Avery placed her stuff on the coffee table as she moved her braided hair over her shoulder so she could grip it a bit. She looked at it and had to admit she liked it clean a lot better then all birty and a big mess. Now it loked tamed and a bit easier to manage. She was wondering where Roland went and was getting a bit nervous but once she heard Roland she turned around to look at him but tlted her head when he stopped mid sentance. "Um thanks for offering the shower and letting me borrow your pj they are very comfortable." She said to him as she looked at him. "And thanks for lending me the scissors." She said to him as she looked at him feeling subconsious about things now.

When he asked about her hair all of a sudden she looked at him. "Oh yeah I have had years of practice of cutting it until I got really good at it and it saves a lot of money to do it myself instead of getting it done by a professional." Avery exlained to him as she moved her bair behind her shoulder and looked at him. "It looks ok right?" She asked him for she was wndering if it id look ok or if she made a mistake with it.

"I had to start cutting my own hair once dad said that the money has to be used for what he wants and I had to fend for myself." She said to him as she looked down feeling weird for she felt weird for she enver told anyone this when it started to happen to now.

Roland was relieved that Avery didn’t do anything crazy during the time she took a bath, but instead she did very creative with her hair when was finished. After she had thanked him, and once Roland had noticed it and said something to her about her hair, she replied by saying how she practiced on her hair by cutting it instead of letting a hair stylist do it, and he was really impressed. As she was fixing her hair, she asked him if it had looked nice. “Well uh…..y-yeah,” said Roland as he became a little nervous when he was trying to compliment Avery on her look. “Y-you look……beautiful.”

After he made a compliment, Roland began to feel very tiresome from all of the cleaning that he had done earlier. He wasn’t really used to doing house work or chores because Steven’s parents never give him anything to do, although he didn’t argue it. “Man…,” said Roland in a tiresome voice, (yawns) “I’m beat.” He proceeded onto the sofa to take a seat due to his tiredness, and decided to invite Avery to sit with him as he spoke to her. “Come sit with me and we’ll discuss some stuff….or something….I don’t know.”

Avery blushed lightly that it could not really be seen for she hve not say anyone say she was beautiful she was called horrible things never beautiful before. She loked at him and tilted her head at him at how exhausted he was frm a simple clean up and she did ten times more then what he probbal did every day. SShe would cook, clean from breakfast then cook her fathers lnch, go to schol go to the store for dinner, come home cook dinner, clean then do her hmwork and then go to sleep which was normally around midnight. "how can you be tired from cleaning up I do ten times more then this and I normally feel fine." Avery said as she walked over and sat next to him leaving speace between them.

She then looked at him a bit but then rested her head on herhand. She barely felt tired but it felt weird being with someone who was tired now. "Feels weird that you are tired and I am not and I am usually the exhausted one because of all my chores through out the day but it feels weird not having to do it all" SHe said to him as she looked around the house confused a bit.

As Roland was seated, feeling very weary just from a little bit of work, he heard Avery asking on how he was tired and followed up by telling him how she did more in her chores than he could voluntarily. Once she had sat down after he invited her to take a seat, he replied. “Yeah, well…..I usually don’t do this stuff myself.” He tried to relax himself whilst having conversation with Avery, but not too much, otherwise he would eventually fall asleep and make himself to be very rude. He didn’t want to leave her out in the open while he sleeps through her whole visit and wake up to find out that she might leave as well, so he kept himself awake and leaned up properly with his back straight while he rubbed his eyes as he tried to keep awake.

Afterwards, she had also stated that she wasn’t tired herself and that she usually does chores like cleaning all the time due to all the housework that her father makes her do around their house and more. Roland chuckled a little and then replied, “I have offered to help out around here, but usually they never let me. It isn’t no hassle really, it needed to be done, that’s all. Besides, you are a guest here and you shouldn’t be cleaning or anything. You deserve a break from all of it.”

