The Children Of Rage & Love (Sequel to Give Me Novacaine), chapter 2
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After thier mother's burial the triplets all went to their parents house, Vero and the rest of them following in the car behind. Ubber pulled into his childhood home hesitaiting to get out. He jumped at the knock against his window. He opened the door stepping in front of her.
"You planning on coming in anytime soon or just watching us chicks break our backs?" Her brilliant green eyes far more spectacualr then her father's ever were peirced into him a smile gracing her beautiful face. Ubber looked away and cleared his throat.
"Uhh yeah just uhm go in and start I just need a smoke." She immideatly frowned, ever since losing her father to cigarettes she made everyone she knew quit it was something about her no one could turn down and no one could hate and had to listen to.
"Stop smoking I don't want you to get sick." She looked down away from him her layered black hair falling in front of one of her eyes he lifted her chin gently.
"Greeny it's one smoke I haven't had one in over a year just give me this." Ubber looked at her innocently making Veronica smile despite herself, she had always liked Ubber but could never tell him because of one thing or the other. Either that or just plain fear of getting rejected.
"If it's your first one in over a year why do you have a pack and why is it half empty?" She raised an eyebrow placing her hands on her hips looking at him daring Ubber to argue her, which he did.
"It's Hel's pack." He smirked lighitng up the cig blowing out the smoke into the air. Vero looked at him hiding her smirk hitting him ontop of his forehead before stepping into the house screaming for Hella.
"God I love her.....So why is it so impossible to tell her?" He threw the cigarette on the floor walking in to find Vero chasing Hella around.
"Oob you stupid why did you tell her! Now grab her!" Hella screamed running behind her brother, he laughed and as soon as Veronica passed by again he pulled her into a hug.
"Stop come on now let's go clean out the attic and thier room." He held Greeny for a while and she didn't seem to care. Ubber was the splitting image of his father it was quite eerie the only difference between father and son was the clash of personalities. Ubber was soft spoken, calm, and rather law abiding, very much unlike his father infamous for the crazy antics he pulled. This was perhaps a reason he never told Vero of his feelings for her because she was just like his father his complete opposite; loud, fun, out going, ambitious, rebelious, trouble making.
Every suburban mother's nightmare.
But everyone still loved her, she looked up at him her green eyes luring him closer to her face which he didn't realize he was closing on. Greeny wanted him to kiss her but she felt awkward and quickly broke free of his embrace.
"Your right l-let's go you guys can go to the room and I'll start with the attic." She said looking down fixing up her shirt and making her way to the stairs which led to the house's attic.
"Don't you want one of us to go up with you? It's not lit." Hella asked.
"Hel unlike you I'm not scared of the dark." With that she was in the dark upper room.
"Well I guess we should go then."
"OK." Ubber followed his sister into the room making way for Jonathan who was coming out with a heavy looking box.
"Need help man?"
"No I got it thanks though." He set it down on the coffee table opening the box.
It was his parents things after Mike and Diana died Jonathan and Rocio just boxed up everything and brung it over here so Andie and Tre could go thru it but by the looks of it the boxes had been left untouched, Jonathan called his sister over so they could being to rummage thru their parents past.
"How you guys doing?"Hella looked over at Johanna who was sitting on the bed fighting back tears as she looked throguh her mothers jewelery and such.
"Oh Joni calm down it's OK mom was sick she needed to go just be glad you didn't lose her when you were younger." Muy said hugging her kissing her atop her head.
"It's easy for you to say I never got along with mom and that one time when I was in town and didn't come visit even when daddy asked and then they call me the next week to say she's dead and..and I'm such a horrible daughter." She cried into her older sister Ubber made his way to the bed to console her also.
"Your not a horrible daughter none of us thouht that mom was gonna die." He stroked her hair softly as she buried her face deeper into Muy's neck.
