PRAY FOR OAKLAHOMEA
A/N: Okay hopefully I will clear stuff up about Ray this chapter, I hope you guys will find her story slightly interesting and won't hate me. THIS CHAPTER IS ALL ABOUT RAY. I will update a real chapter next Monday.
Disclaimer: I created Ray, Xavier, Chris, Andrew, and Sabrina's 'Past' that's it. The rest of the rights go to Michael Buckley, and whoever created the 'John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt' song.
The Past's Not Always in the Past Chapter 14
Ray's POV
I was furious at Twenty after our fight; she is one of the only people in the world I consider family, so yes I got a little jealous when I saw she had a real family and I had… no one really. My Dad is in jail, and I ran away from my Mom, because last time I checked she was a drug addict, and didn't like to feed me all that much.
I had to run away from them because sure as hell social services weren't going to take me away from her; my Mom had them wrapped around her finger. My mom was Smirt's 'best friend'. But when I finally ran away to my Aunt and Uncle's apparently that got someone who wasn't Smirt's attention. Sure enough, next thing I knew I was under My Aunt and Uncle's custody.
Two months after I was finally was settled down and happy, my beloved new parents died in a car crash. Some drunken idiot driving a gigantic Mack truck ran a red light. My Aunt died instantly, my Uncle soon followed after, from blood loss.
In all the chaos I guess everyone forgot about me, I was easily able to slip into shadows of food kitchens and homeless shelters without anyone knowing I was even gone. Eventually I was able to find a permanent home. I became good friends with an old woman and she took me in, her name was Ko.
Ko knew what it was like to be on your own at a young age. She used to live in Japan during World War Two; both her parents were in Tokyo for a business trip when America bombed Japan. She believed war was horrible, no matter what; she didn't pick a side in that war. There were so many orphans in Japan at that time, no one cared about her. She was on her own at 11 just like myself. Later in her life she came to America and eventually became happy and fell in love, but her husband died from a heart attack five years before I met her.
Ko died a year after I met her; Twenty only got to meet her once. I still don't know what she died from, Ko was energetic and sweet one day and gone the next. I got her house; it was never the same though. I left me just like everyone else I knew.
The next two years Twenty and I became very close, Daredevil became my little sister too. I met John and Schmidty through Twenty, but I knew Xavier before, him and I were good friends for a long time before.
When Twenty left, it was my cracking point… everyone left or drove me away or was just plain gone. No one was coming back, ever. I had a lot of dark thoughts after Smirt took Twenty away. Xavier was the only thing that kept me going. I looked for Twenty everywhere, Upstate, Down state, I tried to figure away into the orphanage to slip the file on Twenty and Daredevil to see where they were, there was no use even trying, it was as guarded as a prison, it was awful.
I became better once Chris came to me and told me her story, at first I didn't want to listen to anything she had to say, but then she said something that got my attention, "I know what it's like to be alone… and I'm pretty sure you do to. Why can't we be alone together?" We bonded over the horrible lives each one of us had lived after that, and she became a good friend of mine. Not as close at Twenty ever was, but she was still family.
I got all my spirit and control back when John told me about magic and how it was Twenty's duty to help these everafter things he told me about, and how she was just in upstate New York in a little town called Ferryport Landing. As soon as I heard that I saved up the money to take a train to the town. Chris invited herself along, she said I was her only family, so I let her come even though I knew there would be problems between her and Twenty.
When we got to Ferryport Landing we found this abandoned and burned down amusement park, we set up shop there, it was nice enough, and we couldn't afford a hotel, motel, or inn if there was one in the tiny town. The whole place was actually pretty weird, John told me it was like a regular town and I would never be able to tell it was full of everafters, but he was horribly wrong. It looks like one part of the town looks like a bomb hit it, but another part looks brand new. And there is no one ever walking around the town.
I saw this extravagant mansion when I was walking around the town with Chris looking for a place to stay, and above the front door it read…
MAYORS HOUSE
I knocked on the door and a handsome man came to the door with a sour look on his face. Soon after he opened to door a lady came to the door also, she was saying, "Is that Relda? Because I have to ask…" she trailed off when she got to the door and saw it was me. "Well hello there dear, welcome, welcome, come inside it's pretty bitter outside." The woman said to Chris and I.
"No, it's alright, I'm Rachel and this is Christine, we are just looking for some old friends ours, do you know a Sabrina or Daphne Grimm by any chance?" I ask
"I'm Mayor Snow and this is William by the way, and the Grimms live right up the road." The lady, Mayor Snow, pointed us in the right direction of the Grimm household and we were on our way.
I got really excited and was finally happy when I realized I finally found Daredevil and Twenty. When I met all of Twenty's family I was Surprised at how big it was, Twenty told me she had only her parents and Aunt who lived in Australia, that was it, and that was definitely not 'it'. I became very jealous though, that Twenty had a family and I had nothing… she was my family and she replaced me.
I realized I was being stupid though, she probably was trying to contact me but didn't know how, and she didn't replace me, she just found other people that cared about her as much as I did. I tried to be happy for her like a real friend would be, and I was, but apart of my heart was still full of jealousy, betrayal, sadness, and doubt.
When Sabrina came down stairs, I could tell she was ticked off about Chris being with me, and I understood, I brought an enemy of hers into her house, I would be angry too.
During me and Twenty's fight I was frustrated, annoyed, angry, jealous, and heart broken. No only did Twenty not trust my judgment on Chris, but she didn't try to talk to me or contact or just let me know she was okay after she was taken away, and I was worried sick about her. She did replace me and didn't want me to come back into her life; she got a new family so she didn't need her old one any more. All those things are things the Twenty I knew would never do; I don't like this new 'Sabrina'. I wanted my friend back, that's why I said to her "I thought I was the only one that knew you inside and out too. But I guess I was wrong. You changed; I don't think I can be friends with you until you figure yourself out again. You're not the Twenty I knew."
I wish she could come back, the Twenty I knew, the one who would comfort me whenever I was lonely or depressed, the one who would cry and eat ice cream with me all night long. I miss her more than ever.
REVIEWS:
Guest,- Haha, that actually was a pretty long chapter, about 1,100 words in the actual story part of the chapter, and I think that is a decent length, so I am going to keep it about 1,000 words.
Guest, We Don't Exist,- Haha :D. Thanks! I agree, Peter is one of those characters that have so much potential to go either way, either good or evil, and every writer makes him unique compared to the other Peters. He's definitely going to be a fun character to write about. ;)
I WILL UPDATE A REAL CHAPTER NEXT MONDAY.