My Unexpected Saviors

Niykee

I am currently in my last class of the day thinking about my dad and how I am lucky that he has been on a business trip for a week. That means that my bruises and cuts that I got from him before he left will heal and people won't ask me how I got them. I won't tell them the truth on how I got them even if they do ask, though. The only one who knows about what goes on in my house at night is my best friend Amber. After my mom passed away and my dad started to abuse me, I pushed everyone away. Amber is the only one who stayed. When I tried to push her away she said and I quote "Niykee, don't you fucking dare try to push me way or so help me god I will rip your fucking head off and feed it to my dogs". We laughed so hard after that, we had tears in our eyes. She, then, hugged me and since then we have stayed really close but she was mad that the rest of our, so called, friends stopped talking to me so she stopped talking to most of them too.

Amber found out that my dad was abusing me a week ago right after my dad left for his business trip. I didn't want her to know but when she called me, I was too weak to answer my phone so she came over only to find me laying on the floor in my room crying covered in blood. She wanted to call the cops but I told her I didn't want to go into the system, and that we only have one more year of school left then I could leave for good and never see him again. She agreed reluctantly and helped me get cleaned up. After that she stayed the whole day with me.

The bell, finally, rang and I got up to leave the classroom. I am walking towards my locker to put my things away when Amber calls me from across the hall. I look at her as she smiles at me and I smile back. Amber has brown hair with beautiful honey brown eyes, a models body, a nice golden tan and she is 5'5", just two inches taller than me.

"Hey Nike," Amber says. She gave me the nickname "Nike" because my name kind of sounds like it but I don't mind.

"Hey, Am", I say back.

"Do you need a ride home?" she asks me.

"Yes, that would be nice," I say closing my locker and then turning to face her.

"Okay, cool let's get a move on," she says and we start walking towards her car.

She unlocks her car and we get in. Her car is a nice Nissan Altima. She turns on the radio and the song My Story by R. Kelly comes on and she turns it up because this is our song Amber starts singing with the song so I join in and we sing together. Then look at each other and start laughing. We decide to just listen to the rest of the song.

We pull up to my driveway and I notice my dad's car out front. I start to get a sick feeling as I look at Amber and she grabs my hand looking at me with sad eyes. I know she doesn't like not being able to help me and she hates my dad with a passion. I don't blame her. I'm finally able to look away from her and to my house. I take a big breath in looking back to Amber and give her a small smile for reassurance but she can't return it back.

"Niykee I want you to call me if anything happens and I will come to pick you up no matter how late it is. Okay?" she tells me.

"Okay, I will but don't worry and remember I love you with all my heart. I couldn't have a better best friend than you," I reply as tears start to appear in my eyes. I lean over and give her a hug.

"I love you too and stop talking like this is your last day to live and I couldn't ask for a better best friend either", she hugs me with tears running down her face. She reluctantly lets me go and I open the car door and walk to my house that I now call hell.

I walk up to my front door and look back at Amber. She gives me a small wave and then slowly starts to pull away. I open my door walking inside slowly. It is quite...too quite! I look around for any signs but I don't see anything. I don't like this not one bit, I am afraid something really bad is going to happen. I walk into the living room, slowly, to see if my dad is there but he isn't so I take a big breath in and let it out slowly. I am scared to death but I have to do it.