Blood Bond With Love 10
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Serena moved around the punching bag. Delivering punches over and over. She would eventually kick and make the bag swing from side to side. She felt her hot face fill with sweat and her gym clothes getting warmer and tighter by the second. A tall dark brown haired man stood by the door, leaning into the edge. Watching as the blonde deliver random kicks.
"Aren't you going to stop her before she hurts herself?" Asked a voice from behind him.
"She won't let me," He told him.
"Pacey she's seriously going to hurt herself"
"Look at her Tank, she has her entire focus on that bag. I think she's imagining that bag holds all her problems"
"If you don't stop her I will" He concluded and walked closer.
Just as he approached Serena delivered her most powerful kick yet. Making Tank stop and watch her. She hadn't even seen him closing in. He swallowed, rethinking how much he valued his life. He sighed and turned around, he lowered his head in shame and came to stand beside Pacey. He wasn't so much afraid of the girl's punches as he was of her anger. He watched as Pacey gave him a very comical smile.
"Mr. Caring seems to have chickened out at the sight of a tough girl." He teased.
"Shut Up Pacey"
"Tsk, tsk, if you do that every time a girl gives random punches like that how do you expect to run a gym and get a chick eh Tank?"
"Well I don't see *you* trying to do anything" Tank implied.
Pacey chuckled, that dry sarcastic chuckle he could do so well and usually meant 'I know something you don't'. Both men turned their attention back to the blonde.
" I know better than to Tank, I know better than to"
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"I see you were trying to punch that bag into bits there" Said Pacey as he sat beside Serena on a bench, a towel wrapped around her neck.
"Please Pacey I really don't want to talk about it"
"Serena this isn't getting any better"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean your keeping all your anger and frustration bottled up inside you. You can't keep hitting the bag like that hon. you're just gonna get hurt sooner or later"
Serena sighed.
"Mina knows Airine Tokatura"
"Airine who?"
"Airine Tokatura, she works for aunt Niobe"
"OH. and that means?"
"If she recognizes me, she'll tell Mina something and then that something will become everything"
"Is that why you're so stressed?" Asked Pacey, he didn't know weather to strangle her or pinch her. He saw no cense on being so stressed over something so small.
"They will find out and___"
"And what Serena? They're you friends. You've gone through hell with them. Don't you think they'll understand you past?"
"Its not that simple" She whispered. Pacey leaned in front of her and lifted her chin with his hand.
"Yes it is. You're just afraid to admit that all that happened. Your ashamed to tell your friends how much your 'foster' parents and family mean to you. You're afraid that the façade you worked so hard on building with come trembling down as they realize you have reasons doe being the way you are. And your afraid of what will happen after that happens. How will you react, how you will explain. Will they forgive you"
Tears started to run down Serena's cheeks by now.
"Your afraid of being so selfish" He said.
"I don't know what do"
"Just tell them."
"Tell them???"
"The truth, everything"
"I . I know you're right. I'll tell them"
Pacey smiled and handed her a tissue.
"Dry those tears goldilocks. Hey I have an idea, why don't you take my key, go upstairs and take a nice shower eh?"
Serena smiled and nodded, grateful that she didn't have to bathe in the changing room. The gym had originally been office space. The building was quite big, enough to fit all your normal gym requirements. But the best part was that the upper floor, just as big as the first floor was made into a house. It had 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, living room, a bathroom and a dining room. And Serena had the privilege of using the upper floor since she was family.
Pacey took his key from his pant pocket and handed it to Serena.
"Take as long as you need, and you can use the phone if you need to call somebody."
She nodded and hugged Pacey before standing up and exiting the training room. Leaving a deeply worried cousin behind.
"God, what am I going to do with you bunny? Your parents better get here quick, I don't know for how much longer I can hold the fort for" Whispered Pacey.
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Serena was just out the training room when she bumped into something very hard and very warm. She looked up to see a man about 170 metres tall, black hair and dark brown eyes ginning down at her.
"Where you going in such a hurry beaut'ful" Serena smiled and stepped back a little.
"To take a shower"
"You got the key?"
"Yeah Pace gave it to me"
"All right then, shout if you need anything"
"K, thanks Tank. See ya later"
"No prob, see ya later Sere"
She waved bye to Tank and walked to the locked brown door and up some stairs. Once up she set her put her bag on the floor. She walked over to the small black phone on a table. And stared at it.