"But why was it so hard for me to stop by? I coulda just come by to say hi but no I was here on business and that was that." Joni had left the city to go to a school up north in California called Humboldt to become a veteranarian. She had only gone down to Los Angelas for a day or two just to get a few supplies and say hi to her family but she had gotten into a fight with Andie over how she was always letting herself get pushed around and how she never said what she felt. And what angered her most was that her mother was right.
Johanna was worse then Ubber, she was a beautiful girl no doubt about it but she always hid herself behind glasses, oversized clothes and her hair.
"Put your hair up or cut it better your such a pretty girl stop hiding it." She would always say.
"Yeah mom I'm so pretty it's illegal." Joni would say before she would leave not to talk to her mother for at least another month.
"Why did she have to be so pushing and stubborn?"
"Because she wanted you to do good for yourself and get confidence. Joni we're not stupid we know mami always wanted you to make yourself prettier and she was right you may be a college sudent but you don't need to dress like a librarian." Hella said standing in front of her.
"I don't want to dress like you do."
"How do we dress?" The girls both looked at themselves then the other.
"All pretty and colorful and it's just not me I'm boring I'm ugly I'm.... A librarian." She laughed.
"No sister of ours is ugly because for one she's related to us and for two did you see our parents when they were younger?!" Muy exclaimd.
"Yeah well I guess I'm the black sheep." Ubber looked at her.
"What the hell happened to you that you got such shit low self esteem about your looks? Your smart your pretty your interesting just let yourself get noticed and for once take a risk or two."
"This coming from safety man." Hella retorted.
"Safety man?"
"Kid you never did anything that wasn't legal or that would risk injury and your telling our baby sister take a risk. Take your own advice." She looked at him kissed his cheek and continued on.
"Well this is a whole lot of family matters so me and Rosie are just gonna head up with Vero see what all is there is late." Carlos said pulling Rosa up from the floor where she had been shuffling through old pictures of all their parents together. She flew out and waved bye.
Veronica hadn't gotten around to actually rummaging through the boxes yet she was still walking around reflecting back to the days when they were all younger and would crawl up here to play hide and seek or how when she would get mad at her mom she would run over here crawl up the attic and hide for hours at a time one time she stayed up here for two days once when she was about 12 no one knew and she remembered how hysterical her parents were when they came over here the second day asking everone if they knew where she had gone to. She rememebered seeing her mom through a hole in the floor they had made breaking down into her dad as he tried to calm her fighting back his own tears. She remmebered how it took until Natalie fell asleep for her to stop crying and let her dad take her home. Then when everybody was sleeping she snuck out through a window in the attic and spent the night alone in a park, going home the next day at around noon expecting a beating or something but instead being smothered by kisses hugs and tears. Her mother promised her she'd never yell at her again and her daddy just held her tightly thanking god nothing had happened to her. To that day no one knew that she had been up in this very same attic the whole time, but even if they had known her parents probably still would have gone crazy for those few hours thinking what might have happeend to her. Veronica took her hands out of her worn out, torn, sewn in blue jeans' pockets and over her eyes trying to keep herself from crying. Her bottom lip quivered giving signs that she was ready to tear up any second now, but she forced herself to calm down and instead kept walking around the attic.
"Ow." She looked up and saw she had hit her head on an old swinging light, she looked away and turned it on searching around. She moved a box that was at the very end of the room and saw the small window where she had crawled out of.
"Well I'll be damned I can't believe I used to be that little." Veronica chuckled as shie forced the wondow open and stuck her head out. The neighborhood hadn't changed it was still the same sure the people had moved but it seemed that they were all alike and all were friendly. She put her head back in and decided to get to work. She started with the box that was over the window.
"Find anything yet Greeny?" She looked up and saw her younger siblings searching around the boxes, Rosa crigning at how many spiderwebs there were.
"Rose you might just wanna go downstairs there's lots of icky bugs here." Rosa looked at her older sister gave her a smile and flipped her off.
"Blow me."
