CHAPTER FOUR: MATT
AUTHOR NOTE: This is a serialized work of fiction with all character under the age of 18. This chapter is told from Matt's perspective. He's the college boyfriend of Abby Collins, who finds herself sent to the academy for behavior correction by him - as well as other things yet to unfold. Here Matt gets to see what Abby's been through so far. If he can find some time to watch.
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I flipped open my Mac and saw the link in my Gmail just like the woman from the academy had said I would. What did she say again exactly? That Abby was going to get some time to take a nice long break from me and everything else. Sometimes things get too much for some girls and they just need a little "help."
And client? I don't know about being a client of anything. I found that place online and it looked like a good idea to me after a bowl and a couple of beers. She can be a pain in the ass sometimes. Abby that is. Needy but not in a fun, dirty, sexy way. Always complaining, always wanting something. Yeah take a break and get it together.
I decided the email could wait. It had to. I was late to class again and as ever on thin ice just trying to make it until winter break. Sad to admit a few weeks into the semester. I grabbed my hoodie, laptop and was out the door in two minutes.
I ran across campus, the early chill air cold in my lungs. Cut down Sycamore, across Pine, then across the park to the English department. I could just make it. But turning the corner, I ran right into her. "Hey, jerk!" It was none other than Maddy Scherber yelling right in my face and picking her shit up from the sidewalk where I'd knocked it flying. "If my phone's cracked you're paying for it shit for brains," she said picking up the phone and examining it, then the rest of her junk that girls lug around in their bags. Lip-gloss and whatever.
"Not even a sorry?! WTF." She stood up and looked me in the eyes or tried to. She can't be taller than 5'4" even in those boots and came up to my chest. I made like I was going to pick up her bag. "Don't even. Leave it," she snapped.
I grabbed my own backpack and started to head off. "Hey," she yelled. "Where the hell is Abby anyway? She's not answering my texts. None of them. I mean she's a bitch but she never ghosts." I shrugged and attempted a smile. "You know if you've got her chained up in a basement, or the trunk of your car, you're going to get caught you know that right. Perverts always pay!" Her sick joke hung in the air as I turned and started out to make an ever faster dash for my Saxon verse class. Ugh. Talk about a way to start the day.
In class I did what usually did. Set my phone to record, saved the class links from Professor Donegal's page and switched off my brain to look for better entertainment. To my right a row in front the delicious rear view of Allie Jamieson's ass as she leaned forward to hug hello to some loser. Look at that skirt. Tight. Short. What a slut. I'd still fuck her of course if she wasn't so goddam uptight every second of the day. I looked around.