Burning It Down, All the Way to Bat Country

Matt’s POV
I sat in the living room waiting for the girls to get home. Trinity said they were bringing someone with them, and I was kinda worried about it. 20 minutes later and the door opened, loud laughter meeting my ears as all the girls walked in the door, followed by a brunette woman. I looked closely and swore I felt my heart stop, she was the single most gorgeous woman I had ever seen in my life.

“Daddy, this is Steph, we saw her in the parking lot at Canyons and her ex boyfriend was being a dick and took her keys and she broke up with him and he hit her and so we called the cops and he got arrested but she lived with him so he kicked her out so she needs a place to stay so can she stay here please please please please pleeeeeease?” Trinity rushed out in one breath.

I blinked and processed what she said. My vision turned red when I noticed that Steph did in fact have a red handprint on her face. My mind was made up, she was staying.
“Of course she can stay here honey, why don’t you guys show her to the extra room.”
They all trooped upstairs, giggling the whole way. I smiled, at least she had fun shopping.

“Hey daddy?”
“Yeah baby?”
“Can you get all the bags from the car, and put them in my room?”
“Sure sweetheart.” I called back, walking out to the car. I opened the back and almost passed out, I swear to god. I sighed and started grabbing bags, carting them upstairs and dumping them on her bed. Two trips later and I was done. The girls were unpacking all the crap and putting it away when I dropped the last of the stuff.

“I just have one question….Am I poor?”
“No daddy, I only picked out stuff that was on sale.”
“What? I told you to get anything you wanted.”
“I know, and everything, except for my computer, was on sale.” She smiled and I just shook my head.
“Alright baby, now get the rest of your stuff put away, you start school tomorrow, I went today and registered you for classes.”
“Bleh, whatever. Do I really have to go?”

“YES!!!” EVERYONE, and I mean all the guys and the girls, chorused at the same time. I saw her grimace and grinned, walking forward and kissing her forehead. She hugged me quickly, then kicked all the guys out of her room, saying something about not wanting us to see her underwear. I laughed and walked downstairs with the guys, grabbing beers and walking into the living room.
“I can’t believe she’s started school tomorrow, is everyone going with to drop her off?” I asked and everyone nodded.
“Hell yeah, we have to be scary and intimidating so the boys don’t go anywhere near her.” Brian exclaimed and grinned evilly, rubbing his hands together. Just then we heard someone clear their throat.

“None of you will be dropping her off tomorrow, I will do it. Do not argue with me, it won’t help you.” After her speech, Jasey turned on her heal, and marched back upstairs. I just slumped back in my seat, the guys mirroring my position. We all knew how Jasey got, and we were in danger of being detached from our balls if we didn’t listen to her. It was late by the time everyone was done, and all the guys were in bed. I knocked on Trinity’s door, and walked in after hearing the soft “come in.”

“Hey baby, I just wanted to say goodnight.” She smiled and nodded, then burst into tears. I rushed over and sat on her bed, pulling her into my arms.
“Shh, its gonna be ok sweetheart, your gonna be fine. Jasey is gonna drop you off, everything will be ok.” She hiccupped and nodded.
“I know, I’m just nervous, I cry when I’m nervous.” I smiled at her, kissing her forehead and letting her lay down.
“Night daddy.”
“Night baby girl, I’ll see you in the morning.” I shut off her light and walked to my own room. Laying down in bed, I fell asleep wondering if I was making the right choice making her go to school.

Time Elapse, The next morning.
Trinity’s POV
Beep Beep Bee I grabbed my alarm clock and threw it across the room, effectively ending the incessant beeping. I groaned and rolled over, attempting to go back to sleep before my blankets were rudely ripped off me and screaming met my ears.

