly, when I looked in the mirror and saw I was still the same.
"Oh, I don't know her number. I can tell you where she lives though," I say, crossing my fingers, he wouldn't say something like, I'll just look it up.
"Ok." He responded. I smiled, gosh I'm such a freak!
"Well, I know you go down Birch St, then turn when you get to Carlton dr, and then it's the seventh house on the left, it's number 540." I told him, wishing I could tell him the directions to my house.
"Thanks Charlie. For telling me, I'll by you a shake later." He promised.
"Later when?" I questioned, trying to sound casual.
"Tonight, if you can?" He asked. Of course! Screw Paul!
"Yeah sure." I replied.
"Good!" I could hear the smile in his voice. "I better go. I'll call you later ok?" I nodded, but then remember he couldn't see me.
"Sure. Bye Scott." I said.
"Wait Charlie, be careful of Paul." He warned. I frowned, why should I be afraid of Paul?
"Ok, but why?" I questioned curiously.
"No reason, just ok." He stated in response.
"Ok." I replied. I was now dying from curiosity.
"Bye Charlie, I'll call you." And, with that we both hung up. Be careful? Why?
I walked down the street, to Holly's house. Everything in Roswell is located so closely it's walkable. When I approached Holly's house, I saw what Charlie had seen the day before. A old Victorian house, with shutters falling, and the whole outside untended. When I reached the door, I knocked, using the old fashion knocker.
"Hello?" I looked to see Holly, open the door. I noticed then how stressed and tired she looked. It was hard to think that I gone from kindergarten till now with Holly, and we've never really talked much.
"Hey Holly." She looked shocked to see me there. I looked past her in the house. Where I could here kids screaming and a baby crying. The house was a mess, there were toys everywhere and junk, it looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a while.
"Uh, what are you doing here?" She asked, looking around outside.
"The project?" I replied, she nodded a few times.
"Right." She stated smiling. "Want to do it somewhere else, it's kind of hectic here." She explained. Just then a pick up pulled in the driveway. I watched as a couple of sketchy guys, around twenty four got out.
"Hey Holly!" One called up, the porch. Holly stepped outside, and looked down at the men coming up the steps.
"Kevin, your going to have to look after the kids." She said. Moving away for the men to go in.
"Sure, I guess." He replied, leading the other men inside. I observed the guys, they all patted her head when the walked by.
"Guys, no letting the kids stay up and eat chocolate, while you watch Jerry Springer." She lectured, to the grown boys.
"But…" One of the men started off.
"No buts." She replied, grinning. "I just have to grab my stuff." She commented to me, walking into the house. She turned around and called. "You can come in," I walked in the house, looking around at my surroundings. She grabbed her stuff and was on the way to the door.
"I'm going out!" She called, down the hallway.
"Where?" I looked to see a boy, our age coming over.
"Nick, I'm just going…?" She looks at me, "Where?" She asked.
"We can just go to the Crashdown." I reply. She nodded.
"So, we're going to the Crashdown." She repeats to the boy. He looks questionly at me.
"See ya!" She called locking the door. We walked down the path, in an awkward silence.
"Is that your family?" I asked, looking back on her house.
"Some of it." She replied, looking away. I could tell she didn't want to talk about it. We walked the rest of the way in silence. Not that I don't like her, but I'd be so happy if she was Charlie right now. We walked into the Crashdown, to see the usual crowd. My parents, Isabel, Maddie, Kyle, Jack, Rob, and Matt.
"Hey." I said to them, as we grabbed a booth near the back. She looked nervous a bit.
"How about I interview you first." She commented. So, for the next hour she asked me question after question about my life. I told her everything, except the whole alien secret. My life was pretty ordinary, I was an only child with parents, I went to school and had lived here my whole life.
"So, my turn?" I asked, she just looked at me.
"Well, I'm kinda hungry, so can I eat first?" She questioned. I nodded, and called the waitress over. We both had a meal, and then she kept procrastinating, like she went to the bathroom 2 times. It was obviously she was avoid telling me about herself.
"So, what do your parents do?" I asked her, when she came back from the bathroom the second time. I noticed how when I asked that question she look startled, she practically jumped.
"My parents, my parents are… I uh have to go to the bathroom." She commented, getting up.
"But, you just went." I said confused.
"Oh right." She mumble sitting back down. "My parents are accountants." She answered.
