"So where are we all sleeping?" Jack asked. "I'm gunna sleep in ma's room. I don't care where you two sleep." Bobby said walking upstairs. Jack and I looked at each other. When all of us were living together, Jack and I shared a room. "You can have our old room. I'll sleep in Jeremiah's room."-Jack
"I wouldn't feel right if you slept on Jerm's bed. I don't care if we both sleep in our old room. We did it for years." I said. Jack smiled at me. We both walked upstairs and into our old room. It hadn't changed at all. It still had all my band posters and pictures on the wall, my bed with dark grey sheets-black comforter-and blood red pillow. The other reason I loved Evelyn was because she didn't mind my writing or painting my wall, or what room I had left on it. My posters and pictures took up a lot of space. So painted on my wall were skulls, bats, and red blood dripping from the cracks in the walls. At first Evelyn was creeped out, but when she found out that I painted it all myself, she was thrilled. She enrolled me in art classes after that.
Jack's side was still the same also. All his music stuff, and his light blue walls with only a few posters. I pushed my duffel bag off my bed and threw myself down. "That tired?" Jack asked. A muffled 'yes' was heard. "Your not even gunna get dressed for bed?" Jack asked. But I didn't hear him because I already drifted off to sleep.
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"Ryan! Are you fking ready yet!" Bobby yelled at me from downstairs. I almost poked myself in the eye with my eyeliner. "Shut up Bobby! You take longer than me to get ready!" I yelled back at him. I finished on my eyeliner and walked downstairs. "Finally!" Bobby muttered.
Jack smiled at me, I could feel my heart melting. I haven't felt that in a long time. And I hate that Jack is the only person that can do it. We grabbed our jackets and left for mom's funeral.
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It was after mom's service, so everyone was going over to Jerm's house for the party. Bobby, Jack and I walked up to two little girls and a little dog, even smaller then them. They were adorable. We kneeled down to look at them. "Hi, I'm your uncle Bobby. And you must be Daniela…" Bobby looked at the dog, "…and you must be Amelia." They both started giggling. Then the smallest one answered. "No I'm Amelia!" The three of us smiled.
Then Daniela looked up at us. "Your not our family. Your white." Bobby smiled. He's gunna be a great dad. "Grandma Evelyn adopted me, just like she did your dad. By the way this is your uncle Cracker Jack…"
"Don't teach them that." Jack murmured. I don't know why Bobby thinks Jack is gay, even after and while he and I were going out.
"And this is your aunt Ryaina." I smiled at them. "Hi, Daniela I haven't seen you since you were 1 years old! And I haven't seen you Amelia since the week you were born." They both giggled again. "Those are cops!" Amelia cried.
"Yes we are! And your all under arrest, so you better not move!" Green joked. Daniela and Amelia giggled again and ran off to play. "What are you doing here Green?" Bobby moaned. "I'm just here to pay my respects." He said.
"If you were going to pay your respects you would have came to the funeral, so don't bull shit us." I mumbled. Fowler gave me a nasty look I hate you too, you stupid dirty cop! and Green just looked at me.
"Okay okay. We came to ask you guys to stay out of it." –Green
"Stay outta what?" Jack asked lighting up a cigarette.
"We now Bobby didn't come back for no reason. So if you get any information, you give it to me." Green said losing some of his cool.
"Hey, I made a living off of fixing stuff around here because cops couldn't find tits in a strip joint." Jack and I laughed. "Come on, lets go get some coffee." Bobby said walking off.
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Jack, Jerm, Bobby and I walked into the house. "It's not nice leaving your brother out here in the damn cold." A man said over in the corner, the only thing visible was his teeth. "Aww, did you whiten your teeth for that whore Sofi?" I said. "Shut up Ryan!" Angel barked. "Oh, I'm right." I smiled and hugged Angel. "You're a real ass, missin ma's funeral. Come here Jarhead." Bobby said in his usual cool voice. After Jerm and Jack finished joking with Angel we all walked inside.
"Man, this place hasn't changed a bit." Angel murmured.
"Yeah, I know." –Bobby
"I'm gunna go make dinner. It is Thanksgiving." Jack said walking off.
"I'll help."-Ryaina
Bobby, Jerm, and I were watching another hockey game, and Angel was playing with some yellow poker chips, while Jack cooked dinner. (I had already finished my part of the cooking.) Angel started flicking the chips at Bobby. "Don't start, Jarhead." –Bobby
So Angel started flicking the at Jerm's, knowing he was an easy target. "Stop it Angel." –Jerm's
"Shut up!" –Angel barked.
Jerm's pointed at Angel, "Do it again and see what happens."