“Oh my god! JASEY GO AWAY!!!!!” I screamed back at the maniacally laughing woman.
“Nope, get up and greet the day, you have school today!” She laughed and bounced, and I mean that literally, out of the room. “DAMMIT!” I yelled at got out of bed. I went to my dresser and grabbed underwear, a black and red Metal Mulisha tank, and black skinny jeans before walking into my bathroom to take a shower. 20 minutes later and I was stepping out, grabbing a towel and wrapping it around myself, grabbing my hair dryer and flat iron from under the sink and plugging them in. I padded back into my room to get dressed, then did my hair in its usual style. It was really time to get my bangs cut, they were getting ridiculously long. I walked back into my room and over to my jewelry stand, grabbing a red belt type bracelet with a skull hanging off of it, putting it on my left wrist, then grabbing a black spiked cuff, putting on my right wrist. I also put on a black panda head ring. “Crap, I forgot make up.” I said to myself and walked BACK into my bathroom, putting red eye shadow on my lids, before rimming upper and lower lash lines with black eyeliner, smudging it a bit for that cool smoky look. I grabbed my backpack and shoes on my way out of my bedroom, sneaking into Lynnie’s room to steal her black Ed Hardy zippy. I put my shoes and jacket on downstairs, pushing the sleeves up to my elbows so my bracelets were visible. Walking into the kitchen, I said good morning to my dad before grabbing a bowl and pouring myself some Trix. I sat down at the kitchen island next to my dad, who was drinking coffee and…reading the newspaper? I giggled and he looked at me in question.

“Haha, you just look really cliché, ya know? The whole, dad-drinking-coffee-and-reading-the-paper-before-work thing?” He laughed at me, before hugging me and kissing my forehead. Then Jasey made an appearance in the kitchen, practically vibrating with excitement.
“You ready to go? We have to leave or your gonna be late.” I looked at my dad pleadingly, he just shook his head and smiled.
“Sorry babygirl, you have to go. Have a good day, I’ll pick you up after. You can call me anytime if you need to ok?” I nodded, and he kissed my forehead again before walking back upstairs, probably to go back to sleep, lucky fucker. I walked outside to Jimmy’s sleek black Dodge Charger, what was with this guys and black cars? The drive was short, for some reason they only lived ten minutes away from the school. Way too quickly we were staring at the huge campus of Huntington Beach High School.

“Sweetheart, you’re going to be FINE ok? If it turns out to be too much, call me and I’ll come and get you.” I nodded, took a deep breath, and stepped out of the car.
“Ok, thanks Jasey, I’ll see you at home!”
“Alright kiddo, see ya later.” I walked away looked for the office when a tiny little girl with Black hair came skipping up to me.

“HI! My name’s Mistey, are you new? Are you lost? Cuz you look lost. You must be new. I think we should be friends that would be so cool, you’re really pretty, so I think you would fit in with my group of friends. But like I said, are you lost?” I blinked at her, trying to process what she said when a guy who looked like the male version of her walked up.
“I am so sorry, she didn’t take her meds this morning, and someone gave her skittles. Bad mix. My names Matthias, but you can call me Matt or Blaze. Who are you?”
“My name’s Trinity, I’m new, I was just trying to find the office.”
“Oh cool, come on, we’ll show you.” I smiled gratefully and followed them into the campus, where they led me easily to the office and up to the desk, where a nice looking lady was entering something into the computer.
“Misty and Matthias. You two can’t be in trouble already, class hasn’t even started yet!” She exclaimed.
“Naw Mrs. Benson, our friend is new, she needs her schedule and locker and stuff.”
“Oh yes dear, what’s your name?”
“Trinity Sanders.”
“Ah yes, here you are. Take these passes to all of your teachers so that they don’t mark you as tardy or absent.”
“Alright, thank you Ma’am.”
“Have a good day dear.” She smiled nicely and waved me out of the office, where Mistey promptly snatched my timetable.
“OH COOL!! We have the same classes with Blaike, Evan, and Sarah!” I was greatly confused.

“Blaike, Evan, and Sarah are our best friends, you have all the same classes with all of us. Oh this is gonna be so much fun!” she clapped, grabbing my hand and dragging me to my locker. We put all my crap inside, then laughed and grabbed the stuff I would need for my fisrt period, Biology with Mr. Tucker. We walked into class and I handed the teacher my slip and was waved off and told to sit wherever, so I grabbed a seat between Mistey and a girl with black hair and blue eyes. She smiled and stuck her hand out.

