I've decided not to write the answers to reviews in the A/N's anymore. But everyone who reviews will still get a shoutout. So thanks to x snow- pony x and Cookie05 for reviewing the last chapter.
Two new polyvores have been added to the collection for this story. One with the current children and staff in tdg. (It will be updated whenever someone new comes or leaves) and one with an edit for Joanie LaRusso (Kenny's mum) On the other hand, I have deleted all room and clothes edits. However, if you who have characters in and polyvores want to make polyvore edits with their clothes I'm not going to protest!
Oh and by the way, since a while back Jace is portrayed by George Ezra. And Joanie is portrayed by Romy Rosemont.
I'm so, so sorry for not updating. But honestly, I don't have many ideas for this one and kind of lost interest in it for a while. However. I'll make sure that the story will go on, and I'm not giving up on neither this one nor any other story.
Somehow I managed to get into mine and Kim's room from Johnny's. But how it happened I actually weren't so sure. Actually most of the rest of the day after that Derek was fired was mostly a blackout. And when I, God knows how many hours later woke up I could hear Kim's slow, deep breaths and knew she was asleep. But could still feel someone sitting on my bed and turned to see May- Li must have been sitting here the whole night. But at least she was asleep sitting up.
The new alarm clock in here had a projector that showed the numbers in the ceiling and as carefully and as silently as I could I crawled out of the bed and since May- Li sat on the edge of my bed anyway I carefully moved her to lie down and put her feet up and after I at last pulled a hoodie over the T shirt to cover up for the really bad smell of sweat. I moved downstairs to just get that Zofran before I headed for the shower.
"Hi Trenton." Already from the beginning I knew he'd be up since it was past seven in the morning and he smiled at me when I came into the kitchen. And once he looked up from his bowl with milk and cereal and marmite- sandwich I could see that from his fight with Derek he had a black eye and more bruises down on the side of his neck.
"Morning Ken."
Despite the bruises and the early morning Trenton showed me a bright smile and stood up to come over to me. While I grabbed onto the edge of the kitchen bench while a wave of nausea of morning sickness hit me.
"Trenton… I wouldn't… but… can you get the Zofran." Trenton quickly nodded and ran into the laundry room where the medicine cabinet was. And while hearing him fixing I was swallowing over and over not to get sick all over the kitchen floor. And I was relieved like never before when he came back with a pill for me and reached for a glass that he poured water in.
I leaned back against the kitchen island and sunk back towards the floor closing my eyes. Almost as soon as I had swallowed it I could feel the nausea ease, but I didn't want to open them again before I was sure it would be gone for this time. While I still held my eyes closed though, I could hear Trenton move and sit down next to me. And then his arms around my shoulders before I leaned my head to the side towards his shoulder.
"I'm sorry for what happened yesterday Kenny." Trenton mumbled after sitting like that in silence for a minute or two. "It was just, hearing what Derek had said to you it just..." Trenton's voice changed a bit when he talked about Derek and what he had said. And when I sat up straight I could see his angry gestures in front of him too. "It just made me so, goddamn angry. And I just saw red and didn't know what I was doing. I wanted to hurt Derek but never thought about that it might also hurt you."
"It's okay."
"No it's not. And I'm so sorry for hurting you like that…"
"Fine then. I forgive you."
The room went silent again, and none of us knew anything while we both sat there on the floor. Hidden from the doorway if someone would come walking, from the other doorway we weren't hidden. But I highly doubted anyone would come walking here this early in the morning. And I actually didn't know how long we were all silent until I still slightly tiredly looked to Trenton.
"Have we got oranges? Or orange marmalade? Or something with oranges in it? Don't laugh at me Trenton whatever- your- middle- name- is Strong. It's not funny. I've got really bad cravings and guess who will have to run off to the store if we haven't got it?" Trenton chuckled even harder and crawled onto his feet and then held out his hands to support me. "It's okay Trent. I can still get onto my feet on my own." I crawled onto my feet and leaned against the kitchen bench and stretched still tiredly. "So, have we got that marmalade? Hold on… what is your middle name by the way?"
"Joshua, and I think there's some in the fridge." He gently pushed me to the side and opened the fridge. "Yep, here it is. Do you want it on a sandwich?"
"Sandwich? Hell no, I'm eating it straight out of the glass!" Trenton laughed again while I took a spoon and sat down by the table before I twisted off the lid. "What? I'm being serious." Trenton just laughed while I started spooning the sweet jam out of the jar he returned to his sandwich and cereal. And for a moment it hit me how… special someone that didn't know us would think we look like.
One girl, with red hair so bright it would probably light up in the dark. And then a boy, who had the looks of someone who had just come into or out of a growth spurt, with an adult look on him that probably hadn't been there two months ago but still his dark, slightly curly hair in a childish haircut down by his jaw and curls pointing in each direction probably.
