A/N: I love reviews…heck I love reviews more than I love George Stults (well ok that's a lie right there) seriously I love reviews because I need to know if you like my writing and want me to continue
A/N: Although I wished I owned 7th Heaven sadly I don't but I do own everyone else except for the following—Annie, Eric, Mary, Sarah, Matt, Kevin, Lucy, Carlos, Simon, Ruthie, David & Sam, Captain Michaels, Ben, Patty-Mary, Kevin's Mom and anyone else I forgot.
Karen was sitting at her desk on a cool, crisp October morning working on an upcoming court case when the silence was interrupted by the sound of the front door opening and closing with a loud slam. She smiled to herself as she had a pretty good idea who was home.
She decided that she should get up from her desk and ignore the work that she was doing when an angry voice shouted out from the hallway that made her stop dead in her tracks.
"MOM...MOM...WHERE ARE YOU?" Kevin shrieked loudly from the hallway as he looked in every room possible.
"I'm in my office Kevin...and stop shouting" she exclaimed loud enough for him to hear.
As Kevin stomped into her office he looked pissed...something was defiantly wrong and Karen didn't know what to do.
"Kevin? What's wrong...OH" she said out loud looking at the stack of papers Kevin threw onto her desk. She recognized those papers...it was Kevin's divorce papers...the ones that she drew up herself.
"This is what's wrong...she won't sign...wait a minute make that she refuses to sign them!" Kevin told clearly looking upset.
"This wasn't suppose to happen...she knew I wasn't in love with her anymore...I thought we agreed that it was the best thing to do...why is she playing games with me?" he asked his mom and sits down on the old couch from the living room.
Karen looked at her son with sympathy...she didn't know what to say to him...as his mother or even his lawyer.
"Sweetie...everything will be fine...I'm...I'm sure that there was just a matter of communication...maybe she thought she already signed them" Karen suggested to him hoping that would make him somewhat calmer.
"I...don't...think...so...mom...every time that I send them to her, drop them off, give them to her parents...she always manages to send them back to me" he told his mom honestly
"I don't know what to do anymore...I don't love her...I don't think I ever have...but she doesn't care...she won't listen to me...it's like she wants to make my life a wretched mess" he told his mom looking miserable.
"Kevin...sweetie...I..." Karen started to say when she was interrupted by a loud scream.
"What the...?" she asked out loud looking at Kevin while getting out of her chair and quickly walking to the doorway of her office with Kevin and her heels to see what or whom had just screamed.
To her surprise she saw Patty-Mary in a headlock given by Ben.
"Benjamin Paul Kinkirk...let you sister go this once!" she yelled at Ben angrily. This was his third time this week misbehaving and it was starting to make her mad.
"Damn it Ben..." Kevin muttered under his breath as he swiftly walked past his mom and pulled Patty-Mary free and held securely onto Ben's arm so he wouldn't be able to leave the hallway and glares at him.
"Benjamin...I'm waiting for an answer...what were you doing to your sister?" Karen asked him again started to get both annoyed and pissed off.
"Well? When I ask you a question Benjamin I deserve an answer" she told him point blank starting to tap her foot against the dark wood floor. Kevin yanks really hard on Ben's arm
"Ben...answer mom or else you're going to have to answer to me" he said fiercely yanking again on Ben's arm a little too hard.
"Ouch!" was all that Ben could say.
"Damn it Kevin...let me go...you're not my boss and you're sure as hell not my dad either" he told Kevin suddenly with out warning.
He gave Kevin a dirty look and jerked his arm free and fled up the stairs towards his room and let his door slam shut shaking the pictures on the wall.
While Patty-Mary stood there watching the whole thing between her two brothers she knew that the look on Kevin's face wasn't a good one...she had seen that look the night Mindy told him that she was pregnant...and she had seen that look the night Mindy came over the first time refusing to sign the divorce papers because she wasn't "ready" to be divorced.
Ben was angry...he had never felt that way in a long time but tonight...well tonight things were different. Patty-Mary was teasing him all the way home about liking Jennifer or as Patty-Mary called her the next "Mindy".
He thought back to what just happened...before PM and him got home from school.
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"Ben and Jen sitting in a box" giggled Patty-Mary who was sitting next to Ben on the way home.
"Naked, naked oh my god" she laughed harder.
"Shut up Patty-Mary" Ben told her...all he needed was her to say something even louder so Jen could hear her.
