Keystone Outcasts

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua nods slowly, "Your dad is right though. I mean who wants to live the rest of their life in bed, it's not happening even if me and Lee have to drag you from it." He says with a smile.


Chloe grins, "Well, it's better than I imaged, and it's hard to understand your strong accents sometimes but I think I'm okay. I love your accents though, don't get me wrong. It's like Canada I guess, apart from some slight differences, like we are big on hockey and ice skating and stuff like that." She says with a small laugh.

 

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"But Joshua, beds are comfortable." He points out, and he grins, "but thanks, I guess. So uh... Did what I think happen to your eye?" He asks and looks at Josh with a small frown.


Lee grins, "if you can't understand our accents much yet, you will soon. I reckon you'll talk like us in a month or two." He leans backwards and rests on his elbows. "I've never done anything relating to ice, so I'm sort of unfamiliar with that territory."


Melanie looks at Chloe, "we should totally go ice skating!"

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua nods slowly, "He got angry, blamed me for mum dying and we had another argument." He murmurs quietly, looking away from his friend.


Chloe chuckles, "I don't doubt that I won't be speaking like it, my Canadian accent will be gone within a few weeks I suppose." She says with a laugh before nodding at Melanie, "Sure, I can skate, kinda, well I know the basics and I suppose I could throw in a few jumps I learnt as a kid." She says with a small laugh. She'd always been rather active, mainly cheer and skating.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Robbie sighs, "I think you either need tell someone about him, or leave before he can hit you. As in, if you feel an argument coming on, just leave. You know I'm always at the pub, and if I'm not, check the hospital." He frowns.


"We should do it then, it'd be fun to see Lee fall over. And I'm sure with those long legs Robbie has he'll be fine." She grins a little at a newfound plan.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua shrugs, "He's a drunk man, I'll be told I'm old enough to look after myself, before she died, my mum, she told to look after him." He says quietly looking back up at his friend.


Chloe laughs, "I'm sure Lee'll be fine, I'll get him the kid skates and he won't fall as much." She says with a grin, excited now.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"But I'm certain that, though your mother wanted you to look after him, she didn't want you to get hurt all the time..." Robbie says, raising his eyebrows. Well, he would be if he had eyebrows.


"Yeah, get him a penguin or something. He'll need it, clinging to it." Melanie laughs.


Lee narrows his eyes at the two, "what did I ever do to deserve being treated so badly by the people who are supposed to love me!" He jokes, and puts a hand to his head dramatically, falling completely to the floor.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe grins, "Aww Lee, we do love you. Just in a name calling, kinda way." She says, smiling sweetly at him. She looks over and Josh and Robbie who were having a quiet conversation.


Joshua shrugs, "She asked me to stay and I'm not going to just leave him now. He's my dad," he murmurs quietly, lifting his hand and touching the bruise, wincing slightly.

 

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Robbie shakes his head, "dads don't do this." He points at Joshua's bruise and sighs, "I know I won't be able to convince you to, but I can try right? Just think about this, it'll get you out of the house for a week or so at least. My mum wants to take me on a holiday if- when I get better. And she said that you could all come, cos it's really just gonna be camping and it'll probably be raining and stuff, but there's a fairground near where we camp and... It's a little dismal, but it gets you out of the house."


Lee pouts, "I don't like your name calling, you must stop before I get Mandy to backflip you to death."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe sends Lee a mock smile, "Of course, though you do realise that Mandy would want something in return, for doing such a deed and we all know what she would want, but if your happy to comply with her then I'm sure you'd have no problem with doing it." She says with a laugh, "And since she's the flyer in the squad I'm sure she would get injured before she even had a chance to do that backflip." She points out with a small smirk.


Joshua nods at Robbie, "Okay, camping sounds good to me." He murmurs thinking, "Getting out of that house for even a day is good." He says.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Lee looks slightly confused, "cheerleaders can fly?" He questions, sitting up properly. He had no clue about most of the cheerleader things. He'd never attended a sports game in his life, not unless forced.


"Good," he smiles, "I seriously think that you should think about getting out of that house more often, when he starts with you." He looks down at his feet. "Or maybe you should get him some help, like a drinking class thing." He raises his eyebrow.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe burst out laughing, "No, flyers are the girl we chuck into the air." She says continuing to laugh. She looks at Melanie and Lee, "Mandy if a flyer but I think she only does it do the boys can look up her skirt." She states.


Joshua shrugs, "I'll think about it okay." He mutters before forcing a smile and looking at the others.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"You promise me?" Robbie prompts, his eyes narrowing slightly as he looked at Josh, ignoring the talk about cheerleaders.


Lee makes a serious thinking face, "that would make sense, actually. The skirt and the air thing." He goes quiet for a minute before a large grin breaks onto his face, "Alright no, so if there are flyers, what else are there?"

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe smiles, "A flyer, two bases, a back spot and a front spot." She answers easily, she looks at him and grins, "as for the back flip, I can do one easily," she says.


