Category: Writers Block
Jeremy Adam Quinn walked in to the room. He picked up the harness for his guide dog and walked downstairs with a suitcase he had packed earlier that day. He had been planning to leave his abusive home for weeks but had never actually acted on it until now. “Nicky,“ he called the dog then slipped the harness on him then he opened the door and walked out. He let the suitcase role behind him he didn’t care what his family knew if they cared they wouldn’t have treated him the way that they did he thought.
He started walking he crossed the street outside his house and continued up towards the highway. He made a daring crossing and managed not to get hit. He heard a voice calling out he didn’t recognize it but sure it was calling to him. “Hey dude with the dog come with me I will keep you safe.”
“I don’t need any help” he replied. “Yes you do man don’t lie to me I can see you from here I see the marks of physical abuse the pain clearly shows.” Jeremy walked towards the voice he guessed that the man was between twenty and thirty years old he found himself at the side of a large truck. “Get in p I will get your stuff.” Jeremy with considerable ease got in to the truck then Nicky got in with him the man put his suitcase in the back of the truck then started driving. “I have a house where I take in kids if you want to live with me my girlfriend and the others right now I got ten kids living with me.” “I don’t go through family services for all the kids but they do have to know you’re there.”
Jeremy thought about it what if family services tells my brother he thought some more and decided to ask a very important question. “Will my brother Marshal have to know?” “From the look of you dude no cause family services won’t let you go back to him at all I don’t think.”
“I don’t want to live with him I have really no other place to go but with you and I hope family services will just let me stay there and not place me somewhere else.” “That's usually what they do when I tell them about another kid moving in they just have to know they most likely won’t even let your brother know.”
“What’s your name?”
“Jeremy Quinn” he said you “I am Ben Adams your name is familiar where did you go to school or I should say where do you go to school?”
“I go to Central High School its the only school in town that lets me bring Nicky with me I got Nicky A year ago when I was sixteen.” “That’s cool we’re close to the house I have to check the mail and then we’ll be there after that so don’t get out until I stop the second time.” Jeremy heard Ben turn a key in the mailbox then he felt pain shoot down his spine he figured that Marshal’s morning torture was catching up to him. Ben Adams noticed the pain in the boy’s eyes he didn’t ask though he already knew.
Jeremy felt himself being lifted and carried in to the house. He woke up some time later on that night in a bed that was unfamiliar to him. He wondered what time it was he saw that a small light was on the other side of the room and got up. “it’s ok man its just me Andy” a deep voice said quietly. “what time is it” he asked sleepily. “It’s eleven o’clock be careful on your left your dog is there and so is your suitcase.” “Thanks he said as he found his stuff and unpacked some tapes his father had bought he had found them that morning in a drawer in his brother’s room with his papers about his check and medical insurance. He put in the first of the ten tapes and heard his father’s voice coming out of the machine. “Trust a man named Ben Adams. If you ever get in to trouble if he is coming your way trust him I couldn’t be more serious son. I am here in the hospital and the doctors say I am not going to make it that is why I had Marshal pick up the tapes. I know son that you and he don’t get along and I know he takes his feelings out on you. So I have Ben watch the roads for you and Nicky. He has a place for you just in case you will get an e-mail from an id you don’t know saying nothing but if you need to leave that is Ben.” Jeremy stopped the tape in shock he had gotten that message three weeks after his father had died. “Hey I sent that message, Ben couldn’t at the time, and I go to school with you and one time I noticed the marks that I know well.” Andy said this with quite difficulty, but Jeremy knew he had meant well. “I thought something about what he had said was odd he said that my name sounded familiar but didn’t explain any further.” Jeremy knew that things would be more surprising by the minute around there he just didn’t expect what came from Andy next. “I am your brother, your mom well our mom had me eight months before she had you she gave me up right when I was born in an open adoption and then married your dad. I lived with my adopted parents until I was twelve when they died from a plane crash I am now paralyzed from it and then I was put in foster care and finally they decided to place me here when it was discovered that Ben was talking to our mom again. She knew that you and Marshal couldn’t know of this yet so she just told your dad about Ben and left it at that of course I met him and he knew that I knew our mom but didn’t know I was her son.” Jeremy looked shocked “so your saying that my mom had you then me then marshal? “Yeah that’s exactly what I am saying.”
Jeremy looked at the floor in shock.
Pretty good, but one problem. they can't be eight months apart. Lol! the allen guy had to be born when she was two months already pregnant. So, he has to be at least a year apart.