Avery looked at him as shesat on the couch not know at what to do for she never got this much free time before and if felt weird to her. "This feels so weird though not doing anything until I pass out." She siad to Roland for it was very hard for her. She looked around the room not knowing at what to do except draw so she grabbed her bag and opened it to pull out her sketch book and started draw n a new page. As long as she kept her hands busy she figured it wwwwould at least help fight off the boredom. Avery did a basic sketch of a young girl holding a cat close as she hid in the closet. That was another part of her past for sometimes she draws what has happened in her past somethimes.

Avery then looked at Roland. "Since you do not really clean or do a lot of chores what do you do?" She asked him as she looked back at her book and kept sketching her heart out for it felt nice to have more time to actually draw. She loved to draw for sh felt at peace for it transported her into a world of fantasy because thr reality world only hurt her.

Roland had wanted to keep awake due to the fact that he had company, but since they really didn’t have nothing to discuss besides her family issues, he kept feeling tired and more weary with every second that had passed. As he tried to maintain an awake state of mind, he listened as Avery had commented to what he said about her not needing to work around the place because she does enough at her own home, with her saying that it just felt weird to her and it was very unusual to not do anything until she falls asleep. When she had said that, it made Roland feel more tired, but he still made a reply back to her whilst trying to keep wide open instead of thoroughly tired from a little bit of work. “Normally I ain’t like this. (yawns..) But just that little bit of work could do something like this to me, gosh.”

Roland couldn’t think of anything to say really, but he did know that he wasn’t very active and knew that it was bad for him not to be, but that’s from not having responsibilities because of only being a long staying guest in someone else’s home. As he was trying to keep his eyes open, he looked over to Avery to notice that she had pulled out a big sketchbook and a writing utensil. From his assumption, she was about to draw something, or someone for that matter, but he didn’t really feel like being nosy about it. Instead, Roland just kept quiet and let her go ahead to do what she wanted while he turned back to the front of him, trying to stay awake and hoping that he wouldn’t fall asleep. Afterwards, Avery had popped a question to him, asking as to what he does for his free time.

“Hmm?” Roland turned his attention back to her to notice that she was trying to start conversation with him, so he wiped his eyes to stay awake and attempted to answer her question. “Well…..usually, me and Steven are hanging out a lot around here, unless he goes out to do something himself, then I’m just stuck here trying to find something to do to pass the time by.” Roland knew that he didn’t have much to go on because nothing exciting happens to him anymore, but he knew that he did have a particular hobby of interest that had become more of a routine for him over the years. “Though when I am by myself, I do like write down things, you know, like how my day was and stuff and everything else.”

Avery looked at Roland as she tried to make sme conversation with him but it was ovbious that he was sleep and should just let him go to bed for she did not want to keep him up when he wanted to sleep. She listened to him as he explained what he would do when he is never given chores. When Avery heard him talk about his journal that he would write in when he is alone. "Sounds like me when I draw when I finally get some alone time." She said to Roland ass she put her sketch book back in her bag and stretched a bit. "I know you are tired Rolan why don;t you go to bed I will sleep on the couch." Avery explained to him as she looked at him for she did not want to keep him up at all when he looked like he was going to pass out at any minute.

She looked at him as she sat there about ready to sleep now herself at least for a night she will have a good night sleep well mostly at least for she will have to get up early tomorrow to go home and make her fathers breakfast and hope he had a good poker game tonight and avoid a beating at least. She then let out a small saigh for she knew she was not really the best company to have around but then again she was normally quiet and stayed away frm a lot of people.

Avery got up and went to the kitchen to get something to drink to help her fall asleep. SHe got herself a glass of water. "Um Roland can I hae some blankets and a pillow to sleep with?" She asked not wanting to sound so needed or greedy but she just wanted to be a bit comfortable and warm. Once she got her glass filled she then drank it down pretty fast and made her way back to the living room and sat back down on the couch.

