Ally's Pov.

"La, la" I sung as i was grabbing water from the well in the back. I scooped the bucket in grabbing water as it dived in. How else am I going to get water? I carefully pulled the bucket back trying to not spill the slightest bit of it.

I then carried the bucket of water to our house across the street. Sighing as I did so.I walked onto the porch knocking very lightly on the door. It slightly opened as i saw a little five year old smile at my sight.

"Hi Lizzy, I didn't know you were home." I say. Lizzy is my younger sister. I rarely get to see her and when I do I spend my time with her very carefully.

Lizzy nods as she pulled the door open more to let me in seeing me with the huge bucket of water in my hands. "I am staying here for a year Ally!" She says excitedly and follows me after I walked inside. "maybe a few more! Daddy said he was going on a trip and dropped me off here with my stuff!"

I smile at what she says. "Dad? On a trip? He hates trips! I guess I am just happy you are here!" I say as I set the bucket on the withered table.

"So I can stay?" Lizzy says. Grabbing me in a big bear hug. I then hug her tiny body back and reply. "When would I say you couldn't?" I pull apart and smile at her.

"Now if you really want to surprise momma, let's make a cake!" I say and give her a few gold coins from my pocket. "Could you buy flour and sugar from the Market?"

She nods at me and carefully grabs the gold coins and skips off out of the house. "Be careful Liz!" I yell as she is going down the road to the market. I click my tongue and shake my head at her. I walk into the kitchen grabbing the supplies and carefully organizing them on the counter by the stove.

"Now lets see, to bake a cake..." I mumble to myself as i start to rummage through the cabinets for momma's old cook book. I then felt the familiar feeling of the leather cover for a book. "HA! Found it!" I yell out and pull it flipping through the pages for mom's favorite Vanilla and Velvet cake recipe.

There is a knock on the door rapidly. I bet it is Lizzy. I think as i roll my eyes and walk to the door pulling the door knob to see a little boy and a fainted blonde on my porch. I gasped at the sight.

"W-What happened?" I ask helping the little boy with the fainted man inside.

"Daddy beat him to a pulp! He was then knocked out of it Miss!" said the boy. I then looked at him the at the young man that is now laying on the couch with sincere eyes.

I start with taking of the boys shirt to see bruises and minor cuts.

"May I ask for your names?" I say as I carefully get some ice from the old fridge we have and wrap it in a thin piece of cloth and carefully set it on the young boys forehead.

"I am Jake and that is my older brother Austin, Miss" He says and I smile at him then to the unconscious Austin. I carefully inspect his chest brushing my finger over the dark bruises and cuts, I shiver as I do so. Don't blush, don't blush, don't blush aw, dang it I blushed!

There was a light knock on the door. " That's Liz, Jake can you get the door please?" I ask still staring at Austin's peaceful expression on his face.

" I,...uh, sure thing Miss!" Jake says and runs to the door and opens it for Lizzy.

"ALLY I'M HO- oh, hi stranger!" Yells Lizzy as she comes inside setting to bags of sugar and flour on the table. She then walks over to my side staring at Austin. "Ally...who is that?"

"Liz, he was in trouble so i decide to help him. So, you could do me a huge favor right now, can you get me a huge bucket of ice from the fridge?" I ask Lizzy,

"Sure thing!" She replies and runs to the fridge to get the bucket of ice.

A&A

So yo guys! I had a ton of ideas running through my head yesterday and i wrote one of them down! Sorry i been having writers block so i really didn't know what to do so...yeah.

Oh! And if you have any questions feel free to ask to me!

TATA!

~Lilirocks247

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