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|Rebel|
 

Why was I crying? Why was I so upset over nothing? I hardly know him; I shouldn’t be acting this way about the situation.
I gently patted the tears off my cheeks; thank god I was wearing water-proof mascara and luckily my eyeliner didn’t smear. Sniffling, I looked down at the tile floor.
 
“Are you alright?” I heard a voice ask softly.
 
I looked up and stared into someone’s baby blue eyes – they weren’t quite as stunning as Andy’s, but they were still really pretty.
 
“Yeah I guess.” I shrug.
 
“No you aren’t.” He points out the obvious.
 
“Who are you?” I ask, trying to avoid the question.
 
“Alex.” He smiled softly before sticking his hand out.
 
“Hi…” I nod slightly and he slowly put his hand back at his side.
 
“I didn’t catch your name.” He says.
 
“Rebel.” I mutter.
 
“Cool name.” He smiled.
 
“Whatever.” I shrug.
 
“Are you going to tell me why you’re crying?” He asks with a soft gaze.
 
“No. Why would I tell a stranger my problems?” I ask sort of feeling uncomfortable.
 
“I think it’s easier to tell a stranger, because they know nothing about you so how is rumors going to get started and all the fun high school drama.” He chuckled.
 
“Yeah…” I nod slightly.
 
“So? You going to tell me?” Alex asked again.
 
“No.” I shook my head and stood up onto my feet before walking past him.
 
He didn’t follow me, luckily. I was able to just leave on my own. To be honest, he was starting to kind of creep me out a little bit. I didn’t even know him yet he was trying to learn my secrets. That’s just a little odd and I wasn’t comfortable with that.
 
After walking for a few minutes, I had finally reached the store that said ‘Hot Topic’ with a large sign that said ‘ASKING ALEXANDRIA meet & greet’ so that’s obviously where Danny is. It also looked like my kind of store, so I walked inside and I soon seen the store packed with fans wearing Asking Alexandria merchandise and happily waiting in a long line to meet the band.
 
“Rebel! Come over here!” Danny called with a happy smile.
 
I felt my cheeks burn up and I sheepishly made my way over to the table where Danny and the rest of Asking Alexandria sat. Danny gave me a quick hug and told me to set my bags under the table so I didn’t have to carry them. After thanking him and setting my stuff down I let him know that I was going to look around the store for a bit.
 
“Where’s Andy?” Danny asked before I walked out of hearing range.
 
“With some red head…” I shrugged my shoulders before slouching over a bit and I stalked around the large store full of cool things.
 
With a large smile, I picked up some hair dye and looked over it. I held onto the jar of dye in my hands and I looked at some new makeup and got a few clothing and accessory items.
 
After picking out all the stuff I wanted, I walked over to the counter and paid for everything. Luckily most of the stuff I got was on sale so it wasn’t as expensive. I had four big bags full of stuff that I had just got and I as actually pretty happy that Danny gave me that card. I do believe it’ll come in handy.
 
“There you are! Do you know how long I’ve been looking for you?” Andy’s voice said sounding sort of frightened.
 
“I’m sorry.” I shrug.
 
“Please don’t run off again.” He asks. “I thought I was going to have to tell Danny and then let him kick my ass.” Andy hissed with a weak chuckle.
 
“You seemed busy and I wasn’t going too disturb.” I tell him honestly.
 
“Don’t run away from me again. I really like being in one piece, I don’t need Danny breaking me in half.” He said with wide eyes causing me to let out a giggle.
 
“I’m truly sorry, Andy.” I tell him.
 
“… You’re a liar.” He smirks.
 
“How can you tell?” I giggled.
 
“Because I can see that evil glint in your eye.” He snickered.
 
“Oh shut up.” I laugh.
 
“I’m going to do a little shopping, please don’t run off again.”
 
“I won’t.” I nod and he walks off and starts looking at stuff.

|Rebel|
 

“Okay, so I have to go to a meet and greet at Hot Topic. So, Rebel I want you too have this, go buy anything and everything you want and meet me in the food court in about an hour. Andy will stay with you and show you around. Have fun.” Danny smiled softly, handing me a credit card before running off with a bunch of fans screaming his name behind him.
 