Roland knew that he had to keep himself awake due to two things. One being that he would be very rude, and two being that he had to write in his journal about his day, before he could even go to sleep. After bringing up about his journal, Avery had brought up about her sketchbook, saying that usually when she is alone that she likes to draw things. It seemed that they had somewhat of similarity, but somewhat of a difference as well, yet they were still in the same category for their privacy. Roland smiled when he heard about Avery’s hobby of drawing, yet even though he did, his eyes began to fade away into a weary state.

Once Avery had noticed how tired he was, she stated to him that he needed to get some rest, whilst also mentioning that would volunteer to sleep on the couch. Roland already knew that even though she had the stubbornness for not accepting offers, she had no choice on this one and he knew that the only place she would sleep is in his bed. Besides, he didn’t mind sleeping on the couch, that and there is no guest room in the house. Before he could say anything, Avery got up off the couch to go into the kitchen to get something to drink, but Roland couldn’t keep focus on her due to the fact he was trying to keep his eyes open. Everything had started to turn blurry to him as he began to fall asleep right where he was.

Just then, Avery came back asking for a pillow and blanket to sleep with, and it got Roland’s attention as he widened his eyes to answer her question. “Yeah……just…uhh….give me a minute and I’ll show you to my room.” He rubbed his eyes as he kept awake enough to get everything situated on the sleeping arrangements, and made his way off of the couch and headed towards his room. Once there, he went into his closet and grabbed his old blanket that was cleaned and folded, and then proceeded to grab an extra pillow off of his bed so he would be more comfortable when he slept on the couch. After doing so, he went back into the main room to get Avery’s attention.

“Alright Avery, come here.”

Avery looked at him when he said he would have her sleep in his room and she sighed. "Roland no its ok I can sleep on the couch I really do not mind at all." She said to him as she watched him g to his room and sighed for she felt that he was going to be stubborn about this and ruin her plans a bit for she thought if she slept on the couch she could sneak out faster and get to her house to cook her fathers food before then heading to school. Avery just did not know why he wanted her to sleep in his bed for she thought he be really weird about her sleping in his room.

She just let out a sigh as she sat and waited for him to come back as she messed with her braided hair while looking at her her folded old dirty clothes that she would have to wear again tomorrow but at least her hair was nice and clean for tomorrow but she knew it would go back to being gross, dirty, and would needed to be trimmed again but take forever to get a chance to trim it or cut some length off it again.

While Avery sat there she heard Roland and she sighed a bit and got up and followed him to his room. 'Roland its sweet of you but I really do not mind sleeping on the Sofa for this is your bed I don't want to be a burden or anything." She said to hi for sh wanted him to sleep comfortably. She was used to sleeping on floors, lumpy matresses, and other stuff she could sleep on almost anything that is uncomfortable for anyone.

Roland stood in his room, awaiting for Avery to come in there so that he could get her situated. Once she had gotten up to go in there, she had looked at him stating that she would be fine sleeping on the sofa and saying how she would feel like a burden taking his bed. Roland heavily sighed because of the neglect from offering his room to her, and followed up with a reply. “You’re not going to be a burden.” He looked around his room for a minute to notice how messy it was, knowing that he never really had a chance to even think about cleaning it, he didn’t like the way it looked as it wasn’t very presentable for Avery.

“Hehe,” said Roland awkwardly, seeing as he was somewhat embarrassed for having a messy room. “Sorry about the way my room is. I need to clean it I know.” He then straightened himself up so that he could explain the arrangement. “Anyway, I’m going to let you use my sheets and the rest of my pillows on the mattress, and if you need anymore I’ll just go steal Steven’s.”

He then went over to the side of his bed to show her what was on the small cabinet drawer next to it. “Right here is my alarm clock, just in case you need it to, you know, get up a little early and stuff.” Once he explained everything to her, he then reached for the drawer on the cabinet and opened it up to grab his journal so that he could write in it before he fell asleep.

