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I've had to tweak bits because I've changed the direction of the story a little. I hope you enjoy the next part. I sure enjoyed writing it ^^ xoxo

Chapter Two.

Ella's P.O.V.

I didn't like this one bit, infact I hated it!
This was the usual daily routine, everything simple…get up and showered, dressed, hair and make-up, except I was yet again in a strange place that I had get used to…again.
Fuck this for a laugh I'm sure I couldn't have been that bad in a past life to deserve this?
In the other home the older kids got first priority of the bathrooms, seem like here the younger ones are first. They are taken to school by Jill one of the Resident Counsellor's.
She really just a general busy body who like to poke her nose into where it is not wanted, with no family of her own I'm guessing that she uses us as her daily intake of human contact. She's a lady with a beard, wacky hippie clothes and a PHD in nothing. I actually love her clothes, her beard is growing on me…well it's on her but…gaaaaaaaaahhhh.
I like her ok. I said it. I like a care home dud.

*Care home dud (a.k.a Children's home worker)*

Anyway i was going to be taken to school by Stew…what can I say about him? He is the biggest dickhead you'll ever meet in your entire life, you'll travel 47 times, yes 47 exact times around the world before you find anyone who is slightly a comparative to who much of a dickhead he is. But he's actually in the same boat as me.
We used to be in another Children's home together, it burned down and nobody knows how it happened (which is highly weird) anyway all of the kids got placed/slung/dumped (however you want to put it) in other care home's. I got stuck with Stew! He's the oldest of all of us and next year he'll be finding residency in another home, one of his own, which he is obviously rubbing in my face like crazy!
I'd do anything to get out of this stupid system! ANYTHING!

I've never met my real family but for the last 2 years I have been looking for them, looking for answers to my billion and one questions. All I know so far is that my mother's maiden name is Chester. That's as far as I've reached. I don't even know if I have any brothers or sisters? I don't really know anything. They did however live in Belleville New Jersey (that's where my new children's home is, so I'm getting closer) however nobody by that name has lived here for years.

After getting ready and heading out to the car I tapped impatiently waiting for Stew to get his act together. Finally he jumped in and we started off. Silence the whole way until we pulled up outside my new school. I got out and he threw my calculator at me. It smacked me in the back. Ouch!

"Fuck" i cursed.

"See ya later loser" Stew yelled speeding off.

There was no way in hell I was going to school anyway; I didn't need the stupid calculator. When I could no longer see his car a headed off to see what Belleville had to offer. Or rather what I could find out about my family.
I found the library, Belleville wasn't exactly a big place and after a little while of wondering I found it, all the buildings looked the same…run down and old. If the buildings had faces and minds they would probably mimic my own. I too was tired of the same old day in day out life and constant disappointment it held for me. I flicked through the history section and once again, found a big fat zero.

"Hi there, can I help you?" a kind lady who worked in the library asked.

I smiled at her.
"I'm trying to track my family."

Her kind smile turned into one of sympathy. She sat next to me.

"What do you know so far?" she questioned.

I shrugged.
"My Mother's maiden name is Chester; they live in Belleville…that's it."

"Chester, Chester, Chester…" the lady repeated over and over. "I remember a Chester from high school, Linda Chester." She smiled at me turning the pages of a new ream of documents she'd dug out.

"Here!" She exclaimed making me jump.

I looked at her and then down at the paper, I wasn't expecting to find anything, and two years had turned up nothing so I didn't really have much hope.
She pointed to where she was reading sliding her finger along the page as she read.

"Doesn't say much, I'm afraid love"

I smiled at her.

"It's ok, thank you for helping me." She welcomed me back to the library any time and continued with whatever it was she was doing beforehand.

I got up and cleared away what I'd been foraging through. All I could think of was the address I had seen, I knew I was a 'homebirth baby', I had probably been born in that house!
80 Salter Pl, Belleville, NJ 07109, USA.

