Alayna+grafting+piece+6+11

invisable.

===the girls leaned against the shelf and sighed. she looked up from the book and looked around. she put the book on the shelf, and then rolled the cart to the next spot. she always loved that book, "how to steal a dog." she was just like the girl when she was little. and also, her dad had left her to be kicked out. she also loved the book, "once loved." it really help the girl to make a conection with the character.===

===the girl wheeled the cart into storage room and walked over to the read and sit area. she loved the library, thats why she worked there. she set down her book and thought about her childhood, it all rolled out like a movie in her mind.===

==="casey, help lucy with her home work when you all get back home. i will be at work." mama said, putting her notepad in her old, scratched purse. "mama, this isn't a home, it's an old rickity car." casey said, rubbing down her tangley, wavy brown hair. it was 7:00 and mama was leaving to one of her jobs. she worked at the drug store, and the dry cleaners. mama pionted her finger at casey. "stop it. it ain't my fualt your daddy left and made us like this, try to take care of two kids, work 2 jobs, get ya'll some food and pay for this car." her mom said, in a very stern way. casey rolled her eyes. "first, why should you pay for an old car like this, and if you really cared for us, you would buy us more clothes, becuase me and lucy only got 2 shirts and 3 shorts from when we left, our school things, our tooth brushes. of course, not our hair brushes, or no shampoo and conditioner, and...oh a real shower. we haven't shpwered for 5 days." casey said in a hiss, making sure not to wake up lucy. her mom shook her head. "get your sister up and get her to the bus on time." her mom sighed. her mom was about to shut the car door, when casey said something. "and, we haven't had breakfast for 5 days. we only have had old tuna salad." casey said. her mom said nothing and shut the car door. casey pulled back her towel wall and crawled into the back seat. she closed the towles and looked at her seat. shoved in between the seat and the 2nd row seat, was casey's trash bag half full of her things, in the other corner, was her dirty school bag. she looked at her seat and saw lucy was laying there, asleep. she sighed madly and almost yelled. "lucy, get out of my part the car. you have the 2nd row!" lucy sat up straight, her eyes still baggy. "is it 7:20?" lucy yawned. "sure, whatever, now get out of my side! i told you to nevercome back here unless i told you you can!" casey yelled. lucy stuck her tongue out at her crawled over the seat and sat on the 2nd seat. "get dressed." casey muttered. lucy grabbed her wrinkled, big yellow shirt. it was a size to big and it had a catchup stain on it. she slid on her old, ripped blue jeans on. "lucy, you wore that now 3 times in a row." casey said. she had only 5 things, but she never wore the same clothes more than 2 days in a row. casey leaned back and muttered something under her breath, now she hated her dad. he left one night, leaving only 2 rolls of quaters, and a few crinkled 5 dollar bills in his pant pockets. casey rembered the night it happened===