Avery looked aound the room and noticed it was a bit messy but it was not as bad as her house not that place was messy. "Your room is not as bad as my house." Se said to Roland for her house was normally covered in beer bottles, trash, food, laundry, and sometiimes blood that came from her body when he would beat her. His room was nothing compared to her home. When he said about the extra sheets she just looked at him. "I should be fine I am used to being cold at night." She said to him as she sighed and walked over the bed giving up on trying to convince him to let her sleep in his bed.

She just sat on the bed and watched him show here where the alarm clock was and then him getting his journal. She got under the sheets and laid in the bed, though she had to admit that his bed was really comfortable unlike her old matress tthat she got from the street after someone tried to throw it away. She covered her head with the sheet also and pulled out her phone and set up the alarm on it so she would on it so she would wake up and get back to her place to mak her father's breakfast.

"Goodnight Roland." Was all she siad as she closed her eyes and started to doze off as she curled up in a ball for extra warmth. Soon she was fast asleep in the bed dreading tomorrow.

After introducing Avery to his messy room, and grabbing for his things before he went back into the main room to sleep for the night, he watched as Avery had covered herself up with the sheets that had laid on the bed. Seeing that she had gotten in without question surprised Roland for a minute, thinking that she was going to argue him and keep at it because of herself thinking of being nothing more than a burden or aggravation. When she attempted to lay down, she had placed the covers over her body, head and all, for some apparent reason, but Roland was too tired to ask why. Assuming that she was settled in, he proceeded back to his bedroom door so that he could get some sleep himself. Before he had left, Avery had told him goodnight, so he decided to do the same.

“Goodnight Avery,” said Roland, “Sweet dreams.” As he left the room, he had turned out the light in his bedroom and gently closed the door, leaving it a tad open just in case if something was to go wrong. Once he did so, and made progress back to the sofa, he laid down on it trying to comfortable himself. He adjusted the pillow right behind his head, pulled the old sheet from the closet over his body, and was ready to turn in for the night. But before he could, he had realized something.

When the thought hit him that he forgot to write in his journal for the night, he quickly picked it up from the side of the sofa and opened it up to begin writing.

Roland’s evening summary, Wednesday

What seemed like a nice day turned out to be a surprising one as well, making it more of, well, something else.

I had brought that girl here, Avery, into the house. TO SPEND THE NIGHT. HERE! All of it is relatively new to me, considering I’ve never had a girl spend the night at a place I’m staying at myself, but everything seemed to work out just fine. Well, after a couple of stints here and there. But I also found out something else about her.

I didn’t know how to react about it, her telling me about the abuse she takes from her father, but then again I don’t really what to do either. I’ve never known anyone with an abusive parents before, but all I know is that it answers most of my questions about her. Hopefully though, I can figure something out to help, by any means necessary.

I have to do something. I have no choice in the matter because I’m not going to sit around and do nothing, not after everything that has happened.

Once he became finished, he closed his journal, sitting it next to the sofa on the floor, and tried to become comfortable. Afterwards, his eyes slowly shut and he began to sleep.

Avery stayed curled up in the bed as she slept in the bed. But she was being hunted by her nightmares she was always hunted by ever since things started to go downhill with her when her mom decided to leave their family. But somehow she was able to cry quietly in her sleep and nt disturbe Roland while he slept. But after a few god hours her phone alarm woke her up and she sighed a but as she got up and changed into her normal old clothes and folded the clothes Roland gave her up and placed them on his bed.

She quietly tiptod out of the room and grabbed her bag and placed it over her shoulder and quietly left the house before running down the street to her house. She poened the door quietly and heard her dad snoring still and sighed a bit in relief that he was asleep still. She cheked the time and knew he was going to be up soon so she placed her bag down and went to the kitchen and started on his breakfast. THe nrmal eggs, steak, and gravy since most of the stuff was leftovers from last night and the past of course. AFter a while she heard her dad groan. AVery breakfast better be ready." He said in a grouchy tone. "It is almost done dad just stay there I will bring it." She said knowing he was not going to get up to eat at the table. "And make sure you bring the beer also." He said and Avery just sighed as she placed the food on the plate and grabbed his cold beer and walked to the living room and handed it to him. He did not say thank you and just scarffed down his food as she went to her room to grab a few things for school.