"Nope I don't touch family that's called incest." Carlos laughed and looked around the room, Vero looked at her brother as he walked around. He was a complete mystery to her, He hated everything mom and dad loved he hated anything rock he thought himself so gangster tough and rough, hell the only reason he never joined MBK was because he knew that if mom ever found out she'd kill him herself and so would dad. He was such a little ghetto boy and he had been raised by one of rock's greatest idols. Looking at both her siblings now she realized she was the stranger of either. Rosie was on the cheerleading team and went out with all the super popular people. Only she was the one who was anything like her parents, she listened to all underground music she hated major label music excpet for of course Green Day and she dated countless band members and junkies that her parents never liked. Which was hilarious becuase both her parents were rather open about the amount of drugs they used to do but neither wanted her to be with one of the people that reminded them of themselves.
"I don't want you with a druggie." Her father would state.
"Papi! no fair you do drugs to!"
"I did pot."
"And acid, ex,coc, didn't you do shrooms to?"." Her mother would absent-mindedly add.
"Natalie!" Her father would look at her and Veronica would try hard not to burst into laughter.
"Oops I mean no Veronica que piensas! why don't you go out with a nice straight edge boy?"
"STRAIGHTEDGE?! They hate to have fun! Maaammiii you and papi did drugs what's wrong if they like to leave reality for a little bit? I do pot."
"And that better be all."
"Of course." She would say innocently.
"I don't care your not going to go out with him again, besides he doesn't even know what punk was he had one patch... Ramones. Everybody and thier mother owns at least one Ramones object." Her father would scoff before goign outside to light a cigarette.
"Fucking cigarettes" She mumbled before jumping out of her thoughts.
"Hey braindead are you going to help or not?" Carlos said smacking her forehead, Vero was quick to act and hit the back of his.
"Hit me again kid I dare you, you may think your street but I will still kick your ass
remember I don't need guns or knives to hurt people." Veronica said before she opened the box and looked in. Carlos rolled his eyes and turned around flipping her off, but Vero so focused on what was in the box she hadn't even notived him.
"Oh my god." She said quietly gazing into the box.
"You planning on coming in anytime soon or just watching us chicks break our backs?" Her brilliant green eyes far more spectacualr then her father's ever were peirced into him a smile gracing her beautiful face. Ubber looked away and cleared his throat.
"Uhh yeah just uhm go in and start I just need a smoke." She immideatly frowned, ever since losing her father to cigarettes she made everyone she knew quit it was something about her no one could turn down and no one could hate and had to listen to.
"Stop smoking I don't want you to get sick." She looked down away from him her layered black hair falling in front of one of her eyes he lifted her chin gently.
"Greeny it's one smoke I haven't had one in over a year just give me this." Ubber looked at her innocently making Veronica smile despite herself, she had always liked Ubber but could never tell him because of one thing or the other. Either that or just plain fear of getting rejected.
"If it's your first one in over a year why do you have a pack and why is it half empty?" She raised an eyebrow placing her hands on her hips looking at him daring Ubber to argue her, which he did.
"It's Hel's pack." He smirked lighitng up the cig blowing out the smoke into the air. Vero looked at him hiding her smirk hitting him ontop of his forehead before stepping into the house screaming for Hella.
"God I love her.....So why is it so impossible to tell her?" He threw the cigarette on the floor walking in to find Vero chasing Hella around.
"Oob you stupid why did you tell her! Now grab her!" Hella screamed running behind her brother, he laughed and as soon as Veronica passed by again he pulled her into a hug.
"Stop come on now let's go clean out the attic and thier room." He held Greeny for a while and she didn't seem to care. Ubber was the splitting image of his father it was quite eerie the only difference between father and son was the clash of personalities. Ubber was soft spoken, calm, and rather law abiding, very much unlike his father infamous for the crazy antics he pulled. This was perhaps a reason he never told Vero of his feelings for her because she was just like his father his complete opposite; loud, fun, out going, ambitious, rebelious, trouble making.
