Same Mistake
(Belle POV)
"I'm not sure about this Belle, you should be resting"
"Scared I'll kick your arse?"
"Oh you are so dead Fritton"
"Bring it Styles"
We were out on the hockey pitch, playing a two man game against each other with happy smiles as the cold wind blew our breath away and made us shiver. Roxy had begged hours ago that we leave the hospital wing and do something, and with the threat of having to go through another two days with Matron's drunk singing I was more than eager to get out. I'd immediately suggested the pitch and she'd happily agreed, only too eager to spend some alone time with me away from everyone else.
"Ready to lose Fritton?"
"Are you Roxy?"
She grinned and flicked the ball up on her stick, patting it up a couple of times before throwing it up and hitting it full force into the goal behind me. I'd dived out of the way to avoid being smacked in the face with it. I scowled back at her and dug the ball out of the net
"Trying to kill me?"
"No. Just want to knock you off your feet"
I met her easy smile with my own friendly one, knowing she meant more by it but choosing to ignore it. She pointed down at the ball by my foot and gave me a challenging smirk
"Your turn"
"Waiting to see all I have Rox?" I joked flicking the ball up on my stick with a smug smile when I managed to roll the wood completely in my hands without dropping the ball. I laughed under my breath at that. I impressed myself way too much sometimes.
I looked back at her when she failed to reply and rolled my eyes at her glazed expression, feeling a little pissed at her piercing blue stare that seemed to be on a mission to cut through me. I coughed and she jumped slightly before looking down at the ground embarrassed. I watched a light blush work its way onto her cheeks before letting out a soft laugh to let her know I didn't care. She looked up and smiled at me while I admired her cute little embarassed moment
"Definitely" she said falling back into her usual flirty self.
I was just about to throw her a comeback when she suddenly froze on the spot and glared at something behind me. I frowned and stepped up to her
"What's up?" I asked poking her arm when she continued to stare ahead.
I turned and followed her gaze back to Kelly who was casually walking through the school grounds with the twins, their arms ladened with explosives. I turned back to Roxy and snapped my fingers infront of her face. She blinked and looked up at me with a small smile
"Sorry, zoned out" I stared back at her with a serious frown
"What was that?"
"What was what Belle?" Her innnocent smile and light tone made me roll my eyes. I let out an annoyed sigh at her evasiveness and gave her a dark look that dared her to carry on pretending everything was fine. She smiled back at me like she couldn't read the seriousness in my expression and I sighed again before pointing back at the edge of the pitch to where Kelly and the girls had standing a few minutes ago
"Glaring at Kelly" Her smile dropped and she glared back at the now empty space where the ex head girl had been standing moments before.
"She should be happy thats all I'm giving her" she muttered looking down at the grass while she ground the end of her stick into the dirt with a twisted angry smile. I narrowed my eyes down at her and felt an unwanted spark of anger bubble under my skin at the thought of her hurting Kelly
"Meaning?"
I watched her run a hand across the bruising on her face before shrugging and kicking the ball out from under my foot with a cheeky grin
"Doens't matter. Now Fritton, gonna finish our little game or shall I just claim my prize now?" I frowned at her. She didn't fool me. I knew Kelly had done that to her. No one else in the school usually went near Roxy and even if they tried she'd pin them in five seconds. She could easily tell me Kelly had done it and sit back and watch Kelly get a serious ear chewing, something I was positive she'd enjoy. So why was she blowing it off like it was nothing?
Because she doens't want to piss you off, I sighed and gave her a playful smile. I'd confront her about it later. I wasn't about to let her get away without explaining herself. And as for Kelly, I couldn't even think about how enraged I was with her hitting Roxy after I'd warned, okay threatened, her not to. They were both as bad as each other and they'd both regret pushing my patience like that. I pushed it all to the back of my mind and focused back on Roxy as she smiled back at me
"We didn't agree on prizes" I told her moving forward to take the ball back. She grinned and flicked it away from me, twisting her torso so that our shoulders touched when I dived forward for the ball. Her smile widened at our closeness and she gently leaned into me
"True, want to settle that now or later?"