As she walked back down stairs her dad was standing at the bottom of the stairs. "Uh is everything ok dad?" She asked started to trmeble a bit for she knew this was not a god sign. But her dad did not say anyhting as he grabbed Avery by her hair and yanked her hard causing her to fall down the last few steps. "This is not being here last nightt and not dealing with my poker debt I had to give him the rest of the money I had for the week." He siad for she got drunk fast from his beer and started t kicked and punch Avery hard. "Ow dad stop please." She siad while crying as her dad beat her pretty badly this time o when he was done she was laying on the floor with blood seping out of her body a little and she could not move. Avery slowly mved to get her phone and called the school saying she can not make it due to family trouble and hung up as she spent most of the day on the floor not moving.

Morning had arose when Roland had woke from a somewhat rough sleep, due to the fact that he offered to sleep on the couch instead of his own bed. But of course he wasn’t going to be selfish about it either because he knew of what troubles had been happening with Avery, so he wanted her to at least get one good night of sleep before she had gone back to all of the nightmares that had awaited her. As Roland began to get up, he noticed as he looked over to the side that Steven was there just watching him without moving, and to Roland, it was purely creepy and disturbing. “So, how was all that tossing and turning for ya?” asked Steven, seeing it was funny to him that Roland appeared to have a rough night of sleep.

“It wasn’t the best I’ll admit,” replied Roland, “But I’ve had worse. What time is it?” Roland had hoped that because of the little bit of sleep that he had that it wasn’t going to affect the proper time he had to get ready and head to school, so hopefully Steven would be honest with him. “It’s 7:29.” replied Steven, looking over at the clock in the kitchen so that he could tell the exact time to Roland as he continued speaking.

“And from the looks of it, you’ve only got……oh wait……now only thirty minutes to get to school.” Roland’s eyes had became big in surprise, and without hesitating or saying anything, he rushed into his room and began to get himself ready for school as quickly as possible while Steven stood with his arms crossed, laughing due to amusement.

After a few minutes, and a big rush, Roland and Steven had arrived at school just in time to begin their first class. As the both of them walked into the classroom together and took their seats, Roland had looked around the room to spot that certain someone again, seeing that everyone else was inside and ready to begin the day, but unfortunately, and shockingly, she wasn’t there. As the teacher had walked in and class started to begin, Roland began to think to himself that something wasn’t right. Avery wasn’t in school, usually it being the only time of day where she could get away from her destructive father, so something had to have came up. What might have happened he didn’t know, but he knew for certain that something was wrong, and he knew that he had to find someway to find her and find out.

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Avery was laying on the floor still in a lot of pain from the rough beating her father had given this morning and she ttried to stand ofter a bit but her leg was in so much pain and relized it could be broken and tried to call the hospital but her dad kicked the phone out of her hand breaking it. "No calling the hospital this time we do not have the money to pay for another set of hospital bills that you create since now my welfare checks are going to that idiot. He father sad as Avery pulled her hand back in pain. Now just suck it up you brat." He siad ass he got another beer and downed it as he went back to the couch to watch the game.

Avery whimpered in pain as a few tears escaped before she started to mae an attempt to drag herself to the bathroom to find the first aid kit at least to help with some of her injuires and found some old broke boards and used some riped up strips of clothing and used them to keep tie the boards around her leg to keep it in place at least and prevent it from getting worst. She did not know how this day could get anyworst. She finally was able to stand after finding her dads old crutch he used years ago. She hoped that she did not miss to much of school and hope Roland had not noticed that she was missing from the school today.

