Chapter 2/Chapter 27

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She was trapped in the darkness, her hands tied behind her back, she could feel the could metal against her skull. Then BANG.

Arietta bolted upright, waking up immediately. She looked around, confused. Where am I? Then she remembered, new care home, duh. Like routine she swung herself of the bed and examined her arms – red but she hadn't broken the skin. The marks would fade, so would the scars elsewhere on her body, the marks would disappear, the scars wouldn't.

She didn't bother checking the time, she knew from experience that it was sometime before 6. She grabbed a pair of jeans, a long sleeved t-shirt and hoodie and used the shower quickly, washing her hair then scraped it back into a bun. The marks of her arms were gone, her scars, the scars, still remained.

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Cor Anglais – deep melodic instruments with a rich melancholy tone. Arietta wished she could play it but she had never managed the techniques of a wind instrument, she had tried out flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons but she was always unsuccessful.

But just because she couldn't play an instrument had never stopped her composing for it. She wasn't going to lie, the October morning was chilly but she had faced far worse. She heard the back door clicking, deciding to investigate she slipped her notebook into her pocket and headed in that direction.

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Kitty was sitting on the stairs outside the kitchen in silence, she didn't notice Arietta approaching. She was too wrapped in her own thoughts due to the attempted suicide of her boyfriend – Johnny. Not that Arietta knew about these events – no one had thought to tell her.

"Hey, what are you doing out here so early?" Arietta asked, accidentally making Kitty jump.

"Just thinking," Kitty told her, Arietta sat on the step next to her and comfortingly part an arm round the younger girl.

"You know you can talk to me if you're upset... right?" she said, almost as a question. She wanted people to see her as a person they could rely on.

"You wouldn't understand," Kitty told her,

"I probably would," Arietta muttered, thinking of everything she had been through.

"But you wouldn't. That's the thing. YOU can't barge in here thinking YOU own the place and know everything. YOU. DON'T. KNOW. ANYTHING!" Kitty sprinted away leaving Arietta stunned. She had just trying to help, she hadn't wanted to upset anyone, she didn't see the point. But she had accidentally succeeded after being at Elmtree House for less than 24 hours.

"I'm sorry," she whispered, not that Kitty could hear the apology anyway.

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"What are you doing out here?" Faith asked, Arietta turned to her,

"couldn't sleep, neither could Kitty and I asked her if she was ok and she completely went off on one, I mean I was sitting like WHOA! She has more anger issues than Beethoven and his anger was justified, he was going deaf." Faith looked confused, "she looked unhappy, I asked her what was wrong, she had a massive go at me and ran away," Arietta explained,

"right, ok," Faith said, "I'll go looking for her, you should go inside." Arietta nodded and mentally slapped herself for the unneeded musical comments.

She wasn't going to lie, those comments were uncalled for, Kitty probably had some reason to hate her. One of her old friends, Piper, had nicknamed her Marmite because you either loved Arietta Tara Rosenberg or you hated her. There really was no in between.

Sighing, she stood up and returned inside, after all she still had stuff to unpack.

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When Arietta came down to breakfast Kitty approached, shit, there is going to be a fight. I don't want a fight, I have only been here a day. What would Mozart do? Think Arietta, think. Wait how would Mozart be able to help me, O Fortuna might help. Why would O Fortuna help? Well at least I would get beaten up to dramatic music.

"Look I'm sorry about earlier, I was just annoyed, okay. I thought you were taking Erin's place but yeah, I'm sorry, I know you were just trying to be nice," Kitty said in a mumble.

She's apologising?! Ok I expected to be murdered, say something nice, let her know you've forgiven her.

"Don't worry, I know you wouldn't intentionally be horrible," she told the younger and (quite a lot) smaller girl, but then again Arietta was ridiculously tall but unlike Sam who suited her height, Ari just had an awkwardly gangly appearance. Kitty smiled and sat down at the table, where Arietta joined her.

"So when does school start?" Arietta asked,

"well we got two weeks for half term and this the second week, so we still have quite a few days," Tyler told her,

"you'll be in year 10 so there is a good chance you will know someone in your form group, each year has 4 forms so there is a 50% chance that you will be with someone from the Dumping Ground. Rick and Erin are in 10Br and I'm in 10RS," Sam told her,

"ok, I guess that is slightly reassuring."

"Don't worry I have only been going to the school for two weeks," Kitty told her,

"at least I'm not the only one."

"Yeah and I only started at the beginning of the term," Sam said.

"Kitty which year are you in?" the new girl asked,

"I'm in year 9 with Johnny, Tee and Tyler are in year 8, Jody is in year 7, Frank is in year 11 and Faith in year 12," Kitty told her,

"and Erin, Rick and Sam are in year 10 with me?" she questioned, Kitty nodded in response. "Ok, um... so what type of... music do you guys like?"

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