Finding Love in the England Asylum
Chapter 10: Our Last Horrible Memories of Here
Slaving over a stove, cooking hundreds of meals by the hour. That is what we were forced to do the day before the 4th. Edward and I had just finished packing our stuff before we had decided to come down here at an early hour to begin cooking for the big day.
"Edward, is the desert in the freezer yet?" I called form the stove.
"Yes love, and I got some of the dinners in the oven too." He shouted back from the other side of the kitchen, which was a long way away from me. We were being overworked already, and we even came earlier then normal. Six in the morning to be precise. I'm dead tired on my feet and I'm even surprised that still awake. If Edward weren't here to keep me up, I would have fallen asleep over the stove, and that would have been bad.
"Love, the water's starting to boil over." Edward said urgently, waking me up form my daze. I quickly turned down the heart and stirred the water. I grounded.
"I'm never going to stay awake, even your wake up calls Edward." I sighed. He walked over to me and brought me over to the sink, turning on the cold water.
"This should help to wake you up." He smiled, lacing his fingers in my hair.
"Edward, what are you do-" I was cut off when he pushed my head under the cold water. He pulled my head back up and I gasped. My face felt extremely cold, but I was wide awake now.
"I'm sorry for the cold, but it woke you up right?" He said. I giggled and gave him a kiss.
"Yes, thank you Edward. Now we have to get back to work, I'll get back to the stove and you back to the salads." He kissed my temple before moving out of my way and went back over to the counter.
"You know," He said after a minute or two. "I feel as if you should have yelled at me when I did that."
"You mean putting my head into ice cold water?" I chuckled.
"Yeah," He said, shaking his head.
"If it was another time then maybe, but now is not, it was the best way to wake up. It was needed, I know that, and that's why I'm not yelling at you. Now lets get back to work, after all, the faster we get this done, the sooner we get back to the others."
"Works for me." He said. We soon got back to work on the other foods before finally finishing in the late afternoon, about five-thirty. I felt dead tired on my feet even more then before and practically fell off my feet. I was ready to face the floor, one of my oldest friends, when I felt two arms wrap around me, pulling me off the ground. I was in Edward's arms.
"I'll carry you back love." He said.
"I can walk Edward, besides we're both tired beyond belief." I argued.
"Love, you just now practically fell flat on your face and you tell me you can walk back to our rooms? I have to disagree with you there, so I will carry you back, and I'll watch for Mike. Just try to relax and if you can, try to get some sleep." I curled into his chest and nodded. As Edward walked out, I could see Katie coming down the hallway for her checks and she waved to us. I waved back and Edward stopped to look back at her, giving her a reassuring smile before headed back out again. I felt really tired though and I slowly felt myself slip into a peaceful slumber.
I still felt tired when I felt Edward place me down on the bed. I sat up and rubbed my head as I tried to wake up.
"Hello love, get some good sleep on the way back?" Edward asked me.
"Not really, I feel as if I haven't slept in days." I replied.
"Do you feel well enough to head over to the cafeteria to get some dinner?"
"Yeah, I'll wake up on the way over; just don't let me fall on my face." He nodded and we headed out the door. Edward held me close to him as we walked over, Mike was still on the loose and I was still partly tired on our way over to the cafeteria.
"Hey you guys!" I heard K-lynn call to us. We noticed her and the others at their table. I nodded to her and quickly headed over to the lunch line to get some dinner that the girls made. I grabbed myself some pizza and Edward grabbed some salmon before we headed back toward the table where all the others were, minus Katie who still had her posts, and couldn't be seen with us here.
K-lynn waved to us with her none bandaged hand until we got up to the table and sat down. Her broken hand was at her side while she ate with her bad hand, in other words, she broke the right and is using the left to eat, not easy for a righty.
"Guess what Bells." She said to me. "We all got off work for tomorrow for all of our chores are done. The gardens are perfect, the lawn is mowed, the fire wood stacked, and the food all prepared for us and the special guests."
"That means slight change to the plan. We can make it even earlier then we had planned, probably right about the time these special guests come in before Irina's shift at eight. We can have all of you guys get down there and load the truck with Katie while Edward and I are up above you keeping guard. We want to get done before eight so that Irina doesn't find out about our plan. So I suggest that we bring our stuff down at about five-thirty in the morning, before anyone really is up, it also gives us the darkness to hide us and our bags. We only have to hope that no one is on guard duty, especially Mike."
"Can we pull it off?" Angela asked. "We've almost lost a few of us to him already, what to say we won't tomorrow?"
"We have to take that chance Ange, if we ever want to get out of here, and if you want to see your baby." I whispered to her. She nodded and withdrew herself to rubbing circles around her little baby bump.
"What should we do since this is our last day?" Alice asked.
