Eat Your Food. // Adopted by 5SOS

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R U B Y
"Lovey?" My small sister chimed my nickname from the doorway and looked up from my homework.
"What, opal?"
She looked at me with wide blue eyes and said,
"Can you come read to me? I'm scared. Mommy and daddy are fighting again." Her voice lowered to a whisper as she neared the end of the sentence.
"Yes. Yes, I will, O, I'm just going to put my things away and I'll be right there."
I soothed words to my little sister and she nodded and quietly made her way out the door.

"Steven! I don't care-- that's the third time you've come home late! Are you sleeping with that slut in your compound?! That's what you're doing isn't it?! You're sleeping with that little lying son of a bitch!"
My mom threw something at my dad after lecturing him.
"Honey, it's not like that. I'm working on a new paper to get this promotion my boss was talking to Carrie about the other day. I'm trying to help this family so we can make enough money to out food on the table. I'm sorry Olivia. I'm done here."

My dad calmly spoke to his raging wife and he grabbed keys and his jacket and then I heard the slam of a car door.
My mom vigorously yanked open the closed front door and screamed.
"Don't bother coming back!! Go ahead and have fun and go fuck Carrie or whoever it is this week!!"

The door slammed and I rushed to my sisters room. I promised a story and a story she'll get.

I made my way to her room and left the door ajar.

"Ruby?"
My sister whispered.
"Yeah?"
"Do you believe in love?"
She looked at me with curious eyes and I sighed.
"I'll get back to you on that one." I smile and asked, "so what kind of a story tonight, hmm?"
She giggled and said, "one where the princess falls in love with the stable boy."
I laughed at her request and began telling a story.

"Once upon a time in the land far far away.."
Her bedroom door was kicked open by my mom.
I cringed.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!"
She screamed to me.
"Well, opal was scared, so I decided that she-"
"I don't give one fuck!" She looked directly at me and spoke,
"Get in the car, we're leaving."

***

It was about a 30 minute drive of my mom lecturing and me continuing to whisper the fairy tale to my sister before the car pulled to a stop and my mom said,
"Ruby. Get out."
I kissed my sister in the cheek and got out of the car. I looked to where she had taken me.

The sign read:
Fairfield orphanage // open 24 hours

My mouth gaped as I looked back to the car. It got smaller and smaller in the distance. I heard my sister scream for me.
"Lovey!! Lovey!! Please make her come back! Come back!"
I sat and cried on the step of the orphanage.
They left me.
She left me

"Ruby? Ruby?! Ruby, dear wake up!" I was shook awake by the orphanage director.

"I'm awake." I mumbled, then hugged her, "They left me. They left me! How could they do that Miss Margaret?! How could they?!"

I screamed and she soothingly whispered into my ear.
"It's okay ruby. One day it will all be okay."
Miss Margaret said.

"Okay. "

I said. "Go back to sleep." She said and then gave me one last squeeze and then she dimmed my light and walked out of my room, shutting the door quietly.

I sat for about 1 hour before I realized that I needed to go to sleep. Tomorrow would be a gruelingly long day.
I shut my eyes and tried to think of things that could soothe me, like getting adopted by the perfect family. .

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A S H T O N

"Lads.." I walked into the big apartment, talking to the 3 boys. Their attention snapped to me, and then Luke said,
" what is it?"
I sighed.

What would they think?

"I've decided to adopt a child."
Michael smiled.
"That's great!"
They all seemed pretty happy.
"It's time I start learning some responsibility. I'm 22 years old now and I need to learn. I don't know if she'll be comfortable right away with all of you, so just be nice and make sure to be cordial of her space."
They all looked at me with wide eyes.

"She?"

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Cliffie go ahead and hate me forever
soooooory its a shitty chapter but yanno ya girl got hella writers blockkkk

signing off, 2-19-17, 1:09am

-m