“Hi, I’m Blaike, I’m friends with this moron and her brother. Our other friends are sitting right in front of you.” I shook it and smiled
“Hi, I’m Trinity. Apparently I’m supposed to hang out with you guys.”
“Oh god, she attacked you in the courtyard didn’t she?” A guy asked from one seat in front of me, turning around and smiling.
“Hi Trinity, I’m Evan.” I grinned.
“Yes, she did attack me in the courtyard, but I’m too shy to make friends on my own so I guess I’m glad she did it.”
“Haha good, by the way, that’s Sarah.” The girl smiled and got up and hugged me. I laughed and hugged her back.
“See guys! I told you she’d fit in!” Mistey exclaimed, pushing Sarah off me and sitting in my lap. For some reason she stayed there for the rest of the period. Three hours later and we were walking into lunch, where the ridicule began.

“Oh look, it’s a new freak.”
“Shut up Tanya, go blow your boyfriend in the janitors closet.” Mistey immediately spoke up, glaring at the tall blonde. The rest of lunch passed this way, with us laughing and having fun, sometimes throwing food, and then some prep inevitably ruins it by making some rude comment. I could never say anything to defend myself, it was usually one of the girls saying something, the guys would just get up, ready to start a fight. Mistey always made them sit down.
"So Trinity, tell us about yourself. And not just vital stats, give us something interesting." Sarah said.
"Ok, As you know, my name is Trinity, I'm 15, I'm adopted and I moved here two weeks ago. Thats pretty much all I got."
"what happened to your birth parents, if you don't mind telling us?" Blazed asked.
"Not at all. My birth parents abused me, and the guy next door noticed, and as cliche as it sounds, saved me from them. And here I am!" I smiled at the last bit, and Mistey laughed and hugged me, with all the others joining in soon after.
"Well we're glad your here now." Blaike stated, smiling and hugging me again. The bell rang, we groaned and shuffled off to our last two hours of hell.

“So you should definitely come to my house on Friday, it would be really cool to have you there.” I smiled at Evan, apparently they chose someone’s house every weekend and stayed there until Sunday night, having a three day sleepover.
“I’ll ask my dad and let ya’ll know, I’m not sure if he’ll let me though.”
“Oh, my parents will want to meet him anyway, they like to know that kind of stuff.” Evan explained.
“Ok, that seems reasonable. I’ll call you later then, and the rents can discuss things.”
“Oh, have him call ours too, just so that knows everyone, maybe they can all have dnner this week, and get to know each other.” Mistey said, gesturing to everyone. I smiled and nodded, getting up when my dad’s Escalade pulled up.
“Ok guys, I’ll call you all tonight then and we’ll figure it out.”
“Ok, bye Trini!” They all called at the same time. That was gonna get creepy, I mean, I could get Mistey and Blaze, they’re twins, but all of them? Weird. I waved and got in the truck smiling at my dad.

“Hi dad!”
“How was school babygirl?”
“It was awesome! I didn’t even have to try to find friends, they found me!” He laughed and nodded. We drove the rest of the home in silence, and once we had walked in and dropped all our stuff in the respective places, I asked him about this weekend.

“So listen, my friends do this thing every weekend where they pick one house, and everyone shows up on Friday and stays till Sunday night, and this week it at Evan’s house and I really wanna go, so can I go?”
“Whoa, a sleepover at a guys house? I’m not sure about that hunny.” He frowned, not liking the idea.
“Dad come on, Mistey, Sarah, and Blaike do it every weekend, and their parents don’t have a problem with it!”
“Trin, I don’t know these kids or their parents, I know nothing about these people!”
“Well, here’s the next part of the plan. They can all, and by all, I mean my friends and their parents, come over for dinner, and you guys can all get to know each other!”
“Wow, you guys really thought about this didn’t you?” I nodded.
“So, is it ok?”
“I want to meet the parents first Trin, so get ahold of your friends and ask them to ask their parents if Wednesday is ok for dinner.” I squealed and hugged him.
“Thanks dad!!” I ran and grabbed my phone, sending a quick text to everyone.

Hey, ask your parents if Wednesday night is ok for Dinner with my dad.

Everyone replied back that it was ok, and the plan was set. I just hoped everything would go ok, and I would be able to go.