"Accountants?" I questioned. She nodded several times. "Both of them?" I asked.
"Yeah. Mom's an accountant. And, Dad's an accountant." She said, looking around.
"For what accountant company?" I questioned.
"What accountant company?" She repeated my question. I nodded. "Oh, J and C accounting." She responded.
"Never heard of it." I commented. "Wonder why?"
"Probably, because it's only a small company." She commented.
"Everything in Roswell is small, I should know." I retorted. I don't know why, but I was getting alien vibes that she was making this up. I can pick up things like that, it's one of my powers. And, I certainly picked up that this was a lie. "Holly, look me in the eye and tell me that." I said commandingly. She looked up, and at my eyes and then back down.
"Scott, I really have to go." She stated getting up, I grabbed her arm and brought her back down in my side of the booth. "I have to go!" She said in a demanding whisper. I looked and saw no one was looking at us, everyone was just doing there own thing.
"Holly I want to know the truth, now!" I demanded. She groaned, and tried to get up, and I just pulled her back down. It wasn't about being right anymore, I wanted to know the truth. The secret behind the Holly Bennett, I'd had always known.
"You want to know my life story?" I nodded, very happy to have gotten my way "Cause here I go, so it all start's back when Carrie meets Johnny at age 13. He's 15, then. She falls head over heels, and we're not just talking about some gr. School crush, she had fallen so hard it's doubtful she'll ever get up again. So, when she's 15 and he's now 17, and he starts hanging out with her 16 old brother, Sam , she the happiest thing ever. It turns out however Sam and Johnny aren't actually hanging out, they're getting high, on whatever drugs they can get. So, being totally in love with Johnny she starts it, trying to impress him. Well, he is impressed, so she continues it. They start to do it normally you know, every week turns to every day. Soon they're so addicted they can't stop. They did everything drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and they actually start sleeping together. Now, Carrie worships him practically. Your probably wondering what Sam thinks of all this, well his stash was found, so he was off at military school, boot camp. That's why, Johnny and Carrie started hanging.
So, they did this for a year. Sure, they managed being practically stoned all the time, without getting caught. Then the horror hits, Carrie finds out she pregnant. They didn't have enough cash for an abortion, so that was off the list. Carries and Sam, had been living with their Grandmother, cause they're parents had died in a drunk driving accident. So, there was no way, her Grandmother could help. So, she breaks the news to Johnny, he said he knows some people, otherwise known as dealers, pot sellers. They run away, and get hitched in Vegas. They move to New York and make money selling pot and other things like that. Again luck stayed with them and they didn't get caught once. Johnny would have to leave for several weeks, though, whenever he delivered big shipments of the stuff. They lived in some crap apartment, where you'd be lucky if you weren't mugged or shot in a drive by.
One night, while Johnny was away Carrie went into labor. She got to the hospital, by the neighbour, Rob, across the Hall. He loved Carrie, so he was practically nursing her when Johnny was away, so he was over anyway. To make the story go faster, they have a girl, and name her Anna. When she is four, they realize, New York is not a place for a child to grow up. They also wanted out of drugs, so they could build a good family. Carrie who had been corresponding with her Grandmother, who kindly forgave her, Carrie learnt that Sam was now living in a place called, Roswell, New Mexico. Learning that a new start be easier, then moving back to her Grandmother, and then having to face her past and the nosey community. So, she decided to move to Roswell, to be near Sam. She and Johnny pack up and move themselves and their daughter Anna, to New Mexico.
So, three years later they both have solid jobs. They decide to have more children, to really build the home they have always dreamt of. They have twins, Holly and Nick. Everything is fine, until the market goes down, and the companies they work for can't afford to pay so many people. So, people have to be laid off, including them, and it's terribly hard to find a new job. They stayed at home for awhile, getting depressed. They kept craving pot, and soon they were smoking it when the kids were at school and daycare. The bills stopped getting paid, and soon there were blackouts, and then they had to use candles everywhere. They needed money bad, they were far in debt, and bills were getting unbearable. Also, they had the death of Carrie and Sam's Grandmother, which they had to fly back home for. They turned to the only place they knew they could go, drugs. They got back into business, hiding it from their children. And, soon the bills were paid, and they even had more then enough money. So, when Anna is 11, and the twins are 4, they decide to again add to the family, resulting in Tristan.
