What it takes to be in The Gang

~~ Chapter 1 ~~

Before me and Kyle started dating I was the only one in the whole neighbourhood who wasn’t afraid to swing a punch at him. If he wasn’t my boyfriend, I could still beat him up if you asked me to. He’s not as tough as he looks!

The rest of the gang are all terrified of him. To be honest, I don’t even know why. He’s not that muscular or scary looking. He’s actually quite hot though. Normally I don’t go for “hot” guys, but Kyle is different, underneath his black guy-liner there is a real person. He’s not into football or “hot chicks”, unlike all the other idiots at my school.

Being in the gang is awesome. You would think that being the only girl in the gang I would be weak, having all these boys looking out for me. I’m the opposite though. Kyle gets all worked up is I hang around with the other guys too much, (which is kind of annoying, but also mega sweet) so he taught me how to defend myself. I can floor a guy three times my own weight if I need to.

Almost every girl at school avoids me, I can understand why. I mean,

(a).  If they were seen with me, the gang would probably tell them to push off or else.

(b). If they ever talked to me Kyle would swoop in to say I’m “his”.

I know this probably makes Kyle sound awful, but trust me, he is the most amazing guy I have ever met and he totally “gets” me, which is great.

To be honest,  I love just being in a little bubble with the gang, there like  a second family to me. Which is great because my own family is pretty wrecked.

My mum’s in jail for theft and my dad’s out drinking most nights. But I don’t mind, I get on better without them. Being an only child with no parents around is great, I can eat whatever I want when I want, and no matter how late home I am I never get in trouble because my dad’s too drunk to even notice I’m gone. Whenever I get lonely I head over to the old skate park to meet the gang or I go over to Kyle’s house.

Talking of Kyle, here he comes now.

“Hey Babe” his soft lips move closer and he plants a passionate kiss on mine.

“Hey” I answer as we break apart.

I don’t want to make you all jealous but he’s such a great kisser. His lips taste like sweet sugar and his breath smells of mint, despite his bad habit of smoking. I have tried cigarettes a couple of times and they reek. Kyle always tells me he regrets starting to smoke and he wants to stop but it’s just so hard. I completely understand, my mum used to smoke more than one pack a day until she had me. Whenever my dads not drunk or having a bad hangover I ask him about mum. He says that she was so grumpy for the first few years of my life because she found it so hard to stop. Now she only smokes one cigarette a day so she’s getting better.  I hope Kyle stops soon, I could never live with myself if he died of lung cancer.

 “You ready?” he looks over my shoulder to see my dad lying asleep on the couch. I don’t mind though. Me and Kyle have been mates for a while now and i know he won’t tell anyone. I trust him.

“Just coming” I grab my school bag and lock the door behind me.

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<A/N>

Hey guys! So... what do you so far? I hope none of you find the narritave too "in your face!" type of thing. I tried to make it normal, but bringing out some of Natalie's personality as well.

If I get feedback etc. etc. I will upload tomorrow, as I am away from Friday to Tuesday. So yeah.

love, Catriona xx 

PS. This chapter is dedicated to my awesome brother Arran who is around 12 years younger than me - he is so cute!!  :)