A sigh escaped my lips as I stared down at the small piece of plastic now in the palm of my hand.
Danny’s credit card…
I look up at Andy and he smiled back at me softly.
 
“Wanna go to Spencer’s? They have cool lights there.” Andy offers.
 
“Lead the way.” I mutter quietly and I follow Andy around the mall.
 
Soon we had made it too a dark store that was playing some sort of weird music and it had strobe lights, disco balls and fog machines going off around the store.
It was quite…Um, interesting I guess you could say.
 
“Well,” I paused for a moment. “This seems interesting…” I say unsure.
 
Andy laughed a little.
 
“Yeah, it’s pretty weird but I’ll take you to the cool lights.” He smiles and guides me through the store.
 
After getting a few small lights that I wanted, we had walked out of the store and walked into a few more stores before we stopped in front of the pet store where there was a bench and we sat down for a break.
 
“So how you liking it out here so far?” Andy asked breaking the silence.
 
“I haven’t seen much of it yet, but from what I’ve seen, I love Danny’s house and I already dislike school.” I admit.
 
“Disliking school already?” He chuckles softly.
 
“Those bullies that were chasing you kind of ruined my aspect of how school is going to be.” I say.
 
“That was nothing honestly… I’ve had worse done to me. I’ve almost been run over by one of them in a car.” He shuttered.
 
“I’m sorry you have to go through that.” I sigh.
 
“It’s alright, it isn’t your fault.”
 
“It’s not yours either. Because you’re different is no reason to be picked on. And don’t think I’m not going to make this a thing.” I stated causing Andy to chuckle a bit.
 
“You seem pretty determined.” He tells me.
 
“Well, once you’ve gone through the stuff I have, it becomes a habit I guess.” I shrugged.
 
Andy went to open his mouth to say something but was almost instantly cut off by the sound of his own name being called in a females voice.
 
We both turned to see a red headed girl running out of Victoria’s Secret with her arms open as if she were about to hug the air, and she has a large grin plastered across her face outlined in her bright red lipstick.
 
Andy smiled wide before jumping off the bench and just about flew over to her and he wrapped his long, thin arms around her small body and spun her around in a hug.
 
Aside from wanting a family to actually keep me longer than four months, I wanted nothing more than too be held in my lover’s arms happily. Cuddle, kiss him, be his and have him be mine.
 
Something in my head just sort of snapped seeing them – I felt tears welt up in my eyes, and I really didn’t understand why suddenly I was getting all emotional.
 
Oddly enough, I felt as if my heart was breaking and I couldn’t understand the reason that caused this. Was it because of that girl and Andy? I only just met him; I couldn’t have fallen for him already, could I?
 
I stood up taking my bags off the floor quickly and before Andy or his girl could say anything, I had run off. I really didn’t know where I was going because I’ve never been here before, it was all new too me. But I guess I’d find out soon enough.
 
I felt warm tears streaming down my cheeks and when I thought I was pretty far away from Andy, I just slowed down and continued walking ahead with tears running off my cheeks.

 
Quiet sobs escaped my lips every so often… Finally I found the hall that lead to an exit door and the hall was empty, luckily. I walked down it alone and set my bags down before sliding down the wall – sitting on the floor and I just balled my eyes out into my hands.
 
I cried because I was confused, I cried because I was annoyed at myself, I cried because I just felt crushed and alone and hurt. I didn’t know what to do anymore so I just cried until someone noticed me missing.

|Rebel|
 

Andy and I were sat in the backseat of Danny’s car.
I offered to let him sit up front, he offered for me to sit there, but in the end we both agreed to just sit in the back since neither of us was making up our minds.
 
The whole ride to the mall, Danny was on the phone, I’m pretty sure it was Cameron, but I could be wrong.
Leaning my head against my hand, I gaze out the window watching our surroundings passing by quickly.
Andy was busy texting on his phone; He reminded me of me. He was really fast at typing, and I’m the same way.
 
A quiet yawn escaped my lips and I slowly looked up at Andy’s perfect face and notice him staring at me from the corner of his eyes.
I blush and awkwardly look down at my hands before I started playing with my fingers.
 
“You okay?” Andy asks softly and I blushed deeper.
 
“Yeah. Are you?”
 
“Yup.” He smiled.
 
