Chapter 454.

"I am Annabelle C. McCann."

(January 20, Royal Woods High School.)

Classes are done for the day and right now a lot of the students are headed home, but the Soccer Team is busy practicing and Lynn, Margo, Paula, Nadia, Lainey and Maddie check on the rookies and how they're all doing.

Lynn goes to Annabelle and sees her doing some tricks and then she sprints off with the soccer ball and she makes a good score with her head. Lynn then claps. "Impressive, and good form too."

Annabelle blushes. "Yeah, thanks. I was part of the soccer team back in my home, and I was actually the….. Star player, I always scored and they always called me the best in the team."

"Whoa what? No way." Lynn goes over. "Well, now I see why you're so good at this, but know that even though you used to be a star player, doesn't mean you can rise up to the ranks here. Got it?"

Annabelle nods. "I know, and I understand. I'm still a rookie and will be sent into the field when I am needed and treat my team with respect, even to the rival team."

Lynn smiles. "True, true. But, if the team is not being good sports and tries to do something bad, then be prepared for what happens and we can deal with them when the game ends, got it? If they won't respect you and be good sports, then don't be good sports to them."

Annabelle is shocked. "Huh, never thought about that, thanks for the advice, Lynn. Sure wish we had that lesson back at my school." She then goes back to practicing.

Margo then stands next to Lynn. "So, ready for when this practice session is all over?"

"Yeah, and it took me a long while and a lot of reasoning to let the others come and listen to what she says, though Lincoln and Jordan seemed cool with it and said they wanted to hear her out and you and the others are free to come and listen in as well" replied Lynn.

"Yeah, that's why I came to tell you" said Margo. "The others also wanna know more about Annabelle and what she went through. I mean, she doesn't seem like a bad person like her idiot former cousin, Chandler."

Lynn and Margo then look to Annabelle who scores again. "Well, she sure is a good player and we have so much to know about where she came from and what she went through, because something tells me, it's not gonna sound pretty."

(Later.)

They had finished their practice and all the rookies are heading back home now, they have a lot of work to do still with the test next week and if they pass, then they can play in the big soccer game and win it for Royal Woods.

Annabelle grabs her things and she sees Lynn and the others go towards her. "So, ready to go and talk to the rest of my family?" asked Lynn.

Annabelle nods. "I am, and I am kinda nervous, but I think I can manage."

"Are you sure?" asked Nadia. "It would be kinda hard to go through with well, the history of the last name here and we're not certain that…."

"I can handle this guys" said Annabelle. "I wanna know what they think and I want them to hear me out, otherwise it's not gonna come off my chest and leave me alone."

Lynn smiles. "Then let's saddle up to the bikes girl, we're going to my dad's restaurant." They all head to the front of the school and get to their bikes and they ride off.

Annabelle was not feeling too good, she did not wanna make things bad as it was back at her home town.

(Lynn's Table.)

They all arrive to the restaurant and Annabelle looks at it. "Huh, this is the place where my parents wanted to go someday and from the rumors around town, they said that the food is delicious and at a good price too."

Lynn and the others park their bikes. "Yeah, the humble beginnings nearly went down south real fast, and it was the help from Jordan Rosato who helped make this place be less, chaotic."

They all go to the doors. Paula looks to Annabelle. "You ready for this?"

Annabelle takes a deep breath. "I am so ready for this, I think."

They then open the front doors and Annabelle McCann sees them, the loud and Rosato family all talking to each other: Lincoln, Jordan, Luna, Leni, Luan, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, Lily, Michelle Lewis, Ryan, Rick, Jesse, Rita and Lynn Sr. Albert and Myrtle are also there and Lori on a tablet screen with her friends Becky, Whitney, Carol and Jessica Carson also watching this.

Also there are the friends they know: Sam, Simon, Stella, Clyde, Chloe, Liam, Tabby, Rusty, Zach, Polly, Giggles, Lance, Joy, Trent, Kat, Artie, Cookie, Sadie, Mollie, Flat Tire, Jenny, Hassan, Chad, Richie, Cristina, Renee, Paige, Darrel, Laurence, Allison, Delilah, Gretchen and Hope, and they brought their companions, Stunky, Rockruff and Yamper.

