I walked down the hallway pacing slowly back and forth thinking about what I was going to do for the baby in my stomach. I started thinking about my past how all of this caught up to me. I was only 16 and my parents were just now getting a divorce so I ran away, when I ran I met a shady older man. I was young and I never knew the cruelties of the world, the older man had taken me to his house and sold me on the streets. But I had wanted out this was going to stop, so I ran from him back to my house. My father thought I left to be with my mother and he had despised my mother so he had despised me when I ran away. He told me not to come back so I kept walking with what little money I had. I ended up going to my mothers and asking if I could stay with her, of course she let her daughter stay with her right? Wrong, she thought this was all some kind of sick joke that my father was playing on her and that she didn't want to be any part of that sick joke. I left her house and have been wandering the streets ever since and it was alright for the first couple weeks until I realized I was pregnant. As soon as I found this out I couldn't stop laughing, it was so funny to me that I almost tried to kill my child by over drinking, which just led to me being scraped up off the streets by 2 police men that saved me and put me into the hospital for alcohol poisoning. I had almost died and so had my baby, but we both survived. After the incident that happened in the hospital they asked me if I had parents, I lied and said they were dead, they might as well be for not letting me be in a home when I was 16 sorry I ran away, assholes. They said that if I had drinkin anymore I would have died before the 2 police men ever showed up.
"Dink." I felt something hit the back of my head, I turned around and saw Damien my older brother's best friend with a bag and smiled at me. He was really one of the few childhood friends that still talked to me let alone came and saw me at the runaway house. He was a life saver sometimes, for bailing me out of here every now and again he was friends with most of the staff. I just smiled and ran up to hug him, he picked me up and spun me around.
"I've missed you, where you been?" I asked him. I never liked being this close to him, since we used to be a thing it felt awkward, especially him seeing me pregnant and like this i always thought he wouldn't want to see me ever again, but it just made it that he wanted to see me more.
"Busy sorry Abbie." He smiled poking my nose and tummy. "Boy or girl? You did go to the doctor yesterday right?" He looked at me with his goofy smile of his and I nodded, he made me go to the doctor every 3 weeks to check my stress and everything since I was so young.
"It's a boy Damie." I smiled I always wanted a baby boy, not this young but always wanted. He smiled even bigger and hugged me tighter. He motioned wanting to know if I had a name chosen. I shook my head no.
"How about Damien Ja-"
"I am not naming my Damien Jason Carter Jr." I smiled cutting off his sentence, he's been trying to get me to name my kid after himself and he didn't even know if it was a boy or girl until two seconds ago. I laughed and looked at him he was slightly laughing. We talked for a while but then he had to leave and do whatever Damien does. I walked around the runaway house while a couple girls where on the stairs that were watching the scene between me and Damien, weirdo's. Caria the one closest to the scene was a good friend I met here.
"Oh my gosh, and why are you not taping that?" She asked me in her syrupy voice. Her voice ran together that I had to train myself to understand her whenever she went on a rant about something silly like she was going to do soon. I just shrugged the question off
"You dont know? Really cause that boy right there is F-I-N-E-E-E-E." She smiled and punched my arm, everyone here was taking on sister and brotherly roles to my baby, except Damien which took on the fatherly role I guess. I laughed at the joke inside my head.
"Whats so dang funny? I mean I would totally let him be my baby daddy that kid would be sexyyyy." She ran a hand down her body making sizzling noises, she was the most hilarious thing to watch whenever you had a bad day, I just watched her and couldn't stop laughing.
"Oh so your laughing at me huh huh?" Caria was different she took on the big sister role, the bigger sister I never had growing up.. I looked at her intensely and smiled nodding quickly then I tried to get up, it was getting harder to walk and everything this baby was heavy. I heaved myself up with some help from Caria from the seat and up the stairs.
"If any of the girls harass you just tell me I'll kick their ass." I laughed at the comment and went into my room locking the door, ha no one's coming in. I smiled at my victory thanks for saving money so you could get your own lock Ab's.
The next day I woke up slightly and saw 3 huge guys with mask on breaking down my door. All I could do was watch them as they charged in and surrounded my bed side the biggest taking the covers back showing my belly.
