Chapter 21: Songs and trees

"Kelly, why are you ignoring me?" Kimiko shouted at Kelly who had been ignoring her all day. Kelly remained silent and just turned her walkman up loader which was playing Evanescence, then the song Whisper came on.

-Catch me as I fall

Say you're here and it's all over now

Speaking to the atmosphere

No one's here and I fall into myself

This truth drives me into madness

I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away

If I will it all away


Don't turn away

(Don't give in to the pain)

Don't try to hide

(Though they're screaming your name)

Don't close your eyes

(God knows what lies behind them)

Don't turn out the light

(Never sleep, never die)


I'm frightened by what I see

But somehow I know that there's much more to come

Immobilized by my fear

And soon to be blinded by tears

I can stop the pain if I will it all away

If I will it all away


Don't turn away

(Don't give in to the pain)

Don't try to hide

(Though they're screaming your name)

Don't close your eyes

(God knows what lies behind them)

Don't turn out the light

(Never sleep, never die)


Fallen angels at my feet

Whispered voices at my ear

Death before my eyes

Lying next to me I fear

She beckons me, shall I give in

Upon my end shall I begin

Forsaking all I've fallen for

I rise to meet the end


Don't turn away

(Don't give in to the pain)

Don't try to hide

(Though they're screaming your name)

Don't close your eyes

(God knows what lies behind them)

Don't turn out the light

(Never sleep, never die)


Don't turn away

Don't try to hide

Don't close your eyes

Don't turn out the light


Don't turn away

Don't try to hide

Don't close your eyes

Don't turn out the light


Servatis a periculum

Servatis a maleficum

Servatis a periculum

Servatis a maleficum

Servatis a periculum

Servatis a maleficum

Servatis a periculum

Servatis a maleficum

Servatis a periculum

Servatis a maleficum

Servatis a periculum

Servatis a maleficum

Servatis a periculum

Servatis a maleficum-

At the end she suddenly realised how much it sounded like Dylan's past that he had told her about, the walkman was on shuffle and switched to My Immortal, she loved the song, but decided to turn it down a little as Kimiko had left. Kelly looked over to where Dylan was sat by a tree all alone and then over to Raimundo who had obviously had the same idea and was ignoring Clay.

"Hi, Dylan." Kelly said walking up to him and slipping the earphones off her ears so she could talk, but turned it up so she could still hear, but there wasn't much point because it had come to the end of the song it had been playing and began on Everybody's fool.

"Oh, hi." Dylan said.

"I see you've got Name with you today." Kelly told him.

"Yeah, I couldn't leave him."

"Oh, hi Raimundo." Kelly said as he walked over to them holding his ears as Clay was trying to talk to him.

"Yeah, Hi." He said.

"Hi." Dylan said.

"What's that?" Raimundo asked pointing to the lion.

"It's Dylan's teddy his had since he was a baby, isn't it cute? It's called Name." Kelly told him.

"Yeah, great." Raimundo replied jumping onto a tree branch to sit down and Kelly followed him.

"Are you gonna come up or not?" Kelly asked Dylan as she climbed onto a higher branch.

"Yeah, O.K." He said climbing onto the second branch and stopped there.

"I'll take it you don't like climbing trees?" Kelly asked him.

"No I don't, I fell out of one once and broke my arm." He told her.

"That was clever then wasn't it?" Raimundo told him.

"Leave him alone, don't worry I've fell out of trees lots of times, you get better, trust me." Kelly told him.

"What was it like your first time climbing a tree?" Dylan asked.

"Awful." Kelly replied remembering.

Flashback

"See Kelly's not chicken like you Sophie." Sophie's annoying cousin Ashley had said after Kelly had agreed to climb the tree.

"Bye Sophie." Kelly said to her best friend as she turned around and began to climb the tree, it was fairly easy getting up, it was her first time every and she was loving it, Ashley was telling her where to put her foot and everything she had almost got to the very top of the tallest tree where they was, until she discovered she couldn't reach it.

"Ashley, I can't go any further." Kelly told him.

"Don't be stupid just put your foot there." He replied.

"I'm trying."

"No your not."

"I can't do it." Kelly said turning around to climb back down, but hadn't realised how hard it would be, and could see Ashley at the top looking at the birds nest they had been attempting to reach, and she felt like she had let herself down, "I'm stuck!"

"Ha ha, now you know why I didn't want to climb it." Her blonde-haired full of herself best friend told her.

"No, really I'm stuck! I took a wrong branch!" Kelly replied.

"Jump down then." Ashley shouted down.

"I can't." She whimpered.

"Just jump down baby." Sophie shouted at her.

"I'm the baby? Just look at you not having the guts to climb it!" Kelly shouted at her, Sophie and her were always fighting.

"At least I'm not stuck hanging off a branch!"

"I'm not hanging I'm sitting actually." Kelly shouted

"Try and climb down off the branch onto the ground." Ashley shouted.

"O.K." She said and managed to grasp back onto the branch after trying to touch the ground but failing miserably and watched Sophie laughing, "I can't it's to far."

"Just try again." Ashley told her.

"O.K." Kelly said, keeping her hands firmly on the branch, "I can't it's too far!"

"Just keep trying let your hands down a bit." Ashley said, and Sophie was laughing her head off at her dangling off the branch.

"O.K," but then let out a scream as one of her hands fell off and she wrapped her body around the branch as she was hanging upside down and Sophie was laughing her head off.

"Let go and try to land on your feet." Ashley said also laughing.

"O.K." Kelly replied and tried to get down properly but lost it and fell in to the bushes and stingers beneath her, then Ashley and Sophie came round and found her covered in mud and her holding onto one of her knees that had been cut open.

End of Flashback

"Are you going to tell us what happened?" Raimundo asked.

"Better not to know." She said carrying on up the tree.