Keystone Outcasts

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Melanie shrugs her shoulders and shakes her head, "I've not heard from him since Tuesday. I hope he's alright but Lee won't let me go and see him." She pouts a little, before walking down Chloe's driveway and to a black car. Her brother was driving it. She held the door open for Chloe, smiling as she did.


Lee had the pizzas in one arm and his phone in the other, he was on the phone to his mother as he walked down the large and long path to the den, the world getting darker and darker. He pushes the door to the den open with his foot, and sets the pizza down on the floorboards. He looks around at the peeling wallpaper and smiles. Home.


Robbie picks up his phone, sat on his bed. "Please! I'm feeling fine, and the nurses even said that I'm fine, can I please go?" He was pleading with his mother. He'd been at home all morning, discharged this morning too. "I really want to go. You want me to live my life right? Have fun before I die!" He looks up at his mum, who had her hands on her hips. "Robbie, you need to take your medicine, and I won't be there to do it for you!" He sighs, "but what if Lee does it! You know he knows how to do it." She sighs too, his father was whispering to her, telling her to let him go. She sighs, "Fine! Let me get your medicine in a bag."

 

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Chloe grins at Melanie before entering the car, glancing Melanie's brother. She was excited to see what the den looked like, excited for the night. She smiles happily at Melanie.


Joshua was already sat in the den when Lee entered. He was in deep thought, sat in the dark on his own often did that to him. He glances at Lee and then sniffs, "Pizza." He says suddenly, not knowing whether Lee had spotted him.

 

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Lee jumps, falling backwards and landing on his butt on the floor, he pants a little, afraid, "I think I just had a minor heart attack," Lee says, glancing at Josh and narrowing his eyes slightly.


Melanie and Chloe are driven to the Den, and Melanie holds the door open for Chloe. When she was out of the car, Mel shrugs her backpack onto her shoulder and points through a few trees. "It's a long ish walk, its on the edge of the cliff, but we'll be there in no time," She grins as she begins to walk.


Robbie was sat in the car, his mother in the front with his father, who was still trying to convince her that this was a good idea. Robbie leaned his head on the window, they were going to drop him off at Melanie's, then he'd walk from there. He didn't want to give away the location of the Den. It had taken a lot of convincing to get his mother to let him walk there alone, she was convinced he'd get sick as he walked or something.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua laughs at him, glad that it was dark so Lee wouldn't notice the bruise below his right eye. He smiles looking around at the den, "I love this place." He murmurs, more to himself than anything.


Chloe nods at Melanie, "Ah okay. We should start walking then." She says lightly starting to walk down the path. She grins, "I'm really excited." She comments, slightly hyped.

 

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"Who doesn't love this place? It's isolated, and it's ours." Lee grins a little, sitting down and looking at the pizza. "I wonder when they'll be here. I want to eat the pizza." He sounded almost sad, "and she best have brought music."


Melanie walks happily, quickly. "So am I! It's your first time at the den, so it's going to be great." She started to speed up, desperate to eat pizza and get high. "and congrats, by the way, on making the team! I didn't make it, but thats understandable with how bad I was."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua nods at Lee, "Yeah me too, eat the pizza, listen to music and just be happy." He exclaims with a grin. He felt slightly better already, he hoped someone brought candles too as it was going to get dark soon.


Chloe grins, "Yes, and hey, you didn't do that bad. You'd be in if you can do the hand spring or the back flip." She says with a small laugh, she looks around as they continue to walk.

 

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"Backflips scare me." Melanie says, wide eyed, "they're unnatural. I can't stay off the floor for that amount of time, and what about the splits? Thats just not up my street. I'm glad I didn't make the team. But I'm proud of you, well done." She grins widely, and points to the house which could be visible now. It was old, but stable, and some parts had been modernised quite a bit by Melanie and Lee when they were pretending to be builders a few months ago.


Lee shrugs his shoulders, "I need the pizza, they can just have the scraps, come on, dig in!" He opens the first box and takes a piece.


Robbie stood outside of Melanie's house, and pulled his backpack onto his back before he began walking in the direction of his house. His jeans were tight on his legs, and his hoodie was over his face. He had his earphones in, blaring out his favourite song.

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[CrystalSmith]

Chloe chuckles, "Ahh, I see, I can do the splits too. Maybe I'm just made for cheerleading." She mumbles with a short laugh as she noticed the house, "It looks good for saying it's abandoned." She comments with a grin.


Joshua grins back picking up a slice of pizza and biting a large chuck out of it.

 

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"Well technically, if you think about it, it hasn't been abandoned since Lee and I discovered it." She grins a little, "Speaking of Lee, he hasn't been a perv since the hospital, right?" She asks, leading Chloe up to the house.


Lee bites into his pizza and grins, until he hears voices far off in the distance. "I think Mel and Chloe are here now." He grins a little.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe shakes her head, "No, he hasn't." She says with a small small are they enter the house. It was dark in side but Chloe could smell the distinctive smell of pizza. She brings a hand through her hair and smiles as she notices Lee and Josh.

 

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Melanie grins a little and let's Chloe in, smelling pizza and immediately diving over to it, she grabs a slice. "Lee, I want you to light the candles right now. " she could be very bossy.


Lee nods his head before standing and going into Melanie's bag which she had discarded on the floor. He opens it and pulls out tons of candles, then positions them all around the room, lighting each one with a lighter from Mels bag. Soon the place was illuminated with the soft dim of candles, and Lee sat back down to eat pizza. "Anyone heard from Robbie?" Lee asks.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe giggles and sits taking a slice of pizza, she smiles at them as Lee sorts the candles. Chloe shakes her head when he mentions Robbie, "I haven't." She says.


