Orphaned

A teenage girl just lost her parents. They were hit by a drunk driver on their way home from a night out celebrating their wedding anni9versary. She was home schooled and very close with her parents. They lived on a farm and she lived a slightly sheltered life. Now taken away from her home, and losing the family she ever really knew Rae Lynn is forced into a foster home, living in a house, full of orphaned children going to an inner city school. Everything she ever knew was gone in an instant. The first problems arose due to the attitude of the other children in the house hold. They are all from the city and have the attitude that comes with it. Conflicting ways of opinion and different ways of life starts fights. They quickly learned that Rae-Lynn can hold her own n a fight and this is the first thing that opens their eyes about her. They begin to watch her and learn from her and soon create a bond that they can respect that is stronger than anything they have ever known. Rae-Lynn and Cole begin to have feelings for each other and soon become inseparable. Not too long after, the agency finds a home for Cole which is hard to find for someone at his age. Through this Cole realizes how strongly he feels for Rae Lynn but since he is only sixteen he has no choice. They devise a plan to run away together. Rae-Lynn and Cole leave school and take a bus to Rae Lynn’s old house on the farm which is now abandoned but still has belongings from when her and her parents lived there. They begin sifting through things and Rae Lynn starts talking about the past and opening up to Cole. He then begins opening up to her and talking about his past. They shortly after begin kissing and just as it starts to get intense, they hear a car pull up. It’s the police the orphanage sent because they assumed that’s where they would’ve gone. This makes them push for the adoption of Cole. The family was nice but they lived in a suburb half an hour away from the city and neither of them had a car so they only communication they had were through phone calls time to time and the emails they sent through the computers at school. Rae Lynn becomes depressed because the only person that made her happy si9nce she lost her parents was now gone. Her grades begin to fail and the other children in the house notice a change in her. Time goes by and the phone calls fade and so do the emails. Rae Lynn is now 18 and living in an apartment with Cassie one of the girls from the foster home. She is working at a restaurant in the city and going to college. Since losing Cole she became closed off to the world. When her roommate would have people over Rae Lynn would stay in her room and study. One night at work she gets a table and while walking up to it realizes it’s Cole, with another girl. Her heart drops and she quickly asks someone else to take the table. She runs into Cole while walking out of the kitchen; he was walking out of the bathroom. They bump right into each other and lock eyes. They stand there staring at each other without saying a thing. Finally Rae Lynn says hi and they both laugh. He tells her how he’s on a blind date and can’t stand the girl so he’s going to the bathroom to break the uncomfortable silence. They both say how nice it is to see each other and exchange numbers. They soon begin dating again without bringing up the past. Before you know it, they are moving in together and everything seems to be going well. Until the day comes, when Cole tells her he has to move because of work and he can’t pass it up. Yet again, he has to leave Rae Lynn and breaks her heart all over again. After he moves, she finds herself falling in to the same slum that she was in before he left; She finally decides that she is not going to lose him again, packs up her things, and shows up at his door holding her bags.

Rae Lynn: 16 year old girl, she as raised as an only child and she lived on a farm and didn’t have any friends or family her age. She and her parents were very close; they would put on old records and dance together after long days of working on the farm. They had two horses one of them was hers and was named Covy who she named after an old man who ran a store in town. He was the only person other than her parents that she talked to. He passed away when she was 13 and shortly after was when her parents brought her home the horse. On days when she finished her work early, her and Coy would right out into the woods and she would sit on a large rock next to the reek and read. She had a bad habit of biting her nails all the time. Her hair was very long and she loved to play with it, braiding it and twirling it all the time. But the only thing she rally looked forward to was dancing with her parents at night. They would teach her the waltz and the tango. Her parents are very smart and taught her more than she would’ve ever learned going to a public school. Although at times it was lonely she still loved the solitude of the farm and spending time with her parents. They were genuinely happy and always had fun together. They died when she was 15.

Cole: His father was never around, his mother did a lot of drugs and his father was just someone she fooled around with. They never had a relationship but Cole knew who he was and when Cole would see him his father would treat Cole like just some random kid. His mother never worked and she collected money from the state for Cole to eat but most of the money went to her drug habit. He was with his mother when she was pulled over and the car was searched. They found drug paraphernalia and the police arrested her and took Cole away. His mother never tried to get him back when she got out of jail and he was in an out of different foster homes since he was 7 years old.

Cassie: She was a year older than Rae LYNN her mother and father were not married but were always together. She was the oldest of 3 children. They didn’t really care about their children, they never made them go to school, they didn’t give them rules or curfews. Her parents sold drugs and always had people in and out of the house. When Cassie was 15 years old, she began dating a 20 year old who would come to the house for drugs. The police were watching the house and also watching Cassie and her boyfriend when they left the house. One day when her boyfriend showed up at the house to buy drugs and pick up Cassie the police raided the house arresting her parents and her brother and sister. Her parents went to jail and are currently still incarcerated. She doesn’t do any hard drugs but she does smoke weed and likes to party a lot, She doesn’t have very much self respect and when she moved in with Rae Lynn, to pay the bills she works in a strip club.