==="dad! come here look at this, i got a a in math." casey said happily. her mom came over and rubbed ehr back. "good job casey." she said, but casey's dad sat on the couch, looking at the wall. his half of his head was in his heands. his elbows rested against his knees and one of his knees was shaking. her mom, sherri waved her hand at her dad and turned to look closely at casey's test. she smiled and hugged casey from the back. "i am so proud of you." she said, wiping a piece of hair in place on casey's head. casey got out of her chair and sat on the couch by her dad. "dad, look at my test." casey said, setting it on her lap. he took it and handed it back to her. casey looked at him strangley and sighed. her dad looked at her in the eye and then mouthed, "i am so sorry." at first, casey didn't know what he had said. once they had moved into the car, she knew what he was mouthing. everyone that night went to bed, but when they woke up, there dad wasn't there. he had a shirt and jeans and a pair of shoes, but left everything else. that day, lucy and casey went to school, but after school there mom was thee to pick them up. "i packed you guys only one bag., the land lord kicked us out because of rent." her mom huffed. "why didn't you pay the rent then?" casey had asked. "ok, how do i pay the rent with only 15 bucks and 2 rolls of quarters?" her mom said, blowing a piece of her hair out of her face. "so where are we going to stay?" lucy had asked. her mom pointed to the back seat of the car. "in the car." her mom said with no expresion in her voice. "mom i hope you packed my 2 books from the library." casey said, she thought she could feel the steam coming out of her ears. her mom nodded. "i only packed both of you your books, thooth brush, 3 shirts and 2 shorts." her mom said, looking at the fuil moniter. casye and lucy's jaws dropped. "what?!" casey said. "what about my other clothes, and my hair brush?!" she yelled. her mom put up her finger to her own lips. "be qiuet, we can disscuss this later." her mom hwhispered softly. her mom tried to rub casey's arm, but casey jerked away feircly and got into the car. se slammed the door so hard, it shook the car. her mom looked back at casey, no madness, or sadness, no happiness was in her eyes, her eyes her like rocks, like her eyes lossed there life. her mom made a half smile. "don't mom, a smile can't make it better!" casey had cried. once she said that, the tears flowed. lucy was sitting next to her, a drip falling from her eye. "oh casey," her mom said qiuetly. "no, don't say anything!" casey cried. casey crawled into the back seat and saw the trash bag. she opened it and saw hedr things her mom said she had packed for her.she wiped her eyes and saw the small book. she picked it up and opened it. it had old pictures of her mom and dad when they were dateing. it had pictures of lucy and her when they were babys and were little, and it had recent photos in it. casey looked at a family picture of her mom, he5r dad, lucy and her. she took it out of the book and rubbed her finger lightly across the picture. she sighed and put the small picture in the cup holder.===

===lucy started talking, that brought casey back from her thoughts to the real world. "casey what time is it?" lucy was asking, casey looked at her wrist watch and she jumped up and hit her head. "ow," she muttered. her clock said 8:02, the bus came at 8:05. casey had been drowned in her thoughts for 20 minutes. "lucy, lets go." casey took a ponytail and put her hair in a neck bun. she grabbed her bacvk and climbed over the seat and opened the door. she jumped out and pulled lucy with her. she kicked the door shut and she started to run to the bus stop. "casey! where are we going?" lucy almost yelled. "we are going to the bus stop, now run faster." casey said, through gritted teeth. lucy was 10 tards behind casey. casey had long slim legs, lucy had short legs and in 3rd grade, she couldn't keep up with casey. casey did running club on wensdays and fridays. lucy had to wait at school for casey to get done becuase there mom worked until 6:00 on week days at the drug store. she worked from 7:00 to 4:00 on weekends at the dry cleaners.===

===casey ran even faster when she saw the bus stop sign. she haed and her had half running. casey saw the bus pull up and the od grabbed lucy's arm and lucy was being half dragged and was half running. casey and lucy saw thee bus and the other4 kids lstart to load. casey and lucy were almost there, when the bus doors closed and it drove off. the casey ran even faster, still holding lucy's arm. the bus went faster and sprayed a foul smell of gas on both lucy and casey. casey heard the bus roar to a stop. casey looked forward from looking at lucy and saw the bus 3 feet in front of her. she drug her heels to the ground and stopped from running into the bus. she sasw they were at a different bus stop. lucy was breathing very hard, but casey was at a regualar breathing motion. she ran to the bus door and got on with lucy. "casey, i am tired now." lucy whispered casey sighed and muttered. "sorry, just walk to a seat and sit down." casey sat down in a seat and lucy sat next to her. "lucy, go in a different seat." casey pleaded. "no." lucy said, with a smile on her face. lucy had tuna salad stuck in her teeth and foul, foul breath. casey sighed, "you didn't brush your teeth did you?" casey said, waving her hand in front of her nose. lucy made a mad face. "i don't like to use that cooler water, it's gross." lucy said, her nose wrinkled. casey sighed and took of her back pack. she opened it and dug trough it. she hadn't done most of her homework since they moved into the car, or she just made things up. she was supposed to make a model of the solor system for sience class, but she didn't do it. she had to explain to her teacher, mr.Grate why she didn't do it. she would lie and say, "sorry, i didn't have th resorces" or "i don't have a computer to study with and i didn't have time to go to the library." casey put her elows on her back and rested her head in her hands. lucy started to sing softly. lucy wasn't very good at running, listening, or sometimes at school, but man, was she a great singer. her voice floud out of her mouth like Gossamer. she hit every notes and could hold a long note. acsey would close her eyes and let her mind go blank in the apartment when there dad was there. they would run inside from school and go into the kitchen and crab a snack, then go into their bedroom. they would shut the door and sit on their beds. they would talk about what happened at school and some funny things, then lucy would sing. they had a bunk bed, so lucy would lay on the bottom bed and casey had the top. casey would close her eyes and take a bite out of her juicy, cold apple.===

