Them

This take place before,during and maybe after the movie!

Them.

The Mercer's house.

I was standing in the doorway, not really knowing what to do of myself. After all, it was my mom who knew that old lady, not me.She told me not to move, to wait here.I looked around , my curiosity taking the better of me again, so I walked in what seem to be clearly the livingroom.I looked around that little, but seem to be comfty,room. I saw pictures on the wall of an another room,I went to see them, but the voice of the old lady stopped me,made me came back to reality,the doorway, not in the middle of the freaking livingroom. So I silently went back there, the old woman didn't seem to notice.But she looked at me in a way, like she knew just where I went and why,but I acted like I didn't noticed.

- As you're going to live here for a little while, well, the time that your little problem to be resolve, I'll present you my four sons.

Fantastic,I was going to live with five strangers.I heard noise coming from upstairs and footstep coming down the stairs and I prepared myself to see four little white boys emerged infront of me.Never would have I thought to see two black boys and two white boys coming infront of me.How could they be the sons of the old woman?If she slept with a black man, the boys wouldn't be that black.She most have seen the look of upper confusion on my face because she explained to me that she adopted them. Alright, now my brain understood.

So she presented me her sons, they all look quite gentle,in a way,but a little too much full of theirself, well beside that Jeremiah, who look a litlle less of a big head.But I could still see they were some kind of tough boys.Real ones I mean, not the fake one you know, were the boys think they are tough, but they could shit in their pants at the first sight of trouble.I know it just by looking at them.

See, take that Bobby for exemple.He was the smallest but oldest of them but,he was standing straight and there was something on his face that said: '' If your looking for trouble,I'm your man.''

After there was that Angel. With a name like that we could guess that he's a momma's boy,but there was a scent to him,there was something, something you don't want to cross.

And then Jeremiah.He seemed perfectly calm,but in the way he moved,everything screamed that he could be as dangerous as the others if you crossed the line.

Then there was that Jack.He seemed sad, like he would never be happy again.But in seeing the way he dressed himself and when you looked into his eyes, you could see the pain , the hatred he held.But on the outside, he seemed so unsure of himself,like he didn't trust himself.That was king of weird.

Anyway, they seemed like great guy.

When Miss Evelyn told them that I was going to stay with them for a while, hopefuly she didn't went into the details of the why's and all,they didn't asked question, so a silence place istefl between us all. I hate silence, I only have bad memory about the long and cold silence,so I did the only thing I thought to do, I start to cough, stupid eh?

Taking this as a signal they could get away,the four of them ran has fast as they could outside and went back to what they were doing outside.

The old woman show me my room and helped me unpack some of my things, surely trying to get me confortable or not stressed...things like that. My room was almost in the livingroom!Don't worry I had a door and all.The old lady, tired I guess,sat down on my bed.I could feel her stare at me, not because she wanted to kick, she was just...watching me. And it really creeps me out.So she told me to sit down beside her, not being one to argue,I sat.

-So, The only thing I know about you ,young lady, is that your name is Amy.How old are you?

-Sixteen Miss.

I was uncomfortable.I hated when people start asking question about me, there's things they are not meant to know.But she looked cheerful with that answer.

-Good! Bobby's twenty two, Jeremiah Twenty one, Angel Twenty and Jack just turned eighteen!

I nodded, not really wanting to know more about those boys, after all, I was only going to be here for a little while. ''Don't get too attached'', my mother always told me, and after all the beating she went trough, I figured she knew what she was talking about.I start looking around once more, then the lady got serious.

-I know why you are here, your mom told me all about it.

I tense.I started to fix something infront of me,anything really,has I didn't realize I was doing so, I was only looking at it.

-Don't worry sweety, you are safe here, no one's going to hurt you.After all, I know they didn't make quite a good impression, but the boys won't let anything happen to you. We have a rule here :'' to protect one another, to watch each other back'', and believe me, they follow that rule at the perfection, too much maybe...

I said nothing,I just wanted her to leave. Seeing that I was not going to say another word to her, she got up to leave,with a smile.She had always a smile.

-Dinner will be ready soon.

Then she closed the door.

When it was really closed,I started to really looked at my room. It was almost like any other room in the house, little and cosy.I got up and littly,slowly touch the walls,the bed, after, I looked out trought the window, looking outside. I saw the four brothers playing hockey , not too far from here.My curiosity taking , again the best of me I looked longer.They seemed to have fun...sighing I start to unpack the rest of my things.

I put a picture of my twin sister on the night table, I looked at it for a few second,then looked away, too sad to stare anymore, like always.After, I put some poster of my favorite band on the walls. I saw, out of the corner of my eyes, a radio that was on the floor,so, bored to hell,I took it.

Evelyn Mercer was looking out the window, watching her four son that were playing hockey, she sigh, happy. She had took them out of abusive parents or foster homes that even dogs wouldn't be put in it.She had never thought they would love her, even start to call her ''mom''.

That young girl...she had a bad past that was not so far, but she had knew worse.In all the cause she had seen, Jack had been the worst, she didn't think someone could beat his past, she hope not anyway. When she brought him home, she had tought that the other three would hate him,reject him. They didn't. She had told them what had happen to Jack, when he was sleeping upstair, they had all became angry, not disgusted, like she tought they would.

That's why she had agree to took that poor girl in for a while.Not only to help a friend she hadn't seen in years, but because she knew they could help the girl, she knew they would.

The presentation hadn't wen too bad, like she tought it would.She had thought they would have freak out because a girl was going to live with them.After all, she had been the only woman in the house since their childhood.But they didn't and she was glad for that.

She sigh agai when she saw her sons coming toward the house, they knew pretty well that supper was going to be srved soon.She was going to make the table when she heard a punk-rock song playing.She looked outside and find out that it couldn't be Jack singing or playing it, for he was been tease by his brother, so she smiled, knowingly.

She really hoped Amy was going to be happy here...

I was looking at my plate without really seeing it, not believing that there could that much food in one plate.I looked at the brothers , who were eating like pigs, well aside from that Jackie-guy,they played hockey, they were hungry it was totally normal after all. I saw the old woman smile at me a couple of times, but I couldn't bring myself to smile back, it was to much private for me, that would mean I trusted her, wich I don't.

I finally took the fork in my hands and not knowing were to start, I poke in my plate,trying to decide.

-You should try the meat, it's really good!

I almost jump out of my chair when Bobby told me this, a big piece of meaty hanging out from his mouth.

-Yeah! Said Angel, Mom's meat's the best in the freaking world!

-You should try, said Jeremiah, We said the same thing to CrakerJack here, the first time we saw him and now our little sister can't get enough of it!

They all laughed and I looked at the boy name Jack, who was looking at his plate, only giving a little smile.I looked back at my plate, and try the meat, it was really good.

I looked back at the family, to see Miss Evelyn scooling Angel for eating with his mouth open and Bobby and Jeremaih laughing their heads out at him.I look back at my plate again, and I couldn't have stop the thought, even if I had try.

Maybe I was going to be just fine here. Maybe I would finally find peace.

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