And of course, we have the avians: Patriot, Valkyrie, Harrier, Nora, Artemis, Freya, Apollo (Talonflame) and Raptor (Staraptor).

Now that is one big gallery of guests! Dang!

Annabelle was expecting just the family to come and speak with her. She did not expect for this large group to be here and listen to what she has to say. "Oh my….. Wow that is a lot of people."

Lincoln and Jordan then walk up to her. "You must be Annabelle C. McCann" said Lincoln.

Annabelle nods. "I am, and I didn't think there'd be so many people here."

"Well, we all have had our fair share of Chandler" said Jordan. "Well, some of us. But still, we all wanna know more about you and why you're here. Lynn didn't tell us much and told us that everything else will be told when we meet you and this is the right moment for that."

Annabelle nods. "Yeah, I think I get it. We should talk, I have a lot to explain."

They all go over to the combined tables and chairs and they all look to Annabelle and some of them enjoy the food being served, oh and Grant and Kotaro are also there.

Lynn then looks to her. "So, Annie. Ready to tell them about where you're from and what's going on?"

Annabelle looks to everyone and so she tells them.

"Okay, so hello everyone. My name is Annabelle C. McCann, I am 14 years old and my birthday is on July 22 and I don't think that part was necessary for me to say. My parents are Danny and Layla McCann and they both were former real estate agents and they are trying to find some good work here in town."

"My dad said he found a job as an employee at an IT building and my mom is still trying to find some work. We live somewhere on Franklin Avenue, by the neighborhood that nears the park or something, I don't know."

That shocks them and she sees the faces of the louds. "What?"

"Our house is at Franklin Avenue" replied Lincoln. Annabelle is shocked by this, but she calms down and she continues.

"Okay, so I should continue. We were from Denver, Colorado and we had a great life. We're not rich and all and we just try to be good folks and we have gotten so much respect from a lot of the folks in town, and we do our part to be there for the community."

"I had a lot of friends and I knew a lot of the people and they knew me….. Heck, I'm a god student with good grades and was the star player of the Soccer Team, well was….. Things went south real fast when….. My idiot cousin, Chandler was on the news and the McCann name was turned against us."

This concerns them. "What do you mean?" asked Lori.

Annabelle looks down with sadness. "We were just a good family, and after that news and many other news about Chandler and what he's done. We became targets and were…. Hated and made outcasts. Everyone we knew and loved, all of them didn't want anything to do with us."

"My uncle and auntie have gone into hiding and didn't make any contact with us, and everything we've been trying to do to tell them we had nothing to do with Chandler's actions, they didn't wanna hear us out and….. They ignored us and made us look like no ones, like bad guys, when we clearly aren't bad people."

"I lost my friends, my teachers would look at me and be cautious and also show disgust just because of my last name, they kicked me out of the soccer team and no one would trust their kids around me, and even the children didn't think of me as their friend and everyone thought we were acting friendly, but we didn't, I am terrible at acting."

"Even the boy who… Who I had a crush on, he….. He didn't like me and just pushed me around, along with the football and cheerleading team. I felt like a stain of nothing to them and it felt, kinda lonesome. I had no clue what to do at that point, but I wasn't gonna give up and just be shunned out. I wanted to prove that I wasn't a bad person like Chandler, but whatever I came up with, didn't work."

"Then it went bad real fast, I mean I can handle being made fun of and being ignored and pushed around, but then I got word that we were moving out and that my parents lost their jobs and my parents were being made into bad people. My mom helped with the gardening in town and they all said she was making the gardens look bad."

"My dad was accused of stealing information from the IT building he works at, when he didn't do anything and even the cops were against us and were planning to arrest us and so we made the move to leave because we're not bad people and we felt, like we weren't welcome anymore."

Annabelle wipes away some tears. "They….. They hated us, and….. W-We didn't even do anything t-to them. Just because….. Because of our l-last name."

They all were shocked to hear this. An entire town, shunned them out, and all because of Chandler, who isn't even a McCann anymore. Lincoln and Jordan felt bad fer her and angered by this town who acted like this.

Lisa then asks. "Annabelle, where is this town that you and your parental units once resided in?"

Annabelle calms down and she wipe away her tears, Leni hands her some tissues. "We used to l-live in…. Greatsville, which is somewhere in Denver, Colorado."

