Her Saviour

Two...

Abigail's P.O.V.

My daily routine is simple; wake up, get ready for school, eat breakfast and leave; come back to the house after school, get all the homework done, have some coffee and go to the gym; meet my friends, be back home as late as possible, stuff yourself with dinner and go to sleep. It was the same for weekdays, whereas for weekends I tend to spend my day either at one of my friend's place or at the library; evenings at a random party and only being back home once it was quite late. It was my way of coping with my mother's bullshit as well as to avoid the physical harm that she is capable of. We had house help at mother's place, three woman in total; out of which two took care of the house with stuff like sweeping, swabbing, dusting as well as taking care of the lawn and the backyard, both of them where somewhat my mother's age, named Layla and Elena. The third one though is a bit older than mother, more like Grandma's age I think, who takes care of the kitchen chores including food preparation; her name is Ava but I call her Mama, she is more of a mother figure to me, than my own mother could ever be.

When the alarm blazed today, I wasn't regretting it; reason being the first day of school. The hell hole was finally open for the FINAL year and I am ecstatic to get it moving, so I wake up, have a nice shower and get ready in my black sweatshirt that says, "I run on Coffee, Chaos and Cuss-words" pairing it with blue jeans and black sneakers and made my way downstairs, after checking my bag for books, key bunch and wallet. I enter the kitchen to grab some coffee when I see Mama Ava already plating my breakfast. I smile looking at her and engulf her in a warm hug, kissing her cheek I say, "Morning Mama". She pecks my head and replies, "Good Morning Love". This is the thing I love about her, I'm not her own but she loves me like one and sometimes that's all I need to survive through the day. I'm still holding my arms around her, when she snickers and says, "Someone's happy today", I loosen my arms and whisper, "School starts today, so that means I don't have to see the devil's face for the whole day anymore. That's enough of a reason for me to be happy".

She shakes her head at my comment and slides the plate filled with scrambled eggs, toast and bacon towards me and hints towards the table to settle down for breakfast. I do as she says and start stuffing my face with food, when she comes and places a cup of coffee beside my plate, gesturing towards it. I smile at her and drink up my coffee, once I'm done with it, I wash the dishes and placing them in the drying basket, I turn to take my bag as well as my phone and walk towards the door, shouting a "Goodbye Mama. I'll see you in the evening" and leave, closing the door behind me. Walking towards the garage, I take the keys out and start my jeep, moving out of the driveway. I am planning to use my motorcycle this year, but since its the first day I can't. Me and my friends have a tradition, on the first day of school we go together and this year they asked me to do it. Now I'm on my way towards Rebecca's house and then I'll go to pick Patricia followed by Michael and Zachary. We are a group of five people, have been since middle school.

Rebecca or Becks or Becca is 5'6" and a total nerd; reads, writes, sleeps, eats and drinks books, she is that kind of a book lover. You will always find her with some or the other novel in her hand, wherever she may be, if nit that then she is reading an eBook in her phone, for sure. She is beautiful with dark brown wavy hair that are always flowing down her shoulders, hazel eyes, a slim yet perfect physique. She is a pretty face who hides behind the glasses, very smart, doesn't like a lot of attention, but great at analyzing people's behavior, she plans to take Psychology for college; trust me when I say this that we all saw this one coming. Becks is in the Chess club and is the best chess player our school has had till date, no one is good enough to last in front of her for more than a few moves. She shreds her opponent apart, piece by piece, until all that's left on the board is her victory troop and their lonesome king.

Patricia or Patty is the exact opposite of Rebecca, she is loud and wild, kind of loves to live in the moment. They both share the same height, but Patricia is a fashionista, wears the latest trends, has a bitchy mouth, doesn't think twice before speaking and tends to fall in a lot of trouble because of her big mouth. She is a sexy beauty with mesmerizing Aqua green eyes and a physique to die for, her stomach is invisible, reason being she is a Human calorie counter; wears clothes that are too short according to Rebecca and too sexy for this school according to Zachary. Patty is damn good at singing, she is a part of our school band as well as sings alone in various inter-school and state level competition. She aspires to be a runway model and further plans to try her hand in acting, she is bad at it. She can't act even if her life depended on it but none of us is brave enough to tell her that; since all of us want to live, so we leave it to her destiny and hope that she will understand it in her own time. Though, we do think she should take singing as her career.

Michael or Mike/Mikey is 6' and a nerd too. He is the kind of boy who all girls dream about marrying someday, a total gentleman. Tall with a little bit of athletic body as he plays basketball for our school, deep blue eyes with a mop of black wavy hair, he is one of the chocolates boys of our school. But to other girls dismay, has a girlfriend who is none other than Rebecca. Yeah. Becks and Mike are a thing, have been for a while now; he asked her out when we were just in our Sophomore year and since then they have been going quite strong. Mike is in Robotics club and has won inter-school competitions, he is also a part of the Debate team which includes me as well. Mike is like the brother I never had, he calls me Sissy whereas I call him Mikey.

