Fake Friends - Jaden Hossler

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December 18th 2020

-Jaden Hossler-

"Kenna" Piper says walking up to the young girl laying on the grass as she stands up.  "did your dad do this to you?"

When Kenna gets up you see bruises forming on her arms.

"Yeah he did" she whispers as Piper embraces her in a hug and looks at me with tears in her eyes.

"Wanna go get food and talk" I ask the two girls in front of me.

"Sure" Kenna replies as we walk back up to the truck.

"Where do you wanna eat" Piper asks as Kenna is sat in the middle of the backseat.

"I don't really care, I'm not even that hungry so we can go wherever" Kenna replies pulling on a hoodie Piper have her.

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"So how long has this been going on" Piper asks the girl sat in front of us eating French fries.

"Since my mom died. But don't worry, once I get myself emancipated I'll be fine" Kenna says taking a bite of her burger.

"What's stopping you from that" Piper asks. 

"I need a stable job, and with social anxiety and unexplained seizures I've gotten in the past, and I'd have to find a place to stay and rent in LA is gonna be crazy" she says fiddling with a fry in her hand.

"Come work for me then, you could be my assistant, work at the infamous warehouse, you could be my filmer, your pick I just wanna help. And I just moved into a bigger house then the one everybody knows about so we have a lot of spare rooms. What do you say" Piper says getting so excited.

"Why do you wanna help me of all people. I'm just a useless piece of shit" Kenna says crossing her arms.

"If your dad told you that I'm gonna seriously throw some hands" I say, I'm really pissed off at this dude.

"Jaden once said and it's something to live by, Everyone deserves support, love and compassion" Piper says.

x x x x x

December 22nd, 2020

-Piper Meyers-

"Hey Mac" I shout from the living room as the girl runs over from the kitchen.

"Yeah" She says sitting down next to me on the couch.

"Just wanted to ask how your doing. Last night was your first night without having to worry about your dad, just wanna Make sure your doing ok" I say as she nods the tears ready to stream down her face.

You can see it in her eyes she's really not ok.

"I miss my mom" she says as the tears stream down her cheeks. "I miss how my life used to be. My dad wasn't addicted to drinking and doing drugs, life was great"

"I'm so sorry" I say embracing her in a hug.

"I think I'm gonna start thearpy" She says when we pull away, as she wipes the tears from her cheeks.

"Ok, that sounds like a great idea" I say as she gets up.

"Want a glass of water" She asks heading towards the door.

"Sure" I reply as she heads off to the kitchen.

x x x x x

"So how was your day" Jaden asks laying down beside me.

"It was alright" I reply as we turn on Disney plus.

"I wanna watch Frozen" Jaden says sticking out his bottom lip pouting.