I shook my head and straightened up, laughing when she tipped sideways without me there to stop her. She regained her balance and pulled on a cool expression
"I meant to do that"
"Of course you did Rox"
"Yeah yeah. C'mon head girl, show me all you got"
I met her challenging smile and tilted my head at her with a small grin, already knowing what my comeback was going to be and how it was going to affect her. I kept the smug smirk off my face before letting out an amused laugh and locking eyes with her
"Why do that when I could just hit a goal to win?" My tone was low and quiet, and brought out the exact reaction I'd been looking for.
Her jaw dropped a little while her glazed expression returned. I used the moment to step around her and flick the ball back to my end of the small pitch we'd created. I stood back with it under my foot again and rolled hand up on my hip, giving her a quick wink. I could hear someone laughing somewhere behind me but Roxy jumped back into the game before I could turn to see who it was.
I felt her stick hit the ball out from under my foot while she darted past me with a cheerful laugh. I rolled my eyes and ran after her. She turned back just as I got within touching distance of her and flashed me a quick smile before sprinting full pelt away from me. I blinked at her. She was bloody fast! I felt my legs ache at the effort of trying to keep up and decided my best option would be to cut her off. I made sure she was focused ahead before running out across the pitch so that she'd end up running into me, laughing quietly to myself when she failed to notice I was no longer behind her. Roxy had her eyes on the ground, guiding the ball closer towards me. I grinned and stepped back so that she ran past me, quickly flicking my stick out to trip her up. She stumbled forward and snapped a hand out to try to gain some balance, grabbing my shoulder and pulling me down with her. I felt the breath knock out of me when I fell and landed on her chest, both of us groaning with pain.
"That's cheating Fritton" she panted laying back on the grass with a groan. I nodded and pulled myself up on my hands, leaning over her with palms braced on the ground either side of her head, concern burning in my eyes
"You okay?" I asked watching her hold a hand up to her ribs and wince. She pulled her hand away and gave me a shrug, eyeing the small space between us and looking back at where my hands were before grinning up at me
"Do I get my prize now?" she asked laughing at me before leaning up on her elbows. I inched back a bit
"You didn't win"
"Oh contrare, cheating disqualifies you. Hence I win"
"You realise cheating in a game means nothing here?" I said raising an eyebrow at her logic. She laughed under her breath and tilted her head with a seriously cute smile. I felt my hands press harder on the ground beside her despite telling myself that she wasn't affecting me
"Oh sure, but I thought we were being honest with each other" I felt my eyes narrow down at her suggestive tone and found myself falling deeper into the comment. Why'd she say that?
"What're you after?"
She laughed and leant up some more, eyes fixed on my mouth while a mischevious grin stretched across hers. She looked back up at me, letting me read the want in her eyes. I sighed and shook my head at her
"Not going to happen"
"I could change your mind"
"We've been through this. I'm head girl Roxy.." She cut me off with a small smirk
"Actually you've got today off. So technically you're not head girl"
"Got an answer for everything?" I shot back with an impatient sigh. She laughed and nodded back at me
"When it involves you? Yeah"
"What the heck does that mean?" I muttered, not really liking where we were going with this conversation. We'd somehow gone from casual talking to serious flirting in minutes and it was all starting to get out of hand
I looked away from Roxy towards the school again, trying my hardest to ignore the amused grin I could see her giving me out of the corner of my eye. The sounds of screaming errupting from the treeline beside the pitch made me forget Roxy in a flash of worry. I snapped my head up just as a big explosion sounded and a cheer went up among the girls. I rolled my eyes at them and let out a breath of relief before looking away from the thick black smoke curling through the trees. What had they blown up this time? It better not be the new shed. I knew aunty would throw a fit if she had to buy another one. Not that she couldn't afford it with all the money we'd stolen off my father last year. My eyes drifted towards the pitch bleachers and I found myself locking gazes with Kelly. I hadn't even realised she'd been sat there. How much had she seen? I felt myself tense as she climbed down from her seat and slowly walked her way up to us.
