living with the Brady boys

ch. 1

I snuck out to his grave late that night. After my mom had gone out to a party. If you didn't know me you could easily see my bruises and cuts and assume something. It was about 3:00 am when I came home and I saw my mom sitting in the chair by the fireplace. Uh oh this won't be good.

"So kate, where have you been?" Mom asked suspiciously.

"Oh, I was just, uh, taking a walk. Ya know I uh couldn't go asleep". I tried to tell her.

"Well I was waiting."

"Mom you're drunk you should go lay down." I said putting my hand on her back.

"NO!" She yelled slapping me across the face. Dangit. I could tell this will bruise over.

"Kate I am tired of your attitude!" she yelled and left the room. Knowing she was probably gonna go and get even more drunk and go to a club, I ran to my room.

***next day***

When I walked into school every one was staring at me. Yes I almost forgot, the spot where she slapped me had bruised over and was turning a purplish green color. My best friend ran up to me and squealed "omigod what did you do to your face" I haven't even told her about my mother's abusiveness. " nothing" I mumbled "I ran into the wall this morning."

"Uh huh ok" ali said.

-Fast forward through the day-

RING A DING DING (last school bell)

When I get to my house I see police cars and ambulances.

I walked up to the nearest police officer and asked "wha-what happened" tears began to build up in my eyes as she tells me our house burned down and they couldn't save much of anything. Then she moves on to telling me " sweetie I'm sure you have a lot of questions maybe one even being 'so here am I supposed to go?' Well you are going to your dads best friends family." "What happened to my mom?" I asked as tears started flowing freely down my cheeks. My mom may be bad but she was the closest thing I had as family and she only abused me if she was drunk. I ran into my house and sat on the remains of my couch. The officer that was talking to me earlier gave me a suitcase of my clothes and pictures that didn't get burnt that she could pull from my house. She ushered me into a car and drove to the airport. Once we got there she handed me a file of the family I was going too, and ushered me onto a plane.

About 4 hours later the plane landed at L.A.X

And I found a lady holding a sign that said my name."Hi are you Emma Brady?" I asked the lady holding the sign. "Yes I am are you Kate Andrews?" Emma asked. When I replied I had no idea what to say because I knew she had known my dad but that was a sensitive subject for me "Yes I am so you knew my dad?"

"Yes I did my husband and him were great Friends I even have a picture of your dad and mom at our wedding."

Oh was all I could reply at that moment.

We got into Emma's car and drove to her house.

"So kate I need to tell you something very important about my boys" she got quieter at the last part "I have 8 of them"

"YOU WHAT!" She chuckled "yes I have 8 boys" I got nervous for a little bit. I mean it's 8 boys I can't even talk to boys let alone live with them. "Hey Kate are you ok?" Emma called from the drivers seat. I must've been thinking really hard because when I looked up we were there. "Oh yeah I'm fine just thinking about the past couple of da-" my speech was cut off when I looked up and saw the mansion. Emma got us past the paparazzi at the beginning of the driveway. "Emma I-I love it it's gorgeous." "Thanks I'm glad you like it because you will be living here for a while." She brought me up the driveway and our the back to the pool. I saw a bunch of gorgeously tanned 8 packs get out of the pool. Tyler was the first one out and took my hand and kissed it "Hey I'm Tyler I'm 17" "oh hi I'm-a I'm Kate" Jason the littlest of them all came out and jumped on my back and gave me a big wet hug. I spun around and he fell into the pool laughing. "Tyler help her with her bags they're the trunk of my car.

END OF CHAPTER 1