Staying Til' The End *Editing*

Time To Catch Up

        I haven't gone to school for a whole week. Abby has been staying in her room most of the week. The police came and have been investigating our house. They said it was a murder and they looked truly sad. I offered them some food and drinks while they were here just to keep myself busy. After the police stopped coming I had nothing to do and reality caught up to me. My dad is dead. Gone. Forever.

What am I supposed to do. I can't take care of Abby. She's 17 about to turn 18. I have to take care of her now even though she will be legally an adult in 4 months. I went upstairs into Abby's room and put the plate full of fruits on her bed. She was sitting on her bed staring into nothing. Suddenly she asked

"Do you think we'll be okay?"

“I really don't know, but the police are leaving it up to you if you want to go to a foster home or stay here and let me be your legal guardian."

“What do you think I'm going to pick" she said sarcastically

I smiled slightly. She looked down at the fruit and quickly grabbed a strawberry and plopped it in her mouth. I grabbed a grape and tossed that in the air where she caught it in her mouth. I grinned and we started laughing. She tossed a blueberry in the air and I moved my head under it. Once it landed in my mouth my hands went up in victory.

    The doorbell rang and I looked over at Abby. She looked about as confused as I did. We both ran into her closet and grabbed something. She grabbed her Golf Club and I went with the baseball bat. We walked downstairs slowly. I quickly looked behind me to make sure that Abby was behind me.

      Quickly I twisted the knob on the door and put my hand back that had the baseball bat in it. Someone squealed and dropped something then they yelled Adam in a small squeaky voice. I looked up and saw 3 people.

    One was Adam. The other to I had no idea who they were. One was a little girl who looked around 7. Next was a boy who looked around Abby's age. Adam carried a backpack and so was the other boy.

     I put down the Baseball Bat and Abby put down her Golf Club. I looked cursorily at the curly head boy and at the little girl. I heard Adam chuckle and I snapped out of it and blushed. “Sorry I just uh well you see I uh I don't really know you."

“Oh well that's Oh so nice to tell your soon to be girlfriend about your family." said the curly head boy.

“Hey I'm Brandon, Adams brother that he forgot to mention. Then this is Lucy our little sister who is 6."  I smiled thanking him.

 Adam cleared his throat and gave Brandon a look. Brandon just smirked. I could hear Abby sigh faintly. I looked back at her and saw her staring intently at Brandon. I coughed lightly and she snapped out of it and looked down blushing.  I looked back at Adam.

“So why are you guys here."

" Well since you guys have decided not to show up to school for the last week they gave us both of you guys homework to drop off." he answered

    I waved them in and closed the door behind them. Abby led them to the living room. Adam and Brandon fell onto a chair like they were at home. Lucy looks around uncertainly. Me and Abby ran into the corner of the room and grabbed bean bag chairs. I grabbed one for Lucy to. I had a blue one and Abby had a purple one. Lucy got the black one with blue and gray hearts all over it.

  She sat down on the bean bag chair and sunk into it. I could hear her laugh. Abby laughed to and I saw Brandon's eyes light up while looking at her laughing. Hmmm this will be interesting. Once Abby stopped laughing we started talking about random things.

"So Brandon what grade are you in." I asked curiously

"I’m in eleventh grade this year." he answered

“Then how come I haven't seen you around" Said Abby

“I don't know I mean I hang out with everybody else that's on the football team."

“Oh I kind of stay away from that group as much as I can." said Abby quietly. I could see her scold herself. I got up and walked over to her and pulled her up and into the kitchen.

"Okay what's up?" I say to her

“Nothing I'm okay now let's go out there and talk to them."

“Abby you’re not okay and we’re not leaving this kitchen until you tell me what is up."

        "Well it's just that once he mentioned the football team....well you know how those are the people who like run the school along with like the cheerleaders and how the cheerleaders always like to pick on people." she said barely above a whisper

“Abby are you telling me that.. you’re getting bullied.' I said barely above a whisper Abby merely nodded her head.

      I slammed down my fist on the table. My anger got the best of me. I grip the table counter and push down the chair next to me. Abby looks scared and for the sake of her I try and calm down for her. I grab her hand and walk out the kitchen door.

      I heard her mumble something along the lines of ' I can walk by myself no need to drag me mom' I cracked smiled at that and walked into the living room. I nod my head at Adam and walk out the front door. Adam, Brandon, Lucy and Abby came piling out of the door.

         I threw my keys that were around my neck to Abby and told her to unlock the car door and get into my car with the others.  I ran into the house and grabbed mine and Abby's Nike duffel bags.

           I put my Black Nike Sports Bra in there and my Victoria Secret black shorts in there that had Pink written on the butt with gold. Then I put on my Nike terminator heavy metal editions on. They were black and gold.

** Both the outfits in the External Link**

      Then I went into Abby's room and grabbed her White Nike Sports Bra and put that in there then grabbed her Blue Victoria Secret Shorts that also had Pink written on them on the butt in gold, I also got her Nike Flex Trainer Sneakers. I pulled the strings to the bags and ran outside to my mustang and ran to the door.

           I found Adam up front and Abby, Brandon and Lucy in the back already buckled up. I pushed the button that puts down the roof and buckled up then threw the Nike bag that was Abby's Back to her. I zoomed down the high way and pulled into the parking lot that had a couple of cars in there. I jumped out of the car and everyone else followed me.

             I walked up to the desk and set down 80 bucks in front of the guy who hosted the place. Everyone else there were guys. I looked behind me and saw that Abby looked kind of scared. She was looking at all the guys who were beating the hell out of the punching bags.

       I saw her eyes widened as she looked at two men fighting each other and the one went down with bruised and bloodied face. The man at the desk sighed and told me to be okay. I grabbed Abby's hand and ran into the changing rooms. I quickly got changed and waited outside of Abby's stall. She came out and looked frightened.

         On our way out I grabbed some blue yellow and white Everlast training gloves and tossed them to her. I also grabbed myself some black Everlast training gloves. “What are we doing" I heard Abby ask

"I'm going to teach you how to defend yourself” I answered back