As for Zachary or Zach or Zachy (only I call him that); he is 6'1", this ass is the tallest of us all and doesn't miss a chance to remind us that. Zachy is tall with an athletic body, when I say athletic I mean muscular with the right amount of meat at the right places kind of muscles, grayish black stormy eyes which are the most beautiful thing about him as a human being, dark black silky hair which makes him kind of irresistible. He plays football for our school, though he is quite dumb at studies, is still your typical playboy; changes girls faster than a girl changes her sanitary napkins. He is hot, too hot which makes it hard for any girl to be able to ignore him, makes them cream their panties with just a wink and a flirty smirk which he says is his smolder look. Though, he thinks of himself as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, he is more of a Chris Hemsworth type of a guy. Here's the thing about Zach, he has a thing for Patricia and hints it to her every now and then, but Patty is oblivious to the fact, everyone else except for her know about his humongous crush on her.

These idiots are my best friends, I love them more than I love myself. We have been friends since middle school and that's why they know everything about me and accept my boundaries, which really aren't an issue for them since one guy is already in a relationship and the other one has an eye fixed on Patty. Becks and Patty aren't very fond of my rules and hate my mother as much as I do, well I think Patty hates her more than I do. All of them have faced her monstrous side and that is one of the main reason why we don't hang out at my place, like ever. But Dad knows about this, so he built me a two bedroom cabin by the lake for getaway purpose, mother does not know about it. For her, it belongs to Patty and we all hangout there sometimes, that's all that matters. When my parents separated, it took a piece of me and all of my friends were there to pick up those pieces, the girls know what my mother accused me of and why she throws insults at me as well as calls me nasty names; the boys on the other hand think that my mother hates me and does all of these things because she blames me for their divorce, which is partly true but the part with all the accusation is still kind of out of their reach till date and I'd like to keep it that way.

Mike and Zach, I have grown on both of them and that's why they treat me like some little sister whom they have to protect everywhere I go, they both know I'm capable of protecting myself, I'm the captain of the football team for crying out loud. Mike takes me as his own sister and so do his parents who take me as their daughter. I can talk to Mike's mom Monica, more freely than to any other woman, she is the kind of mom I yearned for all these years and she has stood by me through all of it. Zach has an elder sister, who is off to college much to his dismay and so whenever he misses her, he tends to bug me to an extent where I can't take it anymore and end up kicking his ass for it. His mom died when he was a kid, so his sister and dad is all he's got. But his dad makes sure not to let him feel his mom's absence in his life; he is always there for Zach, be it his games or parent-teacher meetings, prom night or just his birthday. My dad stays 4-hours away from me, so he can't always be there for me; but since my dad and Zach's dad are best friend, he tries to fill his place and be the support for me.

Even though I hate my house and my mother, I kind of love my life outside the house and the people in it except for my birth giver, of course. Because believe it or not,

We are Family.

As I'm trapped with my thoughts, I reach Becca's place and honk the jeep's horn for her to know I'm here. In a minute, I hear her front door slam and see her running towards my car, dressed in a floral white dress with baby blue flowers and white ballerinas, she looks cute. She hops in the back seat and wraps her arms around my seat, to engulf me in a hug as she says, "Hey there best friend, ready for senior year?" I smile at her question and reply, "As ready as I'll ever be" while dropping a small peck on her palm. I hear her giggle as she says, "Lets get going then, there's still three more to go."

Next stop isn't too far, as Patty stays in the same block but a few houses apart; when we reach her house, we see her already sitting on her porch steps waiting for us, dressed in black denim shorts and white crop top pairing them with boots, she looks ready to slay. On realizing that we are here, she gets up and walks like a freaking model towards my car, opening the back door and settles inside, beside Becca. I turn to smile at her and see her hugging Becca, she looks at me and says, "I missed you so much woman" as she leans forward to hug me. Before I could say something, Becca reprimands, "You saw her day before yesterday patty" listening to this, Patty leaves me and turns towards Becca and says, " So what? I still missed her, unlike you." These two never agree with each other and always end up fighting over stupid topics like the one right now.

I let them argue over things and drive towards Mike and Zach's place, yeah you figured it right, they stay in the same lane but aren't really neighbors. Their houses are opposite to each other, right in front of each other, separated by just one single lane in between them. We all belong to pretty much rich families, so we live in the same area, just different lanes, a few blocks away from each other. When we enter the boys lane, Becca is the first one to notice a big packing and moving van parked in Mike's neighboring house driveway and states, "Looks like Mike finally got a neighbor", hearing her say this Patty mumbles, more like murmurs loud enough for both of us to hear, "I bet it's some hot chick who will be sweeping him off his feet in no time".

