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A New Family, a New Future-Part 11:
Chloe didn't ask Louisa who she was because she could see whispers and knew that something was up with her new friend. All she did was remain by her side and try to get the whispering to stop. Of course she had no idea what they were whispering about; Louisa hadn't actually been very forthcoming with her information about herself.
It was finally in Drama that something happened.
"My mum and dad are dead and I live with the great Maura Isles!" a girl said mocking Louisa and with that the teenager grabbed her bag and fled from the drama room and hurried to the nearest toilets and went and locked herself in a cubicle and began to cry softly. She couldn't believe that they would take the mickey out of her like that and on the first day.
"Louisa…?" came Chloe's voice as she walked into the toilets, "I know you're in there. I don't know what's happened but I'll stand by you. As soon as you left I told those girls to stop saying stuff about you. I'll sit out here and talk to you." She emphasised that point by sitting down outside the cubicle and let silence fill the room.
Louisa didn't say a word but she sat on the other side of the door and Chloe was trying to think of words that would make Louisa feel better. That was, of course, not easy as she didn't know what was being whispered about or what Louisa was hiding.
"It doesn't matter who you are Louisa. You're the only person who has been a friend to me and I'd like to be your friend if you'd let me," Chloe said before hearing a sigh.
"My name is Louisa Vance. My parents were Brian and Sadie Vance. Both were murdered in gang related crimes. I am the cousin of medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles and now am formally adopted by her and Detective Jane Rozzoli, well Dr. and Detective Rizzoli-Isles," Louisa said, "it's a little confusing I know but basically Jane and Maura have adopted me."
"That's why everyone is whispering about you and pointing," Chloe said, everything suddenly beginning to make sense, "you should have just told me."
"I couldn't, not after what happened at middle school," Louisa sighed, "my so called friends couldn't wait to get rid of me as soon as they found out we were going to different high schools."
"What did they do?" Chloe asked.
"Cut me from the group chat on WhatsApp and all social media," Louisa said, "and then only admitted when Cailin confronted them what they'd done."
"Cailin is Maura's half sister right?" Chloe asked.
"Yes that's right and she's like the big sister I never had," Louisa said, "she's honestly been such an amazing best friend through everything."
Silence fell and Chloe was actually glad that no one had come looking for them as she was sure Louisa would refuse to go back to class but then she had the feeling that the school knew who Louisa was.
"Well I won't ever do that to you because I want to be your friend Louisa. I don't care that you are who you are," Chloe said, "you are a friend and I have already defended you this morning."
Louisa sighed and thought about things before finally unlocking the door and the two girls stood up before Louisa walked out of the cubicle.
"Sorry I didn't tell you who I was. I guess I just wanted to be normal," Louisa said, "well as normal as you can be when you're me," Louisa said laughing slightly, "what's next?"
"Lunchtime so let's just go to the canteen," Chloe said before looking, "have you ever been to a canteen?"
"No I always had a packed lunch. I mean I've eaten in one but not got food from there," Louisa said quickly before Chloe just grabbed her arm and led her to the canteen.
"So get a tray and just follow me," Chloe said and Louisa grabbed a tray and began to follow Chloe around and listened to her friend before she picked out what she wanted and then at the end scanned her student ID card to confirm she had brought something before she followed Chloe over to a table and sat down with her.
"Well that seemed easy enough," Louisa said, "Maura won't be happy when I tell her what I've had to eat. She's a little healthy food conscious and Jane likes the unhealthy…"
"And you're stuck in the middle I'm guessing," Chloe said, "classic. What happened to your hand?"
"Oh Maura surprised me when I was doing breakfast and I burnt my hand on the frying pan when I was trying to cook Jane's breakfast," Louisa said, "Maura forbids me from using the frying plan. She's stricter than Jane but when Jane gets angry she swears in Italian. Maura can understand it and the two are having a conversation in Italian. I just feed Bass when that happens."
"Bass…?"
"Maura's pet tortoise named after the noted forensic anthropologist William M. Bass," Louisa said, "he only eats British strawberries. Jo Friday, Jane's dog however, will eat American food so that's no problem. Angela, Jane's mum, lives in Maura's guesthouse. The family is pretty crazy. Maura's biological mother runs MEND and her biological father is in jail… I'll stop…"
"Your family sounds so complicated," Chloe said.
"That is why I said I'd stop," Louisa said before getting on with her food as she saw the rest of their drama class walked in.
"Don't worry about it," Chloe said, "you've got me and now I now what's going on I can back you up and shut them up. You could always get Jane to arrest them…" she smirked before Louisa burst out laughing. Yes Louisa had a friend, a friend who appeared to be understanding and accepting and hopefully that wouldn't change in the schooldays to come.