Forgetting The Painful Effort

Chapter 17

Darrick's POV

I keep looking to the kids who are playing with a ball, and I wonder which one will fall to the ground next.

I think that all of them already fell at least once, but I didn't pay enough attention to know if that's actually the truth.

I'm pretty sure that someone will have to wash them, because they are already covered in the mud.

And I really doubt that their fathers will let them walk inside of the house like this.

Well, I guess that they aren't their fathers, but more like our fathers, although I still didn't really accept it.

Thankfully, they stopped forcing me to call them Papa, Tata and Dad.

I think that I would have started to go crazy by now if they didn't.

I just wish that they could start to call me Andre, because that's how the rogues called me, and I prefer to use it instead of being called Darrick.

I already told them about this a lot of times, but they never cared about it, so I gave up.

I chuckle when is see that another kid is laying on the ground.

I think that his name is Zaine, but he's one of the twins, so I guess that he might be the other one, who's called Raine.

I have don't really like the fact that they have similar names, because they already look almost identical, so I'm sure that they would like to have different names.

But it seems that they're not bothered by it, at least for now.

I look around the back yard, and I quickly notice that Tareek is feedings Roar not far from me.

The kid doesn't seem to want the milk, but Tareek looks like he's determined to feed him anyway.

"Do you want to play with us?" Landen asks me, and I want to refuse, but then I notice that Miguel and Ezra are playing with them too now, so I nod slightly.

"I have no idea how to play." I tell him while he leads me back towards our siblings.

"I will show you." Landen says with a smile.

I smile back, and then I watch as he takes the ball.

"You have to kick it like this." He tells me, and then he kicks the ball with the tip of his shoes.

"Actually." Miguel says. "You should kick it like this." He tells me, and then he kicks the ball with the side of his shoe.

"Kick it however you want, just try to make it go where you want it to go." Ezra says, and two of the smaller kids agree with him.

"Whatever." Landen says.

Ezra kicks the ball to me, and I try to kick it towards the first person that I see.

I look at it while it goes straight towards Zaine, or maybe Raine.

Actually, I think that this one might be Castiel or the other one, who's name I still can't remember.

"Well, done." Miguel says with a smile.

I smile too, and I watch the ball as it goes from one person to another.