Short Story: Home

“We’re not doing so good mom. Can you talk to Amelia? She doesn’t understand why Veronica left and she won’t listen to me.” I ask. “Of course honey.” My mom and I walk into Amelia’s room.

They all cared for one another. “I noticed he was crying. That frightened me. He wasn’t planning on being gone all that long; I figured he wouldn’t be crying unless he intended to take some big risks and knew he might not be coming back. That’s when I started having a bad feeling that we wouldn’t ever see Alex again.”

After Mike explained the situation, Alex was silent for a long time and then finally said:

“Maxwell! I love you so much, but you won’t let me do what’s right. You keep fighting me.” She keeps crying through her words. Maxwell holds her tighter and says, “Jada, you’re asking the impossible of me. Giving you up is not an option. I’m sure as hell not going to do that so that you can go to another man. Hell no!”

“You can, you can come back,” Anna pleaded, sounding defiant, as if she believed hard enough, she could will it to happen. “I’m sure they’re fine, I’ve come back from worse than what they took that night.”

I haven’t been able to sleep for the past month. I hear my door creak and I look at the door. I see someone open the door very slowly before coming in. I look to see Maria tiptoeing into my room. “What are you doing?” I ask “You know your mom would kill me if she saw us.”

“Mom?” Veronica gasped, and realized how little the woman huddled over her drink looked like the woman in the photograph, but it was definitely her mother. Her mother who’d been drunk for probably months, sleeping in her car and crashing on friends’ couches, looked so little like her mother who’d tucked her in before bed years ago, and made her breakfast in the morning. “Mom?” Ignoring tears in her eyes, Veronica tried to get her mom’s attention, to get her eyes to focus on her only.

Tessa did not think that she would ever go back to Pennsylvania because her mom and sister abandon her and her dad went to prison when she was three. Until she finds out that her dad is dying so she has to fly back to Pennsylvania to see her dad in the prison. When Tessa gets in town she has to go to the Greenwoods house to stay because they are like family. Maggie gets Tessa up the next morning to go see her dad, When they get there the girl at the front desk said he passed away last night. The next plot element is when Tessa hears from Maggie that four girls got kidnapped, then killed, and dumped on the road I-70 by the Ohio river, that made Tessa think about the night in the greenwoods old home.

"More than anything, I just want you to know that there is more than one person you can lean on. You may have someone up their who you are relying on, but you have two incrediably strong sons who would never wish to see their mother in pain like this. Whatever the outcome we finally get your boys will be strong for you and in return I'm sure you will be strong for them."[/b]

“Jack Bass” By Marina Rivera Jack Bass is a millionaire who comes from a very wealthy family. About a year ago, his older brother, Bart Bass, passed away. Bart left his son, Chuck Bass, in control of his company called Bass Industries. Jack and Chuck have had a lot of problems in the past. Chuck had a rough past of losing his mom as a kid, drinking, doing drugs, and never feeling loved.

What if mom is out drinking? Or maybe passed out drunk in some strange man’s house!” She cried out. Jane fell back onto the concrete, quietly weeping into her hands. I sighed, and joined her on the sidewalk.

“Hello? I'm trying to talk to you, Jayme. Get your head out of your butt and listen to your mother.” she said, as she walked out of the room. I then turn in her direction. I see, in her hand, another bottle, empty.

During the night, John was sleeping and unexpectedly he heard a noise coming from the living room, he woke up and after going to the hallway, noticed that his mother was there, drugged again.

"Mallory, are you expecting to raise this child? You are just a teenager, you can't. What would you do about school? I am not going to let you end your dreams because of some mistake that your ex-boyfriend caused." She starts ranting, but doesn't realize she has said one thing so incorrect that it hurts.

“At least she has gone to a better place.” Stephanie whispered to herself. As Stephanie wiped a tear of her face, she spotted Lila huddled up in the corner weeping her heart out. Stephanie knew that Amanda was Lila’s cousin, but she was too afraid to say anything. If she was caught talking to someone like Lila, her social status would be ruined! It would make her from the most popular girl to the 37 millionth popular girl. She can’t do that to herself...can she? She had to do what was right. She couldn’t let Lila suffer in silence. She had to be there for her. After all, that is pretty much the only thing they had in common.