==="casey, we are at school." lucy said, shaking casey softly. casey opened her eyes and she thought she had probably fell asleep thinking about lucy's singing. casey shook her head and waited for everyone to get off the bus, then left. she waqlked slowly into her class room and everyone was talking to one another, or talking in groups. when casey walked in, some head turned, but saw it was her so they went on talking. casye sighed and walked over to her desk. morgan, sophie, lola, becky, libby, rachel and mia were talking by it. casey made sure she made no eye contact with mia. when mia saw her. she turned her head and talked to libby. morgan was sitting on her desk, her feet on casey's chair. casey stood up a little more straight. "um.morgan, can you get off my seat?" casey asked. morgan stopped laughing, and shood off the other girls with a wave of her hands. the girls stoped laughing and ran to a different seat. morgan made a discussed face and turned her head toward casey slowly. she looked at her fake nails and chumped on her gum. she had on a shirt that said, "whatever," she also had on a short jean skirt and had on high heel sandals. she still looked at her nails, still on casey's seat. "morgan, please get off my seat." casey sighed. morgan looked up from her nails, her back hair covering some of her eye. she made a smile. "what are you going to do, put me in jail?" morhan said, waving her hand in a pointed finger. "mabye."casey muttered. morgan dropped her smile and put on her mean look. "look girl, i rule this class room, i am smart, pretty, dress good and i smell good. you are dumd, ugly, dress bad and smell. so get lost. i own this desk until class starts, whitch starts in 5 minutes." morgan said, she was 3 inches from casey face. casey shook her head. casey sighed and shrugged. she then, pushed morgan off the table. morgan fell with yelp and jumped back up right away. she looked around and then smoothed out her skirt. she looked up and sruck her tongue out at casey. "this, is not over." morgan hissed. she walked over to her seat, shoowing away her little possy as they tried to follow her. casey just sat in her seat, getting out her book. she didn't even read her essement. she loved to read, but since the deal with the car, she disided to try to fail her class to show her mom what she did to herself and lucy. casey saw all the crumbled sheets of homework, and test in her back pack. casey would always do her homework and her essesments, but she didn't do it because of the car deal. casey heard the bell ring so she set down her bag and waited for her teacher to arrive. when her did, he said hello and said how pleased he was on the sience projects, he didn't make eye contact with casey. he said somethings about what he read in the news paper (whitch he does everyday). he got done a said something that made a tiny knot in casey's stomach. "ok class, now it is time to hand in your reading essesment." he said. every kid got up and handed there work in, they had folders to put it in, they had papers typed up on the computer, some made presintations, but not casey. casey walked up set, just her book on his desk. he smiled when he saw her, but when he looked down at what she had set on his table, his smiled turned to a sad face. casey walked away without a word and sat at her desk, watching the clock tick slowly, waiting for the learning to stop, so she can go to the, old, stink'en car.===

