UNOFFiCiAL - Jenny Gen!Fic
UNOFFiCiAL
Growing up, I was always Jenny Reilly, tomboy and unofficial sister to the Donnelly brothers. I never understood what exactly brought me to them. All I know is that when Jonathon Meika picked on me on the first day of preschool, Tommy Donnelly came out of nowhere, his three brothers behind him, and defended me. I'm not exactly sure what Tommy said to him, since I was sobbing into Sean's shoulder and all (the boy was a ladies man even as a toddler!), but Jonathon Meika never approached me again. In fact, I think he even switched classes so that he was on the other side of the building. That was the sort of thing Tommy and his boys did.
The other thing I remember from that first day of preschool was telling my father that my four new best friends were boys. You cannot imagine the look of disappointment on his face when he heard that his baby girl, the love of his life, had a group of brothers to protect her. In his mind, girls were supposed to become "BFFL"s with other girls, and play barbie dolls. Not become "one of the guys" and toss around a baseball. My mother had been thrilled, though. She had always wanted her daughter to be popular with boys, because (and I quote), "Boys are always there for you; if you pick the right ones, they never stab you in the back." I didn't understand what that phrase meant until middle school, when a group of girls who were in love with the Donnelly brothers (they were so obsessive about the four boys) decided to try and ruin me by spreading rumors. I learned more about myself that year than any other. I also learned that Tommy Donnelly would always be there to beat up any boy and tell off any girl that tried to speak bad about me.
His brothers, of course, followed suit. If one likes you, they all like you.
And when my mother committed suicide when I was fifteen, my "family" was there for me then, too. They were there to comfort me and tell me that my mother was in a better place, and that I was stronger than her. In fact, they wouldn't let me wallow. We played baseball every day, and Tommy would take us on a joyride (a relatively slow one. I never understood what exactly happened to make him lose his interest for driving fast) at night. By sixteen, I was completely enamored of Thomas Donnelly. He had never had a girlfriend, but at the time he was going steady with Annabella, the school's bad girl. I despised her guts, and so did Jimmy, Kevin, and Sean. But nope, Tommy refused to listen to our complaints about her. So...
I got a new boyfriend.
Nothing important, right? WRONG. I fell in love with him, despite the fact that Tommy was still my "soul mate" in my mind. We went steady until I was nineteen, and then Jack (that was his name), asked me to marry him. Tommy had been through quite a few girlfriends since I had been sixteen, but he was now single. This made saying yes to Jack the single hardest thing I ever had to do. Jack and I had a good year, and then he went off to find money to pay off his damn student loans. Please. I know he's probably dead, leaving me a young widow. People think I don't know, but I'm not stupid.
That's pretty much the story of Tommy and I in a nutshell. The short version, the edited, the cut, etcetera, etcetera. I'm still in love with Tommy, don't get me wrong, but now I wonder if being the unofficial sister to this group of boys was ever really the best thing for me to do. Bad blood and bad luck surrounds them, according to my father.
Except...THAT'S my problem: I'm still in love with Tommy. But how can I love a man doomed to kill over and over again? His fate was chosen for him, and God knows oh-too-well that Tommy Donnelly's never been one to deny fate. Every time Tommy prayed to God, God took something else away from him. His brother's leg, Tommy's innocence, many innocent lives, the girl he liked, his "Uncle" Hughey (who he killed for his brothers, by the way), and now, finally...me.
Hi. I'm Jenny Reilly, unofficial sister to the Donnelly brothers, and I don't think anything will ever be the same again.
title. UNOFFiCiAL
author. krystalgamer
characters. jenny, mentions of other characters
rating. PG
spoilers. YES.
summary. Hi, I'm Jenny Reilly, unofficial sister to the Donnelly brothers.