The teenage orphan [Being edited]

37. The Slap

I laid down on my bed. "Lony, I believe you." Nolan said sitting next to me. "But no one else does."

"I want to ask you something." He said to me. "What is it?" "Do you wanna come to New York with me?"

"What do you mean?" I asked him. "My baseball team is going to a tournament in two days but the plane is leaving tomorrow morning and I have an extra ticket because neither of my parents wanna go." He said.

"Well I have to ask Michelle, but I would freakin love to." I said laughing.

Nolan took the framed picture of my family and held it. "Look at you, when you had your braces and Harry Potter glasses. You were ten in this photo. I took this before I left. And I have a gift for you."

"Oh god." I said covering my face. He handed me an album. "What's this?"

"So you always complained that you didn't have any like printed photos of your family. So I took some photos that my mom had of me with your family and I also took your Nikon and went to Target and printed some out. I filled up all 200 slots."

I opened it, saw the first picture and cried. Flipping through all the pages I cried harder and harder. Both because I missed them and because I'm glad that I had someone close enough to do this for me.

I swung my arms around him and hugged him. "Thanks." "Anytime." Right after we let go, someone knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" I asked. "Zack."

"Leave me alone." "Just let me in to explain, you didn't know the entire story!" He said. I opened the door and sat in the bed next to Nolan.

"How did he-" "You shouldn't be worried about him, you should be worried about you." I said to Zack.

"Okay look, first of all, that kiss in the frozen yogurt store was because she was telling us a story and she was acting it out and it meant nothing. And yesterday when you quote on quote caught us, she pushed me down and she was on top of me."

"That makes me feel a little better by like one percent but I'm still pissed off, you didn't chase after me to find me when I ran, Nolan did. When she got on top of you, you didn't push her off. You didn't come back to the mall to drive me home, Jax drove me home. Morgan, Jax and Logan asked me what happened and know they hate me and they think I'm lying about Margo and you, so they hate me now."

"Avalon, I'll tell them the truth." Zack said. "You could try, but they'd think that I made you tell them, and if you say that I didn't make you tell them, they're going to think your lying and I lose either way. But in like a day I'm planning to go to New York with Nolan."

Zack walked out of the room. "You sure Michelle's going to let you come?" Nolan asked. "I don't know, I'm going to call her and ask when she's coming home."

The phone rang a few times and she answered.

Michelle// Hey Avalon, what"s up?
Avalon// Hey mom, so Nolan wants to know if I could go to New York with him and his baseball team. I was thinking that it would be an amazing opportunity for me to visit old friends and catch up. The trip is only for five days, not including the flight, and there will be adult supervision, and the flight is free so we don't need to pay anything.
Michelle// Well Avalon, I'll just have to work it out with officer Nicole back at the station, and if she says it's okay, then sure. I'll call her tonight.
Avalon// Thank you so much momma!
Michelle// See you soon Avalon.

I hung up and smiled at Nolan. "What did she say?" He asked. "She said that if officer Nicole says it's fine, then I could go!"

"Do you think Nicole will?" He asked. "Well since she's in New York, maybe. Momma said shes call her tonight."

"I have a game today. Wanna come and meet the team?" "Hell yeah." I said laughing.

"At 7, we'll head to my house and get my things." I nodded. "Now I think it's time we go downstairs." Nolan said standing up and pulling me.

I looked at him. "Don't make me." I said. "Lony, I will carry you if I have to." I laid face down on my pillow.

As soon as I knew it, Nolan picked me up and walked out while grabbing my book bag with all my things in it. "I hate you." "I know you love me." He said.

We walked down the stairs and everyone was sitting in the living room. He stopped was we made it to the middle of the staircase. "Lony shut your eyes." He said. "Why?" "Trust me."

He carried me down and then I felt fresh air hit me. He put me down. "Now you could open your eyes." We were outside next to the pool.

"Why'd you want me to shut my eyes?" "No reason." He took his shirt and vans off then jumped into the water. I took my shirt and shorts off and jumped in after him.

After swimming around for a little, he sat up on the edge of the in ground pool. And I swung my arms up and rested my head on the edge.

"You have no clue how happy I am to have someone like you." I said. Nolan laid one of hands on top of mine. "Yes I have a clue, because I feel the same way towards you." He said smiling.

"Hey Avalon! I heard everyone like, hates you now!" I turned around and saw Margo.

Nolan rolled his eyes and stood up. He helped pull me out of the pool. I took a towel and dried up. I put on my white lace crop top and shorts. Nolan was just sitting there looking at his phone.

"What are you going to run again?" She asked smiling. I swung my book bag around my shoulder. I walked up to her and stood face to face. "You've got a lot of nerve coming here and trying to tear us apart in this orphanage."

"Honey, don't you see?" She asked while placing a hand on my shoulder. "I already have." She finished.

I swiped her hand off my shoulder. "Don't touch me." I said. "Avalon! Everyone hates you here! Just run, I know the type of person you are, you're a runner. Just run and never come back and everything will be back to the way it was when I was always babysitting."

Margo placed her hand on my arm and I slapped it away. "I said to not touch me." Margo smiled. "Hunny just leave, they don't love you, they all chose me over you."

Nolan was still just sitting there on his phone. "Look Margo. Even if they don't love me, I love them and I always will. You don't understand my relationship with all of them. They saved me. They took me in when no one else would. I haven't been here for long but they already have impacted my life so hard. No matter how much you try to pull me away from them. I will find my way back, no matter how long it takes, I'm going to find my way back to MY family."

She raised her hand up and slapped me. I raised my hand up and slapped her back.

As soon as I knew it. Everyone walked out right as I hit her. "AVALON, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Jack asked. "She was the one who started, she wants to rip us apart as a family. She was the one who hit me first."

"Avalon, just leave, and don't even thing about coming back." Derek said. "You're not even acting like out sister anymore." Morgan said.

I looked at Zack, his head dropped down and looked at the ground. I looked at Margo and she was on the floor exaggerating the slap.

"She was the-" I tried to explain. "AVALON JUST LEAVE AND NEVER COME BACK." Logan yelled.

I ran inside, and heard Nolan speak to them. "You guys just don't listen do you." He walked in and grabbed my hand.

"Come on, I have your car keys, let's head to my place." We got into my jeep and drive to his house, when we got there, I passed out on his couch.