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Chapter 4

After the Hot dog Incident… as we like to call it, it was pretty much a normal day for us, getting yelled at by random people, earning money; a lot more than usual, and just having fun. At the end of the day we were all walking home, and we had earnt a total of $27.75.

"Man, uncle 'L' is gonna freak, he'll think we robbed some old lady" Danny said laughing.

"Nah, I don't think so, just as so we have the money and no cops on our trail, it'll be right." Mo said red from laughter.

"Well we could have been sittin' in a jail cell right now 'cause of mister 'Pink and Purple Bra-Man'" Shauny said making us all giggle hard out .Even I laughed.

"He, he Felix you're laughing so hard you're crying!" Anna said lifting up the flap that leads us into the theatre, back stage.

We went through a door, that lead out to the side of the stage, and down the steps to where "Uncle L" was sitting.

Mo went up to him and put the bag of money next to him on the stage.

"$27.75" Mo said, still trying to catch his breath from the fits of laughter we were having walking home.

"Good job, bandits. Hey could you take this one up to your room, he's new" "Uncle L" said, gesturing to a boy with blonde hair and bright blue eyes that was sitting on a seat with his legs tucked up to his chest.

I was guessing he was about mine and Connor's age, so we went up to him.

"The name's Connor, and this dude next to me is my twin, Travis" Conner said

"But of course I'm older" I said snickering from Connor's glare.

"I'm Will" the kid said softly, flinching when I stuck my hand out to shake.

Before I could say 'you're supposed to shake the hand when people do that', Mo came up behind us, causing Will to flinch again.

"Come on kiddo, let's get you some ice" he said nodding his head towards the kitchen.

Will nodded and it was the first time I noticed that will had a black eye, and loads of deep black and purple bruises and cuts all over his face.

As Will shuffled after Mo, we lingered a bit behind before slowly following.

"Dude, what ya think happened to him, he looks pretty beaten up" Conner whispered as we strolled down the aisle of chairs.

"I dunno, maybe he got beaten up?" I whispered back before going through the kitchen door.

Will already had an ice pack on his face, but Mo was still rummaging through the freezer and took out a back of frozen veggies.

"Here put this on your leg" Mo said giving the bag of frozen veggies to Will. Will just nodded and took one had off the ice pack on his face, took the pack of frozen veggies and put it on the lower half of his left leg. If looked more closely you would have noticed the blood stains.

"Hey Mo?" I asked. Mo looked up from where he was cutting a piece of cloth and walked around the table to us.

"Yeah Travis?" Mo said leaning on the table.

"Did you notice the blood stain on his pants" I asked, looking over Mo's shoulder to be Will was sitting with his eyes closed.

"Yeah… but I've checked and its old blood. But there is a scar there, a recent one at the look of it" Mo said getting off the table and grabbing the piece of cloth he cut up.

Mo gently took the 2 ice packs, and swapped then around, so the actual ice pack was on Will's leg. Mo Positioned the ice pack then tied it on firmly to wills leg so it wouldn't fall off.

"Just keep those on for a few hours. But why don't ya come up to the room so you can relax, and meet the rest of your roommates" Mo asked.

Will nodded and started to get up. I walked over and smiled and helped will the rest of the way to the room.

No one was in the room when we went in. Will literally flopped onto the couch and sighed. Connor and I took the mattress that was leaning against the wall and flopped it down onto the floor next to the couch Will was on.

"So Will, where you from?" I asked throwing a small bouncy ball up in the air, and catching it again.

"I'm from Texas; I came up here with my little sister, Alyssa, and my best friend Malcolm." Will said, sniffling.

"Where are your sister and your friend then? I didn't see anyone else with you when "Uncle L" told us about you" Connor said, looking up at Will.

"My sister is with one of the older girls, and Malcolm… well, Malcolm went missing. We camped out in an alleyway when we arrived here in New York. We woke up and Malcolm was missing. We tried looking for him, but as you could see it kinda impossible here in New York" Will said, looking down and rearranging the ice pack on his leg so it was more comfortable.

"Don't worry Will; I'm sure Malcolm would pop up one time or another. If not then I'm sure someone would of picked him up, and gave him a place to live in" I said comfortably as the rest of our roomies came in.

And came in with food might I add. Connor literally jumped up and grabbed a sausage from the plate Mo had and plonked down again.

"Pig" Brooke said chuckling. ""Uncle L" cooked us a nice dinner for the ultra-good work we did today" Bobbi said, sitting down next to me with two plates full of fruit pieces, sausages, wedges and ketchup.

I took one of the plates and ate a wedge. I looked up to see Will eating next to Danny and Felix, who was swooning over his food.

"Oh beautiful food, lovely, gorgeous food" Felix muttered taking a small bite of pear, as if to savour it.

"Oh shut up Felix" Mo said hitting Felix on the back of his head.

We all snickered. We finished eating and got ready to bed. Once we sorted out the bedding arrangements, we went to bed. I snuggled myself into a ball and fell asleep with a smile on my face.