I stopped short of my walking into oncoming traffic slowly realising that I was heading towards that address. I picked up a small map of Belleville from the library on the way out and had only glanced down at it a few times. My legs seemed to know where they were going. Either that or I was defiantly lost and couldn't figure out how to get to this place. I found a nice looking park and sat down for a moment of silence, to collect my thoughts.
Maybe this was too soon and I was expecting too much. I knew they wouldn't be there anyway.
No-body had lived there by the name of Chester for years.
Ella Chester…Ella Addams.
My name sounded weird whichever way you put it neither of them were my true name. I just took the surname of the first family I stayed with but even that was short lived.
I began to draw again, whenever I got scared or nervous or any emotion at all really I drew.
A few minutes later I looked up to find a kid with bright hair standing over me. He wore a plain black pullover hoodie and some ripped grey jeans and converse. His hair was the brightest red imaginable, with black roots, but short and shaggy. I looked up at him, not really making out any real features of his face, my eyes were watering from the sunlight and all I could see when I looked down were green and purple blotches. My eyes took a second to adjust.

"Hi, I'm Gerard" the kid smiled. I shook his hand nervously. Nobody had ever introduced themselves to me before. Normally they'd stay well away.

"Ella" I smiled back, blushing.

"Do you mind if I sit?" he nodded his head towards me.

I was in two minds:
1. Get up and run like hell….or 2. Move and let him sit with me.

I chose two, we both sat there for a moment not saying anything. I noticed him trying to sneak a peek at my sketching. Not for you to see I thought. I shut my pad giggling at my own thoughts.

"Sorry I'm a bit protective over it" I told him, I sounded like a dick and I realised it as soon as I'd said it. He didn't seem to mind though, infact he was more than understanding.

"It's ok I know what you mean, I draw too" he mused.

An awkward silence….

"Maybe we can show eachother sometime?" I choked out, blushing furiously. Wow this Gerard guy had some 'brilliant' way of making me feel like an idiot.

He handed me a bottle, I looked at him confused for a second and then read the label. Ahh…

"We'll share this for now" I smiled at him sweetly, thankful for the drink.

"How come you're missing your first day?" he questioned.

"Let's just say that school and me don't get along, I'm not thick or anything….it's just the people. I'm the girl no-one knows exists" I smiled at him again knowing how pathetic this sounded. I wiped my mouth, swallowing.

"I would notice you" he grinned.

"That's probably the liquor talking" I assured him giving him a nudge and handing back the bottle. He started drinking too.

"So" he said after a few moments. "What brings you to Jersey?"

I bit my lip unsure of what to tell him.

"My Mom got a new job" I stuttered out quickly. "So we had to move" I added.

He nodded.

"Cool, so what does she do?"

He passed me back the bottle and I sipped it hoping it'd buy me some time to think of something interesting or normal to say.

"She's a vet" I smiled. I lied so convincingly i could have won Oscars.

He nodded again.

"Maybe I'll meet her sometime?" he smiled.

"Yeah maybe" I laughed uneasily. "What about your family?" I asked trying to avert the attention from my newly thought up family.

"My Mom and Dad are divorced"…he stared out into the park, far beyond the playground into the street on the other side.

I nodded.
"Sorry to hear that"

He snapped out of his far away staring and faced me crossing his legs and pulling at the loose strands on his jeans.

"It happened a long time ago, I live with my Mom but I see my Dad all the time" he smiled.

His phone blared out Maiden and I smiled at him as he answered it.

"Hey lover" he answered.

All the good ones are taken I thought to myself sighing.

"Nah, I'm just down at the park" he continued with a few more yeah's and no's.

After listening intently to what his girlfriend was saying he laughed and turned back to me.

"Do you mind if my friends come down?" he smiled holding his free hand over the speaker.

I shook my head.

"Great" he smiled.

"Come down, I want you all to meet someone" Gerard cut off the phone without saying bye.

"Who's coming?" I asked, now as nervous as hell.

"Just some friends of mine, that was Frankie. My brother Mikey and our other friend Ray are coming." He coughed covering his mouth with a sideways fist and ran his other hand through his hair.

"What are they like?"

"They are…interesting" he smiled.

Before we could talk anymore three guys came running up to us.

"Fuck!" one of them cursed.

"Guess the coffees are on you Frankie boy!" the tall one with really bouncy, curly hair laughed.

So Frankie is a boy…Gerard's gay? I looked between them.

"Hi" the one called Frankie waved.

Fuck he noticed!

"H…hi" I stuttered out. Damn it! If I were having an outer body experience right now, I'd kick my own ass.

"Why are you looking at us weird?" Gerard smiled.

I shook my head and smiled.