"We got us a pregnant kid, she can't get more pregnant can she fellas?" I gulped and looked at them almost on the verge of tears. I tried to scream for Caria but the guy closest to me wrapped his hand across my mouth covering up any chance of help.
"Ooo feisty. you 2 boys pick out one for yourself this one's mine." He snarled snapping his teeth in a biting motion towards me. He got on top of me as I shut my eyes, just going to try and block the pain. He entered me and I screamed I tried to put on a fight but he just planted a fist into my stomach.
"No more whining for you or your baby might not make it." I cried at this and just gave up I couldn't risk the baby getting hurt. After he was finished with me he put a cloth over my nose and mouth that made me pass out.
Little did I know that no other girls where there when I had woken up, the field trip to some zoo for little kids was planned today and we we're going to chaperon and help but I had slept in and they had left without me an hour before those 3 showed up. I only realized this after I stopped puking my brains out. I walked downstairs and called Damien.
"Dam-...I...I" I couldn't even finish my sentence but by the time I realized he had hung up he was at the front door he ran up to me.
"What happened where is everyone?" He asked frantically wondering why this place was empty.
I told him the story about the 3 men, and about the biggest punching my stomach. Damien had been infuriated and told me to tell him what they looked like. I blocked out their faces and the pain and I told him I was sorry for not remembering. He held me for a very long time until Caria and the rest of the girls came home, they swarmed around us as I looked away, ashamed, Damien told them everything that had happened.
"That's it, she isn't safe here, she's coming home with me." He said in a demanding voice, even though the staff and everyone else loved him, they couldn't allow him permission to be my guardian, no blood relative or actuall parents saying yes. I looked at him, I saw how angry he was. I apologized again for being raped and he held my head in his hands and shook his head, telling me not to be that it wasn't my fault, he said he was mad because he couldn't have gotten here sooner, he was mad because he couldn't protect me. I watched him pace until I went upstairs and fell asleep.
"Fiestyyyy." I woke up screaming, I slapped my face knowing that it was just a dream. I got up and walked towards the window looking out of it seeing the bright lights of the city I sighed. I didn't know what I was going to do, this baby was coming and it had no house of its own, how bad of a mother am I and the babies not even born yet..
"Hey." Damien said knocking on my door. I turned around and looked at him, I must of looked like shit because he came towards me so quickly and wrapped me in his arms holding me close.I just cried, I cried like I never cried before. He rocked me back and forth trying to tell me it was going to be alright then I looked up at him.
"Damien.. why are you so worried about me.. I mean this baby.. isn't yours but your acting more like a father and.. your 23.. and I'm not special really.. " I looked down towards my feet and cried more but he stopped that by taking my chin and kissing me as soft and passionate as I was ever kissed before. I was shocked I didn't know how to handle that, so I backed up. He looked down, as I realized that when I moved back it hurt him.. he was turning around to leave my room and I ran in front of him and kissed him back.
"Thank you Damien...your an amazing guy I'm sorry I backed away." I smiled softly as he brushed my cheek.
"I'm going to be here constantly now, since you can't come live with me, I will pretty much live with you." His goofy smile fit as he left for the night. I think I am the luckiest girl, I told myself laughing quietly as soon as Damien left Caria came rushing in.
"SPILL EVERYTHING!." She had a huge shit eating grin on her face and I told her how he had kissed me, she was jealous of that. How I stepped away, she thought I was crazy for giving that chunk of yummyness down the drain. And how I finally kissed him back, she awed and I couldn't help but started laughing at how scary she was paying attention to everything I said.
"See you always laugh at me when I just want the details to a delicious real life soap opera." Caria said all high and mighty
"Bleh, I hate those things my mom used to watch 'em all the time." I spit back at her mimicking what she had motioned.
"Oh I know those were the worst, when I was 10 I love 'em now!" She laughed and turned on my t.v trying to find some at 10 at night, good luck with that.
The start of Abbie Montgomery's life has really just begun, she's pregnant at 16, no longer going to school in a house for runaway's and was just violated.. She is stuck her with the tragic knowledge that someone won't save her. but will Damien prove himself?
