━━━━ MARGOT SIGHED as she parked her car outside the Sturniolo family's house. She wished it didn't have to come to this, but she was eternally grateful that they would open their home to her when she really needed it the most. She opened the car door and grabbed her backpack and her years-old duffel bag, which contained her only belongings; small amount of clothes, toiletries, her phone charger, headphones, and a water bottle.
Margot heard a door open behind her and turned around to see Nick, her best friend since childhood, walking down the front steps to help her with her bags. He was shocked to see she only had two medium-sized bags. Margot could tell he was confused as to why she had so few belongings. She shrugged and said, "This is all my mom would let me take with me. She would've yelled at me if I brought anything that she gave to me." Nick let out a breath and shook her head, saying, "Fuck her. Give me your bags, come on!" Margot laughed softly and tossed her duffel bag full of clothes into his arms. He nearly dropped it, but it wouldn't have mattered too much if he did. After all, Margot didn't exactly have anything valuable to her name except for her car.
He started walking up the steps back up to the house, and Margot followed, locking her car behind her. As soon as they entered, Margot was in the arms of Nick's mom, who rocked her side to side. If she were to be honest, she nearly cried at that moment. Their mom was a better mom than Margot's could even dream of being, and she loved her with her entire being.
Margot blinked away tears and looked at her best friend's mom, saying, "Thank you for letting me stay, I really appreciate it more than you know."
She just smiled and shook her head, "You would do the same for the boys."
Nick froze, "Mom. Seriously."
Margot laughed and pulled away from the hug. Nick pulled her upstairs to the spare bedroom, right next to Chris's bedroom. She could hear light snoring as she walked past and went into the spare room to start to unpack her clothes and other belongings. "Thanks, Nicky Poo. Love you."
Nick rolled his eyes and said, "Shut up. You're welcome. I'll give you some time to unpack. You know where the bathroom is. Also, literally, just help yourself to anything whenever you want, you live here now." Margot smiled at him and gave him a quick hug. "Also, I'm going to give you some of my chores."
Margot scoffed, "You're kidding." Nick nodded, not very reassuringly, and left the room, leaving Margot in disbelief.
She shook her head and started unpacking, hearing a loud banging noise come from Matt in his room next to hers. She groaned, fished out her noise-canceling headphones from her backpack, and blasted some music in her ears while she unpacked.
