To the future.

I woke up in the same man smelling bed as I recall talking to Jaime. I stretch out and wake myself up. I know that its not going end well with my father. He’s probably sober looking for me now. Looking to beat me the fuck up, he’s going to be fuming. I can’t remember if I’ve dropped my phone or left it at home. I can’t remember much thinking about it now. Lets hope its not to late.

I look in the mirror that is hanging above the head of the bed. I fix my hair and use my saliva to wipe of dirt marks on my face. This room doesn’t have a bathroom connected with it. I open the door and look both ways to see if there is a bathroom close.

“Hey, you’re awake. Good morning, Tony is making some breakfast downstairs so ya know, feel free to help yourself.” Its Jaime he’s caught me off guard but he’s so humble.

“Thanks, Hey Jaime where is the bathroom?” I look with a questioning smile on my face.

“Walk right down to the end and it should be ‘To the left, to the left’.” I laugh knowing what song he is mimicking. I nod laughing and make my way to the bathroom.

“I’ll be down soon” I call out as I close the door.

Thank god, water. I run the tap and look at myself, examining if I had any serious grazes or cuts. I have a small graze on the top of my forehead and many more on my elbows and knees. There are also plenty of bruises seeing’s I don’t have a stable diet.

I bend down and fluster the water over my face. Its cold and I can feel my face tighten slightly. My eyes are opening more and I’m pretty much presentable. Wiping my hands on my mid thighs to wipe the water off and the pain of a thousand needles hits.

I forgot. I unbutton my pants, don’t take them off but pull them down so I can examine myself. They’re purple with little grains of dirt and sand sticking around. I drip cold water onto them to try and cleanse them as much as I could.

I’m distracted with the mouth watering breakfast being cooked downstairs. The smell fills the whole house. I finish quickly and decide to make my way down stairs.

I’m now in the room with these guys and I know exactly who they are. I freak out but quickly calm myself. My appetite has now gone due to how nervous I am.

“Libby” Jaime calls me over getting everyone’s attention on me. His smile ear to ear again.

“Jaime” I shyly say under my breath as I reach him. Smiling.

I’m scared to look around. Even though they basically saved me, I know these guys and I’m probably now even more a freak to them. I sit around the kitchen table, Jaime sitting next to me. Tony is still over at the stove finishing up.

I find the balls to lift my head and look around. Mike, if I remember is sitting on the right of me and he’s observing me quiet a lot. His eyes never left me as he ate. We made eye contact and I broke it off. His stare is way to intense, eating breakfast like that. Tony came around and placed breakfast in front of me.

“Here you go, make sure the whole plate is done.” I awkwardly giggle.

“O.K Mum” Jaime responds for me, making me laugh.

“Mum, I’m done. May I please have a re fill” The other one pipes up, cracking the joke. I’m not sure who this guy is; I don’t think I’ve ever seen this guy around school before.

They go on to keep joking and I’m just spectating their conversation. I’m full on the first bite but I know I’m just nervous. I force another 4/5 bites trying not to be rude.

“So what happened back there?” The guy I don’t know asks politely. I look at him for a minute. “If its personal…” I cut him off.

“No sorry, who are you…?” I try to communicate without sounding bitchy. He just stares back at me like I’ve just offended him.

“I know Jaime, Tony and Mike…. Who are you?” As I look at the people as I say there names Mikes face slightly amused with his eyebrow arched.

“Oh right. I’m Vic, Mike’s older brother… How do you know these guys and not me?” He plays around sounding overly dramatic.

“She goes to Claymont High” Mike piped up.

Not only my focus but also everyone else’s is on Mike.

“Yeah you guys didn’t recognize her?” He shrugs as if its not important. “It makes sense for me to know her, I’m a senior but Jaime and Tone, you guys are suppose to be in the same grade.” This makes Tony and Jaime think for a minute.

“Not yet. You have to wait for school to start” Jaime being a smart ass.

“Anyway. What happened yesterday? You tried to run from us. I personally was quiet offended.” Mike not breaking eye contact. What the hell, he’s so… Personal.

I look at Jaime; he barely knows anything besides that little snippet I told him last night. My life is way worse than this. He leans over and whispers in my ear.

“They’re trust worthy. Nothing leaves this group with out a serious talk about the subject. Still you don’t have to say anything.” I nod listening to his words, I look around while he’s telling me and Vic seems pretty worried. Vic seems like mother goose looking over her little ducklings. I barley know him but he comes off as trust worthy.

“Finishing with my lawyer, I’ve made the decision to talk.” This made Jaime, Vic laugh. Mike is a tough pleaser.

“Wait a minute” Tony stacks the plates and uses the rag to wipe his hands clean as he makes his way to the table.

“ Well I don’t really have a stable home… My father, an alcoholic needed some more alcohol and well who else to get it?” Mike cuts me of.

“Your mother?” He questions politely.


My face softens at the thoughts in my head. “She’s gone…” I mumble under my breath.

Anyway he asked me to buy a six-pack with like $20.90. I didn’t have enough for his specific beer and well I made a deal with a sleazy guy and I honestly didn’t think he would go that far.” Everyone is feeling sorry for me asking many questions.

“I have to go. My father is going to be pissed and I’m going to be in some sort of trouble.” Mikes awareness’ goes up.

“I’ll give you a lift?” He gives me a small smile.

“Jaime you coming?” I smile at Mike and then Jaime.

“Sure, if you want me to.” He shrugs.

“Thanks.” So far, Jaime is the only one I can really trust.

Mike tells me that he just needs to freshen’ himself up because this is Tony’s house and they all stayed here last night for new years.

Yes, new years. 2016. There goes another year of that fucking asshole abusing me. I know these guys from school. Mike is a senior and Tony and Jaime are a year younger since they got kept down. They both would’ve been in my class, maybe. I don’t attend school much because I’m disadvantaged at everything. I don’t need to go on. It’s just embarrassing.

Im sitting in Mike's car since I'm to scared that he might be around, searching. I told the boys that my ankles hurts and if they weren't gonna take long i'll just stay in the car. They both come out laughing holding our drinks. They look so care free i think to myself.

I tell Mike to drop me off another street over, saying that my house is in this street but a couple houses down.

"I appreciate it Mike." I bend down and give him a smile.

"No problem Liberty." He gives me a quick nod.

"Bye Jaime" I smile a little harder because of how contagious his smile is.

"Bye Libby... Hey what are your plans for the school holidays?" My face droops at the thought of sitting around home doing nothing.

"Well nothing really. Not much to do there at home, did you want to hang out or something?" Im pleading in my head but contempt on the outside. I can feel Mikes eyes on me and we make eye contact and I give him another small smile. He really knows how to make someone uncomfortable.

"Yeah, I'm going to round all of us boys up and we can chill and stuff."

"Sounds fun." We further exchange phone numbers, hopefully i haven't lost it, and then they take off. I stand in the same spot watching them drive off until i no longer see them. I slowly make my way back to hell.

He's going to fucking beat the shit out of me. I talk to my mum, hoping she is listening "Protect me please" I whisper then open the from door.

Notes

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