Every suburban mother's nightmare.
But everyone still loved her, she looked up at him her green eyes luring him closer to her face which he didn't realize he was closing on. Greeny wanted him to kiss her but she felt awkward and quickly broke free of his embrace.
"Your right l-let's go you guys can go to the room and I'll start with the attic." She said looking down fixing up her shirt and making her way to the stairs which led to the house's attic.
"Don't you want one of us to go up with you? It's not lit." Hella asked.
"Hel unlike you I'm not scared of the dark." With that she was in the dark upper room.
"Well I guess we should go then."
"OK." Ubber followed his sister into the room making way for Jonathan who was coming out with a heavy looking box.
"Need help man?"
"No I got it thanks though." He set it down on the coffee table opening the box.
It was his parents things after Mike and Diana died Jonathan and Rocio just boxed up everything and brung it over here so Andie and Tre could go thru it but by the looks of it the boxes had been left untouched, Jonathan called his sister over so they could being to rummage thru their parents past.
"How you guys doing?"Hella looked over at Johanna who was sitting on the bed fighting back tears as she looked throguh her mothers jewelery and such.
"Oh Joni calm down it's OK mom was sick she needed to go just be glad you didn't lose her when you were younger." Muy said hugging her kissing her atop her head.
"It's easy for you to say I never got along with mom and that one time when I was in town and didn't come visit even when daddy asked and then they call me the next week to say she's dead and..and I'm such a horrible daughter." She cried into her older sister Ubber made his way to the bed to console her also.
"Your not a horrible daughter none of us thouht that mom was gonna die." He stroked her hair softly as she buried her face deeper into Muy's neck.
"But why was it so hard for me to stop by? I coulda just come by to say hi but no I was here on business and that was that." Joni had left the city to go to a school up north in California called Humboldt to become a veteranarian. She had only gone down to Los Angelas for a day or two just to get a few supplies and say hi to her family but she had gotten into a fight with Andie over how she was always letting herself get pushed around and how she never said what she felt. And what angered her most was that her mother was right.
Johanna was worse then Ubber, she was a beautiful girl no doubt about it but she always hid herself behind glasses, oversized clothes and her hair.
"Put your hair up or cut it better your such a pretty girl stop hiding it." She would always say.
"Yeah mom I'm so pretty it's illegal." Joni would say before she would leave not to talk to her mother for at least another month.
"Why did she have to be so pushing and stubborn?"
"Because she wanted you to do good for yourself and get confidence. Joni we're not stupid we know mami always wanted you to make yourself prettier and she was right you may be a college sudent but you don't need to dress like a librarian." Hella said standing in front of her.
"I don't want to dress like you do."
"How do we dress?" The girls both looked at themselves then the other.
"All pretty and colorful and it's just not me I'm boring I'm ugly I'm.... A librarian." She laughed.
"No sister of ours is ugly because for one she's related to us and for two did you see our parents when they were younger?!" Muy exclaimd.
"Yeah well I guess I'm the black sheep." Ubber looked at her.
"What the hell happened to you that you got such shit low self esteem about your looks? Your smart your pretty your interesting just let yourself get noticed and for once take a risk or two."
"This coming from safety man." Hella retorted.
"Safety man?"
"Kid you never did anything that wasn't legal or that would risk injury and your telling our baby sister take a risk. Take your own advice." She looked at him kissed his cheek and continued on.
"Well this is a whole lot of family matters so me and Rosie are just gonna head up with Vero see what all is there is late." Carlos said pulling Rosa up from the floor where she had been shuffling through old pictures of all their parents together. She flew out and waved bye.