Patty-Mary frowned at Ben because he wasn't be fun...he was acting like a jerk as usual.
"Fine...Ben...go home and sulk all you want you'll just turn out to be like another Kevin..." she told him flipping her long brown hair and turns around and faces the front of the bus.
"What do you mean be like another Kevin?" Ben asked her reaching for her arm and tugging on it.
"Ouch! That hurt Ben!" she exclaimed rubbing the spot where he had grabbed her.
"I said what do you mean I'll turn out to be like another Kevin?" he asked her again getting angry at her this time.
Patty-Mary just stared him for what seemed liked forever when she spoke up a little bit louder this time.
"I said...why don't you become another Kevin and screw up your life...that way I'll be the only child who hasn't done anything stupid so far in her life...I'm sick and tired of mom always telling me I should be like my brothers...HA!" she laughed as she continued on.
"That was the dumbest thing she has ever said to me...my oldest brother who is suppose to be an example gets a girl "knocked" up, marries her and now they are getting a divorce...and my other younger brother tries to hit on a girl and she is just as clueless as he is" she said to him mockingly giving Ben a look and turns back around.
Ben just sat on the bus seat stunned.
He never knew that PM felt that way about him and Kevin.
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Ben snapped back to reality and realized that he had just punched a hole in his wall.
He just stared at it for a few minutes and sighed and walks back towards his bed, flipped his stereo on to listen to a bunch of mixed tapes he had created.
He didn't want to listen to the screaming that would be taking place so he reached into his nightstand and grabbed a pair of his headphones, put them in the outlet and shoved them on top of his head and started flipping through a car magazine that happened to be on his bedroom floor.
Meanwhile as Patty-Mary turned to go up the stairs she heard a women's voice that she didn't even recognize as her moms.
"Patricia Mary Kinkirk...I want to see you in my office NOW!" Karen said angrily walking towards her office doors with a scared looking Patty Mary following slowly behind her.
Karen never used their full name unless they were in trouble...deep trouble at that.
Kevin watched his sister and his mom go into her office. He knew that there was defiantly going to be some fireworks so he quietly started to walk up the stairs towards his room but he stopped remembering that he had something to do.
He walked over to Ben's bedroom and knock on the door.
"Go away" Ben told him sitting on the bed.
"I'm not leaving until you open his door Ben" Kevin told him crossly.
"I don't care if you rot out there...I'm not opening the door...I don't have anything to say to you" Ben responded back.
He knew that if he saw Kevin he wasn't going to be in control anymore...that he would let his mind take care of everything and that wouldn't be a very wise thing at the moment.
"Ben...I'm going to count to three and if you don't open this door" Kevin threatened him standing outside the door.
"I don't care...your not my father...and you sure in hell not my mother...so just back off Kevin!" he yelled from the closed bedroom door.
Kevin sighed in frustration...he wasn't ready to deal with this...he let go of the door knob and walked to the other side of the hall...where his room was at. He opened the door to his bedroom and had to shield his eyes from all the sunlight that was pouring in.
"Damn...I forgot to close the blinds" he said to himself walking cautiously towards the windows. He changed his mind and flopped onto his bed.
He couldn't breathe...nor could he move...he wanted to stay in his bed forever...everything that could possibly go wrong in his life was well going wrong.
Kevin laid on his bed for what seemed like an eternity when he heard footsteps creaking up the stairs. He sat up quickly trying to think of way to escape but changed his mind when he heard Patty-Mary's bedroom door open and slam shut.
He had to get out of the house before he exploded...he just had to. But where would he go? He thought to himself...then he got an idea and picked up the phone and punched in the 11-digit number that he had memorized from the last time everything got out of hand.
"Northwest Airlines, this is Alicia speaking how can I help you plan your trip?" asked the friendly sales ticket agent.
"Hi...I'm interested in a one-way ticket to Glenoak, California" Kevin told her.
"All right sir...and where would you be flying from?" Alicia asked him clicking away on her computer.
"Umm...Buffalo, New York" he said shaking his leg nervously hoping no one could hear him.
"All right sir...that is a one way ticket from Buffalo, New York to Glenoak, California...is that correct?" she said to him making sure that all of her information was right.
Kevin nodded his head at the phone "That's correct" he told her.
"All right sir and when did you need this ticket by?" Alicia asked him typing in the rest of the information that the computer needed. Kevin thought for a few minutes before he spoke
"If there is a flight that leaves tonight...I'll take it" he exclaimed reaching for his wallet that held the credit card that would take him to the one place that would welcome him at anytime...day or night.
