Disclaimer: I own the snot in my nose.
The story's era might not match up quite well, but just go with it. PLEASE!
I did the math and this story if you want to get technical takes place five years after so the year would be 2008. I'm going to push the movie setting back and say they got together in the fourth grade.
If you don't like it...tough!
As soon as those three fatal words slipped out his mouth, everyone went into a frenzy of questions.
"Are you okay?"
"What happened?"
"Who did this to you?"
"Where did you find her?"
"How long were you out there?"
"How bad are you hurt?"
"Do you need to go to the hospital?"
"Hold it! Alicia has had enough of people bulling her now back off!" Marta yelled waving her hands silencing the boys.
"Well damn, Marta you go flying out the door with a bat in your hands and come back with one of our lead singers looking like shit. Now if that doesn't raise eyebrows I don't know what does, so you had better start answering...I mean now!" Freddy ordered face red and fist clenched.
Alicia felt like she had been hit by a truck and the living room's fluorescent lights weren't making it any better. Her legs acted as if they could no longer support her weight, she fainted and collapsed. Marta being at her side caught her first and handed her over to Gordon who laid her on the couch. Freddy dimmed the lights, Leonard went to the sink to wet some paper towels, Marta grabbed the first aid kit, Lawrence and Zack locked all the doors/windows, while everyone else cleared the mess. Soon the kitchen and family room looked immaculate and the boys waited for Alicia to wake up as Marta dabbed the paper towels on her forehead.
"Blondie what the hell?" Zack asked.
"Well when I left the house I went for a quick run in the park. I must have been going really fast cause they didn't see me...they were all dressed in purple. She looked terrified, two...I think they were boys had her pinned to the ground while three girls were calling her all types of horrible names. I thought they were going to kill her so I thought fast."
"What exactly is thinking fast?"
"I jumped out of the bushes and told them the cops were on the way. They thought I was buffing so I turned on the ringer that sounds like a siren and they ran like some bitches," Marta finished with a smile but Freddy scowled.
"What if they called you bluff? Marta how could you have been so stupid those assholes could have killed you!" Freddy scolded his twin.
"I didn't know cared," Marta mocked sarcastically.
"Your brother's right you were reckless and put your life along with Alicia's in jeopardy!" Lawrence agreed.
"You agree huh? What if I had waited...she would have gotten killed!"
"You could have called us!" Zack defended.
"The house is almost a mile away from the park...you know as well as I do you wouldn't have gotten there fast enough! I did what I had to do to protect my friend. You'd do the same..."
"Marta's right, besides what's done is done the real threat is gone. All we can do is wait...those idiots aren't coming back," Gordon spoke breaking the tension in the room. He was sitting on the edge of the couch holding her hand.
"Don't hold you breath, the leader threaten her before he ran. Apparently, we go to the same school, and according to him it's going to be a long year for her," Marta whispered.
"Why would they after her? Alicia is kinda ruff around the edges but she doesn't do anything to deserve this," Freddy thought aloud.
"Ex-boyfriend maybe," Zack pointed out.
"Non that were mad enough to take it to this level." Gordon dismissed.
"What about that boy Shane, in the seventh grade?" Lawrence reminisced.
"Oh yeah, the one she pushed in the pool because he tried to kissed her."
"I heard he dropped out." Freddy said.
"Be real Fred we were in the seventh grade...no one drops out."
"He was fifteen," Leonard recognized.
"Damn, home boy was stupid," Zack laughed.
"That was in the seventh grade, who holds a grudge for two years!" Lawrence asked.
"Well, my Aunt Asana held this grudge against my mother for ten years because her boyfriend wrote this song for my mom 'Jennifer' you know '867-5309' and it was a hit." Gordon said out of nowhere.
"That was your mom?" Gordon nodded.
"Turns out she broke up with him. He calls her out of the blue ten years later and confesses the song wasn't for my mom it was for his neighbor's daughter and now wife. Moral to the story is grudges can last forever if your heart lets it." Gordon spoke wisely.
"Lying sack a shit, Gordon your mom's name is Rachel, he wrote the song for some hottie on his block named Jennifer, he wrote the song when he was twenty something your mom had to be sixteen...can you say statutory rape, and besides your moms a prude like ours...who hates rock." Zack cut in.
(A.N: Not sure, if what Zack said to Gordon is true don't flame me.)
"Just testing you...gosh," Gordon smirked.
"It was racially motivated," Marta whispered.
"How do you figure?" Lawrence accused with clenched fist.
"They kept calling her a...um...well I don't fell comfortable repeating. I know for sure it had something to do with her skin color," Marta said.