I nodded slowly with a shy smile and I turned my attention back to the window.
Soon enough, I could see the very large building ahead of us – the mall.
I had never actually been to a mall I guess you could say; but I have seen them in movies and stuff.
 
Danny parked the car and he got out whilst still talking on his phone.
I tried to open the door on my side but I believe Danny had the child locks on, so I wasn’t able to get out.
Even after calling his name multiple times, he was too busy talking to hear me.
 
I reach over to open Andy’s door and he grabbed my arm.
Raising my eyebrow in confusion, I look up at him with a weird expression.
 
“What?” I ask.
 
“It’s a man’s job to open doors for beautiful women.” Andy smiles making me blush again.
 
He opened the door and went to get out but he was caught on the seat belt, resulting in him falling over the seat and hanging half in the car, half out.
Laughter erupted from him and his face turned a pink color from embarrassment.
 
I started laughing hard and after a moment I was clutching my sides.
Andy blushed darker and tried to pull himself back up.
 
“That didn’t go as planned.” He blushed.
 
I continued laughing.
 
“Oh you think that’s funny, don’t you?” He gives me this weird look and I could tell he was holding back his laughter.
 
“Very funny.” I smirk and nod before I try to climb over him.
 
He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me down on top of him.
I gasp loudly and squeal at the sudden quick movement.
 
“Andy!” I hissed at him.
 
This time, he laughed.
 
I blushed darker and lightly smacked him in the chest.
He flashed me a small smile as he stared straight into my eyes.
 
“Your eyes are beautiful.” I admit, surprising myself because I didn’t mean to say that out loud.
 
“I say the same to yours.” He blushes.
 
“Haven’t known her an hour yet and already putting the moves on her, yeah? Oh Andy, you little charmer.” Danny’s voice chirped making both me and Andy blush.
 
He slowly pushed us back up and he climbed out of the car and offered me his hand which I gladly took and he pulled me out of the car carefully with a smile.
I shut the door and Andy kept hold of my hand as we followed Danny into the mall.

|Rebel|
 

We pulled into the driveway and I was mesmerized by Danny’s beautiful house.
Honestly it was absolutely gorgeous from the outside.
I smiled slightly and Danny climbed out of the car, I slowly got out without taking my eyes off his beautiful house.
 
“Like it?” Danny chuckled quietly.
 
“It’s gorgeous.” I gasp with wide eyes.
 
“Thank you.” He smiles and pulls out my bag, my laptop bag and I got out Robin from the back seat.
 
Danny took my things into the house, leaving me out by the car as I quietly talked to Robin even though he was fast asleep not even listening to what I was saying.
With a small smile I shut the car doors when I heard something that made me flinch a little bit.
 
I squint my eyes and look down the street and notice three large boys – looked like football players chasing a smaller boy.
I watch cautiously as the four boys grew closer.
From where I was, you could hear the large boys laughing and shouting profanities at the smaller boy.
 
Bullies.
 
I hissed before taking a few steps forwards, my white/blonde hair blew slightly in a gentle breeze.
As the boys got closer, the three who were chasing a kid were all wearing football jerseys and of course, being football players they were much bigger than the other boy.
 
The smaller boy – the on being chased, was a taller than me, and just a little bit shorter than the three larger boys.
He wore black skinny jeans, a black, skin tight long sleeved shirt, his jet black hair was cut similar to mine, his fringe covered some of his face and he was wearing black converse shoes.
 
He was smaller than the others, but he was much faster.
Without falling over, he jumped over the knee high fence to the house just across the street from Danny’s, and he ran into that house, slamming the door shut making me jump back a little bit.
 
The three football players laughed until they were red in the face and they all clutched their sides as they howled with laughter,
I glared at them – I really wanted to know if that boy was okay and if they had hurt him.
He was moving so quick it was hard to tell what his face looked like.
 
“What’d he do to you guys?!” I spat at them, my accent just dripping with venom as I continued to glare daggers at them.
 
“Oh Jason, look at her.” One of the boys smirked causing all three of them to shift their attention to me.
 
“Hey baby, how are you today?” Jason smirked and they all started taking steps closer to me.
 
I backed up slowly only to run into the back of Danny’s car.
I look above the jocks heads and notice the boy they were once chasing, had opened the door.
When he seen what was going on, he ran out of the house and pushed one of the boys and they all turned to him and fists began to fly.
 