'I have to call, no wait, what if they hate me for keeping this, secret for so long. What if things get worse, what if Darien hates me for some reason, what if. oh god, what if the sky falls and we all die. I can do it; I fought queen Baryl, defeated energy sucking aliens, from ice queens to flowers to lonely aliens. Saved the world countless times, rescued dream mirrors, and pure hearts. Not to mention died several times while doing it! This should be a piece of cake! But it seems so much harder. Its because when I did all those things I knew my friends where with me but now. what if they don't understand.'
Serena took a deep breathe, she was having one of the greatest mental discussions with herself she'd ever had and was scared to pieces. Without thinking she took the phone, dialed a number and heard as the tone ring. It was as if she was watching someone else doing it, and she had no control over her actions at all.
Then a sweet shy voice came from the receiver.
"Hello?"
"A. Amy?"
"Serena?"
"Hi"
'Hi? Hi? I'm about to have a nervous breakdown and all I can come up with is hi?' She mentally kicked herself.
"Hi Serena, what's up?"
"Amy, I need a big favour from you"
"What's wrong, do you need help studying Serena?"
'Studying? Is that all that can be wrong with me? My grades?'
"No, it's not that. I need to call an emergency sailor scout meeting. I need everyone to be there and I do mean *everyone*. Everyone Amy please, but don't tell Rini. She won't be a problem since she went to Mel's house"
"Serena, are you ok?"
'Now she asks'
"Yeah. I'm fine. Will you do that for me then?"
"Sure Serena, I'll call everyone"
"Thanks a bunch Amy"
"What time?" Amy's voice had turned from curious to a worried one.
"In. it's 2:00, make it at 3:00"
"Ok, I'll see you then"
"Yeah Amy, see you"
She hang up and breathed in. What had she just done?
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Serena walked down the streets of Tokyo, pale as a ghost and feeling queezy. She knew she was bringing it all upon herself. But the worry and anxiety where over powering her.
'Breather Serena, breathe before you pass out or worse you throw up!'
The blonde closed her eyes and decided to sit on the nearest bench in the street. She felt sick, very sick when she opened her eyes she saw an ice cream stand.
'Ice cream! Always there when you need it, something you can always count on' She told herself happily. The blonde reluctantly pushed herself up and walked toward the stand.
Once the chocolate ice cream cone was on her hands she started feeling better already. She smiled as a memory of her and Neo sitting on a park bench eating ice cream rushed through her mind. They had both done that several times, sit on the nearest park and eat ice cream. Just the smell of the icy cold goodness would always calm her. Filling her heart with a warm feeling.
'Happy childhood memories' She though as she licked the ice cream.
It didn't take long for the ice cream to disappear and thankfully most of the queezy feeling had disappeared with it. #######
Another queezy feeling started again as she met the stairs of Rey's temple. Serena forced her feet to climb the stairs. Blessing the steps for the first time, thankful of the extra time before she had to reach the top where her friends would most likely already be. #####
She looked at the "Welcome to cherry hill temple" sign and sighed. This was the moment of truth no doubt about it. She reached the final stair and saw all of her friends sitting outside enjoying the nice weather talking. They were all there as she had requested. Setsuna, Michiru, Amara, Darien, Lita, Mina, Rey and Amy. Rini wasn't there. She walked closer, seeing how it grew silent as she approached. Her knees going shaky and jelly like. She managed to smile as she met all their gazes.
"Serena you're late!" Accused Rey.
"I'm sorry. I wasn't feeling very well"
"Are you all right?" Asked Amy worried.
"Yeah, I'm fine"
"So what's wrong Serena?" Darien censed the blonde's uneasiness. All this mystery was worrying him.
She sat on the edge of the floor next to Mina and Amy. She truly didn't trust her legs to hold her.
"I have something very important to tell you all. And I'm going to ask you not to interrupt me while I'm saying it. It's a secret I've kept for a while now. I know you'll be mad at me for keeping it from you for such a long time, but I just couldn't tell you yet"
"Are you in trouble Serena?" Asked Amara, who was growing concerned by Serena's seriousness.
"No, I'm not. But please don't interrupt me, I don't trust myself not to go running off when my so called courage abandons me"
Now they were all seriously worried. And Darien went to stand beside her.
