As she woke up Maddie immediately regretted falling asleep under the viaduct the night before. The banging in her head from the voddy and the stiffness in her back bore testimony to her poor life choices. She opened up her bag and grabbed a brush out of it. Pulling it through her thin straight hair, she at least wanted to look decent when she made her way to the bathroom down the road at the petrol station. Once she'd worked out a few of the tangles, she scooped it up into her usual ponytail.
She looked down back to her wrist. The bracelet was still wrapped around her wrist. A part of her scolded herself for her soppiness last night. She was being such a girl and it was very unlike her to get so emosh. Yet on the other hand Maddie could not help the feeling that she had to see Sophie Webster again.
She closed her eyes and saw the Brunette standing there in front of her. Her dark brown hair was down, parted to the side. Her heart quickened at the idea of running her hands thru it. It's silky loveliness sliding slowly through her fingers. And Maddie was sure that those jumpers Sophie wore hid a body that was fit. It drove Maddie to distraction staring at those legs.
Looking back at the bracelet around her wrist a smirk formed across her face. It suddenly occurred to her that she had been looking at this in the wrong way. Her chest lightened as everything came into focus. Maybe the bracelet had not been a kiss-off gift. Sophie Webster had given her something, which meant that she had to pay her back. Tit for tat and all.
She had a way in now. She would get this girl.
As Sophie sat and waited she felt more and more like an idiot. All trussed up like a slapper, she felt even more like the fool as each minute passed. This time she had actually believed her. And that infuriated Sophie even more.
Sophie had not ever been really pursued in this way. She had honestly believed that after Maddie stormed out of the room at the community center that she would never see her again. Maddie Heath was all reaction or avoidance. It put Sophie on the offense, but even when Sophie tried to reach out she was rebuffed. And she was so tired of it.
Sophie Webster had never felt as if she was the girl who turned heads when she walked down the street. That was her sister Rosie. Later on it was Sian. The brunette knew that she was not the most attractive, but she wasn't nothing. And she had a little bit of pride. If Maddie was going to keep messing her about like this, then she needed to make a clean break.
And with the letter and all, she had thought that she had done that. She really had. It had been written with the intention of making a change, because Sophie couldn't stay in limbo. Sophie had lost sleep, wound herself up, and felt her stomach tie itself in knots over this girl. And it had to stop because she had to move forward. Sophie Webster wasn't going to wait anymore.
The push and pull that she felt between them couldn't be denied. But Sophie had to know if she was the only one who felt it. There had been a heat between them. It was different than what she had felt with Jenna. It was combustible. If Maddie would just allow her to…well Sophie would burn the girl's world down. However she did not seem able to bust through, and it hurt. Inside her chest.
If Jenna had taught her anything it was that a clean break was the best idea. So she had tried.
Really tried.
Damn Maddie Heath for showing up in her shop.
It was the damndest thing to see the woman standing there. Just that fact had thrown Sophie for six. She noticed that Maddie was a bit more cleaned up then usual. She still wore the same hoodie, jeans, and jacket that Sophie had gotten used to seeing her in. In fact Sophie wondered if she had any other clothes. Sophie was pretty dumbstruck to see the girl was in her village. It made Sophie speechless-which was rare.
And that's when Maddie flashed that look and Soph was gone. Just dead gone.
They were done talking.
And yet here she was sitting here like a daft chump and a dress that wasn't hers. She checked her phone.
20 minutes. No messages.
Sophie was done.
Maddie wouldn't let them take it. Even when she had felt her wrist twist a way that it shouldn't. After they had left her in the alley she slowly moved it off and put it in her pocket. She knew that her wrist was going to swell and she'd be damned if she was going to let the NHS cut it off.
She had been running late as it is having missed the bus to where her and Sophie had agreed to meet. Also to her own embarrassment she had spent far too much time cleaning herself up. It wasn't like Maddie was a complete scuzz but living on her own meant that she rarely went beyond the basics. Tonight was different though so she had got a mate to loan her the bathroom in her flat for a while. Even bothered to wash her hair and let her down. It was different from her usual pony-tail but Sophie had never seen her hair down before. It'd be a surprise.
Still she had taken too long and now she was proper flustered. She had to show Sophie that she was worth trusting and being late wasn't going to help. It was probably why she hadn't seen them coming.
Getting jumped wasn't new for her. It'd happened before but this was the first time that she had begged them to just let her go. Then she fought back and got a smack to the face for her trouble. She turned herself over in the alley and started making an assessment of her body. After getting whacked in the face, they'd kicked her a few times. She felt a searing white-hot pain every time she inhaled. Still she had to get up and push thru it.
Sophie had to know that she hadn't been messing with her. And honestly where else did Maddie Heath have to go?