Things were going great. Christmas was more of a holiday, and clothes could be bought more, to Anna's delight. But, all good things have to change, when Anna was 14, another disaster took place. Anna had been hanging with the 'cool' kids, and Carrie and Johnny being the laidback parents they were never realized, until it was to late. Again an early pregnancy occurred, and when Anna was only fourteen, she had a son Blake. The Father did stick around, he was over almost all the time. He, Kevin became a part of the family from then on. Another birth was celebrated, the next year when Carrie and Johnny had their last child, Zach. Once their family was finished, and they had the home they had always wanted, things went down, seriously down. Johnny got caught delivering one of the shipments, the family waited like always in anticipation for his return. The night he was to be home, instead the police came. They said, that Johnny was going to go to rehab, since this was his first offense. He'd be home in a month they told Carrie and her children.
He came back from rehab a month later and he was on a sorta patrol thing, because every month he'd have a drug test. At first it was easy for him, Carrie stopped the drugs even so he wouldn't be tempted. When Anna's son Blake was three, she and Kevin had another son Owen. Which brought a lot of stress to the family, because now they didn't have any money coming in. They were depending all on saved up money. Johnny and Carrie started up again, and Johnny would get his children to go to the bathroom in a cup, so he could pretend he was clean. The cops made a surprise check, when they came to the house when no one was home. They suspected something was going on, because the family was acting weird. Holly, Nick, and Tristan came home from school, to find patrol cars in the driveway. The cops, had found the stash, resulting in rehab for Carrie, and jail for Johnny. The children went under the care of Sam, until there Mom was out of rehab.
Sam wasn't around much for that month, because he was a pilot, so the children pretty much were on there own. When Carrie came out of rehab, she was depressed. Johnny was in jail for years, and she had five children and no job. She started to cut herself, which really scared her children. One day the children came home from school, to find her lying in the bathroom. She had swallowed a whole bottle Tylenol. Kevin who now lived there on a permanent situation, drove her to the hospital, bringing Nick and Holly, while Anna took care of everyone else. She had tried to kill herself…" At this point I was practically sobbing. Scott was rubbing my back in a comforting gesture. I couldn't believe I was actually spilling this much, this was the secret I had always kept buried deep.
"Shhh… Holly it's ok." He whispered, wiping away my tears. "You can stop now if you want." Scott reassured.
"That's ok, I started now I have to stop… So, this was Carries first attempt, but not her last. In the next year, she would of tried to kill herself 9 times, each resulting in counseling which did nothing. The last time she tried, she, she, went to the bridge in town, the road bridge. It's about an hour drive from Roswell, she went and jumped. And, that morning she even drove us to school, normally we took the bus or walked. But, she, she told us she loved us, and… she knew, Scott, she knew she was going to die. She, just left us and dropped us of at school." I cried, I couldn't help, it these were my inner most feeling, the ones that made me different from everyone else. The ones that made my life miserable, the ones that crept into my mind everyday.
"Holly," Scott said quietly, and then without saying anything else, he gave me a hug. For awhile we just sat there hugging.
"Thanks, I really need one." I commented, whipping away my tears. I listened as the song in the Crashdown, turned to Tom Jones, Lean on Me. I laughed, did it ever represent this moment. Scott smiled at my, and for the first time since my Dad went to jail, I felt like I had a home, and a reason to live. It might seem cheesy, but I felt like I was finally happy.
'Lean on me when your not strong,
And I'll be your friend and I'll help you carry on,
For it won't be long,
Till I'm going to need someone to lean on.'
"Go on." Scott pressed me on. I nodded and began.
"She didn't die though, she was saved by a boat of fishers. They took her to the Hospital. Thankfully she wasn't paralyzed. Except, they took her away from us. They took her to this institution for people who wanted to die. It was only suppose to be for two years, but she was caught cutting herself. So, she'll have to be there extra longer. During that time, Anna and Kevin had another child, Zoë, she's one now. But, after Zoë was born, Anna left. We didn't know where she went, but we got a post card. She's in Vegas, she's a show girl, she was 21 and didn't like the idea of already being tied down. Even though it's her own fault. So, now I live with Kevin the Father of her children, Nick, Tristan, Zack, Blake, Owen, and Zoë. My uncle Sam is my legal guardian, except little did social services know, but he's now living in Europe, only temporally. And, that's it, that's my life. Not including everything, but that pretty sums up, my parents jobs and my living situation."
Scott just sat there in shock.