"We should do something fun back in our rooms, we don't want to get in trouble that would prevent us form getting out of here. So what we'll do is grab all our stuff and get in one room and blockade the door, having fun until we have to go to bed. Then at five the next morning, we'll take down the blockade and get our stuff down to the loading dock."
"But what exactly will Katie have you and Edward do?" Emmett asked.
"Most likely she'll have us keep watch above until everything is packed in the truck, then when people start to come and go, we open up the garage and drive out of here, we have to expect some trouble when that happens though, so everyone needs to be arms with at least something, like any more guns if we can get our hands on them, or some knives incase someone gets on the truck with us."
"You almost make it sound like were at war Bells." Kenny said.
"Well you could put it that way, and if we don't treat it like one, we'll never get out of here or have another chance. This is our only shot, we have to make it." I said.
"We should get going back to our rooms then if we want to make it back before the Mike patrol sets out." K-lynn said. All of us in our group nodded in agreement and we grabbed the little food we didn't eat and headed back to our rooms. We all saw Mike as we passed by. He watched us carefully, but made no move to come after us, which I was thankful for. I didn't want to be attacked by him and his goons again any time soon.
After the short walk up to our room we barricaded the door with our bags and triple checked to make sure we had not forgotten anything, because surly we were never coming back here, even if it was the place where I found love.
"So what can we do now that we're back here and it's only now starting to get dark?" Edward asked.
"Well first let's check the time, because we want to be down early so we can get up pretty early." I said.
"Its just now seven-o-two." Ben said.
"I know what we can do!" My cousin shouted. "We can have someone sing that will tire us all out and get us to sleep faster, and wear out the person who is singing."
"That might just work." I said. "But who would sing?"
"That would be you of course my silly cousin." K-lynn grinned.
"No, we should have Bella and Edward do a duet!" Alice said. We all turned to her. "Edward sings pretty well, and we all know that Bella can sing, so why not try both in a duet?"
"Works for me, but what song pixie?" Em said. Alice quickly thought to herself before flashing us a large grin.
"They should sing 'When You Look Me in the Eyes'. The older version that was the duet. That was a nice song, and they should sing that."
"Bells. Ed. You ok with that?" Ken asked.
"Like we have a choice anyway." I said, shrugging my shoulders, Edward did as well and Alice went to turn on some music to go with the song.
'When You Look Me in the Eyes'
Edward: The heart is always searching,
Can you ever find a home?
Bella: I've been looking for that someone,
Never make it on my own
Edward: Dreams can't take the place of loving you
Bella: There's gotta be a million reasons why it's true
Both: When you look me in the eyesAnd tell me that you love me
Everything's alrightWhen you're right here by my side
When you look me in the eyes I catch a glimpse of heavenI find my paradise
When you look me in the eyes
Edward: How long will I be waiting
To become a better man
Bella: Gonna tell ya that love you
In the best way that I can
Edward: I can't take a day without you here
Bella: You're the light that makes my darkness disappear
Both: When you look me in the eyesAnd tell me that you love me
Everything's alrightWhen you're right here by my side
When you look me in the eyes I catch a glimpse of heavenI find my paradise
When you look me in the eyes
Bella: Everyday,
I start to realize
Edward: I reach my tomorrow,
I can hold my head up high
Bella: It's all because you're by my side
Both: When you look me in the eyes
And tell me that you love me
Everything's alrightWhen you're right here by my side
When you look me in the eyes I catch a glimpse of heavenI find my paradise
Both: When you look me in the eyesAnd tell me that you love me
Everything's alrightWhen you're right here by my side
When you look me in the eyesBella: I catch a glimpse of heavenBoth: I find my paradise
Bella: When you look me in the eyesWhen I opened my eyes to look around, I saw that all the others were fast asleep. I quietly laughed at them; they couldn't stay away for one song? They must be tired.
"We should head to bed too, Love." Edward whispered in my ear. He guided me over to the other bed and set the alarm clock for five the next morning. He kissed my lips before I curled up into his chest. "Goodnight." He whispered.
"Goodnight Edward." I whispered back and feel asleep as he hummed me to sleep.
Witch's Note:
Here is comes! The moment we've all been waiting for… and its not here yet, but it's coming! Only one more chapter until the dramatic breakout begins. Let's hope they don't have to use the gun or knives.
Question of the Chapter: Do you have a good dating life? How do you feel in a relationship, or do you prefer to be single?
My Answer to the Question: I don't have the best dating life, I'm in high school and I've only had one boy friend, but he's so nice to me and we have such strong connection, he might be the one, even though we've only been dating a about six and a half mouths.
Also people to let you know, I'm going to be checking in with my beta reader to see if she can start looking these chapters over again, so the next chapter might be a longer wait then what they have been in the passed couple months.
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