"Do it Angel, do it!" Bobby egged on. Angel flicked another chip at him. Jerm's slapped him on the head and then they started wrestling. Bobby and I laughed. "Get him Angel, get him!"-Bobby
"Go Jerm's beat his ass."-Ryaina. Jerm's got Angel pinned to the ground and then they both agreed to a truce.
"Good cause dinners ready." Jack called. We all went to the table and piled food onto our plates. "What did you make Ryaina?" Angel asked.
"The mashed potatoes and dessert. Why?"
"Because I didn't remember you ever cooking." He smiled.
"My room-mate, Alyssa, taught me."
"Damn!" We all looked up at Bobby. "If she taught you how to make these, then I want to meet her. This shit's great!" I smiled, I've never heard Bobby so enthusiastic. I thought about it, Alyssa and Bobby would make a really cute couple. Then I got a great idea. Alyssa told me she wasn't going home for the holidays, I'll invite her over for the rest of the holidays. Then I'll put my plan into full gear! I looked up at Jack, he was shacking and looked like he were about to cry. Then it all stopped and he smiled were mom's spot was. I looked over at the chair, but nothing was there. I put my hand on Jack's for comfort. He snapped out of his gaze and smiled at me.
Jack's POV
I put a fork full of food in my mouth. "Jack…" The caring voice of my mom called to my right. I started shaking and looked over at her chair. She was there, smiling at me. "Jack I know a lot of bad things happened to you before you came here…" My eyes started watering. Just thinking of that far in the past disturbed me. Evelyn continued, "…but your safe now." I stopped shaking and my eyes stopped watering. "Ryaina hasn't lost her love for you either. You may think she did, but she didn't. You broke her heart before, but that was long ago, start over with her. I promise it will end in happiness." I smiled and looked down. Does Ryaina still love me? I know she told me she did but it's hard to believe it. Mom, give me a sign… Then, I felt a warm hand on mine. I looked up a Ryaina. She was smiling at me, so I smiled back. Thanks mom.
Ryaina's POV
Bobby got up quickly. "I'm done with this, let's go play some hockey." He looked at me, "We'll have dessert when we get back. I can't wait to try it." Bobby said and then smiled at me. A real smile.
We were all walking down to the ice rink, when Jack pulled me aside. "Jack what the he…" but before I could finish, he pressed his lips on mine. I felt like I was going to collapse! I kissed back and before I knew it, it was a full on make out.
"Hey! Jack! Ryan! Whoa…uhh sorry!" Angel smiled and ran off. Jack and I could faintly hear, "Bobby! Jeremiah! Jack and Ryan are together again!" Jack and I looked at each other and smiled.
"Rain, be my girlfriend, again?" I smiled
"Nobody's called me that in a long time." Jack smiled.
"So will you? Please?" I kissed him.
"Yes Jack." He smiled widely and hugged me.
We walked to the rink, Jack's are around my waist. "I guess we can't call you Cracker Jack anymore." Bobby joked.
"Or Fairy." Angel added, still smiling at us.
"Or Jacky!" Jerm's also added.
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"We've gotta go! We're gunna be late for the reading of mom's will!" Jerm shouted at us. "Damn!" Bobby shouted. His team was losing by 5, my team was winning. I skated cockily over to Bobby, "You shouldn't of said that girls couldn't play hockey, dumb ass." He smirked at me. "Okay you win, I'm sorry."
"I thought so." I said skating off the ice and taking off my skates. We all piled into Jerm's SUV and drove over to that place where we had to go.
We finally got there and we sat down to talk to mom's keeper(I'm just going to call him that, because I don't know what he did.) "Your mother was a wonderful woman. I'm terribly sorry for you lose." He said. Jack looked up, "How much do we get?" Bobby smacked him on the head. "What's wrong with you!" Angel growled. The keeper just walked over to take a metal box off a table. "Here is what she left. I'll give you some privacy." He said walking out of the room. Bobby opened the box. There were three sets of paper's. Bobby took one and looked at the name, "Here Jack." Jack looked over the papers. "It's my information. I wonder how mom got it!" I smiled. She told me to go find them. Bobby then handed Jerm his info. "No way!" Jack said reaching into the box and pulling out a ticket. "My mom went to Woodstock!" Jack laughed.
"Your mom was a hippy!" Bobby laughed
"There any papers in there for me?" Angel asked hopefully.
"Naw. There's none for me either." Bobby said sadly. Oh crap! I forgot to give Bobby his papers! I reached into my trench coat pocket, and pulled out the papers.
"I forgot to give you these." I said sliding the papers down to Bobby. "How's you get these?"
"Have you ever heard of the Trench coat Terror?" I asked, I knew they had, it was east coast news. I hit all of the foster care centers in the East. All the guys looked at me with open mouths.