Oh perfect
Just what I needed. Kelly's possessiveness was too much to bear on a normal day when I was just talking to other girls. What the hell was she going to do now she'd seen me leaning above Roxy with a playful smile? She was too far away for me to see the hate in her eyes but even with the distance I could tell she was fighting the urge to run up and beat the life out of Roxy. I felt the rockstar's hand brush my wrist and looked down at her with a warning glare. She ignored it and ran her fingers up my arm. Obviously she hadn't noticed Kelly yet. Or she had and was making the most out of it before she was murdered. Because I had no doubt that was what Kelly was going to do. I felt a knot tighten in my stomach. How was I supposed to handle this? As ever Roxy, as if picking up on my thoughts, had her own blunt pearls of wisdom to dish out,
"You should really learn how to chill" she told me with a grin when I glared down at her hand as it slowly danced up my shoulder. I rolled it off my skin and her smile widened, completely unfazed by my attempt at brushing her off.
"Careful, you're starting to sound like Celia" I muttered distractedly pulling my eyes back up towards Kelly
Roxy pulled me down closer to her, trailing her forefinger up my arm before rolling it down the back of my shoulder to my right hip, leaving a burning tingle all the way down my skin and making me forget what we were talking about. She smirked at me and pulled herself up closer
"At least Eco warrior knows whats right"
"And I don't?" I snapped looking back up at Kelly who'd just walked onto the fringe of the pitch with a dangerously determined pace. Roxy's hands suddenly wrapped around my neck and pulled me down to her
"Exactly" she muttered leaning up to kiss me. She'd done it so quick I'd barely had time to register what was happening before I realised I was kissing her back
Shit! Shit! Fuck Shit! Roxy you moron!
"Roxy get off!" I shoved her away and quickly glanced up, feeling ice roll down my spine when I couldn't find Kelly. Where did she go? Roxy pulled my attention back to her with an annoyed groan
"Seriously Belle stop fighting it"
"I'm not fighting anything you're just being an idiot!" I snapped shoving her away again and pulling myself to my feet. I looked around the pitch but couldn't find Kelly anywhere. I didn't know why I was getting so worked up about it anyway. It wasn't like I was with Kelly. I didn't even like her..
You're being stupid. Go find her idiot
I looked back down at Roxy's confused smile and lightly kicked her boot with my foot before bending down for my hockey stick. Her hand snapped out around my wrist and pulled me towards her with a concerned frown
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing" I mumbled, looking back at the school while an apprehensive shiver rolled up my back. I looked back at her with a small half apologetic smile as I turned to leave, "I've got to go"
Her hand tightened around my wrist and she pulled me back with burning eyes that said she wasn't letting me go without explaining. I wanted to groan. She was so damn stubborn sometimes
"Where?" Her eyes narrowed up at me with an intent stare while I tried to come up with a good enough explanation
"Miss Fritton needs me" I wanted to hit myself. Talk about giving a stupid excuse. Roxy scrubbed a hand up the back of her head with a tight smile, immediately telling me she didn't buy it
I definately need to work on my excuses, I decided watching the way her eyes turned a darker shade of blue when she looked back at me.
"She gave you the day off," she told me with a tired sigh, obviously annoyed at my leaving, "Look the building hasn't caught fire yet so I think its safe to assume everythings fine" I rolled my eyes at her and brushed her hand down
"Grow up Roxy" I snapped walking away from her towards the school, looking around for any sign of the ex head girl who had somehow managed to vanish into thin air
"Right after you Fritton" she yelled after me laughing when I paused and looked over my shoulder to give her a threatening glare. She shrugged at me and laid back on the pitch to smile up at the sky. I ignored her as she began singing to herself and turned back to the school and took a deep breath.
If I were an angry ex head girl where would I run to?
I stared up at the old building with a long annoyed sigh of exhaustion building up inside of me. Kelly knew this school inside and out. She could be anywhere. And I had to find her.
"Just perfect"