Malory King

Holden Kilburn

Malory Holden Callum Ellery

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Malory King a very cheap, quiet, artistic, elegant, mature, insecure, humorous, orphan girl Holden intelligent, Irish-Mexican, artistic, sarcastic, rustic, cold, betray, fame-hungry man

Malory was just a baby when parents die and left her orphan and she go to A Helping Hand where never get adopted She enrolled in Teen Program where she stay until 18, have a job and go to school She want to be psychologist and she study hard and get 4.2 and get into Stanford She try to cover up all her insecurities by her outer shell of maturity and fashion

She get scholarship so spend money on fashion and have compulsion to give away money to homeless people One day go to Long Beach with friends in morning and all four of her friends find other boys to spend the whole day with Clarissa, Hattie, Julie, Bindy

Malory go all the way at the end and watch a Mexican family fish and she help bait and hold down fish line when father go to sell fruits and give two children Miguel and Maya money to go on rides Then it become evening and very cold and the girls about to go home when Malory see old man painting a couple and he so quick and painting so beautiful They wait and then the man gruffy say his price and he gesture towards chair and say do only one more and since Bindy prettiest she say she go

 She clean freak so she put tissue on seat and as he finish painting the say he going to have to clean chair Bindy ask why and he say crudely there is still semen coming out of her pussy from the stranger she just fucked She take painting and go out in a huff and he say no need payment she need all the money she can get from prostituting She leave in huff and take friends with her but Malory stya and watch him put away his stuff and her friends call her back but she say shell take bus and they leave She ask why he here He ask why she here and she say she wanted to have fun

He sneer and say with guys and she smile and say no she just came from fishing and she aye a dozen churros He finnaly turn and look at her weirdly as she smile

Abruptly tell her to sit and she sit and he take out all his stuff and tell her to do a pose she can keep fro a long time She frown smile and say ok and she keep body towards him but turn her face towards sea and no smile and he find it off and she sit up straight and have a hopeless look of longing like she hope for best but know it never come but let hope make her live He paint her quickly trying to get last sunlight in and finish only face and hair it take his breath away not the painting itself but her expression He stop when she start shivering and he pack up and tell her to get up and she do so quietly and he pack up all his stuff and tell her hell escort her home Without words they get on a bus and and she tell him where orphanage is

He ignore and rip off a piece of paper and write an address on it and tell her to come to it tomorrow and give her money for taxi She tell he stranger and she told not to trust strangers He sneer and ask if her dead mother tell her that or the girls that were just with strangers

She blink and tell him she dont think he talk to people very often and he ask what make her think that and she say he very rude even when people nice to him Then she say for his own info she no need other to tell her not to trust strangers

 He laugh and tell her his name, his hobby of painting, his derision of people, his IQ which in top one percent of world, and tell her smart people dont need to be polite She tell him humans need to put up facades of politeness in order not to kill each other and then she give him example that she can tell him his hair remind her of bird nest, his smell offend can offend skunks, and if he so smart why he not rich He laugh and tell her rich people not smart and she fill in they clever which he obiously not and he say well see Then quiet and get to her stop and he ask if she coming and she bite lip and he say he no longer stranger and she smile and say well see As bus going away he yell out she not seem to mind his looks or smell and he laugh and go home When go into bedroom girls ask what happened and she lie and say she get job from him and Bindy compalin say that bum and they complain about his smell and looks and Malory try to defend but they say she to nave and then Malory get pissed and ask Bindy if she really had sex and Bindy and other girls laugh and mean and they say she just jealous they can get boys while all she can do is stink like fish and tell her to go take shower Malory shake head and as girls sleep she take bath in cold water and anticipate going to the mans house in four days and she no feel in danger and fell herself attracted to him and she try to analyze it and she not really care about age difference and just shrug and tell herself shell like whoever she like and she always thought she would find a rich handsome man but she not mind who Holden is Holden stumble down path to his home it all broken and charred and blackened it on a deserted beach pier with grass growing all around It a quaint two story building in hexagon shape with a porch surrounding whole house it all broken down He enter and just push open door and it fall off hinges and think with a smile what the girl said about smart peopling being rich He have flash image of himself in this house with mother and a baby sister and middle brother him painting them and mother admiring his painting Then he shake head and he go upstairs and go into his studio and throw down his stuff and go out into balcony and look out and run his hand over beard and smile when remember the girl taking about beard and marvel at her maturity and way she handle herself

 Next day, while orphans having luch the headmistress come in and tell the girls that program being vacated because they need buget cuts and they no more have orphanage and girls will be thrown out in a week and all girls thrown in up roar and they all think of ways to get along without home Malory suggest that they Clarissa, Bindy, Julie, and Hattie rent an apartment and they can live together and share expenses and they all agree but Bindy put up argument but Malory convince girls and they all agree and Clarissa suggest that all go looking for apartments and they spend the whole day looking and Malory find a small charming town home al low pay and all girls like it but bindy no like and they leave but Malory convince manager to keep for while and she nice so old man agree name Mr. Rochford That night Bindy and Malory get into fight and Malory storm out and take her stuff and cant wait any longer and go to Mr. Rochfords house and he kindly old man take her in it rain and she walked all the way Then in morning when she wake up, find Hattie there and say she followed and she no agree with Bindy and they make deal with old man they cook and clean for him and they live with him since he really do need money from the empty town house but girls no mind since huse kind of big Next day Malory go to mans house early in morning and take food thinking he no have food and she marvel when she get out at scenery and she go to house and wonder why so broken down and about to knock but no door and go in and call name and hear groan and go up stairs and find Holden on floor drunk out of mind and she tut and go about clearing room and she lay doen blanket and bring out coffee and she take dirty head in lap and feed him hot coffe and he spit out on himself and say it horrible and she tell him drink up help hangover and he drink as she stand up and unpack food She ask if hungry and he sit up and see blurry and ask how she got in and she say door open with smile and he say there no door and she say so it open and he groan as she open blinds and sun come in and she gasp as see all painting and so beautiful and emotional and she look around He tell her to come back later and he feel like shit and she say she can take care car eof him and then see her portrait and blown away and seee how pretty he mak her seem and tell him so and he say ugly always look pretty when he drunk and she frown and open more blinds and he fall back on pallet groaning