Huey made one mistake...
He was sent away after one freak out.
What's wrong with wanting things a certain way? What's wrong with getting use to perfection?
Emmett, (who seems to live only to make his life miserable) Took his jwg and he threw it out the window. The book wasn't in its best shape, but the pages were luckily still readable. Huey however was angry and couldn't take it any more. Long story short, he was locked in the closet for two hours.
Later that week his caseworker showed up and told him to pack because they were leaving. Didn't say where, didn't say why. He just showed up and they left.
Huey hated the unanswered questions, his new caseworker wasn't the type to tell kids anything, whenever he asked, he just said it was "All for the best," and that he "just wouldn't understand."
The only thing he knew was he wasn't going to live with that woman anymore...
So at least it's over,
At least he hopped it was over.
Unless this family is a lot worse...
How much worse can it possibly get?
They drove to what looked like a desert, there was a small house in the middle of nowhere with a large fenced in yard and what appears to be a lot of kids. Maybe ten?
"Mrs florstine, this is Huey,"His caseworker said.
"Hello Huey, I'm Mandy Florstine and this is my husband Todd,"She greeted, "welcome to our happy home.
Huey found out very soon that this was not a happy home. It was a house in the middle of the desert surrounded by other kids who were only there so the "parents" could get paid.
They weren't allowed in the house until dinner, they stayed outside and drank from the garden hose when they were thirsty. They didn't eat lunch. Only a little bit of cereal without milk for breakfast and whatever they were serving for dinner.
The rules were odd but nothing too hard to follow. When outside Boys stayed on one side of the yard, and girls on the other. They weren't allowed to be near the opposite gender unsupervised. Which in some cases, this sucked. Especially for a girl named Mary Grace who had a younger brother named Jackie who was living there with her, after many years of separation. She worried about him a lot and took the blame for a lot of things Jackie did. (Broken dishes, stealing food exc.) One time for example, Jackie ran to Mary to show her a rock he found outside, when Mrs florstine found out, mary told them that she called him over and took the punishment for Jackie. Which resulted in her running laps around the yard until she twisted her ankle and then she was forced to do wall sits for an hour for complaining about it.
From then on Huey decided to watch over Jackie during the day, that included making sure he doesn't try to go near Mary.
He was very hard to handle, (lots of kicking and screaming and arguing) but every time Huey thought of giving up and just letting him do whatever he wanted...he thought of Mary and the way she was hurt. He never wanted to see her (or anyone else) like that again.
One day...
It was one of the worst days Huey could remember from that house, most of the memories were just bits and pieces, random flashes, but this one he remembered vividly.
The night before Jackie lied, but Huey wasn't sure what about. it's completely possible that he didn't lie at all and Mandy was just an awful person. (Which is something that has been proven true several times) anyway, whatever happened. Jackie was given a spoonful of hot sause and sent to bed without any water or any other food.
Jackie and Huey shared a bunk bed (the boys room was in the garage, there were six boys living there and there was no air conditioning, so the summer Huey spent there was hell.)
Jackie insisted on taking the bottom bunk for some reason, Huey didn't mind but secretly wondered why since most kids want the top. That night he found out exactly why...
"Mary!"He heard a excited whisper.
"Shh, take this and eat quietly,"He heard Mary say harshly, She said something else but it didn't really come through...
"But I didn't lie,"He said before Mary shushed him again.
She said something else but again, Huey couldn't hear it. He assumed she left after that, but he knew this wouldn't be the end. Mandy would find out soon enough that there was food missing, and huey didn't want Mary in trouble. But What could he do?
The next day everyone was outside like normal until he heard Mandy yell.
"Everyone get in here right now!"
All the kids ran inside, everyone was scared, especially Mary, she was in trouble yesterday, if this continues, who knows what Mandy will do to her.
"Which one of you brats stole food from me yesterday?"She asked.
Nobody answered, Huey looked to Mandy who looked visibly angry but she was also shaking.
"If nobody dresses up quick,"She says, "you're all running laps!"She yelled.
Huey waited...but Mary didn't say anything. She was really willing to get everyone in trouble like that?
Huey has no other choice, he didn't want to see everyone punished unnecessarily, so he stepped forward, "I did it,"He said.
"Since you've had your fill to eat,"She says, "you will have nothing else to eat for the rest of the day."
Mary looked at Huey confused but Huey looked away from her, he couldn't stand to look at her right now...