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Chapter 9: Because I'm the monster parents tell their children about at night?
Once in the office that was completely furnished with wood: wooden walls, floors, chairs, desk so basically everything. But instead of cold and unwelcoming, to Cris it was homely mainly because she'd been in it so much. She got sent out quite a bit mainly for arguing with other students and sometimes the teacher but when people didn't know they were wrong they needed to know, I mean it is school, they need to learn. It often happened in English where people thought they knew more about the book than Cris and Tessa, of course they were wrong; her and Tessa lived and breathed words, they never had a chance arguing with either of them. Everyone knew it but some people are too self-centred to even think that they were wrong.
But Charlotte never really told her off, she just kept Cris in her office until Cris cooled down or until the end of the lesson depending on which one came first. She had known Charlotte since she could remember which was coincidently when she moved to London with her adoptive mother when she was 1 years old, her mother never told them why they'd moved but she was pretty sure it had something to do with the people that were texting her. But never the less Charlotte felt like another mother to her, Cris seemed to have a lot of them nowadays.
Cris sat down on the couch at the side of the room, not the chairs in front of her desk, and brought her legs up to her chest and buried her face in her knees. "Crisiant, what's wrong?" Charlotte says in a soothing voice putting a hand on her shoulder. Charlotte always called her by her first name insisting it was a beautiful name and fitted her personality perfectly. "Why do I have to do this, why can't my life ever be normal?" Cris said in a small voice and Charlotte simply said "Cris, normal is over rated," Charlotte lifted Cris' head up and Cris smiled at what Charlotte said.
"But why does it all happen at once, can't it spread it out in small infrequent doses," Cris said but still had a smile on her face. Charlotte had the face she always had when she was going to use some inspirational quote and sure enough Cris got one "Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once," Cris smiled again "Why do you have to be the female, young Ghandi?" Cris says and Charlotte laughs "Hey, I'm the one trying to cheer you up not the other way round," Charlotte says smiling and Cris gave a small laugh.
"Can I talk to you about something… personal? I just don't know who I can talk to," Cris asks in a small voice, "Crisiant, you now you can tell me anything" Charlotte said softly. "It's kinda hard to explain" she started then went into an explanation about Jamie and Jem and even the texts, since Charlotte knew all about this as well. It took quite a long time but Charlotte never lost interest or stopped her and when Cris finished she was nearly crying again. "Look, Crisiant, God gives you the life he thinks you can handle" Charlotte said and even though Cris wasn't religious it still helped. "I can't tell you what you should do, only you can decide that but for the moment do something to get your mind off them" She then smiled "And I have that perfect something," She got up and went to her desk and pulled a piece of paper from under a pile of folders.
She brought the paper over and sat down again when Cris asked "What's that?" and reached for the paper but Charlotte pulled it away from her grasp, Cris groaned and Charlotte laughed. "It's the casting list for the play," This filled Cris with tension, excitement and even a little bit or nervousness. I mean yes she would find out whether she or Maia was playing Clary (it was going to be one of them for definite) but she would also find out who would be playing Jace, for fear it would be either Jem or Jamie she wanted Maia to be Clary.
"I can't tell you who's playing the other roles but I can tell you who you're playing" she said quite teasingly. "Charlotte, don't drag this out" Charlotte wasn't really supposed to tell Cris anything as the sheet would be put up at the end of the school day today and no one was supposed to know until then but sometimes exceptions were made. "Okay so as you know it's nearly always between you and Maia Roberts" Of course I know this she thought and that self-assurance she smiled. She didn't have it often so when she did it was funny to her.
"So the role you have been cast is…" Charlotte was playing with her now and this made Cris give a little groan "Clary Fray" Fairchild her mind corrected as happiness and a bit of nervousness crept through her. But for purposes she decided to go for happy "By the angel, Charlotte, thank you!" She gave a little squeal and hugged her. Sensing her tension Charlotte says "Now I know you're nervous about the role of Jace, considering what you just told me, but trust me you'll be great either way and you can talk to me about whatever," she smiled and nodded then glanced at the clock, she had been in there for half an hour now, so there was like 20 minutes of Latin left.
"Do you want to go back to Latin?" Cris was thinking about this when Charlotte interrupted her thoughts saying "Oh, I forgot to ask, what did you do this time?" Cris laughed, if it was anyone else Mrs Branwell would have been on there case so badly. "Basically he sent me out because apparently I was disturbing the class by having Jamie flirt with me, then sent me to you because I was distracting the class by having them stare at me through the door," Cris said cringing at the memory. "I won't mark you down because you technically didn't do anything wrong but please don't try to enrage Mr Adertree, you know he has his favourites" Charlotte said slightly exasperated. "Yes, miss" she said and got up to leave before Charlotte said "Crisiant, please don't do anything dangerous, you're like a daughter to me" Cris smiled at this and hugged Charlotte. "You know you're like a mother to me too" Cris said and Charlotte smiled warmly.
Cris then walked out of the door smiling to herself. Luckily no one was in the corridors as it was still first period. She kept on walking, not exactly slowly but pretty slow, she was a turning and a corridor away from her classroom when something cold hit her shin. She screamed out as she heard bone crack at the impact. She fell forward and she hit the ground hands first, as she had been trained, and she was pulled back up to a standing position by her hair, she let out another scream, not really in pain, although that was something, but so someone could hear her. She felt arms encircle her waist as a voice sneered in to her ear "I wouldn't do that if I were you," This voice sounded very male. She screamed again just to prove a point and he (she was guessing since he sounded male and felt taller than her) kicked her broken leg, she yelped in pain as one arm tightened around her and one arm reached down to his waist.
Crap, no no no he's got a gun she knew this as she had been taught this. She could see people rush in the corridor as he walked backwards, dragging her along with him, he pressed a cold circular object against her temple and she could tell it was a gun. She could now see Hazel and Katniss as they ran to the noise, prepared to fight but they stopped dead in their tracks once they caught sight of them. Hazel went pale and gasped while trying to hold Katniss back who looked like she wanted to run to Cris. "Cris!" Katniss shouted in despair, Hazel then whispered to Katniss who nodded and Hazel let her go. More people started to crowd the corridor in front of them, she could see Jem and Jamie looking angry and cold towards the guy she hadn't seen yet and didn't know who it was.
Katniss shouted again, pleading "Please don't do this, there is no need for this" The guy behind her sighed and whispered in to her ear "Dweud wrthych ffrindiau am gau eu cegau oni bai am eu gwaed ar y coridor," he said in welsh which surprised her but his words forced her to reality. "Don't" she said her voice raspy and they all gasped, lots of classes were in front of them and she saw Charlotte push through, fear and shock plastered on her face. "Don't bother" she said again. "I'm not worth it" Cris said as a tear fell down her face.
He started to walk backwards again, and he says "No one tells them anything," referring to the police. "Because there are worse things than death" a sinister tone showing itself. He backed in to one of the classrooms locked the door, then a sharp pain went through her temple and she blacked out.
Translations:
Welsh:
Dweud wrthych ffrindiau am gau eu cegau oni bai am eu gwaed ar y coridor - Tell you friends to shut up unless they want blood on the corridor.