"Nothing"

"Ahh, she thinks we're gay" Gerard laughed at Frankie.

"Nah honey, I'm not that way inclined" Frankie laughed sitting down and putting his arm around my shoulders.

"It's just you answered the phone 'Hey lover', I was expecting 'Frankie' to be a girl" I blushed.

The guys were all finding this highly amusing, much to my complete embarrassment.

"You'll get used to that" the guy with glasses chuckled pretending to be sick. "You got it easy" he continued, "that's my brother." He pointed to Gerard.

He must be Mikey. I smiled at him as he continued to 'be sick.'

"I'm hurt" Frankie cried mockingly. He looked like a heartbroken puppy.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" I laughed hugging him back. He cheered up and introduced himself.

In turn so did the rest of them. Ray was the tall, fuzzy haired one and as I had correctly guessed the guy with glasses was Gerard's brother Mikey.
They all came and sat down surrounding me.

"So Ella, you got a boyfriend?" Frank asked, stealing a gulp of Gerard's liquor.

Gerard shot mock daggers at him and laughed as he passed it round.

I shook my head and giggled to myself at their little charade.

"Nope…what about you guys?" I asked them all; I thought it would be weird to just ask Frank. I'd just met the guy I wasn't hitting on anyone!

They all shook their heads.

"What was your last boyfriend like?" Gerard questioned.

I laughed again.

"What just curious" he defended holding his hands up and then reaching for the bottle.

"I've never had a boyfriend" I smiled. Their reactions said it all.

They sat the just staring at me like I had told them in a different language and were waiting for me to translate. Gerard put the bottle to his lips, pulled it away without taking any, thinking for a second and then drinking some.

"What? Never…?" Ray blurted out.

"Why are you so shocked?" I chuckled really it was more of a rhetorical question than anything.
"I've never been in one place long enough to have one" I smiled and then dropped my smile quick time as I had just remembered about my fake family I'd made up to Gerard.

"My Mom and Dad…they get bored if they stay one place for too long." I smiled sweetly again.

I think Gerard bought it?

I told the rest of the guys about me, the things I like to do, the music I loved. The pets I'd had, (they all paid attention more than they would have in school) and in return they told me about themselves.

My phone rang, it was Jill.

"Oh crap" I stood up and answered in my sweetest voice possible. The guys stared at me knowing that I was in trouble with 'my mom.'

"Hi Ella, do you mind telling me why I had a phone call from the school Principle asking why you were not in school?" she said it so calmly but sarcastic, I could tell she was mad.

"I'm sorry" I whined. I walked away from my new friends out of ears reach.

"Where the hell have you been all day young lady" she couldn't hide that she was mad now.

I sighed and began my story of going to the library and looking for some answers. I also told her about meeting my new friends.

"I told you Ella, as much as you want to find them. They haven't given us any contact information…nothing. I know it's hard to think about Ells, but they don't want to be found." Her voice was now soft and caring. Jill would make an excellent Mother.

I sniffled and wiped a tear that had come out of nowhere.

"I'm glad you made friends" Jill commented trying to lighten the mood. "We'll talk about this when you get home ok? See you soon."

"Ok" I smiled wiping another tear.

I made my way back to my friends after composing myself.

"Your Mom's pissed, huh?" Mikey asked.

I smiled, 'my Mom' wasn't.

Gerard pulled me into a hug. "It'll be ok" he smiled.

I looked at him nodding. "Thank you" I smiled.

"I need to go back to school; she's coming to pick me up."

The guys grabbed their bags and stood up.

"What are you doing" I laughed.

"Coming with you" Frankie smiled.

I smiled back at him. "Thanks guys but I think I better do this alone, she's madder than mad."

Frank nodded but looked unsure.

"I'll be fine" I laughed hugging him. "She won't literally kill me."

His eyes grew wider.

"Joke" I smiled.

"Ok then" Gerard said, "but take our numbers and call us if things get bad." I handed him my phone and he put his number in and passed it to Mikey who did the same, then Ray and finally Frank, whilst I tapped my number into their phones also.

"Thanks" I smiled giving them all a hug before heading off back to school. Whilst I was walking I received a text.
It was from…'.' I laughed at what he had put as his contact name and read the text.

Frank: Still alive honey?

I laughed more and tapped a message back.