"As all of you know, I'm the daughter of Ken and Ikuko Tsukino. At least biogicly, when I turned 6 my dad got a business proposal. It was to work for one of the top newspaper companies in the world. The only catch was that he would have to move to the United States. They would give him a top job with top payment. Everything would be paid for, the house, the trip, everything. But they only allowed him to bring his wife and one child with him. He agreed, it was his dream coming true. Sammy was just 3 and I was 6. So it was decided that Sammy would go with them to America since he was so young still and I would stay with my mom's sister. Unfortunately my aunt died a few weeks before they left. They had no one to leave me with. They almost cancelled the trip until my all mighty great aunt Jena volunteered to keep me for just a few hundred dollars. My parents accepted and left me there without as much as a second thought."
Her voice had become angry all the sudden, almost resentful. Her eyes becoming more and more distant, her gaze fixed on the floor.
"She was witch, she treated me like garbage. She called me names yelled at me and wished I would die. I prayed for my parents to come back for me. I asked them to hurry back every time they called. Soon they stopped calling every day and started calling every three days. I guess they couldn't stand hearing me beg."
"Did you tell them what she did to you?" Asked Lita, ignoring Serena's plea for no interruptions.
"I couldn't, she threatened me by saying she would throw me in the river if I said anything. It may sound stupid but. it just took the look in her eyes every time she said it to believe it. I still think she would have done it if she had ever gotten the chance. Anyways, a month after, my cousin Faith was sent to her as well. Her mom, my aunt the one I was suppose to stay with had just died and her dad didn't want her around so he sent her with Jena. We. let's just say things weren't pretty. Things only got worse till one-day Jena finally grew tired of us and sent us to her son Oichi. Oichi was a bad man, an alcoholic, and he had drug problems. He lived in the so called "Streets of the damn"."
"I've heard about that place. It's said that it's full of poverty, drugs and robberies. They say it's the dark side of Tokyo" Commented Michiru.
"It is, it's not exactly wonderland. Faith and I, we ran away after 2 months. We ran away to the streets"
"Alone?"
"Yes"
"What did he do?" Asked Amy.
"He... I don't want to talk about it, please."
"Serena did he touch you?" Asked Darien, kneeling in front of her. The blonde sobbed, her hands becoming fists.
"No, but he tried. We. we made it out of there. We were only 6, we didn't know where to go or what to do. We lived in the streets for 2 weeks, but one day it rained and I became sick. Faith didn't know what to do, my fever was getting worse and. Faith went to look for help. She begged the owner of a pharmacy to give her some medicine to treat me but the man declined because we had no money. A woman that was there offered to buy the medicine for me and later treated me. Her name was Shelly"
She wiped away the small tears that had made their was down her cheeks. Smiling a bit a she remembered the young woman.
"She was like an angel, at least that's how I remember her. Kind, caring, sweet, she took us into her house. She lived with her boyfriend Eric, he was just as nice as she was. We lived with them for 10 months, Unfortunately we couldn't go to school, if we did the school would ask for our addresses and would ask for our parents. If they found out we ran away they would bring us to Oichi and back to hell. Plus we didn't have the money for the uniform and supplies. We worked helping Shelly and Eric, Eric was the leader of a gang. A good gang though. They fought to make the streets a safer place. But one day, we weren't supposed to be out in the streets after 6. Because that's when people in gangs or with guns duelled to the death, or just starting shooting. But we were outside; I can't remember why we were out. All I remember is hearing a loud noise and then feeling something hit my back. I remember seeing Faith leaning over me screaming and then darkness."
Everyone gasped and looked at Serena petrified. Tears ran down Rey's cheeks, Serena was talking as if she was in her small little world, not making any kind of eye contact, her gaze fixed on her lap.
"I was shot by a man from another gang."
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Thanks everyone for reviewing specially Sqeekers for you wonderful reviews. This chapter took longer to write because it was longer than the usual. The next one will be coming soon.
If you're wondering why I'm wasting my time actually telling you all that happened when she was little is so you all get an idea of her feelings. Faith and her were completely alone for months; they were seeing the bad side of life at a very young age. Please review and tell me what you think, I'm going to get into a way more cheerful time of her life next chapter. Thanks everyone!!!
