The Runaway

The Bully

Patrick looked at him and then looked at me, "you guys look nothing alike"

"I'm adopted, remember?"

He nodded, "so you want to turn back?"

I nodded, "okay, stay in front of me so if he turns around he doesn't see you"

"Okay"

He put his hands on my shoulders and me and Patrick started walking.

"Hey! Is that Mabel? Come here you piece of shit!"

Me and Patrick ran away from the motel so we won't give him any ideas on where we were staying.

Fortunately, Olson is a very slow runner, so we got away quickly. We lead to a patch of woods as we both started laughing, "that's your brother? Seriously? He so skinny why is he so slow?"

"We should stay here for a little bit" I stated, he nodded.

We both sat on a piece of wood.

"So remember when I first met you?"

"That was like two days ago" I laughed.

"Yea, well...I'm glad my brother ditched me, because if he didn't I wouldn't have met you"

"And I'm glad I ran away because you're like my best friend and I've only known you for like two days"

He laughed. It was then when my face turned bright red, for some reason, his did too.

I looked down and shrieked. "W-what's wrong?"

"Spider"

Patrick started cracking up "come on, let's head back to the motel"

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I woke up on the bed, Patrick was on the floor, I looked at the time, 9:40.

I got up and went downstairs, "hey Abbie"

I looked at Abbie and noticed her tear stained face. "Abbie are you okay?"

Abbie stood up and hugged me, her tears stained my shirt but I didn't care. "Abbie tell me what's wrong"

"I-I'm just depressed. Look at me, I'm a full grown woman telling a little girl I'm depressed."

"N-no Abbie I'd prefer you to let it all out"

Abbie bursts into tears as I just stood there. "It's okay Abbie, why are you so upset?"

"I-I just woke up today and...and I don't know I'm just sad"

"Here, how about we take a walk and talk about this okay?"

Actually, I was very nervous that I'd see Olson again. But right now I'm worried about Abbie. We started walking to the patch of woods.

"My boyfriend hits me" she stated.

"My whole family abused me, I know what that's like"

"At least your boyfriend doesn't hit you and cheat on you"

"Boyfriend...?"

"Patrick"

"N-no Abbie, we aren't a thing"

"Really? It's probably going to happen soon I can tell Patrick likes you."

I felt my face burning. "Anyways, why don't you break up with him?"

"Uh...I wish it was that easy.", she's right, it's not that easy.

"What's his name?"

"Rory"