Behind black

03. I

Hey lovelies, how have you been feeling, me? Well shit
But enjoy!!

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Jayla's POV~

I walk into the eerily quiet house, slowly not wanting to wake anyone up but that was pointless because I saw Gabby on the couch with an ice pack on her head.

On cue she looked up to me.

"Uh Gabby I'm sorry about today I-"

She shut me up by running up to me to hug me,  Gabby has never hugged me before, mostly because she was scared to but still, it felt weird. Not knowing what to do with my hands I awkwardly raised it to pat her o the back and I felt her shoulders shaking, was she crying? Well fuck.

"Jay why are you the one apologizing? I should be thanking you, but only for saving me because I know if you weren't there he would have killed me, but for taking Heaven to her room before she could see the monster she has as her father, I just ca-" She broke down and cried even harder.

I never know what to do in situations like this, what do I say?

I sighed "It was nothing really"

She looked at me like I had grown two heads, "No Jayla! That was not nothing I owe you so much"

"Gabby you really don't, what did you even see in him?" I asked her, that question had been in my head for a long time now.

She smiled up at me reminiscing , "He wasn't like this, he was never like this, he was the sweetest most selfless person I ever met, I don't think I could have ever loved Anyone the way I loved him. He just got mixed up with the wrong group I guess, he started doing drugs and he changed so drastically.

He started to hit me, at first I didn't know that what he was doing was wrong till it became worse, I was literally his punching bag. Later on I found out that I was pregnant and decided to run away, I didn't want my child growing up in such a toxic environment, plus that was when I heard what happened to Josey"

Hearing my mother's name made me stiff a bit.

"And I found you at the side of the highway, that was when I decided I wanted a fresh start"

I don't know why but I hugged her and Gabby stiffened In my arms mostly because she was shocked, hell so was I.

"I never really got to thank you about that night do Gabby, thank you for saving me and I mean it a lot" I said feeling weird about being thankful.

She sobbed even more in my arms.

"Goodnight Gabby"

"Night" she said, faintly.

I walked upstairs to Heaven's room to find her still awake with her back facing me. I slipped into her bed next to her.

"Mommy I told you that I'm okay" she squeaked.

"It's me baby"

She gasped "Jay Jay! I thought that you left me"

"What, I would never leave you" I said reassuring her.