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Serena moved around the punching bag. Delivering punches over and over. She would eventually kick and make the bag swing from side to side. She felt her hot face fill with sweat and her gym clothes getting warmer and tighter by the second. A tall dark brown haired man stood by the door, leaning into the edge. Watching as the blonde deliver random kicks.
"Aren't you going to stop her before she hurts herself?" Asked a voice from behind him.
"She won't let me," He told him.
"Pacey she's seriously going to hurt herself"
"Look at her Tank, she has her entire focus on that bag. I think she's imagining that bag holds all her problems"
"If you don't stop her I will" He concluded and walked closer.
Just as he approached Serena delivered her most powerful kick yet. Making Tank stop and watch her. She hadn't even seen him closing in. He swallowed, rethinking how much he valued his life. He sighed and turned around, he lowered his head in shame and came to stand beside Pacey. He wasn't so much afraid of the girl's punches as he was of her anger. He watched as Pacey gave him a very comical smile.
"Mr. Caring seems to have chickened out at the sight of a tough girl." He teased.
"Shut Up Pacey"
"Tsk, tsk, if you do that every time a girl gives random punches like that how do you expect to run a gym and get a chick eh Tank?"
"Well I don't see *you* trying to do anything" Tank implied.
Pacey chuckled, that dry sarcastic chuckle he could do so well and usually meant 'I know something you don't'. Both men turned their attention back to the blonde.
" I know better than to Tank, I know better than to"
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"I see you were trying to punch that bag into bits there" Said Pacey as he sat beside Serena on a bench, a towel wrapped around her neck.
"Please Pacey I really don't want to talk about it"
"Serena this isn't getting any better"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean your keeping all your anger and frustration bottled up inside you. You can't keep hitting the bag like that hon. you're just gonna get hurt sooner or later"
Serena sighed.
"Mina knows Airine Tokatura"
"Airine who?"
"Airine Tokatura, she works for aunt Niobe"
"OH. and that means?"
"If she recognizes me, she'll tell Mina something and then that something will become everything"
"Is that why you're so stressed?" Asked Pacey, he didn't know weather to strangle her or pinch her. He saw no cense on being so stressed over something so small.
"They will find out and___"
"And what Serena? They're you friends. You've gone through hell with them. Don't you think they'll understand you past?"
"Its not that simple" She whispered. Pacey leaned in front of her and lifted her chin with his hand.
"Yes it is. You're just afraid to admit that all that happened. Your ashamed to tell your friends how much your 'foster' parents and family mean to you. You're afraid that the façade you worked so hard on building with come trembling down as they realize you have reasons doe being the way you are. And your afraid of what will happen after that happens. How will you react, how you will explain. Will they forgive you"
Tears started to run down Serena's cheeks by now.
"Your afraid of being so selfish" He said.
"I don't know what do"
"Just tell them."
"Tell them???"
"The truth, everything"
"I . I know you're right. I'll tell them"
Pacey smiled and handed her a tissue.
"Dry those tears goldilocks. Hey I have an idea, why don't you take my key, go upstairs and take a nice shower eh?"
Serena smiled and nodded, grateful that she didn't have to bathe in the changing room. The gym had originally been office space. The building was quite big, enough to fit all your normal gym requirements. But the best part was that the upper floor, just as big as the first floor was made into a house. It had 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, living room, a bathroom and a dining room. And Serena had the privilege of using the upper floor since she was family.
Pacey took his key from his pant pocket and handed it to Serena.
"Take as long as you need, and you can use the phone if you need to call somebody."
She nodded and hugged Pacey before standing up and exiting the training room. Leaving a deeply worried cousin behind.
"God, what am I going to do with you bunny? Your parents better get here quick, I don't know for how much longer I can hold the fort for" Whispered Pacey.
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Serena was just out the training room when she bumped into something very hard and very warm. She looked up to see a man about 170 metres tall, black hair and dark brown eyes ginning down at her.
"Where you going in such a hurry beaut'ful" Serena smiled and stepped back a little.
"To take a shower"
"You got the key?"
"Yeah Pace gave it to me"
"All right then, shout if you need anything"
"K, thanks Tank. See ya later"
"No prob, see ya later Sere"
She waved bye to Tank and walked to the locked brown door and up some stairs. Once up she set her put her bag on the floor. She walked over to the small black phone on a table. And stared at it.