The one thing that Avery did not wnat was for ROland triyng to come here and get caught in her fathers cross fire. SHe just now hopes her bones heal right and not end up looking weird once it is all healed.

A few hours had passed and lunch had came around, and Roland was sitting in the cafeteria with Steven at a lunch table as they both were trying to eat what was presented to them on their lunch trays. Roland didn’t seem very hungry for some reason though, seeing as if he was lost in a train of thought as he wanted to figure out why Avery was not at school today. Steven was very quiet as well, only instead of him using his head, he was using his eyes while he gazed around every area of the lunchroom to see if anything interesting in particular was going on. “Say, I wonder if anyone is wanting to start a food fight or something?” questioned Steven, “Wouldn’t that be hilarious Roland?”

As Steven had tried to speak to him, Roland was distracted in his thoughts as he tried to think on why Avery didn’t show up, thinking of many different reasons on how she wouldn’t be able to. What if her father had beaten her to death and left her in their own home dead? What if he had her taken away to another city or state because of her being gone yesterday? Whatever the reason, Roland couldn’t let it go and wanted to find answers as to what had became of her today. Just after, Steven yelled so that he could get Roland’s attention.

“ROLAND?!?!”

“What?” said Roland, looking over at Steven with an utter of surprise. “Why won’t you answer me?” questioned Steven, seeing that he doesn’t like the fact of being ignored by Roland. “What in the world are you thinking about that’s so important?”

Roland had turned back towards the front of his tray whilst he answered Steven. “Something just came to mind, that’s all.” Afterwards, he picked up his plastic utensils and began to eat, this way Steven would probably leave him alone for the time being, and wouldn’t assume anything either.

Avery managed to get up to her room some how since the stairs were hard to get up with a makeshift cast she put together since her dad was forbidding going to the hospital this time around. She got over to her old chair she had fixed multiple times that she had set up next to her windw and sat on there as she propped ehr leg on her old mattress before looking out her window with tears falling down her face not knowing what to do now for her life was going so much worst now and she knew the day will come very soon when her dad will get so drunk that she will end up dead by her fathers hand and her dad would just leave her on the floor dead and when he smelled her decomping he will just move and leave er dead body there.

Soon more tearrs just fell down her face as she loked out the window. "I am so scared that the day that my dad will kill me is now comming sooner then expected but then maybe it would be fore the best I would be out of my misery of being starved and living in pain I wold finally be free." She siad said as she cried a bit still trying to stay quiet because she did not want to give her dad a reason to come up and kill her. She pulled out a small compact mirror and looked at her self to see bruises that were starting to form on her cheek and forehead. "I wish I had make-up to cover these up then agian who is going to care when they see me all brusied up." Avery said to herself as she looked back out the window and rested her head on her arm that was resting on the window not knwing what to do that for te pain was getting worst not knowing she was slowly bleeding internally and was gradually growing weeker as time kept moving.

After the long hours of schooling had came to another end,Roland and Steven exited the building and began to walk home together again. As usual, Steven was being very talkative and somewhat annoying, only this time he was bringing up of the events had occured the day that Avery was at their place. "So," began Steven, "where was you-know-who today? Seems that you've been hanging around her more than anyone so you might as well know." When Steven had finished, it seemed as his question had done no good to accquire Roland's attention, as he was thinking on Avery's whereabouts and why she wasn't in class today.

Roland did, however, remember Avery mentioning that her home was a few places down from Steven's house, and because of it, the statement she gave yesterday gave him an idea.

Once they both had arrived at their home, Roland decided that he had other plans. "You go ahead inside Steven," said Roland as he walked past their house and continued down the street so that he may find the place that Avery was staying at. "Wait, where are you going?" yelled Steven, seeing that he had no idea in what was Roland's intentions for his continuation of walking. Roland looked behind him and replied.

"I have something I need to check on, so don't wait up for me." After he had replied, he proceeded to walk down the street in hopes that he would be able to spot where Avery's house was located.

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