HI HI HI HI HI huge apologies my only excuse for not being on is that I was all my electrical things were removed from me so yeah my bad sorry guys extra-long chapter for you all!x
Fitting in with Wall-With-A-Fez's storyline Arietta has accidently revealed to the school Erin is pregnant.
Erin and Rick walked around Lymington for a while longer looking for any single leads they could get on Tee's disappearance. Everywhere they walked, they put up missing posters with a picture of the young girl. Erin turned around, visibly exhausted and sat down on a bench. "You okay!" Rick exclaimed rushing over and putting his arm round the tired girl. She nodded, "Yeah fine, It's just stressful isn't it." Rick slowly nodded, "Maybe we should check into someplace for a rest, I mean we have enough money for a few nights, you can have a rest whilst I go out looking."
"Are you sure, I can come as well you know I want to help?" Rick took Erin by the shoulders, "Erin you're exhausted and you need to sleep, I can't let you keep searching like this, we will find Tee I promise but we can't forget about other important things, you need looking after as well remember." She sighed in defeat, "Fine but the minute I wake up I'm coming back out to help you."
Rick laughed and brushed his hands through his hair as the determined girl got back up and began to walk down the street. There was no use fighting with her. They continued walking for a good hour until Erin finally stopped on a street of b&b's. "At last," Rick said, trudging along behind her. It had been a long day of walking and all either of them wanted to do was rest.
"This one'll do!" Erin exclaimed, "It's one of the cheapest and there are vacancies," she said pointing at the small sign in the window. "Okay," Rick nodded as he made his way to the front door. The two teens walked into the small house and weren't surprised by the average standards. It wasn't rough or falling apart but as the prices showed, it wasn't exactly a five star hotel.
They booked themselves one of the four rooms on the middle floor and began a small climb up the staircase until they reached the floor. As they walked past two rooms, Erin noticed the third door along was wide open. As she walked past she swore she saw a blur of blue right before the door slammed shut, almost right in her face.
"What was that about!" Rick said, walking over as if he was going to knock on the door. "Nothing, don't worry, I thought I saw something…" Erin trailed off into a confused state. Rick took one look at Erin's makeup smudged, bleary eyed face and stepped away from the door. "It's okay, look let's go get some rest before you fall asleep in the corridor. "Probably a good idea," Erin answered, yawning heavily as the pair walked into the next room and pretty much collapsed onto the bed before them.
Erin woke with a start a few hours later. Rick was still fast asleep, snoring quietly head buried under the duvet. Erin couldn't help but smile at the sight of him before getting up and peering out the window into the night sky. She counted the stars, gazing up at the shining dots. She suddenly heard a loud sob coming from the window next to her. It sounded so familiar that after a few minutes of ignoring Erin found herself calling out, "Are you okay?"
It sounded as if someone was moving closer to the window and for a moment Erin thought the person was going to reveal themselves. The window slammed shut, quite similar to the action of the door to that room earlier in the evening.
Erin sat back down on the bed and made an attempt to fall back asleep but she just couldn't shake the events of the night off. There was something too familiar about what she heard, who she thought she saw and it couldn't be, but it had to be.
Leaving Rick asleep, Erin crept out her room onto the dimly lit corridor. She slowly and quietly made her way to the door next to hers and softly knocked, silently preparing herself. She waited a good 5 minutes and no one answered to her disappointment. Several more knocks and 10 minutes later Erin sighed and turned to walk away when she heard a latch unlock.
The door in front of her began to edge open and Erin wasn't sure whether to smile, scream or cry. "Tee," her voice cracked.
Keeping up with Wall With A Fez, Ari told everyone of Erin's pregnancy, so all of the events in her story have passed in mine and we're now just after Kitty shouted at Ari again which happened in the previous chapter of Our Time To Shine.
Kitty was fuming. She could not believe the nerve of Arietta; waltzing in her thinking she's so special; she was no different to anyone else. Everyone here had suffered some sort of family breakdown, admittedly some worse than others but that wasn't the type of thing you compared here. Each person just respected the fact that people had bad backgrounds and if they wanted to let it out they would.