===casey heard the bell ring and lefted her head with a start. everyone jumped out of there seats, saying "recess!" casey sat in the back of the class room, so the teacher could never see her. that was her spot for the year and she sorta enjoyed it. she could draw, reade her book when ever or sleep, whitch she had just did. she got out of her seat, she walked to the door and was about to leave for recess, when mr.grate called her back. she stood in front of his desk, looking right into his eyes. "why didn't you turn in you science project or your read essesment?" he said softly. casey shrugged. "is there something i should know about?" he asked. casey looked at her feet and shrugged again. he handed her a note that said mrs.drew and mr.drew. "guve this to your parents." he said nicely, worry coming into his voice. she nodded an left the class room. she went to her locker and slid the note into the crack at the top. she sat down in front of her locker. she hated the why she had to dfo the to mr.grate. he was the nicest teacher she had had, but sh ejust went on crushing him, letting him down. she shook her head and saw that a class was comin gout of their room. she quickly stood up and walked down the stairs to the door at recess.=== ===casey sat against the wall and looked at all the other kids playing. all of them were laughing and talking. before casey moved into her car, she had a friend, her name was mia. they were the best of friends. they went to each others house every weekend, the hung out at school, everything. but when casey moved into the car and started to look unkept and started to smell, mia left for a new friend, for morgan and her possy. since then, they have never spoken to each other. casey looked at her old dirty shoes. they were the obly one ehr mother could get fron the apartment. she started to try to rub the dirt off, when morgan and her possy stood infront of her. casey huffed and stood up. morgan had her hands on her hips and took her finger and snapped. all the girls behind her, her possy whispered. "Girls! i snapped!" she yelled. all the girls turned around and left, but mia. morgan saw mia. "Mia, get out of here!" she said, her head moving in a sassy way. mia stood there. morgan laughed. "fine." she said. she walked over to mia and pushed her back wards. mia jumped backwards at the small force. mia did nothing though. morgan smiled an evil smile and pished mia again. mia was pushed back 5 steps. she was on step ahead of the mud pit. it was a place where a ditch formed. the builders tryed to patch it up, but when it rained, it was a mud hole. it was a bout a foot deep. morgan smiled. "this well be fun." she laughed. she pushed her hands out to push mia, but mia moved out of the way. morgan screamed. "mia! help."she cried. mia shook her head. morgan lost her balance and reached for mia. mia moved away and morgan went face first into the mud. the mud hole was 2 feet wide, so it cover morgan hair and face, her sirt, and a little of her skirt. morgan flaled her arm sin the air whil4e her face was still in the mud. she rolled over and cough. she screamed. "OMG!" she said, almost in tears. she put her hands on the ground, but on fell in the muddle hole. she lost her balance again and she fell on her bottom onto the mud. she through her arms everywhere. she finally got up and screamed at mia. "you are out of the group!!" morgan walked away, she walked wrong on on of her heels, and she fell to the ground. she yelped and slowly got up. she took off the one heel and walked away, unevenly. mia sighed and walked away. casey stayed where she was against the wall. she wondered why mia would do the for her. she sighed and sat back down she waited for the bell to ring and got in the back of the lline for lunch. when she got her lunch, she saw mia walk towrd the table with her luch tray. she caught up to mia. "hi." she said. mia said nothing. casey shook her head. "ok, since you don't like me anymore, i won't ask. sorry for worry about my use to be best friend." casey said. casey walked away and sat at a table alone. mia kept looked forward for an open spot. casey turned around torward the table and started to eat. since she didn't have luch money, the lunch lady's only gave her a cheese sandwich. she got milk for the 25 cents she had saved. she picked off the cheese from the bread and eat the bread. she hadn't had a real meal for 5 days, but she eat slowly even though she was straving. when she had eat the bread and the cheese, she drank her milk and gave her tray to the janitor. she went back and sat at the table. 5 minutes before luch was over, mia came and sat across from casey. she said nothing though. casey sat up straight. "i though you hated me." she said. mia turned and looked at her. "i don't hate you." she said in a low voice. "then why didn't you talk to me?" casey asked. mia sorta rolled her eyes. "because i was mad." she huffed. "about what?" casey asked. mia put her hands on the side of her head. "at morgan! didn't you see me let her fall into the mud?!" mia said. waving her hands. casey shrugged. "well, why did you do that?" casey asked. "because she was making me mad and bossing me around. i asked rachel if i could back out of the group. she said they had all tried, but morgan said no. so i made her take me out." mia saaid, her voice rising. "well that doesn't mean you had to ignore me!" casey hissed. "i had to because i can't be seen around you!" mia almost yelled. casey was taken back by that. she bowed her head. "oh." casey whispered. mia shook her head. "i mean i ca-" she was about to say, but casey cut her off. "no, just go. i know i am dumb and stink and everything, that because of something you don't need to know, but i thought you were a better friend than to leave me because of how i looked." casey sniffled. mia shook her head, but didn't say anything, "go, before you dig yourself into a depper hole." casey muttered. mia lifted her head, like nothing happened so no one knew what she did and sh eleft. casey felt like she was the size of a ant. she heard the bell ring and lined up behind her class. mia was no where to be seen and casey didn't care though, she made her self look like she didn't care, but onj the inside, she really did care. her dad use to tell her when she was little, "acting like you don't care, gives you time to think about how much you relly do." casey wiped her eye and followed her class to there room.===