"Well." After a wave that hit me of my own smell that was so bad it almost got me sick despite the Zofran. I remembered that I had to shower and I threw the now empty marmalade- jar (It had for sure been almost full just five minutes ago.) in the trash and turned to Trenton. "I guess I should head for the showers before the dust rats runaway off the smell." Trenton laughed again, shook his head and lifted up the dishes to put them into the machine still with a smirk on his lips.
I couldn't help but to let a slight smile form on my lips when I thought about Trenton. I hadn't even known him for long at all, but he was to me, what couldn't be described as something else than my very best friend. And I didn't even know how I could have every lived without him, or any other friend like him.
I had never exactly been alone. I did have a few friends back in Oaklee too. But the problem was- in Oaklee, everybody knew who my mum was. And if they knew who Joanie LaRusso was- then there wasn't any doubt in their minds why she and I shared last name.
Oaklee was a small town, it barely had fifteen thousand people in it. And some people just everybody knew who they were. That woman who would cry and scream in the supermarket when she didn't get her favorite snack (Cheese balls) well… everybody knew who that was. And once they'd found out her name…. (Guess three times) And if they knew me… they probably would take their distance.
And if they didn't know the woman in the supermarket, they probably knew the one that had gone around the streets in America's states- blocks singing on let it go the last half year. Or for dressing like a kid in silly sweatpants and printed shirts. Or the one that wrote 'all you need is love' with permanent pens over hateful messages in graffiti. Or maybe the one that would roam on children's areas, teasing them with cookies. Not because she wanted them to follow her like a creep, but because she wanted to brag about that she had something they hadn't. And then anyway gave them one when they started crying and the parents got angry with her.
It didn't really matter what they knew her for, everybody knew that crazy lady. And I'd say about half of them knew her last name. And the four, five hundred people who went to the same school as I knew mine and there we had the problem.
In the shower. The thoughts about my mum and everything she had done. And that I had do just became too much. And I sunk down into the tub and leaned backwards against the porcelain and just sat there and stared into the water still pouring over my head and that soon started running cold when I'd used all the warm water. But not even freezing cold water had me moving where I sat, with my bare back against the porcelain and my arms around my legs.
"Hello." I didn't return to reality until I heard Carmen's voice and her knock on the door. "Who is in there?" I realized I must have been sitting here for longer than what I thought. And quickly put each hand on each side of the tub and pulled myself up. And shook the thoughts of my mum off before I quickly got into a pair of dark green tights, a grey skirt and a grey hoodie printed with the word 'rebel'
"I'm coming." I shouted already before I'd gotten the clothes on. "Just give me a minute."
I glanced to myself in the mirror. But didn't mind fixing my hair or anything. It would be just as red no matter how many times I looked away. And so I just grabbed my things, unlocked the door and walked out into the hallway and hurried down the hallway. But could still hear as Carmen's scream when she learnt that the hard way that the warm water was run out and I grimaced towards Trenton who was throwing something in the machine and hid behind some laundry bags.
"KENNY. DID YOU USE UP ALL THE WARM WATER? BECAUSE IF IT WAS YOU, AND ONLY YOU I'M GOING TO…"
I didn't get to hear what she was going to. May- Li had woken up and caught up with her. And from my place under the laundry bag I could see Trenton laughing, and hear May-Li calming Rachel down. And telling the others that unless they wanted freezing cold water. They might want to wait until when they would come home from school with taking one.
"Thanks." I whispered to Trenton when I got up when I heard more people come out into the kitchen. Which would hopefully take Carmen's attention away from me. "You're probably a lifesaver." Trenton just laughed again- what he was laughing today! Must be having a good day! And I walked out into the kitchen.
"KENNY"
The fact that most of the dumping ground's kids sat around the room did not take any of Carmen's attention or anger away from me! I flew the kitchen and up the stairs.
"YOU JUST WAIT. WHEN I…"
I didn't actually listen to it that much. Like didn't she think I'd ever heard death threats from an angry person before? Ha! At least a few times a day at Sunshine!
But, of course. Neither Carmen nor any of the others knew about Sunshine or any of the others that had lived there. Heck! They didn't even know my last name, when my birthday was or where I came from at all. And if I would decide they weren't going to know any time soon neither.
"I will take the kids that used to live in Derek's care home to their school" Mike started talk to me when I met him in the hallway. "And May- Li will take the others. You're going to be left alone here for a minuet but I trust you that you won't turn the place upside down." Mike's eyes glittered while he smirked to let me know he wasn't doubting that. "Is that okay?"
"Yeah that's fine." Mike smiled at me, and I went into the living room, and found a copy of Romeo and Juliet while I heard the others getting fixed and headed off to school. And even though I could guess none of them were really looking forward to going. Kim was heard the absolute most.