"Why would they go after her there are plenty of blacks that go to Horace Green? Why not Tomika, Gordon, or myself?" Marta shuddered at Leonard's outburst.
"Well were about to find out," Gordon commented as subject in questioned stirred out of her fainting spell...
Summer squirmed silently in the limo next to her siblings as they conversed loudly. Technically, they weren't her brothers and sisters, how can two people that hate each other have twelve kids. Summer related to them expect for her fifteen-year-old brother Tai and her eleven-year-old sister Shay. The three sat in the limo immobile contrasting the commotion. As the limo came to a final stop, the nonsense in the limo ended and the action of the other children mirrored Shay, Tai, and Summer. The door opened and one by one, each child filed out.
'I feel like the fucking Bakers Dozen,' Summer thought to herself and Tai smiled/nudged her who had been thinking the same thing.
"Shay you ready," Tai whispered squeezing her hand.
"Yeah...um it's just...this is our first appearance since mom came out. This isn't even our family," Shay whined.
"I know what you mean but at least dad and Gram Ti will be here," Summer said coldly.
"He'll be too wrapped up in his fiancée 'Nicole' and their nine little demons," Tai fumed.
"We have each other and that's all that matters."
The twelve walked up the concrete steps to where reporters swarmed them. Flashing lights blinded them as they continued through the main doors. Then were assaulted by numerous bodyguards who led them up a grand staircase past more reporters into a ballroom. The children were seated at head table in the room next to the Senator Jonathan Hathaway, Grandmother Tia, and Nicole.
"I wonder if she's nice...I mean Nicole." Shay asked Tai.
"She has nine demons by six different men if that's not a gold digger then I don't know what is," Tai spat looking down the table at Casey, who smiled waved and clutched his father's hand.
"Find a new synonym...besides demons...Taiwan," an elderly voice broke in from behind them.
"Gram Ti!" The three children said excitedly in unison.
"It's so good to see some familiar faces...it has be too long. Your father misses you," Gram Ti mused hugging each one of the children.
"Sure he does," Shay said sarcastically. "He could have at least called, when the news about mom go out."
"Well he was hurt too." Gram Ti persuaded.
"He wasn't hurt...he knew about it! He knew everything and then stopped speaking to us when their dirty laundry hit the fan! We had to find out via tabloids, Oprah, and Good Morning America...when our classmates defiled us dad wasn't there he practically disowned us! At this point he's dead to me," Summer yelled through tears running out the ballroom to the foyer.
"Summer," both Tai and Shay, yelled running after her with Gram Ti Jonathan and Nicole quick on their heels.
"Summer stop this instant," the sturdy voice of Jonathan Hathaway commanded the catatonic girl.
"You are not my father," Summer seethed gaining the attention of the reporters.
"You are embarrassing your family, stop this non sense immediately."
"She's hurt John...let her be," Gram Ti spoke wisely.
"Stay out of this mother I know how to handle my daughter!" Jonathan boomed.
"Your daughter? You lost your daughter and your family a long time ago! You left us when you decided to marry that tramp!"
"Summer...please," Shay, pleaded as tears slipped down her face.
"Control your daughter," Nicole said spitefully.
"I'm calling mom!" Summer cried out as she turned toward the elevator.
"You are my daughter and you will listen to me!" Jonathan snarled grabbing her shoulders.
"Don't you touch her," Ta screamed as one of the bodyguards held him back.
"You lost the privilege to be my father when you abandoned us! You ran and hid with you new family while we had suffer the press alone! Do you know what it feels like to camp the day out in the principal office because the psycho journalists won't leave you alone? Huh? We had to find out from Good Morning America that our mom was a lesbian-"
SLAP!
Summer's head almost did a 360 degree as the slap almost took her head off. Photographer's and news cameras caught the entire ordeal, as Shay and Tai pulled Summer away from their father. Gram Ti shot her son a disappointed glare and quickly ushered the children to the private elevator. As soon as the doors closed, voices of argument filled the air.
"God Summer, why didn't you stop?" Shay bellowed.
"I was only doing what was right and it's not like you felt the same, you practically worship the ground he walks on." Summer argued holding her face.
"That's not true!"
"Yes it is! When dad disowned us on television you still acted like everything was fine and dandy! I bet you want to be apart of the 'Brady Bunch' down there," Tai attacked Shay.
"You don't know how I felt...she use to be my nanny...my nanny! She bathed me, dressed me, she was my surrogate mother. I didn't know what a lesbian was...but all I knew was something was going on. The letters, the candy, and the nightly visits mom took into her room...I'm not stupid. I was the one wondering why mom used me as an excuse to 'hang out' with her. I'd rather praise dad than Jackie; the women who went from my nanny to my mother's bedmate!" Shay lecture silencing her siblings.