I wasn’t going to let the strange boy get beat up for trying to save me.
Without thinking, I sprung from my spot and starts punching Jason in the back pretty hard.
A few seconds later, I was picked up by the waist and I squealed until I realized it was Danny.
He quickly set me down by his car and shouted at the bigger boys and they all quickly scrambled away from Danny.
Danny helped the thin boy off the ground and I quickly rushed back over to him.
 
“Are you okay?! Is he okay?!” I panic causing the boy to chuckle quietly.
 
I look up at him and gaze at his perfectly shaped face, his gorgeous blue eyes shined slightly in the sunlight.
Danny patted my back softly.
 
“I’m alright.” He says in a deep voice sending shivers throughout my body.
 
“Look at you, you little fire cracker. God, haven’t even lived with me twenty-four hours yet and you’re already in fist fights.” Danny chuckles.
 
“I was trying to help him.” I look at my shoes and shift my weight to my left foot.
 
“I came back out to help you. I wasn’t going to let Jason and his army, touch you.” The boy says.
 
“Thank you for looking out for her.” Danny tells him.
 
The boy nodded.
 
“Well I’m glad you’re both okay. Anyway, Andy this is my daughter Rebel.”
 
“Wicked name.” Andy smiled.
 
“Rebel, that’s Andy. The boy I was telling you about.” Danny smiled.
 
“Hi Andy.” I smiled softly and extended my hand out to him.
 
Andy chuckled before ignoring my hand and he pulled me into a gentle hug.
For some weird reason I felt a wave of happiness wash over me.
His embrace felt so right.
 
I wrapped my arms around his torso, hugging him back and a few seconds later he had pulled away with a smile.
Danny smirked and cleared his throat causing my cheeks to heat up and I took a step away from Andy, so I was closer to Danny.
 
“Andy, is your parent’s home?” Danny asks.
 
“No, my dad is at work and my mom went to go pick up my cousin, she should be home sometime tomorrow morning.” Andy says.
 
“Oh okay, well I’m taking Rebel shopping to go pick some things out for her room and new clothes and stuff. You want to tag along?”
 
“Sure sounds like fun.”
 
“Shopping?” I ask. “Danny, I don’t need anything…”
 
“Shh, yeah you do.” He grins and I kept my head down.
 
I hated when people bought me things; I’ve done nothing to deserve it and I don’t need anything.
 
“Why don’t you go take Robin upstairs and let him get used to the new room and we’ll be waiting down here for you.” Danny smiles.
 
I stayed silent for a few seconds before sighing heavily. “Alright…” I sigh and take Robin upstairs.

|Rebel|
 
So I guess I’m going to be staying with Danny – I don’t know for how long though.
The longest I stayed in the same house was four months.
Slowly entering my room, I walked over to my closet and pulled the few pieces of clothing I had from my closet and folding them up into my small suitcase.
 
I walk into my bathroom and unplug my blow-dryer and my flat iron and place them nicely in my suitcase, along with my hair-ties, hairbrush, toothbrush, toothpaste and the rest of my hair stuff.
Surprisingly, I got everything to fit in my small bag. I then walk over to my bed and shut off my laptop and slide it into the laptop bag that slings over my shoulder.
 
With a slight smile, I stick Robin into his cat carrier and I sling the laptop bag over my shoulder before gripping the carrier handle with one hand and grabbing the handle to my suitcase with my other.
 
I turn around slightly to look at my now empty bedroom, the walls bare and a light cream color, the floors were wooden and a dark brown color, to be honest I thought the floor was a lovely color, and it looked lovely.
The small window had the bright sunlight shining through, reflecting off the floor with a slight glare on the wall next to the bed.
The small dresser, once full of my beauty products and help my laptop on the top of it, was now bare.
The large closet that only held a few pieces of clothing was now fully empty.
 
I shut off the light before taking in a breath – Hopefully this would be my last time walking into this bedroom, into this building.
All the bad memories, nightmares and haunting visions would soon disappear as soon as I left this place.
Or so I hope.
 
Walking down the steps, I walked carefully because I’m already clumsy, I don’t need to fall down the steps and possibly break a bone.
But knowing my luck I was bound to do so anyway.
Chuckling quietly to myself, I reached the bottom, I was no longer on the steps and I let out a sigh of relief, thankful I didn’t fall.
 