She loves to rile Becca up and let me just add this, she Succeeds every f*****g time at it, just like now, when Becca asks "What does that mean?" I know where this is going, so I let them solve it within themselves and park my jeep right in front of Mike's house, honking once; I see both the boys come running from their houses with a big smile. I move out of the jeep and Mike engulfs me in a bear hug, "I missed you sissy", I chuckle at his statement and mumble, "I missed you too Mikey." I hear him sigh with contentment so I continue, "Now if you could just leave me and go save Patty, because I think your girlfriend is about to rip her head off for saying something really stupid." He pulls back and looks at me with worry, "What did she say?" I smirk at him and reply, "Oh nothing, Just that some hot ass girl is going to move in, as your neighbor and going to sweep you off your feet" "WHAT?" he shouts which brings Becca's as well as Patty's attention towards him, he gives them a sheepish smile and opens the back door to sit beside his girlfriend. I'm about to shout Zach's name, when I feel arms wrap around my waist, I know this is the jerk whom I'm waiting for. "Zachary Williams, you're late" I say without turning around, I hear him chuckle as he turns me and pecks my cheek once and answers with, "Good morning to you too baby girl and yeah I missed you too kid." I shake my head at his blunt comment and say, "I never said I missed you jerk and I'm not a kid, so don't call me baby girl or a kid." He walks towards the passenger seat as I enter the driver's seat, I hear him laugh under his breath before he continues, "You are a total of 10 mins younger than me, so yeah you are my baby sis; but since Mike already calls you sissy, I think I deserve my own personal nick name for you and since your smaller than me, you are a kid, baby girl." "I think I'm going to punch you in the face, if you keep calling me a kid, jerk" I grumble back. He shakes his head before patting my messy hair bun like his petting his pet dog, it infuriates me even more when I seethe at him, slapping his hand away, "Stop petting me you i***t, I'm not Max." Max is Zachy's Pet Dog, he is a German Shepherd, totally cool, loves to play and take a stroll every evening through the park, he is one of the reason why we all meet every evening. He chuckles at my words, the nerve of him; Zach and I share the same birth-date, we are kind of twins from different mothers as we were born in the same hospital with a time difference of only 10 minutes between our births, he was born first and then 10 minutes later I was born; hence the annoying prick bugs me for it.

I turn the jeep on ignition and make my way to school, we always park in the far end of the parking lot, it's our usual spot for the last two years now. Once it's parked, we all move out of the jeep, the guys settle their asses on my jeep's hood and the girls lean against it as I go to sit in between the guys. We are busy talking about our usual s**t, when a girl comes walking towards us, more like towards Zach. When she comes in our zone of vision, we realize she is none other than our school's queen bee Olivia, shaking her ass sideways as if she is trying to control her pee. I hear Patty snort at her walk as Becca rolls her eyes at her, Mike is whispering something to Becca to distract her while Patty, Zach and I are watching her intently, waiting to hear what she has to say.

"Hie Zach" is the first thing she says on arriving near us, Zach's hold on my shoulder tightens and Patty shifts closer to stand in between his legs. He answers her in the most uninterested way, "Hie", we can't help control our laughs at his rude reply which doesn't go unnoticed by her. She glares at us and then moves her attention back towards Zach to say, "I was wondering if you would like to come with me for a minute" while biting her lips seductively.

Eeewwww, I don't even want to know why she is calling him.

"No" is Zachary's reply, I knew he wasn't going to say yes; so it's not as shocking to me as it is to Patty. She turns around to look at Zach with a questioning look in her eyes and then turns her attention towards me, lipsing, "Did he actually say NO?" I smirk at her astound expression and nod to answer her question with a yes; all this while Zach is watching, smirking at our exchange from his side view. Zach has finally grown his big man balls and has decided to ask Patty out but for her to take him seriously he needs to show her that he is way past his Casanova ways and wants to finally settle down with her, once and for all. So he plans to show her that he has changed and when he feels that she believes him, he will ask her out.

Too early for that to say, but yeah whatever.

He slides down from the hood, pulling me as well; placing his arm around my shoulder and other around Patty's, he turns towards Mike and Becca to say, "Lets go guys. We shouldn't be late for class at least not on the first day." Mike nods and starts following us, once we all are right in front of the main door, I turn towards my left to see Mike standing beside me with Becca at his side and then to my right to see Zach with Patty on his other side.

I smile and say, "Lets get this s**t started."