Well, I'm leaving again...
No, I'm not gonna run away again.
The director here says he's gonna send me to something called a 'foster
home'. He made it clear that I wasn't getting adopted (big surprise...) but so in
hopes I might. Sometimes I don't get what he says and I don't pretend to.
The director's assistant talked to me about the foster home I'll be off to
tomorrow. She says that I'll like it there, that there's another trainlet
who's an only child. His parents thought it would be good for him to have me
come in. When I asked her how old he was she said fourteen. Cool! Maybe
I'll like this after all...Who knows, maybe their son'll like me so much
they'll rethink about adopting me. I'd finally have a family.....
I'm heading to Northbend. that's where my foster home is. I was given rules
on how to behave, given my suitcase, and hitched up to the train as soon as
the engine arrived. Were halfway there now.
I'm the youngest on this run. The coaches have yet to talk to me but I
don't mind. They seem to be busy talking about coach things like engines and
'lotta locomotion', and such. I just ignore all that.
Made it to Northbend. The engine of the train went into the main office
to tell the head we're here. Wow! As I look about I see how busy this
place is! Sure, Hilton was busy too, but not even half as much as Northbend is!
The head of the station's come out now. He's a diesel just like the one
pulling the train I'm on. The other points back to me as they walk over.....
My first day in Northbend came to an end. Met my foster family. A diesel, his coach (a diner), and their son (also a diesel). The diesel, Oilslick, is strict but not really harsh. I think I could handle being around him. After all, his is a father and father are supposed to be that way, right? The diner, Alice, seems really nice. She seems to like having me around the house and I don't mind helping her when she asks for it. However, there's something about Turbo I just don't like.....
I don't know what it is about him, but I just don't like him....
Met a coach today. Wow she's pretty! Maybe the prettiest diner I've ever seen. Her name's Vienda and since meeting her I haven't been able to concentrate on anything else......
Only problem is, she's Turbo's coach. I got to stay away from her or get pounded....
It's not fair! What'd I do? As soon as I walked into the house Turbo and a few of his goons approached me. One of them picked me up by the front of my shirt. The rest then began to pound me! turbo just stood there laughing. He himself then took a swing at me before taking from the one holding me and throwing me to the ground! They all left me and as they headed out, they each gave me a sharp kick to the gut! Their cruel laughter is still ringing in my ears....
I laid there I don't know how long in pain until Vienda found me. She didn't ask what happened but something in her eyes told me she knew. She helped me to the repair shed. There they wanted to know what happened but I didn't say. I'd get another pound if Turbo got word I ratted on him.
Get this! After the repair truck fixed me up, Vienda invited me to come with her to the diner were her mom and Alice work, for dinner! Of course I didn't say no.
That idiot engine! I could wreck him right now! How could he treat Vienda like that?! She's perfect yet Turbo uncouples her for a sleeper!! He doesn't deserve a coach as perfect as Vienda.
I was going along minding my own business and hoping I wouldn't run into Turbo and his goons today when I heard crying. I peeked around a shed and saw Vienda sobbing into her hands. I asked her what was wrong and she told me she had seen Turbo with a sleeper. When she confronted him, he blew up at her with something about how could she even think of him doing that, smacked her, admitted to her that yes he had been cheating on her, and uncoupled her having the nerve to say she wasn't good enough for him as he skated of with the sleeper! It's one thing to cheat and end up uncoupling, but to smack a coach and then say she not 'good enough'?! I'll wreck him!! Don't think that I won't!....