Alicia looks at her computer screen and hits a few buttons scrolling down to find the flight information for that day.
"Sir...I'm seeing that we have one flight available that leaves Buffalo International Airport at 10 o'clock tonight...will that work out for you?" she asked him hitting three buttons to pull up the purchase screen. Kevin smiles happily.
"That would be perfect...that gives me" he looks at the clock that sits besides his bed "a good four hours before I have to be there...I'll take it" he exclaimed pulling out the GM MasterCard from his wallet.
"All right sir...I just need your name, address, phone number and how were you going to pay for that today sir?" Alicia asked him.
"I'll be paying by MasterCard" Kevin told her flipping the card over to see the worn signature on the back.
A few minutes later Kevin had given Alicia all the necessary information to purchase the ticket and he hung up the phone. He was going to Glenoak and there was nothing his mom could do about it!
Kevin sat on the edge of his queen-sized bed for a few minutes...he couldn't believe it...he was going back home. He looked around his room and made a mental note of everything that he needed to pack. He looked at his alarm clock and noticed that it was only 6:30pm.
He has almost 2 and a half hours left before he had to leave to get to the airport to make his plane on time. He got up and walked over to his oak dresser set that was his dads.
He bent down to the middle drawer and pulled it open only to reveal nothing but pictures...old pictures.
He picked up an old worn picture and touched it lightly at the sides. It was a picture of his mom and dad on their wedding day. For some odd reason it brought a great deal of comfort to him knowing that whenever he looked at this picture he could tell that they were happy and that they were meant for each other...which is something a lot of people cannot see for themselves.
He sighed with disappointment...if only Mindy would see it his way...that they would be better off not being married...and that they would be better off going their own separate ways.
Angrily Kevin slammed his dresser drawer shut and a picture off the top of the old oak dresser fell onto the floor and the glass smashed into millions of tiny pieces.
He just stared at the picture for a few moments before he bent over and carefully picking up the picture and the broken frame and flipped it over even though he knew what picture that was by heart.
A big smile settled a crossed his face as he remembered the day that his family and the Camden's went to the church picnic and got their picture taken.
He knew that day was a day he would never forget...because that picture had only been taken the day before his dad died...at least he knew his dad would of held a happy memory before he died...even if that meant not telling his family goodbye...at least he spent his last day with his family and his best friends.
Kevin's eyes started to get a little misty around the corners so he quickly set the picture back on top of the dresser and threw the old broken frame into the garbage can.
He glanced over his shoulder and looked at his alarm clock again to see what time it was. He let out a yelp when he discovered that it was already 7:15pm and he hadn't even thrown a carry on bag together.
Quickly he reached underneath his bed and grabbed an empty athletic bag. He dumped it on top of his bed and walked over to his closet. He grabbed a couple of shirts and some pants off of hangers and threw them on his bed.
He bent down and grabbed a pair of beat up looking running shoes and threw them on the bed. He walked over to his oak dresser and rummaged around until he found what he was looking for...an old beat up wallet that was practically falling apart. He leaned up against the wall staring at the wallet.
His hands started to shake when he tried to open it. He had to get into it...he just had to...unknown to his mom a few years back he had quietly slipped into her room one night while she was at the office working on a major case and discovered an old beat up cardboard box .
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Being nosey as Kevin was he decided to open it up and look what was inside. He carefully peeled away the cardboard box top to reveal all of his dad's old clothing. He just sat that looking at the box in shocked...he thought that his mom and gotten rid of everything. He slowly stuck his hand into the box and pulled up his dad's favorite wallet...he must have left it when he was called to work that day.
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Kevin snapped back to reality when his phone rang. He reached for it and hit the on button.
"Hello?" he spoke into the phone as he tossed the wallet into the bag.
"Kevin...its Mindy...listen...I..." she started to say before she was cut off by Kevin.
"Look Mindy...I told you before...don't call me unless you have the divorce papers signed..." he told her honestly shoving the dresser drawers shut.
"Kevin...that's what I called to tell you...I...have the divorce papers signed if you want to swing by sometime and get them" Mindy told him.
Kevin stood in the middle of his room looking shocked and stunned at the same time. He hit the off button on his phone and grabbed his bag...he still needed to leave Buffalo...even if it was for just a few days.