Maybe it was my own conscience or maybe it was the heat, but I couldn’t let Abby leave with this whole mess between us.
“Ghoul can you help me outside?” he raised his eyebrows at me
“I just want to talk to her, nothing else.” He gave me a questioning look “I promise.”
“Fine.” He jumped over the back of the booth into the one next to us and helped me up.
“Ghoul? Why are you bringing her out here?” Jet asked, as if I wasn’t there
“I trust her judgment to not kill her, but if she does, I’ve got her.” He smirked. “Go on inside, see if Poison has any food.” He pushed us past Jet and out the door.
Abby was sitting next to the BLI vending machine, head against her knees. I could hear her sobbing from here. Now I felt more than guilty. We had destroyed any hope of her living a happy life. She had lost her parents, her brother, and now her best friend and potential adoptive family.
“Just take me over to her.” I said to Ghoul quietly
He helped me sit down next to her and walked back to the door. He leaned against it and shut his eyes, not listening to us at all.
“Come here to tell me I have to go back to the city now?” I heard her say
“No, actually I came out here to apologize.”
She lifted her head; her hazel eyes pierced me with a look of pure sadness. God what had I done to her. Oh yea that’s right. I let her brother get killed because of my stupid escape plan, and let’s not forget the events of today; where I had gotten her kicked out of here, and on top of that she doesn’t have any parents and she’s on the most wanted list for Battery City.
“Why? You didn’t do anything but protect what is yours.” She stated
“Well that’s not what I was going to apologize about. I was gonna say that I’m sorry that you’ve lost your family” she looked away from me “and that I made you lose what could have been your new family. I was so angry I couldn’t stop myself from attacking you; all you did was defend yourself the way that we have been trained, and because of that it turned everyone against you. I don’t think you can understand how sorry I am. Honestly I want you to stay here. I don’t want to lose my best friend because of some guy.” I felt Ghoul’s eyes on me “That was an old world problem. Now a days we can’t afford to act like bitches to each other over a guy. We have to be able to stick together, no matter what.” I pressed my back against the wall and stood up, Ghoul was by my side in a second.
“Abby, maybe I can get Poison to change his mind, but he needs to see that you and me won’t kill each other.” I held out my hand “Friends?”
She grabbed my hand.
“Best.” She smiled
I brushed Ghoul off and let Abby help me inside. We walked to the office in the old kitchen, where Poison and D had set up a base of operations. There were radios and recording equipment everywhere. It was techie’s paradise.
“Poison?” Abby pushed the door open.
“Abby our decision, is not up for debate. You and Bullet can’t get along so it’s not safe for either of you to be together” he didn’t even look up from the map he was staring at.
Dr. D. noticed that I was with Abby and hit Poison on the arm.
“Poison, you might want to see this, it could change your mind.” Poison looked up, his jaw dropped in shock.
“How…what….errrr…How the hell are you two even close to each other? Weren’t you trying to kill each other like a half hour ago? Who let you get close to each other?” he stood up and walked over to us.
“Actually Ghoul and Jet let us” I smiled at him.
“And you two are….friends now? If that’s even possible.” He shook his head in disbelief.
“Of course we’re friends now.” Abby started
“We’re girls, we can make up in seconds” I finished
Me and Abby smiled at each other, before looking at Poison for his reaction.
“Uhhh, fine. I guess you can stay. But if I see you two so much as begin to yell at each other, you” he looked at Abby “are soo out of here.”
“Poison, chill. It’s cool, well we’re cool” I beamed
“Okay.” He seemed to lighten up a little. “You two get to tell Pony that he came here for no reason.”
“Okay” we both said
We walked back outside and waited for Pony with Ghoul.
We were sitting against the wall when a figure finally appeared. Pony was skating toward us at full speed, another human figure hung in his arms. Ghoul ran toward him, Abby grabbed me and helped me up.
Ghoul and Pony raced past us and through the door. I barely caught a glimpse of the small girl Pony had in his arms.
Abby and I exchanged a glance and walked as quickly as we could back inside.
“Ghoul? What the hell was that about? Who’s the girl?” I saw Ghoul walking out of the back room.
“Pony saw the girl hiding behind a rock on his way here. He said that she said she was running from Dracs, and that her name is Grace. Then she apparently passed out. D just found a wound on her shoulder. He said it looks like the wound on Elliot’s back.” He sat at one of the booths, we joined him.
“So they shot her?” I asked
“That’s what they’re thinking” he motioned to the back room
Abby was just sitting quietly. I guess she was thinking about Elliot.
“Ghoul? Umm…I’m sorry about yesterday. I didn’t mean anything by it, nor that it would cause so many problems. I just lost control I guess.” She broke her silence
“Oh… uhh… well I guess we’re cool then.” Ghoul said, he smiled at her.
He stood up and grabbed me. He put me in the booth with him and held me on his lap. It was the middle of the day but we all fell asleep, pretty much content with the people around us.
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Well Abby problem resolved! Please no hate comment towards her anymore (Abby is based off of a real friend of mine) What about Grace?
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