How Could You Want Me?

Chapter 2

Once I'm on the bus,  I find an empty seat and sit down. I put in my ear buds and blare out my music. All a sudden I feel a tap on my shoulder.

"Is it okay if I sit here?" They ask

"Yeah sure go for it." I say and force a smile.

"What's your name?" They ask.

"Abi, Yours?" I ask.

Talking to people really isn't my thing.

"Dylan." He says with a smile.

Now that I get a look at Dylan,  he is pretty cute.

No Abi, He's just a jerk, look at those eyes. Those are only the eyes of a bad boy who's going to break your heart.

He smiles at me and I smile back. 

"When did you move here?" I ask just being curious.

"Yesterday, from California." He answers.

"How does a California boy find his way to the middle-of-nowwhere West Virginia?" I ask

"My dads work and it's actually kinda nice here. It's quiet.  You never get silence in California." He says

"Really? You obviously haven't been here long.." I say with a smirk.

"Well I think it's a great place. Especially the view." He says and smiles.

Yup, there's the bad boy pick up line.

I roll my eyes and I can feel my face getting hot. Please tell me he wasn't talking about me.

Suddenly the bus comes to my stop.

"Well this is where I must go" I say and he lets me out.

"Talk to you tomorrow." He says

"Later." I say and get off the bus.

I walk to my house and open the door. The sound of a vacuum is spreading through the house.

Great, she's cleaning.

"Hey, honey! " My mom says smiling

 She's smiling, what does she want?

"How was school?"

Awful

"Great. " I say

Lie.

"Do you have any homework?"

"Yeah, I have a little bit." I lie walking to my room.

"Okay, well you better get it done."

Once I get in the room, I lay down my backpack and change my clothes. I open my laptop and turn on some music.

"Abigail, turn it the fuck down." My mom yells.

okay, gezz.

I turn down the music til I'm positive only I can hear it. Then my door opens and my kitty comes walking in meowing at me.

"Awwe, hi Cookie monster. Come here." I say and make a sound that gets her to run to me.

(Do you have any animals? If so, what are their names?"

"How's Mommas little girl huh?" I say petting her and she purrs. Cookies the one thing that keeps me smiling in this house. Other than my dog, Daisy. They're my babies.

NEW MESSAGE

Lindsay *Rosie*

(Mamma Mia reference.)

LETS IT GO!!!! ☺

Wanna hang out?

I grab my phone and type in my password.

 I dunno let me ask the witch

I get up from my desk and walk into the kitchen.

"Hey, Mom can-," I stop when I see her talking on the phone.

She turns around and mouths 'Get your ass back to your room.'

Good going Abi you pissed your mom off again.

I turn around and walk back to my room.

Lindsay: Okayyyyyy

Me: Hold on shes on the phone.

I wait until I hear  my mom quit talking and I wait for her to come to my door.

"What have I told you about talking to me while I'm on the phone?" My mom screams

"I'm sorry, I didn't see you were in the phone til I got into the kitchen." I said softly.

"Well pay attention next time. Now what did you want?" She says still shouting.

"I was.. uh.. wondering if I could hang out with Lindsay? " I say

"Did she ask or is it your idea?"She asks.

"Lindsay wanted to hang out and she wants to know if I can spend the night?" I answer

"Well.. okay go." She says with defeat.

Like you actually want me here, Mom.

"Okay. She'll be here in a few to pick me up. "

"Well lets get your room moved around first and then you can pack." She says.

"Okay." I barely mutter out.

I move out of the way and try to give Mom some space. She starts moving stuff around and gets frustrated.

"Can't you help me instead of standing there with your head up your ass, Abigail?" She shouts

I jump and try to help but fail.

"You know what I got it, just get out of the way before this gets screwed up." She says.

Why did I even try?

The tears swell up in my eyes; I can't do anything right for her.

Suddenly something hits me and I realize my mom threw a picture frame. The corner of it clipped my shoulder and left a scratch. I look at my shoulder and look back at her with tears in my eyes.

"Oh, what's wrong now?" she screams.

"You hit me."I say through tears.

"Oh god. There you go again. You always have something to complain and cry about." She screams.

I start packing my stuff and grab my phone. I head out of the house and Lindsay's waiting for me.

"What's wrong?" She says as I jump in the back of the car.

"Nothing." I say and sniff back the tears.

"Abs, why are you crying?" Ashley says.

She is one of my older friends who has a car, so we hang out with her a lot.

"Just my mom." I say.

"What happened to your arm?" Lindsay says nervously.

I look down at my shoulder and see the bruise started to form around the scratch.

"She threw something and it hit me, but I'm fine." I say.

"Abi, it's bleeding and there's already a bruised." Lindsay says.

"I'll be fine." I say through gritted teeth.

"Okay. Just let me get the blood off." She says and finds napkins in the glove-box.

Lindsay wipes the blood off and there's a huge scratch on my arm.

Wonderful. How am I going to hide this at school?