“Is that all your things?” Danny asks sounding a little disappointed and also curious.
 
“Yeah, I didn’t have much with me. And I was in and out so much I didn’t see the point in buying a bunch of fancy gadgets or new clothes anyway.” I shrug, sort of not making sense but I swear it made sense in my head.
 
“Well, I hope you don’t mind me and your new uncles and aunts spoiling you rotten. And even if you did mind, I wouldn’t care because you deserve it all.” He smirks causing my face to redden. I really didn’t like it when people bought me things for no reason. Honestly, I was nothing special and I’ve done nothing to earn anything. I don’t even deserve to be moving in with thee Danny Worsnop. And my new aunts and uncles are the rest of Asking Alexandria and their girlfriends/fiancés.
 
“Take care of her, Danny, please? She’s been through a lot and really needs a loving home and a family who is actually going to care for her.” Henna pleads to Danny.
 
“Of course I’ll take care of her. I’ll do everything in my power to keep her safe and happy. I promise that – I swear on my own life.” Danny admits causing a smile to spread upon Henna’s gentle face.
 
“Thank you, Danny. And Rebel, if you need something, you have my number. Don’t be afraid to call.” I nod at her words.
 
“Ready to go, kiddo?” Danny smiles and I nod again before giving Henna a soft hug and I follow Danny out into the suns rays.
 
We both got out to his car and he gently placed Robin’s cage in the backseat along with my laptop bag and my suitcase.
A gentle smile upon his face, he opened the car door for me.
I felt my cheeks burn a little bit and I climbed into his car, not to sound creepy but his car smelt really good.
Like vanilla – And I absolutely adore the smell of vanilla.
I used to own a vanilla scented candle, but the manager of the orphanage, Johnson, felt I was mentally unstable to have sharp things and hot things in my room so he took my candle.
He took my flat-iron too, I didn’t have it for weeks until Henna convinced him that I was perfectly fine and I got my stuff back. Except my candle, he threw it out and I wanted to throw him out… A window.
 
I clutch the ends of my sleeves on my sweater and Danny climbed into the driver’s seat and he stuck the key into the ignition and started up the car.
I felt my chest jolt slightly at the sudden loud noise.
 
I wasn’t really used to riding in cars; to be honest I was a bit terrified of cars…
You see, when I was adopted for the third time, we had gotten into an accident due to my siblings at the time, arguing.
Of course, I was blamed for the accident.
I was in the hospital for about three weeks before I was finally released and sent right back to the orphanage.
 
I had a head concussion, almost killed me.
Apparently I was dead for about seven minutes before I was brought back to life.
Sometimes, I wish I didn’t come back, but of course, I was in a darker state of mind.
No, I never harmed myself, but that didn’t stop the voices in my head trying to get me to do something I’d regret.
 
During that time, I grew incredibly close to a girl named Samantha, she went by Sam.
She was only a few days older than me, we were pretty close, almost like sisters for about two years before she was adopted and left me behind.
She tried her hardest to talk her adoptive parents into taking me too but at the time I was just too much to handle.
 
And too this day, I still can’t help but to wonder how Sam is.
If her family is nice to her, if she’s doing well in school, if she’s forgotten about me…
I just really hope her life is going okay.
 
My anxiety sort of just faded away as I listened to the music softly playing through the speakers of Danny’s car.
I knew this song; it was one of my favorites actually.
Down With The Sickness by Disturbed.
 
I slowly nodded my head to the music and that seemed to catch Danny’s attention and he smiled as he drove.
He turned it up a bit before he started singing along, hitting every note correctly.
It sounded pretty awesome in my opinion.
The song ended and I couldn’t stop smiling, Danny smiled too.
 
“You know, me and the band are actually covering this song.” Danny tells me.
 
“Seriously?” I gasp quietly.
 
“Yeah, James is currently tracking the drums for it. I can’t wait to finish it to be honest.” He smiles proudly.
 
“I can’t wait to hear it then.” I smile shyly before shifting my gaze back to the window as I watched the houses and trees fly past us.
 
