Love You Moore

By Melissa Carter

When seventeen year old Abby Moore goes with her best friend to visit the local university, little did she know that a chance encounter with the lead singer in a band, would change her life forever. But would a terrible secret from his past ruin her new fairy tale life, or the deep seeded tragic events of her past be the one thing that could make her Prince Charming leave her forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Melissa Carter
• Release date: Mar 23, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452300559

Melissa Carter

I live in South Thomaston, Maine, with my husband of 18 years, Andy and our 2 sons, Jordan 17 and Kobie 13. I currently work full time as a Quality Associate at a Fortune 500 Company in Belfast, Maine.

Book preview

Love You Moore

By

Melissa M. Carter

SMASHWORDS EDITION

* * * * *

PUBLISHED BY:

Melissa M. Carter on Smashwords

Love You Moore

Copyright © 2010 by Melissa M. Carter

All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.

Smashwords Edition License Notes

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

Dedication

This project is dedicated to all the people that inspired and encouraged me. My husband Andy, for without his encouragement and support this book would not have come to fruition. My best friend, Noleta who said listening to my ideas and story lines was better than books on tape. My mother Launa, who convinced me to put my ideas down on paper. My dad, Doug, who has always been there when I needed him. My sons, Jordan and Kobie, who thought that their Mom was very cool for writing a book. Michelle for helping me with the editing and finally, my friends, Heidi and Brian, for putting up with the constant conversations around writing the book.

Thank you all.

Love You Moore

* * * * *

Chapter 1

Abby Moore was average. Not a raving beauty but not troll like either. Just an average 17 year old girl, living an average life. She had Chestnut brown hair and eyes to match. She was an only child and lived with her stay at home Mom and her banker Dad. She was about 15 pounds overweight but not humongous as some girls in the school sometimes made her feel. She was a junior in high school going to school with kids that she had known all her life. She had friends that span out across all the cliques but the one true friend she had was Holly.

If there were one person in life that Abby would give up her life for and know that the feeling was mutual it was Holly. They met when Holly moved to the small town of Thomaston Maine when they both were seven years old, the only other notable thing about the town was that it was also home to the Maine State Prison which Abby took no concern over, she had never, up to that point, had a reason to be concerned with living in a town with a State prison in it. Her first memory of Holly was on a warm day in October when Mr. James was going over the correct way to make a cursive T when the door opened and in walks the Principle, Mrs. Beam and a sassy little girl in a pink frilly dress, white bobby socks and black patent leather shoes. She had a head full of blonde ringlet curls tied up with a pink bow.

Attention class stated Mr. James after Mrs. Beam spoke silently with him.

This is Holly Applebee and she has just moved here with her parents from Portland. Let’s all be proper ladies and gentlemen and give Holly a nice warm welcome

Welcome Holly the class yelled out in unison.

Hello she said in a confident manner.

Holly, said Mr. James there is a seat next to Abby Moore why don’t you go sit over there.

Holly came down the aisle curls bouncing as she half walked and half skipped passing Carmen Monroe, who said,

Nice dress, who are you trying to be Shirley Temple. Are you looking for the Good Ship Lollipop? and let out a loud laugh.

Holly turned to Carmen who by the way perpetually looked like she was smelling dog poo and looked her right in the eye and said,

I like the way I dress…I like my hair, seems that you are the one who has a problem with it. That to me, seems very sad if that is the only thing you have to focus on. So if you do not want to be my friend because of the way I look it is only going to be your loss. And she continued to bounce down the aisle.

She took a seat next to Abby and Abby looked at her and said

I like your dress, you look very pretty Holly smiled at Abby and said

Thank you, you seem nice, what is up with the girl that looks like she smells something very stinky?

From that moment on Abby knew she and Holly were going to be best friends.

Abby also had a boyfriend, Billy Towers. He was a nice looking guy, athletic, star pitcher on the Varsity Baseball team and looked much older than his 17 years. Abby and Billy had a tumultuous relationship they broke up and made up more than anyone else in the school. She had met Billy when they were freshman in high school at Georges Valley in Thomaston. He had caught her eye junior year. She was actually trying to fix him up with her friend Krissy. Krissy had tomboy looks and a mouth to match. She didn't care what she said and to whom. Abby and Krissy went to a Friday night basketball game at the school and Billy was there with his friend Danny, who had graduated years ago but had grown up with Billy in the harbor. They were lifelong friends.

Oh My God, Billy is here Krissy panted….go say hi to him for me and ask him if he likes me.