The only really good friends she had at the moment were Tyler and Johnny, obviously but she wanted her best friend back. Sam had long gone off of her and hung out with Arietta over her and Kitty just needed her girl best friend back. She needed Erin to come home soon. She loved Johnny, and Tyler was a great laugh to hang around with and in all honesty she got along with most others that lived here but Tee was a good mate, Rick a close one but Kitty and Erin had been majorly close over the past few months. They'd both helped each other so much and Kitty missed them all.
That was another reason Kitty was so mad at Arietta. The nerve of her telling the whole school about Erin. It was none of her business! Kitty would still be angry if someone who'd been there a while had told the school but the fact that it was someone that hadn't even met Erin was just unbelievable. Someone had done that to her bestfriend and it just made her so angry. If Kitty was angry, she had no idea how angry Rick would be about the whole situation. Okay maybe he was slightly overprotective but it was in his good nature, he really did care.
Whilst Kitty was wildly pacing her phone began to ring loudly. She screamed, taken aback by the loud ringtone before laughing to herself and checking the caller ID. Tyler and Frank appeared, "Who died!" Frank asked, laughing. "No one my phone rang and it surprised me a little, anyway it's Erin so sh."
Frank and Tyler stuck close to Kitty as she accepted the call and put it on speakerphone. "Hiya!" Erin's bubbly voice rang through the room, she sounded excited. "Hi, what's up?" Kitty asked. "Who are you with?" Erin asked, sounding as if she was going to burst. "Just Tyler and Frank, what's going on?" Kitty and the boys waited. "We finally found Tee!" Erin screamed and it sounded as if she was crying.
Tyler and Frank grabbed Kitty and the phone in a giant bear hug, "How where?!" Kitty shouted down the phone, "Late last night, the B&B we checked into, she was there, we're on the way back soon, I'll see you later tonight!" Erin screamed back as the line went dead.
One thought went through Kitty's head. Johnny! He had to know. She looked at both boys and worked out they were thinking the exact same thing. The three teens burst out the quiet room, running down the halls laughing and smiling. Kitty's mood had completely changed, Erin and her could sort Arietta out later, this news was much more important.
The group burst into the living room all screaming at the same time. Everyone looked up in surprise. "Guy's calm down, we can't understand what you're saying." Sam said, laughing. Kitty looked around; with the exception of Faith who was probably running every child was in the room.
"They found Tee didn't they!" Kitty screamed, "They're all coming home, they'll be back today!" Johnny's face lit up, he ran to Kitty and caught her in his arms, hugging her and crying, "I love you so much," he exclaimed. Frank had run off to find Mike and Gina and break the good news and everyone in the room was bubbling and smiling. Except one girl.
Sam, who was so happy to hear about her friends finding Tee made her way over to Arietta who had buried her nose in a book and looked almost worried. "They're all going to hate me," she whispered in a small voice. Sam sat and put a comforting arm round her, "They're not, Erin isn't like that don't worry she'll understand, Tee's a sweetie as for Rick, I'm not saying he won't be annoyed but he'll get over it I promise." Arietta nodded hugging Sam, "I don't know how you could think anyone could ever hate you anyway," Sam exclaimed. Arietta turned away, smiling and blushing.
Harry rushed over to wear Johnny and Kitty were sprawled across the sofa. "Is Erin really coming home?" Kitty nodded, "Yes she is Harry." Harry smiled brightly before clutching the toy giraffe to his ear, "Jeff says he's very happy that she is and Rick and Tee." Kitty and Johnny smiled at the small boy. "Tell Jeff we're happy as well Harry, so happy," Johnny said ruffling his hair. Kitty smiled at Harry as he skipped away, practically bouncing off the walls.
"She was always such a good mother figure to him," Kitty said happily, leaning into Johnny. He nodded, "Yeah she was, him and Tee were really close as well, I think it was something to do with the love of animals. Johnny was smiling but Kitty could see his eyes, vacant with worry.
"She's already forgiven you, ya know for the slap, Tee could never hate you Johnny," Kitty said softly. He sighed, "I know, I know I'm just worried, I might do something wrong again, I already lost her once, next time it could be forever."
"It'll all work out, I promise," Kitty said, kissing his cheek and snuggling against his shoulder. Johnny genuinely believed her.