"Children I know you're hurting, both of your parents aren't making this any better. Deep down I know your parents love you very much, they just made some selfish decisions. It's sad you have to pay the price. If you want you can stay at my house until this blows over, what do you say?" Gram Ti offered.
"Yeah," Shay boasted.
"Okay," Tai agreed.
"No," Summer injected.
"Why, not," Shay whined.
"We have to face the music at some point, if we stay at her house now we'll never go home," Summer rationalized.
"Your right I call mom," Tai said defeated pulling out his cell phone...
'Monday...I like Monday,' Katie thought coyly.
Katie was sprawled motionless on her bed waiting for the alarm clock to go off. She had been awake for two hours, crying and staring blanking at the ceiling. To the outside world, Katie could appear to be a strung out junkie deeply in need of their next fix. In reality, all Katie needed was her mother.
She wiped her face and glanced at her Mickey Mouse clock, 4:45 a.m. She sighed and buried herself deeper under her covers; the alarm wouldn't go off for about three hours. She couldn't sleep as the rain pounded against the roof, wind screeched, and thunder clapped the sky.
"Ahhh," Katie screamed and let out another heart-wrenching cry as a loud wave of thunder sounded.
"Mommy, where are you," Katie whispered.
No sooner had those words escaped her lips, she heard jangling keys footsteps and laughter fill the house. Katie grinned and raced for the front door but her face dropped at what she saw. Her 'mother' and one of her 'associates' mauling each other at the front door. Katie's heart stopped as her drunken mother turned to her. She stumbled up to Katie pressing her lips against Katie's cheek. Katie pushed her away as the alcohol traveled through her nostrils.
"Haga no usted sabe cómo saludar a su madre?"
(Don't you know how to greet your mother?)
"Su bebido," Katie whispered.
(Your drunk)
"La ramera de Ungreatful. ..be contento yo estoy aquí. ¡Debo haber estado como su padre! Ahora a causa de usted yo tengo que trabajar dos trabajos para sostener su asno. ¡Tengo una vida también y su arruinarlo!" Her mother snarled in Spanish.
(Ungreatful bitch...be glad I'm here. I should have been like your father! Now because of you I have to work two jobs to support your ass. I have a life too and you're ruining it!)
"Who is this babe?" A tall, chunky middle-aged man asked her. Katie studied him, he had blond hair, blue eyes, pale skin that contrasted Katie's and her mother, he was wearing a three-piece suit, and a wedding ban.
'Loser,' Katie scoffed.
"You remember the little 'mistake by the lake' I was talking about? Carter this is my curse Sadie," her mother slurred.
"My name is Katie."
"Well Maria you never told me your daughter was...lovely. She looks just like you...cute face...curves and all," Carter said lustfully as his hand snaked up her arm.
Katie immediately feeling uncomfortable pulled herself away from him and ran back to her room.
"Nice shorts!" Carter yelled after her before turning his attention back to Maria.
Katie slammed her door and locked it as the sound of their shameless sex filled the air. She dived into the bed, cried and held herself. She couldn't breathe, as the sound got louder and closer. Katie made a grab for the Bible.
"La beca de dios mí la serenidad para aceptar las cosas que yo no puedo cambiar, el valor para cambiar la cosa yo puedo y el wisdon para saber la diferencia. Amén"
(God, grant the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Amen)
Katie squeeze her eyes shut as she hoped for the best but planed for the worst. She shoved her face into the pillow and screamed, trying to drown out the sound of their lovemaking.
Maria Brown was a broken and disturbed woman trying to make a life for her and her daughter. Those who have known her, know her past and pity her. Once a happily married woman to Victor Davis Brown her life was all set...until Evan Mooneyham. He was her husband's rich financial advisor, who took great interest in Maria. He began showering her with lavish presents and dinners. Soon her husband began to get suspicious when she refused to sleep with him and followed them one night on their escapades. Catching them in the act, he stormed out. A week after he kicked her out and drew up divorce papers.
Three weeks after that she found out, she was pregnant and ran to Evan for help. He was worried she would taint his rep. so he distanced himself from her until Katie was born. They agreed to give her the ex's last name, to throw people off. Evan made sure Katie was well acquainted with his family. Maria began to get jealous that Evan treated Katie better than her so she blackmailed him saying she would go public and he panicked. So one morning Evan left and all his family had to say about it was leave Katie with them. Maria refused and told Terri, Zack's father if they wanted to see her...there was a price. They were the reason the Brown's were doing so well for all those years. Until a year ago, when they stopped paying funds got tight and tensions mounted. Life at the Browns house won't last if things don't turn around quick for them.