"That's you!" Jerm's asked. I smiled.
"How else do you think mom got this information?" –Ryaina
"That's what you were doing that night I called you. I'm proud of you, Ryan." –Bobby
Angel started searching through the box. "Wait, I found some more papers." He pulled them out, read the name, then passed them to me. "There for you." I was shocked.
"But how?" I whispered. I looked over my birth certificate.
Father: Mike B. Dayy
Mother: Taylor R. Dayy
Bobby pulled some money out of the box and started evenly giving it out. We each got $300. "What about me?" Jack asked. Bobby pulled out a necklace, the one Evelyn always wore. It was a simple silver chain that hung to the collar bone with a pendant, which was a heart with wings. The back read 'Every is to be loved'. I thought it was beautiful, I always did. "Here this will look pretty with your eyes." Bobby teased. Jack growled. I took the necklace from Jack and pushed the cash at him. They all looked at me weirdly as I put it on. "You don't remember this necklace?" They all shook there heads. "Do you remember the necklace that she always wore when a new kid was brought to her?" They all nodded. I showed them the necklace again. They all smiled.
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I was lying on my bed reading all my info. I read the paper that said why I was in foster care.
"Mr. Dayy and Mrs. Dayy divorced in May, 1988. Their two children, Bobby (11) and Ryaina (4), were split up. Mr. Dayy getting Ryaina, and Mrs. Dayy getting the Bobby. Mrs. Dayy wanted full custody of both her children saying her ex-husband was irresponsible and abusive. She took him to court but lost the trial. A year later, Mr. Dayy became an alcoholic and abusive almost causing the death of 5 year old Ryaina. He stabbed her numerously with a broken beer bottle, giving her a scar on her shoulder and arm. Ryaina was put into a hospital and Mr. Dayy went to a jail in their home city, Chicago. She would have gone to her mother but she had recently died in a car accident. Bobby was in foster care and so was Ryaina. Ryaina was adopted by Mrs. Mercer when Ryaina was 7.
Both their whereabouts are unknown."
"My gosh…" I whispered, some tears sliding down my cheeks. Just then Jack walked in. "Oh my gosh, are you okay Rain?" he asked rushing over my bed to comfort me. "What's wrong?"
I wiped some of the tears away, "I just read my information." He picked up the paper and read it. When he finished he hugged me tighter. It was silent for a few minutes. "It said you had a brother named Bobby. You don't think…?" I looked at him shocked. "No…"I whispered. I jumped off the bed and barged into mom's room. Bobby was watching another hockey game. "Bobby, where are your foster papers?" I asked hurriedly. He looked at me oddly, "There over on the dresser. Are you okay? It looks like you've been crying." I rushed over to the dresser, Bobby turned off the TV and rushed over to me. I looked at his birth certificate.
Parents: Father: Mike B. Dayy Mother: Taylor R. Dayy
No way… I smiled and whipped around to hug Bobby. "What's going on?" Bobby asked again. "Just a second, I'll explain everything!" I smiled. I couldn't believe it! Bobby and I really were siblings, knowing Evelyn she did this on purpose. I dashed into my room and grabbed my birth certificate.
Jack looked at me. "He is your brother, isn't he?" –Jack I looked at him and smiled.
"Yeah…" I murmured. Jack smiled. I ran back to mom's room. "Look at your parents names." Bobby obeyed. "Yeah, so?" I gave him my birth certificate. "Now, look at my parents." He obeyed again, I saw him look back and forth between certificates. He looked up, tears in his eyes. I ran and hugged him. He hugged me back.
"Do you think mom did this on purpose?" Bobby asked
"Yeah I do think she did this."
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Now everyone knew Bobby and I where actually related. I was sitting on my bed, reading a vampire book and Jack was on his bed playing his guitar. Bobby walked in and sat in front of jack's bed, using it to support his back. "Is it weird being in mom's room?" Jack asked
"Yeah, really weird." Bobby chuckled. He then looked over at Jack. "You still making noise on that thing?"
"Yea. Still makin noise on it." –Jack. Jerm's walked up to the door. "So when are you starting the killing thing?" Jerm's asked. Jack rolled a joint. I looked over at him.
"Tomorrow probably." The Angel came walking down the hall. Jack started smoking the joint.
"Where are you going, Jarhead?" Bobby asked
"It's all too overwhelming. I'm just gunna go talk a walk around the block." Angel said coolly. I looked up from my book. "Angel your so fkin whipped."
"What are you talking about, Ryan?" –Angel
"So you smelt that girl from all the way down the block too? I thought I was the only one who knew what Essence du Whore smelt like." –Ryaina. They all laughed except Angel.
