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So when I said life's good... I meant that it was then, not now. Life isn't good now. In fact, it's terrible. I'm practically an orphan, just like my fellow roommates. Both of my parents are in prison now, and my little sister's probably going to go into foster care. I'm saying all this though, when I don't really like any of them anyway. They've hated me for the 13 years I've been alive so why would I care if they're in prison. And why would I care about my 6-year-old sister who I have a love-hate relationship with? Exactly. I don't care.
Ashlyn's back in hospital, too. With a broken leg this time. She's so stupid, I swear. Maybe I shouldn't have lashed at out at her and claimed that my dad (who's now in prison) is her dad. That was really stupid of me. Now, Ashlyn and I pretty much have the same status. We're both teenagers and I guess you could say that I'm in foster care. My parents have kinda put me up for adoption now so I'm basically like Kyron, Brooke and Ash. Cool! Well, it's not cool. At least Kyron's coming home tomorr- in a few hours! It's today when he comes home! Yes! I've honestly missed him so much and the rest of us have too. I don't know what Myliey's going to say to him; to be honest, I don't know if those 2 will even speak to each other. I think Kyron might know about Loffy though. After all, it wasn't Myliey's fault. She did contribute to it massively, but it was either shoot your friend or get tortured and killed yourself. I think I know what I'd choose.
"KYRON!!" I scream as he enters the door. He's here! We've got to be careful because his chest is still sore, so we can't go and give him a huge hug, running full speed towards him.
"You're finally here!" I shout again, excited that my best friend is safe in my roommates and I's company. He goes over to Myliey and she apologises. Kyron says he knows about Loffy and his plan so he accepts her apology.
"When can we go and see Ash?" Kyron asks, desperate to see his girlfriend again. He's missed her so much, I can just tell by his face. I bet she misses him too. I'd miss Brooke if I hadn't seen her for a long time, obviously. I reply back, "In a few hours," and he grins.
A few hours pass by, and now we're in the car to go and see Brooke. We're not really detectives anymore; the KK crime has been solved (hooray!) so now we can just focus on living our lives. We can focus on it being just the 5 of us. I'm in the back of the car, sat in the middle of Myliey, and Kyron is in the front seat sat next to Lisha, who's driving. He has the biggest smile on his face, and I'm so excited for him.
The car ride took about 20 minutes or so, and now we're here! Next week is a huge week: there's 3 sweet-16 birthdays! Kyron turns 16 on Tuesday, then Ash on Thursday, then Brooke on Saturday! We're so excited- we'll be in New Zealand so we can all celebrate in the beach house. We pass through reception at the hospital and then Kyron takes lead. He picked up a map of the hospital at reception and is looking at it extremely carefully as he walks along the corridors, grinning.
"ASHLYN!"
"KYRON!"
The 2 love birds meet again, Kyron running over to Ash and wanting to jump on the bed. Ash sits up, carefully shuffling back so she can hug Kyron. He carefully but also hurriedly jumps on top of Ashlyn; Brooke, Myliey and I all standing in the doorway with Lisha, watching the lovers reunite. It's such a heartwarming experience. Kyron sits on the bed with Ashlyn and they put their arms around each other. They start talking to each other and they don't stop. They tell each other so many things: stories, secrets and everything inbetween. Then, a nurse knocks on the door and is stood behind us.
"Excuse me, " she says, practically barging through to get into the room. The three of us who are stood in the doorway move out of the way and the nurse directs us to leave, letting Kyron stay in the room with Ash. "We're just packing Ashlyn's things up," the nurse says, as she shoves us out of the room. We stand outside and I'm extremely bored. I'm now sitting on a chair outside of Ash's room. Only 16 hours to go until we fly back home to New Zealand. I can't wait to go back. At least we can give Crofley's a rest and restart our lives.
