Save Me

67. Mine

Molly wakes to find total chaos as her loved ones are found on the wrong side of justice.

Last night...

Lydia's POV//

Gracie was the only one I could turn to now.

Yeah, she was a few years younger than me, but she was always really nice to me.

I also liked Judith, but she was usually at Hilltop with her mom or out there fighting near Alexandria.

I was really envious of all the kids who were allowed to train out there and weren't treated like kids.

My mom taught me to fight but she made it seem like I never had a choice, not until I met Molly.

She was like an older sister to me, looked after me but didn't baby me or patronise.

But, as much as I had bonded with her, there were times when I couldn't turn to her for help.

These were her people, she loved them and they loved her.

Even the new people that came in and their kids who weren't so nice, they all loved her like she was their 'saviour'.

I wish they would look at me that way...

Molly always said right from the start that I was one of them, that I was family, but so many of them still hated me.

They would avoid me and call me names, but only when Molly wasn't there.

This brings me to last week.

We had just came back to Alexandria and Molly had brought some of the highway men's kids with her.

They were so grateful but because my mother killed two of theirs, they blamed me for it.

They would scowl and spit at me, their kids would call me a 'freak' for my lack of manners.

One of them, named Gage, he was a little older than me, probably around seventeen.

He would taunt me and isolate me from the other kids.

At the lunch table, I went to sit alone on the end and he said 'give us some room please.

I had caught a squirrel and used my knife to slice it open right there on the table.

They all looked on at me with disgust as I smirked, knowing how weak they all were.

Molly would have frowned to see me eating like an animal but screw em.

'Oh my god?! What is wrong with you?! You're crazy!' he yelled as blood splattered against his cheek.

He stood up as one of the highway men said to the other 'is this why Ozzy and Alec died? So she could make a fool of us?'.

The highway woman shook her head and said 'not here' as all three of them continued to scowl at me.

I had had enough and placed a bloody finger to my lips and said 'shhh' to aggravate them more.

I didn't give a shit if they didn't like me, they were all assholes for thinking I was still a whisperer.

Molly got told about what happened and sat me down to talk.

'You do wanna live here right?' she asked.

'They deserved it' I said angrily.

She nodded and said calmly 'I know' as she brought me some fresh clothes, the others were stained with squirrel blood.