Joshua looks around as the candles are lit. He hoped that no one commented on his bruise, he knew Lee and Melanie would understand but he was still debating on whether Chloe is trustworthy. He sighs, taking another bite from his slice of pizza.

 

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Melanie grins widely, before taking her first bite and running her unoccupied hand through her hair. "I hope he comes, I want him here, to know he's okay." She says in between mouthfuls.


Lee was too busy looking at Joshua's face to pay attention to what she was saying, more specifically at the bruise on his eye. He knew what had happened, but he knew that he couldn't do anything. He made a mental note to ask Josh later. He suddenly gets a text, and looks at it, seeing it was from Robbie. 'Remember how to do my meds?' Was the question.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe grins biting her slice and chewing gently, "Guess who made the cheer squad." She says with a grin, knowing the others didn't didn't know, as she only spoke to Melanie about it.


Joshua looks down, avoiding eye contact, he glances at Lee and then looks at Melanie and Chloe grinning, "Well done. I didn't know you were trying out." He comments.

 

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Lee texts back, 'of course, why?'. He then looks up and a grin spreads on his face. "Well done!" He looks at her and then stands up, putting his phone back into his pocket and walking over to Melanies bag, he pulls out the speaker and connects his phone to it, before letting the playlist play out of it. He grins, then walks back to his place and grabs another slice.


Melanie grins, "I tried out too, but we can all imagine how that turned out."


Lee shakes his head, "That's like imagining Wednesday Addams doing a backflip."


Melanie nods her head and pretends to have a serious thinking face, "Yeah, yeah that's pretty much it."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe grins and laughs, "She wasn't that bad, just not that good either." She comments, winking at Melanie and then smiling at Joshua.


Joshua laughs and smiles at him.

 

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"Oh please Chloe, spare me the pain of lying, I was awful!" She grins a little and bites her next slice of pizza, by now she had decided that Robbie probably wasn't coming.


All of a sudden, Lee and Melanie heard a hand on the door, and turned to see it being pushed open. Due to the candlelight and the darkness outside, the face was concealed by shadow, and Melanie felt a shiver run through her spine until the person stepped into the light, and took his hood from his face.


"Robbie!" Melanie threw her pizza slice into the box and jumped to her feet, running over to him and wrapping her arms around him. Robbie grins a little, and hugs her. His arms were thin, and he felt more fragile than he should do.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe grins and takes another bite out of her slice of pizza and smiling. She hums along to the music, smiling when she sees Robbie. She looks at Joshua, she too noticing the bruise under his eye.

 

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"I didn't think you'd be able to make it!" She says, stepping away from him and gesturing to the pizza, she sits down and the grin wouldn't leave her face.


Lee grins and holds up a slice of pizza for Robbie, who sits down next to him and puts his backpack in front of him, he takes the pizza slice. "You have no idea how much I need this pizza. It's like... Everything has carrots on it or in it, it's unnatural, and all I want is cheese." He takes his first bite and smiles in satisfaction. "Yep, yep this is good."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe grins at him, "Pizza is the best thing after being in hospital. Food is bad there and you have carrots too." She says with a grin. Joshua smiles and looks at Robbie, "Glad you could make it, Mate." He comments biting his slice of pizza, finishing the rest of it. Chloe grabs her bag and opens it, revealing energy drink and more food.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Lee grins, "Yeah mate, we're glad." He then raises his eyebrows. "But what's with the question? Of course I still know how to do your meds."


Robbie grins, "Good, because they're in my bag and I need you to do them around 9ish." He licks his lips before taking another bite of the pizza. "So what's new? What happened this week?" He asks, his gaze lingering on Chloe slightly as he smiles at her.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe grins clapping her hands together and smiling, "I got into the cheer squad!" She says with a smile, "But this means I do have to spend a lot of time with Mandy." She grumbles before laughing.


Joshua smiles at Robbie, before looking down trying to hide the bruise again.

 

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"That's great! Apart from the whole Mandy thing... Though, I suppose you could potentially kick her off the pyramid or make her die or something. Either is good." He shrugs his shoulders and grins, before standing up and walking over to Joshua, he sits down next to him. He nudges him with his elbow, "You okay?" He glances at his bruise and then sighs.


Lee stands up and finishes his piece of paper, before grabbing Robbies bag and leafing through it curiously. He pulls out one of Robbie's medical bottles and reads the instructions before pulling out a syringe. He bites his lip as he remembers the last time he had to give Robbie his medicine, then puts it back in his bag.


Melanie reaches into her bag and pulls out a joint, grinning as she lights it and puts it inbetween her teeth. She takes a drag, before offering it to Chloe.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua shrugs lightly, forcing a smile, "I'll be fine." He mutters taking yet any other slice of pizza. He looks at Robbie, "How are you? You have to be somewhat better for you parents to let you here." He comments.


Chloe laughs a Robbie, biting her pizza and swallowing it, taking the joint when Melanie offers it too her and takes a drag before passing it back to her and smiling. She'd never been big on smoking, doing it a few time but never as a regular thing but by now she didn't care. She cracks open an energy drink, sipping it.

 

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Robbie shrugs his shoulders, "I'm not... I'm not amazing, or better, but I'm not going to flop down dead tonight." He smiles, "I only got let out today. Only reason I'm allowed to come is Lee can do my meds, and my dad said that I need to live my life." He bites his pizza and looks at Joshua.


Melanie takes the joint and passes it to Lee, who grins and takes a drag. They'd always been like this, smoking in the den being one of their favourite pass times. Lee looks at Chloe, "so tell us something, Canada, what do you think or Irish high school?"