"Come on! Why do we have to go to school anyway? I don't care about what any stupid teacher says…" I didn't hear how it continued when she, Jeremy, Xavier, Alfie, Michael and Belle went out the door. But then I heard it again. "WAIT. I FORGOT MY STUPID BAG! AND I HATE SCHOOL. AND I HATE YOU MICHAEL BECAUSE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE IN A CLASS FOR R*TARDS BECAUSE…"
There the door closed again, and I heard the others move towards the van as well. The last thing I knew of it though, was when I couldn't keep my eyes open and fell asleep in the living room sofa. And I felt a blanket being draped over me, and when it did and I looked up slightly. My vision was blurry from the drowsiness but I could recognize Johnny's brown tresses.
"Kenny?" I looked up when Mike came into the room and called out for me a few hours later. "I need to talk to you for a minute. Can we go into the office?" I nodded, put away the book I was reading and followed Mike into the office where he sat down in the office chair and I in the short sofa in the corner.
"Now. Kenny." Mike turned to me and I fingered towards the fabric on the arm support. "As you probably know. There's a law that says that you have to go to school. And I've been pulling out on it since I know you're facing some major changes right now with… whatever reason you came here and the pregnancy and everything. But the thing is… I think you will have to go to school, and yeah. All of that. And I… I don't think that you'll have to tell us why you're here to do it… but to write you into the same school as the others. We'll have to at least know your name."
I suppressed a sigh, and gripped tightly in the arm support when I felt my hands starting to shake. I had probably known this would be coming sooner or later, but I was in no words prepared for it in the very slightest.
"You don't have to tell me right now." Mike told me. "The last thing we want to do is pressure you into anything. But as fast as you feel ready would be great. And sooner or later you probably will have to tell someone how you ended up here. It would be good if we could put it in our files. But that doesn't have to happen any time soon so don't feel pressured or stressed or anything." Mike patted my shoulder.
"Can I take a walk? I just need to do some thinking by myself."
"Yes of course."
"Thanks"
"No need to thank me kiddo."
With that I tried to seem calmer than I was while I stood up and went out the door. It was early October, and this was probably going to be one of the last very nice days of the year. The sun was shining, but there wasn't any warmth in the air. And already after a couple of hundred meters I started feeling a bit chilly with only my hoodie, tights and skirt. But that didn't mean I was turning back towards the dumping ground.
I just continued walking, without much idea about where. And I would probably never find my way back again. Upon that I had left my phone in the shelf over my bed and of course I couldn't call anyone to get a description of where I would turn to get back home while no one would know where I was.
After a while I walked up on the parking lot of something that seemed like a bus station with a small kiosk right in the end of a main street. But I didn't matter going in and just glanced over the headlines. But couldn't help but stop when I saw a picture of someone that looked weirdly familiar. And even though I would have known, it took me several seconds until I realized that the person in the headlines- was myself.
Fourteen year old Kennedy LaRusso have gone missing from English small town
I grabbed the paper whose logo showed on the headline and quickly riffled to the right page with my heart beating so hard in my chest I could feel the blood streaming in my ears while I glanced over the pictures of me, and me and mum on the right page before I started reading.
Fourteen year old Kennedy LaRusso went missing from her home at the home of the shining sun in Oaklee, England the night between Sunday the twenty first, and Monday the twenty second of September. It is unknown what Kennedy was wearing at the time. Kennedy is 160 centimeters tall, white and with long, red hair. If anyone have heard anything about Kennedy…
With the short article and the pictures of myself followed numbers to the police and numbers to Sunshine. But I didn't care for reading them. And threw the paper away, pulled my hood up so no one on the street would recognize me and with fast, heavy steps walked down the street and turned. But not towards the dumping ground.
At last I sunk down on a pavement. Just like I had that day in Oaklee after Jace shouted at me. And right now, I was back at square one. Because I remembered every little piece of the story. But I had no idea how I had ended up in all of this mess. And even less, I had no idea about how I was going to get out of it.
Kenny is portrayed by Madisen Beaty, Trenton by Chandler Riggs and he is sent in by LocalXmusicXjellybeanX. Joanie is portrayed by Romy Rosemont. Kim is portrayed by Isabella Murad and sent in by GleeJunkie007. Michael is portrayed by Ryland Lynch and sent in by Cookie05, Belle by McKenna Grace and by x snow- pony x. Alfie by Jamie Blackley and by EvangelineRainbow x. Jeremy by Max Charles and by Bracken99. And at last Xavier is sent in by CyanoticNightmare and portrayed by Mason Cook.
Random fact
Eating something straight out of the glass because of pregnancy cravings is actually based on a real person… and how she discovered she was pregnant. Any guesses who it was? Well… It actually was how my mum started realizing she was pregnant, the baby? Oh yes, that would be me.
