bA/N Sorry the Chapters are so short, but I rather write shorter chapters with more details. And this thing is gonna be long.. so I want to give you bits at a time./b

Ashlee sat clutching her Beanie Bear. Her brothers had given it to her when she turned 6. She held it for comfort, in hard times.

Ashlee was very tempted to pick up the other phone and listen, but she knew better. She decided to do her homework to take her mind off things. While she was trying to figure out the solution to X=59-5, she heard a gasp and "I AM NOT PAYING $200 MORE JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE A SCREW UP!" Ashlee knew that her father meant those words, and would not pay any more money for Sean.

She got scared that Sean would wind up on the streets like Tracker was for a while. She silently cried. At 8:00pm she looked up for the last time that night and fell asleep.

When she awoke that morning she went downstairs to see if her mother was awake yet. She was making coffee, when Ashlee appeared. "What happened to Sean?" Ashlee questioned. Her mother was sober from 7am-5pm when she got off work. Ashlee just hoped she would remember the night before. "Ugh, your brother beat the shit out of a kid, and needs money to stay in school.. your father refuses to pay it, so Sean's going to live with Tracker, so they be delinquents together. And you'll probably wind up there knowing you. " Ashlee tried to ignore the last comment.

Sean? Living with Tracker? He was too young to be living without parents? Although.. her parents didn't count as "parents." Not the good kind anyway. She always thought about going to live with them.. but never had enough courage to actually leave. That is, until now.

Ashlee looked out the window, it was about time she got off. Enough reminiscing for a day. She had reached her brothers' house.

This was it. It was now or never. She walked into the side door entrance, and knocked. Sean opened the door, with his mouth wide open.

bA/N haha a cliff hanger! Yay! Please Review! Or I'm not going to continue, but I want to, so review!