T38: Search Parties-Lulu And Dustin.
Elsewhere in town, Lulu and Dustin were standing outside the WAVES OF SUPERIOR CAFE restaurant, with Lulu holding in her left hand a red-white upward-striped popcorn-looking box of fries she had ordered for herself, with ketchup on them. And had her white purse on her left shoulder.
Dustin on his black cellphone with the police.
"No, they're all under 13. They've been missing since last night. Look...if we could do me a favor and post a photo of the boys around town...i'd appreciate it. No, look, they made a bad decision. Yeah." Dustin said.
Meanwhile, Lulu noticed something and walked off.
"Listen, they didn't do anything wrong. Alright, just make sure all your officers know that." Said Dustin.
Lulu was making her way over to a 10-year old homless boy standing by the green metal outdoor trash-can, going through it in search of food. He had long black neck-length hair, brown eyes and pale skin. The poor boy reached in the trash and got out a half-eaten hamburger in a wrapper.
"Hey." Lulu said as she walked over to the boy. "Hey." She repeated, getting the boy's attention. "Don't eat that."
"What, are you my mother?" The boy asked.
"No, just, um...eat this instead, please?" Said Lulu, offering her box of fries to the boy. Why shouldn't she? It was almost Thanksgiving. And the holidays were about giving to those who were less fortunate. For those who cared about the less fortunate at least.
"Thanks." Said the boy before dropping the burger back in the trash, followed by recieving the box of fries. He then got one of the fries out and ate it.
"What's your name?" Lulu asked.
"Bryan." The boy answered, stating his name.
"Well, hello, Bryan. I'm Lulu." Lulu said, smiling. She then reached into her purse with her right hand and got out a picture of Cameron, Rocco and Leo and showed it to the homeless boy known as Bryan. "Have you seen these kids? The blond one's my son."
"No, sorry." Said Bryan before he turned and left.
Dustin walked over to Lulu, having now finished his phone conversation with the authorities-his phone back in his right pants pocket. "I know what you're thinking. Rocco's not gonna end up like that."
"Yeah? I did. If it happened to me, it can happen to Rocco...and Cameron and Leo. You don't know my family. We tend to pass our bad habits on from one generation to the next." Lulu said.
"I didn't know your family was like that." Dustin said.
"I'm not talking about the family i'm in now." Lulu said.
"Then what do you mean?" Dustin asked.
"I was adopted. Alice and her parents took me in when i was 9 and made me apart of their family. But before that, i was living at home alone because my dysfunctional parents were killed in a plane crash when i was 8 years old. Long story short, all the power got turned off at the house, i ended up running away and living on the streets, Alice found out about my parents' deaths and she and her parents adopted me. But i lived on the streets for a year before then." Lulu explained. "So believe me when i say if it happened to me, it can happen to my son...and my nephew and my cousin."
Dustin was speechless. He had no idea Lulu had gone throughso much in her childhood.
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