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Scarlet opened her eyes slowly, she was lying on something quite hard which told her that someone had moved her.
"Oh my god, Scarlet?" a voice, one that sounded so familiar came from her left side. She turned her head to see Tala sitting there, worry was etched in every part of his body.
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry… I never should have let you come home alone." The redhead looked as if he had been crying all night, he had mentally stabbed himself a million times for letting something like this happen to her.
"Where am I?" mumbled Scarlet as she propped herself up, she could still feel an ache between her legs.
"You're in hospital," explained Tala, "I got worried when you hadn't come home so I took a taxi and that's when I found Johnny lying unconscious in the middle of the road. Why did you guys travel such a deserted part of town anyway! Sorry, I'm not angry or anything… that's when I called the police and then… we found you…"
She couldn't bear to listen to anymore, Tala could obviously figure out what had happened, shame hung over her, shame, humiliation and disgust.
A green uniformed nurse popped into the room, "I'm sorry sir, but strictly speaking visiting hours don't start for another few hours so I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
"She can't stay here by herself! No, I'm not leaving. Can't you make an exception or something, do you know what she's been through!" He was almost yelling now, anger surged through his veins.
"Tala, please… I'm alright," lied Scarlet, her voice was so soft, barely audible. She forced a weak smile.
"Sir, please, if you would follow me," the nurse said patiently, Tala stared at his girlfriend for one more moment before relenting. He gave her an encouraging smile, "I'll be back as soon as visiting hours starts, rest well."
The two left the room, Scarlet tiptoed towards the bathroom and saw her own reflection. Bruises were scattered all over her face, big doe-eyes stared back at her before scanning down to see a perfectly carved nose and plump lips. This was the face that induced this nightmare to occur.
In a sudden psychopathic state, she smashed her fists into the mirror before moving on to claw at her face, feeling no pain even as dribbles of blood crawled down her neck.
Outside, a young trainee doctor working the over-night shift heard a loud crash of broken glass and ran towards the source to see what had happened only to find the young girl who was supposed to be occupying her bed maniacally defacing herself. She caught sight of him before darting away to the window and sliding it open, the doctor widened his eyes in surprise and terror.
"Sweetheart, please slow down…" said the doctor, his voice trembling as he fumbled for the words that could spare her life, "whatever you're going through, we can work this out. Just come back down and we'll get you cleaned up."
The brunette shook her head slowly, tears stung the fresh wounds on her face, "no… no… I can't live with myself like this… please…. Don't make me… tell… tell Tala I'm sorry… Tell Kai… tell Kai…"
She clambered onto the window frame while saying this and fumbled, before finishing she slipped and fell backwards out of the building… at the same time a two-toned slate and dark-blue haired boy rushed into the room.
"NO!" Screamed Kai as he could do nothing but watch the girl he secretly loved take her own life, he sprinted over to the window but couldn't bear to look down. Someone will pay for this... Johnny…he caused this, he drove her into a deserted area…he is to blame…
TBC
Short chapter I know, sozzies but please bear with me! Review