Oh ok, did we just time travel to 5th grade? You want me to have him check yes or no on the note? Really? answered Abby who by her own right was very quick witted,

No you don’t have to be obvious about it just bring it up in conversation. Krissy said as she nudged Abby towards where they were sitting.

Billy had seen them walking in and was no stranger to the way Krissy felt about him, swooning school girls were never subtle. Abby walked over and took a seat on the bleachers in the row below Billy, during one of the time outs Abby turn around and looked at Billy and said

Ok, um, hi my friend is over there and she wants to know if you would like to go out sometime, maybe go to a movie or something?

I don’t really do the movies replied Billy

Well ok then, maybe grab a burger? Abby said.

Will you be there? asked Billy.

I am thinking I was probably not part of her equation laughed Abby.

Well how about we come up with a new math problem he quipped, you plus me, minus her.

Ohhhh said Abby with a shocked look on her face, no boy had ever shown her any interest and she wasn’t sure that this was the person that she should go out with….after all her friend wanted to date him.

I am guessing this is not going to go over well with Krissy, are you sure you don’t want to go out with her and see how things go?

I am sure she is not the one I want to go out with. He said with a sly smirk on his face, he was cute she would give him that, bright blue eyes and chocolate brown hair.

Ah let me go talk to Krissy and I will… she trailed ok bye she stated and walked away back to where Krissy was standing waiting for Abby to come back.

Well….does he want to go out Krissy pushed,

Oh he wants to go out alright. Abby said with a hint of annoyance. She was a little miffed that he could deny her friend so quickly before even getting to know her.

YES stated Krissy with excitement in her voice, when does he want to go…where does he want to go, should I go over there now and start up a conversation and let him ask me?

No you shouldn’t do that, calm down for a sec Abby said and tried to be as careful with her words as she could so not to hurt Krissy any more than she thought she would be.

He wants to go out…but….

But, but what? stared Krissy,

He wants to go out with, me Abby said as apologetic as she could.

But I won't, he is very cocky and if he won’t even go out with you to get to know you before he decides he wants someone else then I don’t want him either Abby stated at convincingly as she could.

Jerk she threw in just for good measure.

No, No it’s ok, if you want to go out with him that is fine with me…not like there aren’t other boys in the school that are on my radar. Krissy said with a shallow smile.

Abby knew her feelings were hurt,

Come on, let’s get out of here….go back to my house and pick apart Billy and all his faults and go through the yearbook to find your next object of obsession Abby teased, Krissy sighed,

Ok but really there are so many boys that would love to go out with me whom will I chose? Krissy joked and they headed to Abby’s car.

That next Monday morning at school Billy came up to Abby at her locker and said

So…when are we going out? and smiled that beautiful smile,

Who said we were going out? Abby asked and acted as if she couldn’t be bothered.

Well I figured you spoke to your friend, told her I wanted to go out with you and it was a done deal.

Oh my word…well you figured wrong and this arrogant air you have going on…is not working for you, so yeah bye and Abby closed her locker door and walked away irritated at him that he would just assume that she would be dying to go out with him and irritated with herself knowing that he was right. However, by 2:30 that afternoon she had given in to going out with him after he relentlessly pursued her all day. After first period she found a note on her locker,

Please go out with me, you know you want too. It said,

Ugh she groaned and rolled her eyes crumpling up the note and throwing it in the trash can.

During third period English when Karl, a boy on the Jr. Varsity baseball team said to her

Billy would like the honor of your presence by his locker at the end of this class.

You can tell Billy she said, that he is going to have to do better than that and I will not be summoned anywhere.

Karl looked like he was going to be sick and walked back to his seat, she had a feeling Billy was not going to be happy with Karl a kind of kill the messenger type of reaction. After class she saw Karl talking to Billy near his locker and Billy looked at Abby and she smiled and laughed a little out loud, .this is a fun game she thought to herself and by 7th period when he finally came up to her and said,

Hello, my name is Billy Towers, would you like to go out with me? We could go get a burger or something.

Ok, sounds good stated Abby.

Really? asked Billy, Just like that? he said kind of amazed,

Just like that said Abby just being a gentleman and being sincere will get you far Billy Towers.

