If you had a secret, a secret that would have the power to change everything, would you tell it? Best friends aren’t meant to keep secrets, but there are some things that you just can’t tell. The thing is, how do you keep a secret without lying?
Let me start from the beginning, or rather the present. The now. The right this minute, let me explain what I mean. I have three friends, three very good friends, they mean a lot to me, but I can’t tell them my secret. They won’t ever, ever look at me the same way – and to be honest, I don’t look at myself the same way anymore. My life has turned upside down, and it was relatively off centre in the first place. I am an orphan, I have been for a very long time, or at least I thought I was. It’s confusing.
My name is Katherine Joanna Jones, but my best friends know me as Katie Lucas, my other ‘friends’ simply know me as Thorne. I am fifteen years old and I go to a state school in Stevenage, a town which is about an hour’s drive away from where I actually live. I told you already that I’m an orphan, but I wasn’t always on my own. I used to have a big brother, his name was Dope. He was actually called Dave but I always knew him as Dope, it wasn’t until it was nearly too late that I realised why he was called Dope. My earliest memory of my brother is from when I was about five. We’d been on the road for my whole life, I didn’t know that somewhere out there I had a mum and dad, I didn’t know what a mum and dad was: all I knew was Dope.
He was clever back then, back in the early days. He was a scrawny little kid with the task of looking after a scrawny little baby. He was ten years old when we left home, I was barely three. God knows how he managed it, I guess it was just one of those things, sometimes you can’t decide it’s too hard, you have to find a way to deal with it, deal with it and move on. Little ten year old Dope moved from street to street, hand in hand with his baby sister. I know he did the right thing in taking us away, hundreds of people have tried to tell me that he was wrong, that he should’ve let the authorit
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Only the Strong Survive (McFly FanFic)
FanfictionThorne grew up as an orphan in the care of her older brother. They lived on the streets, trading, fighting, stealing, doing whatever they could to stay alive. Then Dope died, and Thorne was left alone, scared and a potential threat to a mass of unde...