'I have to call, no wait, what if they hate me for keeping this, secret for so long. What if things get worse, what if Darien hates me for some reason, what if. oh god, what if the sky falls and we all die. I can do it; I fought queen Baryl, defeated energy sucking aliens, from ice queens to flowers to lonely aliens. Saved the world countless times, rescued dream mirrors, and pure hearts. Not to mention died several times while doing it! This should be a piece of cake! But it seems so much harder. Its because when I did all those things I knew my friends where with me but now. what if they don't understand.'
Serena took a deep breathe, she was having one of the greatest mental discussions with herself she'd ever had and was scared to pieces. Without thinking she took the phone, dialed a number and heard as the tone ring. It was as if she was watching someone else doing it, and she had no control over her actions at all.
Then a sweet shy voice came from the receiver.
"Hello?"
"A. Amy?"
"Serena?"
"Hi"
'Hi? Hi? I'm about to have a nervous breakdown and all I can come up with is hi?' She mentally kicked herself.
"Hi Serena, what's up?"
"Amy, I need a big favour from you"
"What's wrong, do you need help studying Serena?"
'Studying? Is that all that can be wrong with me? My grades?'
"No, it's not that. I need to call an emergency sailor scout meeting. I need everyone to be there and I do mean *everyone*. Everyone Amy please, but don't tell Rini. She won't be a problem since she went to Mel's house"
"Serena, are you ok?"
'Now she asks'
"Yeah. I'm fine. Will you do that for me then?"
"Sure Serena, I'll call everyone"
"Thanks a bunch Amy"
"What time?" Amy's voice had turned from curious to a worried one.
"In. it's 2:00, make it at 3:00"
"Ok, I'll see you then"
"Yeah Amy, see you"
She hang up and breathed in. What had she just done?
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Serena walked down the streets of Tokyo, pale as a ghost and feeling queezy. She knew she was bringing it all upon herself. But the worry and anxiety where over powering her.
'Breather Serena, breathe before you pass out or worse you throw up!'
The blonde closed her eyes and decided to sit on the nearest bench in the street. She felt sick, very sick when she opened her eyes she saw an ice cream stand.
'Ice cream! Always there when you need it, something you can always count on' She told herself happily. The blonde reluctantly pushed herself up and walked toward the stand.
Once the chocolate ice cream cone was on her hands she started feeling better already. She smiled as a memory of her and Neo sitting on a park bench eating ice cream rushed through her mind. They had both done that several times, sit on the nearest park and eat ice cream. Just the smell of the icy cold goodness would always calm her. Filling her heart with a warm feeling.
'Happy childhood memories' She though as she licked the ice cream.
It didn't take long for the ice cream to disappear and thankfully most of the queezy feeling had disappeared with it. #######
Another queezy feeling started again as she met the stairs of Rey's temple. Serena forced her feet to climb the stairs. Blessing the steps for the first time, thankful of the extra time before she had to reach the top where her friends would most likely already be. #####
She looked at the "Welcome to cherry hill temple" sign and sighed. This was the moment of truth no doubt about it. She reached the final stair and saw all of her friends sitting outside enjoying the nice weather talking. They were all there as she had requested. Setsuna, Michiru, Amara, Darien, Lita, Mina, Rey and Amy. Rini wasn't there. She walked closer, seeing how it grew silent as she approached. Her knees going shaky and jelly like. She managed to smile as she met all their gazes.
"Serena you're late!" Accused Rey.
"I'm sorry. I wasn't feeling very well"
"Are you all right?" Asked Amy worried.
"Yeah, I'm fine"
"So what's wrong Serena?" Darien censed the blonde's uneasiness. All this mystery was worrying him.
She sat on the edge of the floor next to Mina and Amy. She truly didn't trust her legs to hold her.
"I have something very important to tell you all. And I'm going to ask you not to interrupt me while I'm saying it. It's a secret I've kept for a while now. I know you'll be mad at me for keeping it from you for such a long time, but I just couldn't tell you yet"
"Are you in trouble Serena?" Asked Amara, who was growing concerned by Serena's seriousness.
"No, I'm not. But please don't interrupt me, I don't trust myself not to go running off when my so called courage abandons me"
Now they were all seriously worried. And Darien went to stand beside her.
