hold on tight

Chapter five

Hi everyone, i know this is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo late and i'm really sorry, i just lost the flow of the story so yeah, this, just like the other chapters, is shit, but oh well, hope you like it........ a little bit....? Hopefully......? maybe.......?

"OK, your turn" Rebecca lay on her back in the grass next to Charlie and they were playing, believe it or not, 20 questions.

"Um" Charlie thought for a second, "Do you have any siblings, and if you do how many?" Rebecca laughed silently in her head just thinking of his reaction before replying casually, "yeah I do, I'm one of 6 adopted kids, and I have 2 new sisters and a brother coming from over seas."

Charlie rolled over to look at her. "Seriously!?" This time Rebecca laughed out loud, "yeah, I have a pretty unusually family, but I love them" Charlie rolled back onto his back and breathed out a shaky "wow....."

"So it's my turn now right?" Rebeca had thought about her next question for a while and thought it should be fine to ask. "so, Charlie, what are your sexual preferences?" "WHAT?!" Charlie sat up straight and looked down at Rebecca as if she was crazy. "That.... came out..... wrong!" She got out between laughs "you don't say...." Charlie muttered under his breath as he lay back down with a huff "I meant like, are you gay or bi or straight or anything else, you know...." She trailed off watching his expression warily. This time Charlie laughed "How did you know?! Well done!" he rolled over to look at her and she did the same. "I'm bi" he said with a smile. "So how'd your parents react when you told them?" Rebecca asked, she couldn't help be curious. "Common question, actually, my family's all christian, so people usually think that they would, like disown me, but the fact is, like less than two percent of extremely right winged Christians actually have a problem with LGBIT people, and the ones that do, just happen to be very loud mouthed and kinda bitchy people, so yeah, my adults were cool with it." Charlie finished with a shrug. "I mean, I'm probably exaggerating a bit when I say two percent" he continued, "but you get the idea, right?"

Rebecca was surprised to say the least, she had always thought all Christians were really homophobic, but turns out she was wrong. Charlie laughed at her expression, "OK so my turn for a question." Rebecca re-positioned herself on her side to get comfortable, and looked back up at him "have you ever met your real parents?" Charlie asked

"Define real...?" before Charlie could answer, Rebecca sighed and kept talking "I assume you're talking about my birth parents, but to me my adoptive parents are my real parents." she sighed again rolling away from him onto her back. "But I have met my birth parents. I lived with them for the first few years of my life"

Charlie shuffled over and awkwardly patted her shoulder "I'm so sorry, how did they die?" Rebecca knew he was trying to be considerate and understanding but, she just couldn't stop the laugh that came out. In between giggles she managed to get chuckle out her explanation to a confused looking charlie. "My birth givers..... aren't... dead. They were both.... abusive alcohol..... and drug..... addicts" After this she finally sobered up enough to finish her sentence "they both got taken away after they were caught physically abusing me, and well, they are the only people on earth that I hate"

After seeing charlies shocked and slightly worried expression Rebecca elaborated "But don't worry, I honestly find them hilarious, I mean I've seen them once since, and they're really nice and stuff, and you can see they want to make it up to me, but they're not my parents anymore, if you know what I mean....? she trailed off and there was an awkward silence, which was slowly broken by the drawn out sound of charlies tummy rumbling, and then they both burst out laughing.

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2 days later

"OK, so let me get this straight, you met a random guy on the internet, and then you MET UP WITH HIM AND NOW YOU'RE MAKING A YOUTUBE CHANEL TOGETHER, AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN THINK TO TELL ME, YOUR BEST FRIEND SINCE FOREVER!!"  Rebecca sighed, there was no way she was getting out of this "yes i told you already, his name's charlie and he's our age, it's not like he's some 80 year old pedo" Lucia paced up and down the gum splattered concrete of the school, next to their usual spot, muttering under her breath.

John suddenly appeared, and plopped down on the seat next to Rebecca "so, what happened this time" he said alerting them both to his presence.

Without waiting for a breath Lucia started talking "BECCA FOUND A PEDO ON THE INTERNET AND NOW SHE SEEING HIM ON A REGULAR BASES AND SHE GOING TO GET RAPED AND GET AIDS AND DIE!!!!" apparently satisfied with her explanation Lucia returned to her pacing and muttering while john turned to look at Rebecca. "so, I'm just throwing a wild guess out there, but I get the feeling Luce is slightly exaggerating" Rebecca let out a huff before replying "OK, so here's what happened......"

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"........ so then we decided it might be easier to just do stuff on YouTube until we figure out the radio, and then people can still call in and stuff and we'll answer questions and stuff, so yeah, I'm not about to get raped.." John stared at Rebecca for a few seconds before responding "well, that was stupid, brave, idiotic, naive, and sweet all at the same time so, I think I'll just settle with teasing you about it." he finished with a smile. Lucia had calmed down considerably since John arrived and was now sitting cross-legged on the ground in front of them, but she still sighed exasperatedly when John let Rebecca off the hook "I seriously can't believe you would let her get away with that. Number 1" Lucia lectured holding up a finger "she meets up with a stranger from the internet, and that's just asking for trouble, but more importantly, number 2 she didn't tell us her best friends, I mean, something could have happened and we would have no idea!! Don't you feel betrayed!"

John laughed and pulled Lucia up onto the bench next to him and gave her a side hug. "I totally feel betrayed honey, but I'm sure Becca thought it through before she went off smoking with the strangers" Lucia pouted but droped the topic.