Talia Accardi had been in the foster system since she was 2. She was left at the fire station with nothing but a purple elephant stuffie and a gold locket. As she grew up bouncing from one family to another, each family being worse than the previous...
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I couldn't stay in that house any longer, how the fuck do you 'forget' to call your best friend, I swear they may be my best friends family but I could have beat the crap out of them, maybe it would have knocked some sense into them. I still couldn't help but think of Talia and where she is, I just hope she's safe and out of trouble, and then it hits me.
"Oh shit, I know where she is."
I hop into my car and speed off out of the gates towards the spot where we first met, I remember how saying how beautiful and tranquil it is and it's not too far from the bar where we last saw her on CCTV. I know, I was confused on why she used tranquil and not something less complicated like the other 17-year-olds do and then I came to the conclusion that she is way smarter than the rest of us.
I pull up at the bottom of the hill and run up as fast as I can, when I get to the top I see her. Passed out on the floor there's an empty bottle of vodka and an empty bottle of gin, there's also an untouched bottle of lemonade which I assume she was going to use as a mixer, I look at the bench and see a baggie with pills in it, however it was open and only a few remained, next to it lay a full bag of what I assumed to be cocaine that was untouched. Thank god. I scoop her up and being to go back down the hill, "ahh lu-bear welcome to the partyyy its nice of you to join us." I look down at her and see her looking back up at me. "Why did you do this to yourself coniglietta?" She looks at me as tears begin to well in her eyes, "It hurts Lu, it hurts knowing that while they were here playing happy families I was getting beat and ra-, tortured every day and they didn't call to check up on me once." What was she going to say before she stopped herself? "You know the first time they used me I went to the orphanage and guess what." I didn't reply. "Luis fricking guess what." I sigh, "What baby." She releases a big dramatic sigh "the stupid meanies weren't even there so guess what lu-bear." I put her in the passenger seat and climb in. "What." She starts laughing, "I went to Mikes house, and guess what I found." I rub my forehead, "what did you find T." She looks at me in disbelief before laughing even harder. "Nothing. He wasn't freaking there genius."
She goes quiet for a second. "Hey, Lu-bear, why do people always leave me behind?" "I don't know love, but I promise we're here now" I look over at her and see her slumped over, "Gio I don't feel so good." I pull over and I look at her only to see her spaced out and before I knew it she had her head out the door throwing up, I looked up and she started to seize. "Oh fuck." I quickly pull her back into the car, lay her down and put her in the recovery position. I reach behind me and grab my phone to call Matteo. "Yo dude." Of course, his sister is missing and he answers with 'yo dude'. "I found your sister but we need the family doctor ready for when we get there." I can hear him shout a string of curses and the others asking him what's wrong. "What happened to her." Not exactly the right time to stop and have a chat really. "I don't have time to tell you mate get the doctor ready and when we get here I'll tell you." I see she's stopped seizing but it looks like she threw up blood. I get back into my seat and speed back to the house.