"As all of you know, I'm the daughter of Ken and Ikuko Tsukino. At least biogicly, when I turned 6 my dad got a business proposal. It was to work for one of the top newspaper companies in the world. The only catch was that he would have to move to the United States. They would give him a top job with top payment. Everything would be paid for, the house, the trip, everything. But they only allowed him to bring his wife and one child with him. He agreed, it was his dream coming true. Sammy was just 3 and I was 6. So it was decided that Sammy would go with them to America since he was so young still and I would stay with my mom's sister. Unfortunately my aunt died a few weeks before they left. They had no one to leave me with. They almost cancelled the trip until my all mighty great aunt Jena volunteered to keep me for just a few hundred dollars. My parents accepted and left me there without as much as a second thought."
Her voice had become angry all the sudden, almost resentful. Her eyes becoming more and more distant, her gaze fixed on the floor.
"She was witch, she treated me like garbage. She called me names yelled at me and wished I would die. I prayed for my parents to come back for me. I asked them to hurry back every time they called. Soon they stopped calling every day and started calling every three days. I guess they couldn't stand hearing me beg."
"Did you tell them what she did to you?" Asked Lita, ignoring Serena's plea for no interruptions.
"I couldn't, she threatened me by saying she would throw me in the river if I said anything. It may sound stupid but. it just took the look in her eyes every time she said it to believe it. I still think she would have done it if she had ever gotten the chance. Anyways, a month after, my cousin Faith was sent to her as well. Her mom, my aunt the one I was suppose to stay with had just died and her dad didn't want her around so he sent her with Jena. We. let's just say things weren't pretty. Things only got worse till one-day Jena finally grew tired of us and sent us to her son Oichi. Oichi was a bad man, an alcoholic, and he had drug problems. He lived in the so called "Streets of the damn"."
"I've heard about that place. It's said that it's full of poverty, drugs and robberies. They say it's the dark side of Tokyo" Commented Michiru.
"It is, it's not exactly wonderland. Faith and I, we ran away after 2 months. We ran away to the streets"
"Alone?"
"Yes"
"What did he do?" Asked Amy.
"He... I don't want to talk about it, please."
"Serena did he touch you?" Asked Darien, kneeling in front of her. The blonde sobbed, her hands becoming fists.
"No, but he tried. We. we made it out of there. We were only 6, we didn't know where to go or what to do. We lived in the streets for 2 weeks, but one day it rained and I became sick. Faith didn't know what to do, my fever was getting worse and. Faith went to look for help. She begged the owner of a pharmacy to give her some medicine to treat me but the man declined because we had no money. A woman that was there offered to buy the medicine for me and later treated me. Her name was Shelly"
She wiped away the small tears that had made their was down her cheeks. Smiling a bit a she remembered the young woman.
"She was like an angel, at least that's how I remember her. Kind, caring, sweet, she took us into her house. She lived with her boyfriend Eric, he was just as nice as she was. We lived with them for 10 months, Unfortunately we couldn't go to school, if we did the school would ask for our addresses and would ask for our parents. If they found out we ran away they would bring us to Oichi and back to hell. Plus we didn't have the money for the uniform and supplies. We worked helping Shelly and Eric, Eric was the leader of a gang. A good gang though. They fought to make the streets a safer place. But one day, we weren't supposed to be out in the streets after 6. Because that's when people in gangs or with guns duelled to the death, or just starting shooting. But we were outside; I can't remember why we were out. All I remember is hearing a loud noise and then feeling something hit my back. I remember seeing Faith leaning over me screaming and then darkness."
Everyone gasped and looked at Serena petrified. Tears ran down Rey's cheeks, Serena was talking as if she was in her small little world, not making any kind of eye contact, her gaze fixed on her lap.
"I was shot by a man from another gang."
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Thanks everyone for reviewing specially Sqeekers for you wonderful reviews. This chapter took longer to write because it was longer than the usual. The next one will be coming soon.
If you're wondering why I'm wasting my time actually telling you all that happened when she was little is so you all get an idea of her feelings. Faith and her were completely alone for months; they were seeing the bad side of life at a very young age. Please review and tell me what you think, I'm going to get into a way more cheerful time of her life next chapter. Thanks everyone!!!