'I hate it when she's drunk,' Katie whispered one last time before sleep took her...
"Michelle telephone...it's Tomika," her mother said handing her the cordless phone.
Michelle who was sitting at the breakfast table raised an eyebrow at the phone then shrugged and put it to her ear.
M: Hello?
T: Listen Freddy and Zack have been calling everyone all morning have you seen the news? (She yelled.)
M: No... Mia...what happened?
T: Turn on the television.
Michelle picked up the remote and switched to the news. Within ten seconds, her mouth dropped and she gasped.
T: I know...Zack is calling an emergency meeting at lunch to prepare.
M: Did anybody talk to Dewey or Ned?
T: Yeah their already at the school with Mrs. Finn-Mullins.
M: What about Summer?
T: Ned gave her, Shay and Tai a ride to school.
M: Do you think this will affect the record deal?
T: Not much...I mean we all signed the contracts.
M: Wow, this is going to be a long day.
T: Put on your game face, and show no mercy.
M: Right, see you at school.
Michelle quickly ate her last bit of food, while her mother instructed the temporary house cleaner, Maria what needed to be done while they were gone. Her mother went to find her keys while Maria began to clear off the table. She stopped and turned to Eleni and stared.
"You go to school with my daughter," Maria stated in her semi thick accent. Michelle stifled a laugh and smirked.
"Oh really, and what her name?"
"Katie...Katie Brown."
"What?" Michelle whispered disbelieving.
"She's in a how do say...a band," Maria said before going to the sink.
"Michelle let's go," Mother said pulling her away from Maria.
Michelle sat the car stunned as her mind raced with possible excuses to why the maid said that.
'Calm down Shelly, the maid said her daughter went to your school... possibility. She could be on scholarship, yeah that's it. That still doesn't explain the name, but there are like twenty some odd girls at school with Katie's name. The band thing could be that...'Katie' is in a band per say but it doesn't have to be ours. It could be a Jazz band, or a country band, rap band, any kind of genre...just not ours," Michelle thought to herself.
"Have you seen the paper?" Michelle's mom asked shaking her out of her thoughts.
"No."
"On the back seat if you want to read it."
"Okay," Michelle whispered turning on the radio.
'Saturday night, Senator Jonathan Hathaway got into a vicious brawl with a daughter, who was there attending a banquet welcoming Nicole Peterson, the Senator's new fiancée. The daughter in question is the product of his first marriage to scientist/animal and human rights activist Annette Hawthorne. Although not many details have surfaced about the incident, two of the other children were present and dragged to daughter to the elevator. Later on today, Senator Hathaway will give a public statement dealing with the matter. This Linda Smart from News Now on 97.3."
"You ready," Her mother asked as they pulled in front of Horace Green, which resembled a war zone.
There were press, police, angry parents, and eager bystanders scattered across the school lawn.
"Yes mother, it's now or never," Michelle said bravely stepping out the car and onto school property.
Michelle walked casually past the chaos as if this happened everyday and went inside the school. On the inside the school looked normal students standing around chatting waiting for the bell to ring, the school announcements were in progress, Mrs. Finn-Mullins scolding two of the students about P.D.A, and Summer by her locker talking to Katie.
'Wait,' Michelle shouted in her mind, and then ran over to the pair.
'Act normal,' Michelle told herself.
"What happened?" She shouts at the pair.
'Congrats genius that was the epitome of normal!' Michelle mentally scolded herself.
"Read the paper; see the news this morning by any chance?" Michelle nodded.
"There you go," Summer said casually.
"Okay...well Katie are you okay?"
"Why?" She asked feverously.
"You look tired," Summer interjected.
"Funny story I was talking to the maid this morning and she mentioned you," Katie fidgeted.
"Why, would she do that," Summer asked.
"She said...well...I'm not sure how to say this but...Katie she said that you were her-"
"Well...well...well if it isn't the whores of rock, I mean the school of rock," the voice of Misty Shaw intercepted a pissed off Michelle. Katie on the other hand had never been so glad to see her.
"Summer how was your weekend," Misty mocked silencing the hallway.
"Sum, lets just go," Katie pleaded.
"Fuck you, Misty!" Summer screamed.
"Like mother like daughter," Misty teased.
Summer couldn't take it her blood boiled and all her anger was escalating. The detestation she felt for her family, the press, even Misty was about to blow. Everyone must have felt her rage because they all began to back up, then in one quick motion Summer did a warlike cry and charged at Misty head on...
That was my favorite chapter do so far! I would have written more but that would have given too much away. Sorry, about the grammatical errors I corrected what I could. I have to at least start the next chapter for Life before I do the next chapter for The Young and the Hopeless. Thanks a Bunch.
-Spiggi