==="casey, what does 304+205 equal?" lucy asked, chewing the top of her pencil. casey shrugged. "don't ask me." she said meanly. lucy made a face. "oh, sorry." she said quietly. casey rolled her eyes. "509." she muttered. lucy smiled. "thank you." she said. casey pushed lucy's face down. "stay on your own side." she muttered meanly. lucy said nothing but stayed on her side for the rest of the night. it was 5:00 and it was friday. casey liked weekends because no one would give ehr wierd looks. her mom was at the drug store, lucy and casey got done eating tuna salad and lucy was working on her homework, but casey didn't work on her math homework, or science homework, or her reading essesment that was all do in monday. casey layed down on the seats and picked up the picture in the cup holder from the photo aldum. she smiled when she saw how happy she looked, how happy her dad and lucy looked. she didn't want to think of her mom, the one who made them live in the car. she put the picture back and she crawled over the seat. her mom never let them turn on the car when they weren't going anywhere. casey felt like she was on fire. she got in the 2nd row and she landed on lucy. "casey! get off off me." she breathed. casey scooted off of lucy. "sorry." she said. she opened the car door and slid out of the car into the fresh air. she sighd and closed her eyes. she shut the car door and she climbed up onto the hood. there car was parked in a abandoned alley. no on ever walked by it anymore and the 2 biulding by it were shut down. so no on knew or saw that their car was there.=== ===casey put her hands behind her head and she layed down on the hood and closed her eyes. she relaxed and memories flashed through her head. when she happy family. she was in the middle of more memories, when a noise disturbud them. she opned her eyes and sat up. she looked around. she thought it was her imagenation, so she layed back down, and closed her eyes. she went to hermemories again, when she felt a soft tickley feeling on her hand. she opened her eyes, and saw a fluffly, white a brown cat. it was very fluffy. its body was all white, except his feet, the tip of his tail and the tips of his ears. it ws rubbing its head on her arm. casey jumped back in suprise. the cat meowed and walked over to casey. casey touched the top of his head lightly and it purred. casey looked around. "is anybody here! i have cat." no one awnsered. caseey shrugged and lift up the fur around its neck. it had a very ond, worn out pink collar. it had a tag that said, "pearl". casey looked at the cat. "well hello pearl." the cat purred at the sound of its name. "well you nust be a girl." casey sighed. the cat rubbed against casey side. casey stroked pearls back. "i want to keep you, but my mom would freak out and i have been saving up money, but my dang moom won't let you into the car.=== ===" casey said, with a shake of her head. the cat sat down and its tail waved slowly back in forth. it looked up at her with its big green eyes. casey hesitated. she loved that cat the minute she saw it. "ok, fine you can stay with me for awhile, i well hide you somewhere. mama says that we well keep the car here until she has enough money to rent a apartment, wich well probably take a month or 2, so, yes i well keep you." casey said. the cat tilted its head to the side. casey waved her hands in the air. "um...good girl." she said. the cat knew the term and it rubbed against casey side. casey made a weak smile. casey picked the cat. and set it down behind her. she slid off the hood and faced the cat. "stay." she said. the cat planted its bottom on the hood and stayed there. wow, i thought only dogs knew