5 chapter 5

Dedicated to kay5thz

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‡Anabella‡

James looked at me incredulously as if not believing I did the forbidden.

Interact.

He placed his index finger at his lips, signaling me to be quiet.

I watched as he opened the door and put on a fake smile. And damn he is good at acting.

"Good evening sir, I'm looking for Anabella"

Ethan said.

"Oh she's asleep, she was so tired that she went straight to bed after eating"

He answered with that darned smile.

"Oh..... I just wanted to give her this" he said, showing him my soon-to-be-gone phone. "she left it in my car." He said handing my father my phone, which I am positive he is going to smash.

"Okay thanks, anything else?" He said but meant. Can you get away from my property now.

"No sir, good bye s..." He slammed the door in his face, then turned to me with the look of 'Girl, you just dug your grave'

Then he smashed the phone.

I saved money for a really long time to buy that phone.

I'll manage it anyway.

But that's the least of my problems.

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I endured a lot of punches and kicks in quick successions before the sweet release.

I passed out.

I woke up to see drops of blood around the floor.

I picked up my disfigured phone to check the time. It was a little past midnight, well at least I got some rest.

I crawled in pain up the stairs until I made it to my room.

I didn't have enough energy to treat my wounds, so I just collapsed on the bed and passed out again.

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I woke up with a splitting headache. I groaned in pain, as I picked up my phone to check the time, it was 7:49.

7:49! . I jumped out of the bed, and regretted it immediately, pain shot through out my body. I held the wall for support as I walked into the bathroom.

I stripped then looked at the mirror.

I looked like I survived a plane crash. My eyelids where purple and swollen, my lips were bursted and purple too. In fact my whole body is covered in purple and pink spots, except for my upper legs. I felt blood slowly trickling down my back..... I wonder what he did to me.

If you thought it couldn't get worse, wrong.... Shower was a terrifying nightmare, I had to endure. When I was done came, I wrapped my ribs in bandages.

I opened my long forgotten make up kit. And pulled out foundation and deep red lipstick.

By the time I finished applying the foundation, the purple spots on my face were still visible, so I had to add another layer, and another... My eyes were still a bit of purple so I decided for the first time to put on my eyeshadow..... purple eyeshadow to be precise, I pray I don't rub it off. and then for my mouth deep red lipstick to hide the injury on my lips.

It took me a pretty long time to apply the make up, considering I know nothing about this stuff

When I looked in the mirror, can you guess what I saw?.......

A misplaced lunatic clown, especially with those three layers of foundation. But meh, at least my injuries where no longer longer visible.

I wore black leggings and a white tank top and then threw on a purple hoodie that went all the way to my finger nails.

I almost scream as I take note of the time 8:37. But decide against it since I didn't want to wake up James who is still probably passed out from his cheap rum.

I hurry to the kitchen to make peanut butter sandwich for James and against my better judgement, for me, I don't remember when last I had a proper meal.

I run outside just in time to see the bus driving off. It's no use chasing after it, I can barely even walk straight without limping.

Now there are three options

Option 1 I can get a cab to school, which is a big no. I have to save up to buy some text books.

Option 2 Go back in the house and risk more bones getting broken

Option 3: Take a long painful walk to school, risking going late and detention.

Or I ...... Nah out of options.

I decided on option 3. I started walking to school, more of limps and groans.

"Hey, what's up"

I snapped my head to the direction of the voice and saw Ethan Brown in his blue car.

I immediately stood up straight which caused in a lot of pain, which was mildly masked with a grimace.

"Need a ride?" He asked with a smirk.

Yeah of course trust him to smirk on this very fine morning. Note the sarcasm.

I carefully weighed my options and settled for....

"No thank you, I can walk"

Hey don't ask why, I'm pretty sure it'll take a lot of effort to bend to get into the car, to which I doubt I would be able to stop myself from groaning. So I'd rather take the painful walk than risk him asking questions. In case you haven't noticed, despite my situation, I am extremely horrible at coming up with lies.

"Really? ....... " He says with the look of,

'who in their normal sized brain will deny a ride when running late'

"Yes, besides I want to exercise anyway..... You know.... Lose some fat" I said restraining myself from pulling the

' nailed it ' gesture. I almost mentally patted my shoulder before he replied...

"You don't look like you need to lose weight, if anything you need to put up more weight" he paused and looked at me with a look as if daring me to prove him wrong.

"And besides" he continues " the weather forecast says that it might rain this morning, and looking at the cloud it's not holding on much longer"

I look up, and sure enough the grey clouds are fully gathered.... And it looks like it's going to rain cat and dog.

Hmmm.... If I decline after all his points I'm going to look much more suspicious than I'm trying to avoid, and I do not own water proof makeup.

Okay... I suck in my breath.... I'm going in.

"So you'll take the ride?"

I ignore him, open the car and enter sucking in breaths to stop myself from groaning.

"Yeah sure, come in" he says with sarcasm dripping out of every word.

I ignore him. I have to stop taking favours from him. Twice in a row is too much for my own good.

It was a silent ride. A comfortable one.

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Sure enough, it was heavily raining by the time we got to school and the distance between the school and the parking lot is about at least a hundred meters.

Can you guess what happened, Mr hero here had an umbrella, how stupid of me to not think about bringing an umbrella.

I hope that his weird niceness ends here because there is no way I'm sharing that umbrella with him.

Why?, You'll find out because he asked me anyways.

"Let me guess, you didn't bring an umbrella"

Silence

"Don't worry, we can share mine"

Silence. He opens his door and his umbrella, then walks over to my side, opens the door and...

"Come on get out, we don't have the whole day".

While all this was going on, I was giving myself a pep talk. You can do it, you can do it, you can do it.

With all the energy I could muster I hoisted myself out of the car, barely being able to mask a groan. I moved out and used both hands to shut the door.

I then stood under the umbrella with him. This is so uncomfortable. Not how I planned to spend this fine day.

"Okay let's go"

I couldn't keep up with his fast strides on a normal day, but now I was completely lagging behind considering my predicament.

When he discovered this and turned to find me limping behind him and groaning in pain. That's right I can't suck it in anymore. He walked back to me.

"What's wrong" he asks.

"Umm, I twisted my ankle this morning"

I say coming up with a quick lie.

"Oh, why didn't you say so, here let me help he says moving to hold me by my shoulder"

"No!" I screamed a little to loud and suddenly. My shoulder would hurt even more, and worse I haven't had human contact in years, well apart from it leading to pain of course

"Um.. you could just move a little bit slower" I add.

"Okay then" he says taking my bag

This is going to be a long day

★★★★★★★★★

‡Ethan‡

Why the hell I'm I so nice. This is so not me.

I blame it on my mum's pancakes. Okay no. Maybe it's because I had a nice uninterrupted sleep and a nice dream. You can guess what it was about.

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