"Yeah Angel, do you really think she's thinking of you right now? She's not, she's down there screamin someone else's name with hard dk in her right now." Bobby laughed. Everyone else started laughing.
"Man, I don't know what your talking about. I ain't going to get Sofi!" –Angel
"Yeah you are." Bobby argued. Angel walked downstairs. "I don't care what you do, just don't bring Viva Loca back here!" Bobby yelled at Angel. The front door slammed. "Well, our vacation's over." I muttered. I really didn't like Sofi. I didn't like her because the only reason she was with Angel was because he supplies that one thing that she specializes in. If he didn't supply or wasn't good at it, she would have left him long ago! I also didn't like her because she made my brother's fight like America and the Middle East! Those were the same reason's mom didn't like her. If mom doesn't like someone, it's for a damn good reason!
"Yeah, cause we all know he's bringing that girl home." Jerm's groaned. Bobby and Jerm's left the room. I looked over at Jack.
"When did you start smoking?" I asked
"When you left me." He said sadly.
"I wouldn't have left me if you hadn't cheated on me…" Jack was about to say something but I stopped him, "It's okay Jack, it's over and in the past. But do you really think mom would like you smoking that crap?" Jack looked at me then the joint.
"Your right." He said putting it out. I got out my cell phone. "What are you doing?" Jack asked
"I'm gunna call my room-mate Alyssa and see if she wants to spent the rest of the holidays with us."
"You can't do that! We're getting revenge for mom tomarrow!" Jack yelled. I smiled at him.
"I think she'd like to participate. Besides, I'm trying to set up her and Bobby up." Jack smiled.
"Maybe if they hit it off, Bobby won't be such a hard ass."
'Hello?'
"Hey, Alyssa?"
'Oh my gosh, Ryaina! Are you okay?'
Yeah I'm fine. Can you come to my house for the rest of the holidays?" It was quitet on the other end.
'Do I get to help you and your brothers?'
"If you want to. If you do come, I have so much to tell you!"
'I diffinatly want to come. I want to meet your family, and I think it would be fun to do what you do almost every day!'
"Well normally everyone gets tickets out of Detriot for the holidays, so it will be easy to get a cheap ticket for a flight here tomarrow." I could here clicking on the other end. She was on her labtop.
'Yeah, I just bought a ticket. It says I'll get in at 9:30.'
"Okay, I'll see you around nine!" I gave her the address to the house so she could get a taxi. Then we said our 'good byes'.
About an hour later, gun shots were heard coming from down the block. I looked over at Jack and we both groaned. I got up and walked out of the room. I stood at the top of the stairs and waited for Angel and Sofi to run through the front door half naked. It always happened the same way. Jack walked up behind me and rapped his arms around my waist. The gunshots got louder, and louder, and then when the gunshots got almost unbearable, the couple burst through the door. After they were done panting from all the running, Sofi looked up at me. "I see Princes is back." She said in her usual snotty accent. "Why don't you go suck some skin, whore?" ( Hopefully you got my meaning) Sofi glared at me and turned to and turned to Angel. "Your gunna let her talk to me like that? What's wrong with you?" Sofi whined, slapping Angel on the chest. Angel looked up at me, "Ryan, please be nice this time?" Angel begged. Angel never begs. "Fine, but only if she's nice too." I turned to walk back into my room but turned back around, "You know Angel, Mom didn't like Sofi for a reason." I said then walked back to my room. Jack closed the door behind us.
I turned around and hugged Jack, my head on his chest, right under his chin. I sighed, it felt good being back in his arms. We stood there for a few minutes, just holding each other. "Do you want to go to bed?" Jack asked braking the silence. I looked up at him. "Sure." I said letting go of him. I dressed into my black pajama pants and red tank top. I didn't care if Jack saw me in my underwear. His is my boyfriend and he's seen me in a lot less. But that was an accident.
Flashback, Ryaina is 16 and Jack's 17
I'm so glad it's summer. I thought, my friends and I were going to the Rec center to swim. I took off my shirt and bra to put on my bathing suit top, I picked up my top and was about to put it on when Jack walked into the room. "JACK!" I yelled. Jack laughed and ran out shouting 'sorrys'. Damn it's a good thing we're going out or this would be even more awkward. I thought laughing.
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I looked at Jack and he was just wearing blue plaid boxers. I smiled at him and he smiled back. "Do you like what you see?" He teased.
"Sure, why not?" I teased back. He was about to get into bed. "Wait…" I said. I walked over to his side and pulled out his side table. Then, I walked over to my single bed and pushed it up to his, making the bed a full. "Like the old days." He said/sighed, and we both got into the bed. He put his head in the crook in my neck and wrapped his arms around me. I fell asleep thinking, How could my mother's death bring me all this happiness?