They set up a time to go out that following Friday night and after that they were pretty much together every day and after four weeks of pleading and heavy petting she gave into him again and gave him her virginity. It wasn’t on a rose petal covered bed with a fire place and violins like she had always dreamed it would be it was on his living room floor one night while his parents were out and they were supposed to be studying for mid-terms. Of course after that Billy had only one thing on his mind, well two things during baseball season. Billy could be the nicest guy in the world but other times could be a complete controlling jerk, he would tell Abby where she could go and when, who she could be friends with and who she couldn’t, which included Krissy. Holly was always there the good times with Billy and the bad times, on more than one occasion she told Billy what she thought of him. He never made her chose between him and Holly because he knew that would be a no brainer and Billy would no longer be in the picture. If Abby argued with him at all he would break up with her and ask for his class ring back. The first time this happened, six months into the relationship Abby cried for a week. She and Holly didn’t come out of her room when she was home, Holly actually stayed with her that entire week. By the second and third and fourth times, she was hurt, but was getting tired of his controlling her and so were her parents. The October of her senior year after Billy had said, once again, he no longer wanted to be with her, her dad said,

You know Kiddo, there are other boys out there that would treat you a lot better and Billy isn’t the only guy on Earth. Her dad was the strong silent type, didn’t really give an opinion on too much just sat back and watched but when he needed to step in he did with authority and you did what he said. With Billy he didn’t want to push the issue, he had a few friends that would try to dominate their kids and found that that was not the type of relationship he wanted to have with his daughter. He would keep her safe but would let her make her own decisions as long as no one got hurt so he just said,

Sweetie, I do not like seeing you hurt like this….this roller coaster of a relationship you have, do you really want to keep it going?

No, Abby said through the tears, I really don’t, he just keeps pulling me back in after he pushes me away.

Well Holly told me you were invited to the University of Maine in Orono by her brother to stay the weekend and check out college life, you know you will be looking to apply in a few months and you may just want to see what UMO has to offer. It’s only two hours away from home and that is a plus in my book.

Abby smiled at her dad and remembered Holly saying her bother Cliff had asked them to come and check out his dorm and the campus. A new and up and coming band was making the college circuit and this would be a good time to come.

You’re right Dad as she give him a hug around his neck, I think it would be good to get away, check out the college, I’ll call Holly and make plans to go.

That’s my girl and when those college boys, not the older ones mind you but the freshman…maybe the sophomores get a look at you…you will be thinking…Billy who?

Abby chuckled at her dad, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and went to make plans with Holly for the weekend.

* * * * *

Chapter 2

Friday after school Holly threw her backpack and little traveling case in the back of Abby’s car. She would stay at Abby’s that night and they would head out to the University in the morning. Abby was waiting for her in the car, So any word from Jerfkface Holly asked with sarcasm,

No, said Abby kinda glad he was playing the ignore card this week, didn’t really want to deal with the drama.

Good, let’s get out of here and get the weekend started. Holly cranked the radio and they both sang at the top of their lungs as the pulled out of the school parking lot.

Saturday morning they both got up at about 8:00 a.m., showered, dressed, ate a quick breakfast Abby’s mom had made for them, they both kissed her parents good-bye

Cell phone fully charged? inquired her Dad

Yes all set and I have the car charger just in case. Replied Abby

I checked the oil this morning and that’s all set

Thanks Dad. She hugged him again.

One more quick kiss for the both of them from Abby’s mom and headed out the door to go to UMO for the weekend. Abby stopped for gas and noticed her mom had slipped some money in her pocket with a note that said,

Have fun, be careful and we love you.

Abby took two 20’s from the pile of money and filled up her Jeep Cherokee, it was a hand me down from her mom when Abby turned 17 this past March. Her mom wanted an upgrade although Abby had no idea why. Even though her mom did all the errands and such she had only had the Jeep for two years and there were only about 20,000 miles on the odometer. Her dad had put all new tires on it when they had given it to her on her birthday and she could still sometimes smell that New Car smell when she got in. She paid for her gas and grabbed her and Holly a soda for the ride.

Thanks Chicky said Holly

You are most welcome Girly Girl replied Abby.

So Holly said after a few minutes and no luck finding a good song on the radio, I hear the singer in this band that is playing tonight is super cute.

Oh good replied Abby because the one thing I look for in a band is that the singer is cute, any word on how the singing is.

Nope I never thought to ask that. Holly joked.

They laughed as the continued North as they hit the interstate in Hampden Holly asked,

So what are your plans for the future?

They had talked about this subject many times, when they were seven they were going to grow up to be Princesses and live in castles next to each other and their Princes’ would also be best friends or even better, brothers, so that they would finally be true sisters. By 10 they were going to be