The car went silent, besides the sound of the engine and the music playing quietly.
I shifted slightly and looked up at Danny, who was concentrating on the road.
We stopped at a red light and I spoke;
 
“Are there any other kids in your neighborhood? Like, any my age?” I ask.
 
“Yeah,” He smiles. “There is a really nice kid that lives across the street from me. He’s an only child, has a very similar style to you. He’s bullied pretty bad though.” Danny sighed.
 
“How is he bullied?” I ask sounding annoyed. I wasn’t annoyed with Danny; I was annoyed at the fact of bullies – and their existence. I hate bullies with a passion. I’ve stuck up for others many times when I went to the orphanage private school. Kids are just rude and I don’t understand it.
 
“It’s usually the football players who pick on him. I’m sure you know how most jocks act.” Danny says.
 
I nod. “What do they do to him? Do they physically hurt him?” I ask slowly.
 
“Yeah… But he’s a strong boy.” Danny says.
 
“What’s his name?”
 
“Andrew, he prefers, Andy though. Like I said, he’s a great kid. Doesn’t have many friends aside from his girlfriend, but according to his parents, his girlfriend isn’t being too friendly to him at the moment either. I think you two will get along.” He says softly.
 
Andy already sounds like a great guy and I was really excited, yet nervous, to meet him.

|Rebel|
 

I slipped on my grey sweater and tied my worn out black converse.
Soon I was finishing my hair, and I had applied just a little bit of makeup before exiting my bathroom.
 
I look over at my bed too see Robin still sound asleep where I had left him before.
With a small smile, I open the door and come face to face with Henna who had her fist raised, obviously going to knock on the door.
 
“Don’t hit me.” I say lightly.
 
“I was just about to come see if you were ready to come meet him.” Henna chuckles softly.
 
I nod slightly before breathing in a deep breath and I followed Henna down the long wooden stairs.
 
Reaching the end of the steps – I followed her through the hall until we got to her office where the man who wants to adopt me is at.
By now I was getting really nervous, my teeth were chattering, my hands were shaking and my head felt like it was spinning in circles at one hundred miles per hour.
Henna looked at me with a sympathetic smile as she softly caressed my cheek.
 
“Everything will be okay, I promise you. And you have my number so if something goes wrong just give me a call and I’ll check it out, okay?” Henna tells me.
 
“Okay…” I whisper softly and stare down at my hands.
 
Henna opened the door to her office and she walked in and began talking to the man.
Well, I still don’t know what he looks like but we already have one thing in common, he sounds British and I’m also British, I’m from London .
His voice sounded awfully familiar too. I swear I’ve heard it before…
 
They talked to each other for a few minutes whilst I stood just outside the door nervously listening to them.
I had half a mind to just run back upstairs and lock myself in my room and stay there until he finally gives up and leaves.
 
Just as I was about to turn around I hear my name being called for. “Rebel, sweetheart you can come in here.” Henna calls.
 
I started panicking. What if he only wants me for dirty things? What if he’ll hit me? Just about everything that could possibly go wrong was running through my mind at this very moment because that’s how nervous I was.
 
Slowly opening the door to Henna’s office, I walked inside keeping my eyes on my feet.
When I was nervous, I become very clumsy and I wasn’t risking making a fool out of myself by tripping over my own feet.
 
“Rebel, this nice mans name is Daniel Worsnop. Daniel, this is Rebel.” Henna introduces and my heart rate sped up and my eyes widened as I gazed up at the front man of one of my all time favorite bands, Asking Alexandria.
 
My whole body just froze as I stared at his smiling face.
He stuck his hand out and I slowly shook his hand and nervously sat down.
I really didn’t want to fan-girl over my new possible adoptive parent.
 
“Hi Rebel, lovely to meet you. Please you can call me Danny.” He smiles.
 
“I’m a big fan of your band.” I pipe just above a whisper.
 
“Thank you.” He smiles brightly.
 
“Alright so is there anything else you’d like to know about Miss Rebel?” Henna asks Danny.
 
“Well I guess I could get the awkward questions out of the way first… Do you-? You know… Harm yourself in any way?” He asks me.
 
“No. I don’t plan too. I’m a wimp when it comes to pain anyway, putting myself through pain like that would kill me.” I admit.
 
“Okay, and are you… Erm- active?” He didn’t look at me when asking that question.
 