Veronica hadn't gotten around to actually rummaging through the boxes yet she was still walking around reflecting back to the days when they were all younger and would crawl up here to play hide and seek or how when she would get mad at her mom she would run over here crawl up the attic and hide for hours at a time one time she stayed up here for two days once when she was about 12 no one knew and she remembered how hysterical her parents were when they came over here the second day asking everone if they knew where she had gone to. She rememebered seeing her mom through a hole in the floor they had made breaking down into her dad as he tried to calm her fighting back his own tears. She remmebered how it took until Natalie fell asleep for her to stop crying and let her dad take her home. Then when everybody was sleeping she snuck out through a window in the attic and spent the night alone in a park, going home the next day at around noon expecting a beating or something but instead being smothered by kisses hugs and tears. Her mother promised her she'd never yell at her again and her daddy just held her tightly thanking god nothing had happened to her. To that day no one knew that she had been up in this very same attic the whole time, but even if they had known her parents probably still would have gone crazy for those few hours thinking what might have happeend to her. Veronica took her hands out of her worn out, torn, sewn in blue jeans' pockets and over her eyes trying to keep herself from crying. Her bottom lip quivered giving signs that she was ready to tear up any second now, but she forced herself to calm down and instead kept walking around the attic.
"Ow." She looked up and saw she had hit her head on an old swinging light, she looked away and turned it on searching around. She moved a box that was at the very end of the room and saw the small window where she had crawled out of.
"Well I'll be damned I can't believe I used to be that little." Veronica chuckled as shie forced the wondow open and stuck her head out. The neighborhood hadn't changed it was still the same sure the people had moved but it seemed that they were all alike and all were friendly. She put her head back in and decided to get to work. She started with the box that was over the window.
"Find anything yet Greeny?" She looked up and saw her younger siblings searching around the boxes, Rosa crigning at how many spiderwebs there were.
"Rose you might just wanna go downstairs there's lots of icky bugs here." Rosa looked at her older sister gave her a smile and flipped her off.
"Blow me."
"Nope I don't touch family that's called incest." Carlos laughed and looked around the room, Vero looked at her brother as he walked around. He was a complete mystery to her, He hated everything mom and dad loved he hated anything rock he thought himself so gangster tough and rough, hell the only reason he never joined MBK was because he knew that if mom ever found out she'd kill him herself and so would dad. He was such a little ghetto boy and he had been raised by one of rock's greatest idols. Looking at both her siblings now she realized she was the stranger of either. Rosie was on the cheerleading team and went out with all the super popular people. Only she was the one who was anything like her parents, she listened to all underground music she hated major label music excpet for of course Green Day and she dated countless band members and junkies that her parents never liked. Which was hilarious becuase both her parents were rather open about the amount of drugs they used to do but neither wanted her to be with one of the people that reminded them of themselves.
"I don't want you with a druggie." Her father would state.
"Papi! no fair you do drugs to!"
"I did pot."
"And acid, ex,coc, didn't you do shrooms to?"." Her mother would absent-mindedly add.
"Natalie!" Her father would look at her and Veronica would try hard not to burst into laughter.
"Oops I mean no Veronica que piensas! why don't you go out with a nice straight edge boy?"
"STRAIGHTEDGE?! They hate to have fun! Maaammiii you and papi did drugs what's wrong if they like to leave reality for a little bit? I do pot."
"And that better be all."
"Of course." She would say innocently.
"I don't care your not going to go out with him again, besides he doesn't even know what punk was he had one patch... Ramones. Everybody and thier mother owns at least one Ramones object." Her father would scoff before goign outside to light a cigarette.
"Fucking cigarettes" She mumbled before jumping out of her thoughts.
"Hey braindead are you going to help or not?" Carlos said smacking her forehead, Vero was quick to act and hit the back of his.
"Hit me again kid I dare you, you may think your street but I will still kick your ass
remember I don't need guns or knives to hurt people." Veronica said before she opened the box and looked in. Carlos rolled his eyes and turned around flipping her off, but Vero so focused on what was in the box she hadn't even notived him.
"Oh my god." She said quietly gazing into the box.
