HER BIRTHDAY

Abby had thought about going back to her bed and resumed her sleep but then she remembered that today was her special day!

"I am 18 now!!!! This is the day that I have been waiting for."

She said as she bolted up straight from her bed.

Without even bothering to wash her face or at least combed her hair and fix its hot mess, Abby immediately ran towards her door.

But to her surprise, the door seemed lock from the outside! And no matter how hard she tried to push nor heave the door, it just simply would not budge.

That was when Abby started to had a bad feeling.

"What was wrong with this door?!! Hey! Let me out of here!!!"

She shouted at the top of her lungs, hoping that it would catch the attention of anyone from the other side of the door, but her efforts had only gone to naught.

... SILENCE...

That was all that she got after waiting for a while.

Abby paced back and forth, covering the distance of her room as she tried to think of a way on how she could escape that room.

But when she looked at the mirror, she was surprised to see that her face was already stained with what seemed to be some dried ink.

She hurriedly looked at her hands and saw that the same color of ink was covering her fingertips as though someone illegally took her fingerprints without her consent.

Upon realizing this weird yet suspicious point, Abby's chest started to pound. She was praying internally that it was not exactly what she was thinking it was.

But her gut feeling was telling her that there was a high likey a chance that her stepfamily had already done something to her that she could never forgive.

"MY MONEY!!!!  MY INHERITANCE!!!!!!"

Abby screamed with hot tears streaming down to her face. She was pulling her own hair like a deranged patient due to sheer frustration that was bubbling inside her.

But soon after she wiped away her tears.

"NO! There is no point in crying. It won't help me. I have to do something..."

She said in determination as she used her eyes to look around her room. Looking for anything that she could use for escaping

It was then that she realized that her room actually had a window!

"OH, silly me!"

Abby said under her breath as she slapped her forehead.

Without wasting any other second, she dashed straight to her window and opened it to check how high it was from the ground; since the only way for her to escape was through jumping from her room down to their lawn using that same window.

Abby was planning of going straight to the bank to check if her intuition was spot on.

"Errr????"

Abby's face could not help but grimace as soon as she saw the distance between her open window and the ground below. As easy as it may sound, jumping from her window seemed to be a really tough task.

Yet she knew well enough that it was the only choice that she got at the moment.

After all, breaking a bone or two was still a way better option than living the rest of her life as a poor bloke once her stepfamily's scheme succeeded.

Using her bedsheet, blanket, curtains, and even her towel, Abby made use of everything she saw in her room to make herself a makeshift rope.

That was her last resort and she was planning to make use of this makeshift rope to rappel herself down to their lawn safely.

Abby had already used up all the available garments in her room and tied them together, yet it was still not enough to cover the distance from her window down the solid ground.

"Then, I will just have to make do with what I have."

She said as she gritted her teeth. Abby tied the other end of the makeshift rope at the post of her bed. After securing that it was tied properly, she threw the rest of the rope outside her window.

"Alright self, you can do this!"

She cheered herself and then exhaled a mouthful of air afterward. Slowly, she climbed from her window and started rappelling her way down so as she could finally escape.

'TUGSH!'

Abby's butt hit the land first when she jumped but she could not care about it anymore.