Luan scoffs. "Well, if you ask me, that place sure ain't great anymore."

"What the heck were those folks even thinking?!" said Rita.

"How can they just do that to you guys?" said Kat.

"That is just dang right mean and not cool too, a bunch of morons" said Sam.

"I heard of bad folks, but never a bad community and the law there is also flawed by news" said Carol.

"We have got to do something. That town is just acting like angry idiots who think it was a good idea to cast them out and all because of one boy who made it happen!" said Michelle.

"Oh, I am so going to tell my dad about this and then he'll straighten those people!" said Hope.

"Count me in!" said Gretchen. "Those people are gonna pay for what they did to Annabelle and her parents! That is just so wrong and I am so dang angry about it!"

"Some part of me thinks that the town might not be people! They could all be aliens!" said Zach.

"I am so going to talk to Great Grandma Harriet about this" said Lucy. "She might have some friends who'd love to haunt the town and make it into a ghost town."

"I just wanna go there and beat the crud out of those guys who think they can kick they're best player off of the team!" said Lainey.

"We should tell this to Coach Keck!" said Polly. "She'll wanna be part of this!"

"I am so glad I recorded this, I am so going to make sure everyone hears this" said Jenny as she looks to her recorder.

"Best do it now and we can call out this town for what they did, turn the tables in our favor, no wait….. Turn the tables for Annabelle and her family and show the other town, that they were never bad" said Cristina.

Lynn remains silent and calm, but in her head she is raging angry at what she heard.

Annabelle is confused by this and she looks to all of them. "W-What are you all doing?"

"Anabelle." She then looks towards the Loud Boy who feels bad for what she and her parents have been through. "We wanna help you, after what you told us, we can see that you were never a mean person."

"He's right." She looks towards Jordan. "Annabelle, what Chandler did was his doing and not yours, what your former friends from that town are doing is stupid and literally childish and has to be put to an end. We are not going to let some folks do this to a good family, just because the last name was made wrong by a bad person."

"We got your back, because you're not a part of that dumb town anymore" said Luna. "And I can say for the rest of us here, that we all trust you and can see that you aren't a bad person and only want one thing, to make friends and look to a bright future and life and away from the bad cousin who is pretty much disowned."

"Luna is right!" said Jessica. "Why are everyone angry at you, when Chandler has been disowned and his parents are nowhere to be seen, the McCann last name isn't even with him anymore."

Annabelle looks to all of them and she smiles. "Wow. I….. I don't know what else to say."

Lynn places a hand on her shoulder, which makes her blush. "Don't say anything, just be patient and wait and tell your folks about this, because when the time comes, then you guys can tell everyone what you all had to endure. No one has to suffer like that, nobody."

"She's right" said Delilah. "Annabelle, you're last name was treated like a threat, and my last name was almost a threat, but I proved to everyone I was nothing like my cousin, Leslie and they trust me and saw me as a good person."

"You're hometown didn't give you the chance, because they didn't think, they just do and if they wanna do this, when we should do something about it as well. We'll bring down the hammer of justice."

"And the might of FutureTech" said Ryan. "We can rally some evidence and show the world about what the people of the town have been doing to you and your folks, and this would set the law straight there."

"That town is no better than Chandler and Leslie, we're not gonna let you and your parents take this battle and just retreat" said Lincoln.

"Because we're gonna help you guys take this war to the front line" said Jordan.

"We'll spread the word and everyone from all around Michigan will now" said Luna.

"You can count on all of us to help you" said Lynn. "You can bet on it, Annie."

Annabelle didn't know what to say or do, but she wipes away her tears of joy. "Thank you, thank you."

Lynn then hugs her and rubs her back. "We got your back, Annabelle. You're not a bad person, you were never a bad person."

Annabelle hugs her back and cries, they all go towards the girl and tell her that everything was gonna be okay, she was not alone and she's got a lot of folks in Royal Woods, to call friends.

To be continued…..

A/N: This just got intense real fast! What happens next, is going to become one epic shout-out for Annabelle to tell the rest of the country about what Denver has done, time to serve some indiscriminate justice! Leave a review and tell me what you all think.

Date made: 1/2/2021.