Ashlyn walks out on crutches. "She's done incredibly well on these! We've just had a go on them- she's grasped it quickly," the nurse says as Ashlyn smiles and Kyron is helping her as she wobbles. He's holding her belongings too- and there's a lot. Lisha brought them to her after she'd broken her leg. "Goodbye everyone, and good luck on your travels!" We're all smiling and waving as we leave, and finally I'm out of this stupid chair! I must have been waiting at least half an hour for Ash to get used to her crutches. Nevertheless, we're out now and heading back to the car. Once we've got everything out of our dorm and said goodbye to Rufus, (which I really want to do) we can leave and go back to New Zealand.
We arrive back at our dorm and Ash and Kyron can't stop hugging, kissing and talking. They're so in love, and although I have a girlfriend, I'm so jealous. I don't know if Brooke and I even have a proper bond anymore. "Hey, Brooke," I go over to her and reach over to give her a kiss. "Look at those 2 lovers, we should be like that." I lean in closer to kiss her cheek but then she clenches my face and pushes it away.
"No, Jamie. I'm sorry. I don't think we can do this anymore. I know that girls can be older than boys when they're together but I'm just not too sure about the 2 of us anymore. We just don't really click. I still want to be friends though, we are living in the same house after all. Wanna pretend all of this never happened?"
"Uh...uh- sure?"
She comes closer to me to hug me. I sort of just pat her back. I'm in shock. Brooke? Dumped me? Wow. She's right though, we'll have to stay friends because we're living in the same house. Oh well, it's just another girl. Just another breakup. As she said; let's just pretend this never happened.
"Right you 2," I say, looking towards Ash and Kyron, "Let's get packing! We're going home tonight!"
Brooke smiles at me as she turns around to go to her room and pack. I smile back at her as nicely I can; I'm slightly heartbroken on the inside though. I go to my room to pack up my things and now it's only 5 hours to go until the plane leaves!
Shoot. Who am I going to sit next to on the plane? I don't want to leave Brooke on her own because I'll feel bad but she did just break up with me. "Psst, Ashlyn!" I shout her over to ask her something. "Will you please, please, please let Brooklyn sit next to you on the plane. I'll get Lisha to change the seats and everything, it's just that- that- Brooke has just broken up with me." I look down at my shoes and frown in sadness. "And I'm sorry about what I said about my dad- he's not your dad at all. Please, please can you sit next to Kyron AND Brooke? I'll sit on my own or with Myliey- I don't care.
"Oh my god. I'm going to speak to her. She broke up with you? Wow. I'm sorry about that Jamie and um- yeah, I forgive you about what you said too. I won't blame you for my broken leg- haha- but if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have gone off to that little room and then rolled down that slope and broken my leg. And I'll speak to Lisha about the plane. Not blaming you about my leg though, see you!" She waddles back off on her crutches into her room and- how cheeky! I did NOT break her leg- ha. At least she agreed with the plane thing- that's sorted.
A couple of hours later, and we're all packed. Right now we're going to Rufus to say goodbye. Our plane leaves in 2 hours, so we've got to be quick.
"Bye then!" We've just left Rufus' and I'm getting a little emotional. Maybe part of the reason why I'm emotional being that Brooke just broke up with me, and the other part being that we're leaving the UK. I said before that when we leave here, we'd probably never want to come back, I'm not so sure anymore. My parents are both in prison here and Rufus and I became good friends in the UK. Also, I grew up here in Bridgewood. On the other hand, I desperately want to go home to New Zealand. Living in a beach house, as a teenager, adult-free: that sounds like the perfect life!- you may think. And it is! It's the perfect life and I was loving it.
"Quick guys! Hurry up!" Lisha shouts as we board our flight. This is it, back to New Zealand to restart our lives. I go to grab Brooke's hand, but then I think, 'Shoot- I forgot.' I see Brooke grab Ashlyn's hand and I look at the 3 of them holding hands in front of me- Brooke, Ash and Kyron. Brooke wants Ashlyn back- I can just see it. Myliey is walking behind me and she taps me on the shoulder. I turn around and she whispers in my ear, "Jamie, I love you."
•Jamie•
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Teen FictionAshlyn is a teenage girl who has been in foster care for over half of her life. She's sick of it- and she waits helplessly to either be adopted, or to become an adult so she doesn't have to be in foster care anymore. At school, she gets the chance...
