❁ℕ𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕟❁ //completed\\

Come on dal hurry up.

I smiled. "You know it doll face." I said smiling. "Dallas." I heard a small voice we all wiped around and pony,Johnny and Ava were standing perfectly fine behind us. "Where in the hell were you three." Soda said a little anger in his tone. "We were just around the corner waiting for you guys."

"Anyways me and Ava were going to go and eat at the dingo just the two if that's okay with you guys."

I nodded Ava and Johnny barely got time to bond by themselves. "Yeah sure Johnny."

And they were gone just like that.

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Johnny's  POV

Me and Ava walked into the dingo and sat down in a booth. "How's school going love."

I said opening the menu, Ava shrugged her shoulders. "Guess okay."

She said getting up and sitting next to me on her knees so she could see what was on the menu. I started reading off the kids menu for her. "There chicken fingers,hamburgers, a mini pizza, and hotdogs, what do you want love?"

I said looking at her. "Want fries."

I looked at her and smiled. "Yeah but what do you want with it. "Fries."

She said happily. "Okay how about chicken fingers and fries."

Ava looked at me. "K."

She said climbing down and going back to her side of the booth. The waitress came over and took our order.

Then after our food had came my stomach fell in knots cause our mom and dad walked in. I started them down. Ava seen me looking at them and she turned around, she turned back facing my quick though. "Johnny."

She said nervously. "Come over here."

I demanded. She slowly walked over and I sat her on the inside of the both. I scouted her plate over in front of her. "Just pretend like you don't know them."

She nodded her head up and down. We ate and talked for a bit and I kept a good eye on my parents just hoping and praying they didn't notice us. But when Ava said she was full their
Was no staling we had to leave. I sighed while the waitress came over with the bill and took our plates back. I got up and picked Ava up trying not to make a sound. "Okay be quiet."

I whispered. Ava nodded her head again and I picked her up. Holding her tight keeping my head down. When we go outside I let out a sigh of relief. We did we made it past our parents. Ava gave me a high five and we stared walking once we got a good distance from the dingo I put Ava down. That's when I felt a hand on my shoulder everything in me was praying it was one of the guys trying to scare me. I jumped at the touch. "Well Mary I didn't think we raised a pussy."

It could still be two-bit, I prayed on everything that two got my dads voice down considering how good he is with impressions. I picked up Ava and tried walking faster out of the mans grip but he pulled me back. "When I speak to you I expect at least the common curtesy of you looking at me."

It was my dad I could tell. Maybe if he didn't start the conversation of with calling me a pussy I would have looked him in the eyes. I felt Ava Burry her face in the crook of my neck. I slowly turned around. Come on someone anyone just turn the corner and scare them off. But their was no way the guys were definitely still not walking. Darry was definitely home and all the greaser I knew where either eating or cooking. My house was kinda close to Curtis not even a block away I bet if I could get Ava to scream I could get their attention. My dad grabbed my shoulder and I felt a blade against my stomach I glanced down and then was shoved we walked to our house.

Ava seen the guys I wanted to put her down but I knew that wasn't an option I don't want to die I don't want to put that on Ava. But right before we got in the house Ava screams at the top of her lungs. "DAWLY HELP."

My dad shove me angrily and the door slammed shut I tried shoving Ava behind me but I was shoved against the wall knocking the wind out of me my dad grabbed Ava and started hitting her until I got my strength back but then Ava was handed off to my mom and my dad slugged me across the face a few times and then threw me and Ava in our old 'room'. If you can even call it that more like an empty closet with a mattress on the floor.

Ava scrambled to my arms and she watched my dad in fear for a few minutes till he slammed the door. She yelped and started crying. "Ava love, shhh it's okay I've got you know."

I said cradling her, I felt so bad for her this is all she ever knew. Getting beat on and me protecting her ever since she was an infant. But when she was that little she stayed with miss and mister Curtis. They kept her safe. But me when I was little, my mom and dad actually cared they didn't drink and made a good living the two of them. Until I was 6 dad would come home from work happy and mom would make dinner help me with homework and do mom stuff. Like love me  but one day dad came home drunk first he started beating on mom, then she started drinking to cope with the pain she couldn't protect me from dad anymore she would just sit in silence. While I got beat with usually bare hands then but when he started getting at beer bottles, wine glass, 2x4's, remotes,shoes,belts, buckets,brooms and so many more things I started to feel like I had done something wrong I was doing something and that's what made him so mad at me, I mean what else could make him hit me he loved me right. Well I lived like that till I was 9 and I met pony and the gang soon enough Dallas came into the picture as well and I realized that what my parents were doing was not love or out of love.

"Johnny." Ava said breaking me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah love." I Said smiling down at her pretending everything was alright

But the marks my dad left on her face made me want to break the door down and kill him. She had bruise glower and a few cuts on her delicate baby face. "Mommy and daddy love Ava and Johnny?"

I nodded my head yes. Honestly I think they do they are always just to drunk to show it. "Yeah Ava they love us they just have a horrible way of showing it."

There was silence again. "Johnny."

She said again. "Yeah love."

"Dose you love them?" I had no idea how to answer that question no but yes I loved the people I knew that weren't drunk when the were sober they were great but drunk no I hated their guts. "Im not sure Ava."

She nodded her head. "I don't."

She said quietly. I smiled weakly and pulled her up into my arms. "It's okay, you've got me."

I said rubbing her back. "And I've got you and that's all we need."

She buried her face in my chest, she looked up at me. "Johnny?"

"Yes." I hummed looking back down at her.

"When we go home I want picture of Dawly in here."

She said pointing to the empty side of her locket. I nodded my head yes. "Okay I think we can do that."

She smiled at me and laid her head on my chest again and I played with her hair until she fell asleep, come on dal hurry up.