INTERLUDE

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by stickynote420

by stickynote420

Mickey was laying in the bed, staring up at the pasty white ceiling. It was bare, no sign of the graffiti she was used to. Of course, that was because it wasn't her ceiling. She wasn't in her room, she wasn't in her house. She was in a group home.

At sixteen years of age, she was put into a group home. She was too old to be placed with a foster family, too old for anyone to want to take in. She would be stuck in this home until her eighteenth birthday, then kicked out on her ass with nothing to her name and no one to help her survive.

Unless Tyler could succeed in his mission of getting guardianship.

Her earphones blasted music into her ears, drowning out the sounds of the other teenage girls that surrounded her. Her phone was long dead, had been for days, maybe even weeks. She had a small mp3 player tucked under her hip and old 80s songs on shuffle.

The room they were housed in was small, barely enough to fit the fifty girls that were placed there. The beds were all bunked, and luckily for her she scored a top bunk. Although she didn't see any of this as luck.

She wasn't lucky.

She was very much unlucky. Stuck in a group home, surrounded by girls she didn't care to get to know. Dragged out of her home, her life upended. Nothing about that was lucky.

Life at home wasn't good, but she was content with it. Mickey was fine with the bickering between her and Roxy, with the roof over her head and her friends by her side. She was fine. Now, all that was ripped away from her.

Mickey felt a tap on her shoulder and pulled her earphones out of her ears to acknowledge one of the women who ran the home. She turned her head and looked at her.

"Mikayla, your brother's here to see you."

Mickey nodded her head and sat up and, jumping off the bunk. Her feet collided with the ground and she followed the route to the office on autopilot. Placing her hand on the door handle, she pushed the door open and stepped inside.

Before she had the chance to close it, Tyler trapped her in a tight embrace which she returned, tightening her fist around the material of his hoodie.