Joshua shrugs, "I'm not promising something, when I can't keep it." He mutters quietly, his forced smile still on his face.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Lee grins and moves some of the pizza boxes out of the way, then grabs Melanie's arm and pulls her backwards, before sitting down and gesturing to the now cleared space. "If you think you can do a back flip easily, go ahead. Right now, right here."


"Amen." Robbie mumbles, nudging his friend and frowning, before looking over at Chloe and watching Lee torment her about back flips. He wondered if she would actually do one or not.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe looks at Lee, her eyes narrowed, she looks at her skirt and sighs standing. She looks at them and smirks, "fine I'll do a back flip," she says with a shrugs. Stepping into a starting position and prepared to throw herself into the back flip. She does it and lands, in the splits, making sure her skirt was covering her body. She smiles sweetly in Lee's direction. Josh was watching lightly and smiling.

 

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Lee claps his hands, a grin spread on his face, he whistles, but not the seductive kind, one of cheer and congratulations. "Well done, I'd like to see Melanie try to do that."


Melanie was grinning, and when Lee mentioned her she turned and put both hands firmly on his shoulders. "Believe me, if I tried that in here, something would break."


Finally, Robbie spoke up with a question, "Melanie, tell me you have beer or something?" He prompts, desperate to get all thoughts from his head and not be able to remember anything.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe chuckles lightly at Melanie and Lee, she returns to her normal sitting position with her legs crossed. She smiles lightly and then looks at Robbie and nods in agreement.


Joshua nods too, "Yeah, drinks would be good." He says with a smile, he just wanted to forget about everything, though being drunk was never the answer.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Melanie nods her head and dives into her bag, pulling out a full bottle of Jack Daniels, a homemade cocktail which was more vodka than any other substance, and a bottle of rum. She puts them all in the middle, "It was all I could steal from home."


Lee looks at the pile and nods his head slightly, before going into his own bag and pulling out a six pack of beer, and another plain bottle of vodka. "Reckon we can get shitfaced on this?" He questions Robbie.


Robbie's grin was unnatural wide as he reached for the bottle of Jack Daniels, then unscrews the lid and gulps some down.


Melanie narrows her eyes, "Wow there cancer boy, pretty sure that is not good for you."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe smiles, "and as a friend I'm going to to do what is best and take it and drink some myself." She says standing and taking the Jack Daniels bottle from Robbie, gulping some down and passing it back to him.


Josh grins grabbing the plain vodka, opening it and taking large gulps before putting the bottle back and smiling, looking at the others.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Lee shakes his head, "You'll all be out within the hour, you're lightweights I swear it." He grins as he grabs a simple can of beer and opens it, before taking a sip and offering one to Melanie, who declines it by shaking her head and grabbing the cocktail. She opened the lid and sniffed it, before grinning and taking a sip. "Oh God this is rank," she complains, scrunching her nose up in disgust before taking another sip.


Robbie scowls when the bottle is taken away from him, and when it was handed back he kept hold of it protectively before taking another large gulp and feeling it burn down the back of his throat. He was planning on getting so drunk that in the morning he wouldn't be able to feel the constant pain in his chest. He looks over at Lee, "maybe you should do my meds now, before I forget about them." Lee nods his head, and Robbie hands the bottle back to Chloe before walking over to him.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe grins as the bottle is passed back, she takes another gulp and smiles at it burns her face. She looks at Melanie, placing the bottle of Jack Daniels on the floor, placing the lid on it, "Well my aim is to end up pissed, so it's fine."


Joshua watches as Lee gets up to do Robbie's meds. He takes another sip and smiles.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"That's my aim too." Robbie mumbles, as he goes into his bag and pulls out the box and the syringe, then sits down next to Lee. He passes him the box and then sighs, waiting for Lee to get it ready.


Lee puts down his beer and takes the box, opens it, and then starts to put the medicine into the syringe. It was some awful see through but tinged green mixture, and it had a thick consistency. Lee's face was scrunched up as he examined it, and then he turned to Robbie.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe grins, before looking at Robbie and Lee, "Tonight's going to rock." She mutters with a smile. She takes a can of beer and crack it open and drinks some, letting Robbie have the Jack Daniels. She glances at Melanie and smiles, a big smile.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Robbie pulls down his shirt slowly so that Lee could get to the small tube that was coming out of his skin where his heart was. The tube was taped down, and Robbie peeled it away so that Lee could get to it properly. Lee turns and faces him properly, squeezing out some of the medicine before looking at Robbie. "You sure you want me to do this?" He asks.


Robbie nods his head and taps his chest, "kills cancer, did you know that?"


Melanie looks at Chloe, and grins, "That it is, Canada." She laughs a little and looks at Josh. "You're awfully quiet."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe chuckles and drinks some more, glancing at Joshua again. Joshua smiles, "I'm fine honestly, I'll be fine when this alcohol kicks in." He comments smiling, he chugs down some more of the vodka and smiles more. He'd always been a light weight when drinking vodka, the alcohol easily getting too him.