His sunflower

chapter 3

Abby's Pov

"Hey kiddo? That's all? You disappear for a couple years and all I get is a hey kiddo?" That pissed me off. Matt has been in Spain for "work" for over 2 years. He left and somewhere throughout that business trip mom filed a divorce. We learned to live without him and the family became happy again after we realized we still had each other.

"I didn't disappear Abby. I went on a business trip" I know it wasn't a business trip. Mom wouldn't have filed for a divorce if it was business.

"No. It wasn't but whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night." I say rolling my eyes and walking away. Mom and Jacob have moved into the hallway to see him and they looked hurt. Jacob most of all because they were actually close before he left.

"Now Abby that's not how you greet your father back home, come back here" He said a little sternly but tried being nice. I looked over at my mom with a pleading look trying to ask her to take over this conversation. She gave me a small nod.

"Kids why don't you go upstairs." While me and Jacob looked at each other we put on small smiles and nodded at my mom. As we were walking away I heard my mom say "What the hell are you doing here Matt?"

When we got to Jacob's room I sat on his bed while he turned on his tv. "Are you okay Jay?" I was worried about him. He was close with Matt before he decided to leave. They would do a lot of things together.

"Yea i'm okay. Just surprised." I don't really believe him but if he doesn't want to talk I won't force him to.

For the next hour or so we were playing his xbox. We switched between Fortnite and Call of duty. He was low key good at these games and I was okay. He beat me in all of them but that's a minor detail no one needs to know. After a little bit mom came up to talk to us.

She explained what's happening and how we shouldn't worry about it. She's letting him stay tonight which i don't think she should do but I also understand why she is. She clarified that he's gonna stay in the guest room and shouldn't bother us. They are gonna settle everything tomorrow. Tomorrow could not come soon enough.

I ended up falling asleep in Jacob's room on his bed. When I woke up to my alarm he was next to me. He looked more peaceful when he slept which is good. I'm glad he got to escape this problem through sleep. I slowly made my way to my room to pick my outfit for school.

Today I picked black ripped jeans and my white nike hoodie. I wore my low top white converse. I did light makeup again and kept my hair down. After I used the bathroom and brushed my teeth I went downstairs and grabbed a protein bar. Mom wasn't awake yet so I didn't have breakfast breakfast but she deserved to sleep in. She does so much for this family.

I chose the bus again today and completely ignored Johnny deciding that I want today to be a good day and he surprisingly let me. He didn't have any stupid remarks at all.

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School was very uneventful today. Literally nothing happened. Josh was there and he looked hot as fuck like always and I told Sierra that Matt was back but that was it. Literally nothing happened. I wish I could say the same for the rest of the day. When I arrived home no one but Matt was there. It's my lucky day.

"Hello Abby how was school"

"It was fine" I say shrugging not really giving any detail to why

"Come on Abby you can talk to me" No, I can't

"I know I know but I don't want to is the thing that is stopping me" I say shrugging again

"Now now Abby calm down I didn't do anything wrong." nah that's it

"You left the family with nothing Matt! You should have stayed in Spain because no one wants you here! We were doing fine without you!"

"Stop calling me Matt. It is disrespectful!"

"I'll respect you when you are no longer here Matt."

"And what if I don't leave Abby? What if your mother let's me stay? You will learn to respect me or I'll make you respect me."

"Make me? The fuck are you gonna do Matt?" Something is wrong with me because I shouldn't of said that. Because he got pissed it's like I could see the smoke coming out of his ears. He walked over to me and he fucking slapped me.

"What the hell! Why would you slap me?" I said while holding my face. That hurt like a butt cheek on a stick

"I said I'd make you. I'm sure you'll listen now if you don't want it to start showing." Why? Why did he have to come back?

I went up to my room refusing to cry. I will not shed tears over that sorry excuse for a man. Instead I sat on my bed and listened to my bad bitch playlist.

After I don't even know how long Jacob came into my room "what's wrong Abs?" How'd he know something was up?

"What do you mean?" I was acting innocent but he sees right through me

"You know what I mean." He said looking at me with the talk look

"It's nothing everything is aye okay in Abby land." More lies.

"Nah. Abby tell me."

I knew he wouldn't stop until I told him so I gave up the stubborn act.

"Fine. Matt hit me"

"He what?"

"Jay, it's fine. Think before you do something irrational."

"Fuck thinking" he scoffs and walks out of the room

"Jacob!" I yell down to him. I jump off my bed and run to my door but i'm too late. Jacob has already gotten to Matt.

All I heard was yelling and Jacob saying "What the fuck is wrong with you!" I just walk back to my bed knowing I couldn't stop him.

To drown out the noice I turn on my tv and watch some Vampire Diaries because it's been a few days and i'm behind.

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Rewritten