I woke up the next day my face still sore and Damon gone. Stefan was walking around in the hallway a nervous expression on his face. I immediately closed my eyes pretending to be asleep for no reason. As father walked up the stairs I realized I could listen in on what they were saying.
"Damon is out getting a lock for the shed and I am going to go tell Emma's teacher about the teasing," said father. "I will be waiting until she wakes up," said Stefan as he paced the hall gloomily.
I felt bad thinking I had made Stefan upset and that he blamed himself for the ordeal. So I slowly opened my eyes and stretched pretending to have just woken up. Stefan immediately rushed over,"Are you okay? Do you feel sick?" "No, I feel fine," I said with a slight chuckle to my voice. "It's not funny I really thought you hurt yourself." "No actually it's pretty funny!" I said with a girlish giggle.
"Anyways I am going to get ready and try to cover up these bruises." "I will be waiting outside,"said Stefan. I immediately rushed over to the mirror before he closed the door and he apparently saw me go for the mirror and asked,"Are you sure you want to do that?" "I already looked last night."
He slightly winced at the thought as he noticed the shattered mirror. "Do you want me to get you another mirror?" "Yes please!" I said happily. "But be careful not to break this one or you will get another 7 years of bad luck!" he said as he ran away to fetch another mirror.
He ran in handed me a mirror swiftly and left happy that I was functioning well and that I wasn't feeling as bad as yesterday. I smiled as he closed the door, "Finally," I thought.
I picked up the new mirror and got the relief that for my brothers sake I no longer had to act like I wasn't in extreme pain. I winced as I looked in the mirror, the bruising of breaking my nose now stretched out under my eyes fading with the two big shiners I had before but the swelling had gone down and my cuts were already fading as I realized how happy I was to be young and heal fast.
I breathed a sigh of relief as I picked up a powder puff and poofed it on the bruises and my two shiners which I usually never did. Soon the bruises had faded under the makeup still some what visible but mostly gone. I unfortunately couldn't get rid of the bump on my nose that still stuck out quite profusely.
I shrugged my shoulders hopelessly realizing the rest of my day would be spent pretending I wasn't in extreme pain and that my whole face didn't throb and hurt. At least I won't get bullied for being a wimp I thought looking for a silver lining which was right now very hard to find I thought as I put on ivory sunhat with a pink bow wrapped around the top with my little white dress that made me look like I was 7 or 8.
I walked out of my room and I planned on trying to avoid all human contact as people would be asking what happened and I didn't like lying to people and I definitely did not want to tell them the truth so I walked out sneakily and ran right into Stefan, damn my plan has been foiled I thought.
"Oh your ready so soon!" "Of course it doesn't take me that long to get dressed!" " I began to walk past him as he stopped me immediately,"Hey, where are you going?" "Outside to play in the maze!" "Can I come with you? Stefan asked clearly wanting to see what I was up to and I thought how can I play this off and then sneak away? "Sure! I said happily.
I had already devised my plan because I wanted to get back to the shed so I could actually find out what had happened because it all occurred so fast I don't really even know what happened. Stefan grabbed our football and we threw it around for an hour or two and I was finding devious ways to make Stefan more tired so he would take a break and I could go and investigate.
"I am going to take a few minutes to regain my energy and then the match is back on!' I would never want Stefan to get into trouble for letting me run off again so I had to do this fast. I felt bad for making him so tired but I had to find out what happened!
So as soon as my opportunity came I bolted as fast as I could to the shed and arrived there in approximately 2 minutes so my Stefan Break Time was running out. I hurried over and all I saw was the shed which I peeked inside to see Damon's gun covered in my blood which I winced at even though my face didn't really hurt that bad anymore. I saw the big bullet hole in the tree and the footprints of children running for their lives which I giggled a bit at. I realized what had happened was, I almost dropped the gun and I tried to grab it before it fell and I grabbed the gun's trigger and it shot the tree and the kick on the gun was so strong I hit myself in the face with it then I fell on my face in the woods with Stefan causing alot of the other bruising.
Thinking I was going to slink my way back to the house without anyone knowing of my plan to head over here unseen or noticed as I was walking away someone pulled me from behind the shed.
It was Stefan I literally felt my blood run cold as I realized the stupidity of my plan. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" "I just wanted to see what happened here because I couldn't remember, I promise!" "I was so worried I thought you got lost or died!" Stefan said as he pulled me into a hug that literally winded me.
"You thought I died, really?" I asked laughing or that might have been me gasping for air because I had none of it left in my body as he finally released his grip. He instantly grabbed me by my arm dragging me to the maze as he grabbed the ball we saw Damon and father look out the window.
Me and Stefan both stopped,"Pretend like we are playing ball," Stefan said sternly. We began playing ball and I was laughing on the inside thinking he has clearly done this before which only made me laugh harder a smile appeared on my face making me look happy to be outside playing. As we went inside panting me and Stefan had lunch talked until late at night and made an unbreakable pact to never go near that damn shed ever again.
