"Nancy…"Alex repeated.
Nancy Fox had blue eyes and long brown-red hair that ended two inches below her shoulders. She was wearing a gray tee shirt with a brown coat, brown pants and brown sneakers.
"Yes its me. Can-n I come in?" she asked nervously.
"Uh? Oh sure Nancy," he said, also feeling nervous.
As she walked into the house, Alex closed the door and remembered his manners. "Can I get you anything to drink, … water, soda, anything," he asked.
"No thanks," she said. Then, suddenly, she got right to the point. "Alex you're my only friend. Will you help me with a problem that I'm facing in my life right now?"
"Sure what's that?" Alex asked, confused.
"As you know, I was treated bad at my old home. But what you don't know is that I was treated like a outcast with my new family."
"Why?" Alex asked.
"Well, I guess they must have felt sorry for me because I was treated really badly at my old house. But, they didn't really want me to be a part of their family. For one thing, they kept sending me to all these private schools with these notes that said, 'All major holidays, keep her.' It really got weird after a while. And there were these two sisters there called "Queen" Emma & "Duchess" Elizabeth. They teased me all the time. The only time they didn't tease me was when we were either eating or sleeping." "What else," asked Alex. "Well, they sent me to Harvard, which is a good school by the way, but Emma & Elizabeth both told me that my adopted mother just bribed the director there to get me in, and that I don't deserve to be there. Then, today I came home because it is Christmas break and I didn't want to stay there alone, but when I get there, I saw a "Sold" sign in the front yard and their limo was turning the corner. It's like they were running away and didn't want me to ever find them again. …Now, I guess I'm stuck without a home for the holidays …and forever."
Alex looked puzzled as he tried to wrap his brain around all this news. "So, let me get this straight: your old family was bad to you, right?"
"Yeah?"
"And now your new one was bad to you too right?"
"Yes."
"And now you're without a home for the holidays right?"
"Yeah…"
Alex pinched himself. "Yeah, I'm awake."
Now, it was Nancy's turn to look puzzled.
"I'll be right back," Alex told her. "Just stay here. Don't move."
Alex opened the door to the kitchen, surprising his father.
"Hi son. Don't you know you're going to be late to that convention of yours?" Steven asked him.
"Dad, I don't think I will be going to that convention," Alex answered.
Elyse went up to him and put her hand on his forehead "Alex, are you feeling alright?" she asked.
"I'm fine, Mom, except that… remember Nancy? Well she just showed up here at OUR house, and she's not so good. She said her adopted family just left her today, and you know she can't go back to her old family, and she's stuck without a home for the holidays, or, I guess, forever. She came here 'cause she didn't know who else to turn to and, I think she's hoping to stay with us."
Alex's dad looked bewildered. "Oh………," was all he could say before his wife put her hand over his mouth.
"Show Nancy the guest room and try to entertain her while I have a little 'talk' with your father," she said.
"THANKS MOM," yelled Alex as he left the room.
End of Ch.2
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