I was laughing hysterically in my mind, I couldn’t laugh out loud how I wanted to or else he’d probably think I had mental issues or something.
And that wouldn’t be good.
 
“Nope.” I say truthfully, letting out a few giggles.
 
Danny looked at me and I could tell he wanted to laugh just as bad as I did.
I couldn’t keep a straight face anymore, I started laughing and I covered my face with my hands as my body shook with laughter.
 
Danny also started laughing and Henna smiled at the both of us.
 
“Getting along already.” She grins and continues signing some papers.
 
I felt my cheeks heat up as a blush came upon me.
Looking over to Danny I lower my hands.
 
“I know you have dogs, Luci and Belle. Is it alright if I have a kitten?” I ask cautiously. If I couldn’t, then I wasn’t going to leave with him… As bitter as that sounds – Robin is my everything.
 
“Of course you can keep your cat darling.” Danny says with a soft smile.
 
I guess living with Danny won’t be so bad… I still have my doubts of course, but let’s see how this works out for a while.

|Rebel|
 
Staring out of the small window of my small bedroom here at the orphanage, I couldn’t help but to let out an annoyed and frustrated sigh as I watched kids playing with their parents at the park just across the street.
I wanted nothing more than to have a family – one who won’t send me back to this dump just days after adopting me that is.
 
I’ve been adopted six times since I’ve been here and I’ve been here for nearly sixteen years.
Next week is my sixteenth birthday – October 1st.
According to the note that my parents left with me when they dumped me off here, I was born in London, England.
So how I got to an orphanage in Los Angeles really beats me.
 
Sixteen long and boring years I’ve lived here.
And I’ve never hated something as much as I hate living here – alone.
Most of the children my age that lived here have been adopted, and none of them were ever sent home. It was always me, and it made no sense.
 
I mean, sure I’m not the best child in the world but I do have my perks.
Pulling myself away from the window, I climbed onto my bed and pulled my laptop onto my lap and logged into my Facebook.
 
My tiny kitten, Robin, meowed quietly before cuddling into my lap and he had fallen asleep in a matter of seconds.
At the moment he was my only source of happiness.
The only thing that kept me sane – besides music, I guess. But you can’t really cuddle music.
Well, I’m sure it’s possible but that’d probably be the most awkward cuddling ever.
 
I just casually stalked band pages until I got bored and shut off my laptop and I placed it back onto my small side table.
I softly rubbed Robin’s head as I listened to his soft purrs as he slept peacefully.
 
There was a soft knock at my door and before I could object, the door slowly swung open revealing the only worker here that I actually liked and listened too.
Henna, The thirty-four year old orphanage worker.
She was the only one who knew how to handle me, knew how my feelings work.
 
“Good morning, Rebel.” She smiled softly.
 
“Morning.” I mumbled and shifted my glance back at my kitten.
 
Silence filled the air and it was becoming sort of awkward for me. I really hated being in the same room as another person, yet they stayed quiet.
It felt stalker-ish to me and that really freaked me out.
 
“What do you want, Henna?” I asked trying to break the annoying silence.
 
“Well, there is a gentleman here who seems quite interested in you.” I rolled my eyes at Henna’s words. I really hated when those words came from her mouth. I hated the fact that people were searching me on the stupid website. You never know what kind of people look at me online. “So interested, that he’s already adopted you and is downstairs signing the papers now.” She smiled.
 
“You let a strange man whom I don’t even know yet, adopt me without my permission?!” I hiss at her.
 
“Rebel, you know you don’t have control over that. And I’m truly sorry, but I believe you’ll really like this man. You two are much alike and I’m sure you’ll get along great since he’s nearly your age anyway.”
 
“So you’re letting a child adopt me?”
 
“He’s no child. He’s twenty-two. Yes he’s young, but he seems to know what he’s doing. Like I said, I’m sure you’ll get along well with him. I trust him with you.” She tells me softly.
 
I felt my eyes sting with unwanted tears and they soon fell, staining my cheeks with my black mascara.
Henna sighed slightly before handing me a tissue.
 
“Why don’t you go clean yourself up, and I’ll be waiting in my office with him, okay?” Henna said softly and I slowly stood up.
 
“I guess.” I roll my eyes before storming off into my bathroom.