that." casey said with a smile. the cat waved ita tail slowly. casey walked over to the old dumpster and looked in. there was an old, but big card board box. she stood in her tippy toes and grabbed it. she ribbed off 2 of the flaps on the top. after she did that, there was a flappy door. she run the the car and opened the trunk lightly. she did to so qiuetly, lucy didn't hear her. she grabbed a blanket and the old teddy bear lucy found on the side of the street. she closed the trunk and she ran over to the box. the cat was still sitting on the hood. she smiled and she folded the blanket so it fit in the box. she layed it on the bottom and she set the teady bear in the corner. "come her pearl." she whispered. the cat tilted its head and it jumped off the hood and ran over to casey. it puured and rubbed against her leg. casey picked up the cat and opened the flap on the top of the box. she set the cat in there. the cat cirlced around the box and looked at casey. "good girl pearl, no stay." she said in a happhy way. the cat purred anfd layed down. casey smiled and she scooted the cat beside the dumpster, so if you were in the car, you couldn't see it. as soey sughed, and sirta smiled. this is the best thing that had happened to her for awhile. she would have to buy it food and get it water, sp she would by some water bottles and a bag of cat food. casey, over a year, she had saved up 115 dollars. that would last her some time. she walked back to the car. she opened the door and saw that lucy was asleep, a wet spot on her homework from her drool, dripping from her mouth. casey rolled her eyes and got in. she closed the door lightly and locked it. she locked the other doors. she climbed over lucy and got into the 3rd row. she layed down and grabbed the family picture. she saw her dad was really smiling, a really, happy smile. casey rubbed the picture lightly with her finger. she put the picture back and she looked in the trunk. she saw it was empty instean of a old metal fold up chair, 3 folded blankets and the cooler. she opened the cooler and coughedr. it reaked. it had melted ice in there and it had thick dark blue small bowl of tuna salad, that was it. casey reached in and opened the bowl. the tuna salad didn't smell fresh. it had some mold in it. casey plucked her nose and put the lid on it. she grabbed she closed the it and shut the cooler lid.s eh got outof the car silently and she took the lid out of the bowl. she plugged her nose and through the bowl forward, the bowl still in her hand. the tuna salad flew in the air and landed 10 feet away. she looked in the bowl and some tuna salad was stuck to the bottom of the bowl, moldy and rotton. she gagged and found a stick and scraped the rest our of the bowl. sheset the bowl under a garbage can so it wouldn't stink up the car and so it wouldn't fly away. casey plugged her nose and walked back to her car. she opened the door and jumped in silently. she shut the door and climbed into the back seat. she pulled back her towel wall and saw the lucy was still asleep. casey rolled her eyes and clapped her heads together very loud. lucy jumped up startled and she fell off the seat onto the floor. "what! is dada here?! daddy!!...wait, where si he?" lucy said, sit up from her small spot from the floor. "what? dad isn't here and i haven't said anything." casey said, restong her cin on the top of the 2nd row seat.===

conclusion: i looked at the family picture. i took a piece of paper and got some markers. casey took the paper and taped it to the picture. she smiled. her family was in the picture, even pearl. she had drawn pearl to add to the family. casey smiled and hung up the picture on the wall.