The day had finally arrived. The day where Annabelle Fritton could finally leave the hospital which had literally driven her to the brink of insanity the last week. She was so fed up with staring endlessly at the bare white walls and the constant smell of bleach was now a permanent fixture in her nostrils. She was still wrapped up heavily in the bandages and it still hurt when she moved around but it was a much bigger improvement than in the week.
The car ride back to was a long and silent one but neither minded. Kelly knew how apprehensive Annabelle was about going back there after what had happened in those dorms. Annabelle might not have admitted that to her but she just knew that is what made the girl so quiet.
Finally they pulled in through the gates and up ahead Annabelle couldn't help but smile at what was there. Everyone was stood waiting for her with balloons and flowers and god knows what else. Kelly noticed the smile in the corner of her eye and smiled herself. Her girl was home.
Slowly Annabelle stepped out of the car and was instantly mobbed by everyone trying to hug her and give them their gifts and talk to her. Someone had a hold of her around the waist and looking down she could see the twins clinging to her tightly. She winced at the pain that went through her as they squeezed but couldn't help but laugh and ruffled the hair on their heads affectionately.
She didn't know how long it had taken her to get into the school but it was dark by the time she had made it up to her room. Kelly helped to escort her over to the bed as exhaustion took over her. The fuss had worn her out completely and now she half asleep on the bed as her tablets kicked in as well.
"Well" Kelly began. "Someones loved" she chuckled as she pulled off Annabelle's boots. Annabelle just smiled at her in happiness. In the last hour she had truly seen how much that she meant to the girls of the school. She had never considered herself a major part of their lives but obviously they felt otherwise.
"Wasn't expecting that" she winced as Kelly slowly pulled the jacket from over her head trying not to aggravate any of her injuries. "I'm so tired, I just went to sleep" she mumbled sleepily as she fell back gently on the bed her head sinking into her pillow.
Kelly climbed on next to her and slipped an arm around her waist holding her to her chest. She was so happy she was home. That she was back in their room alive and well. "Well you should, you're a massive part of this school now Belle" she said into her shoulder as she rested her head on it.
Annabelle scoffed at her remark. "Get off" she chuckled knowing what Kelly was saying was true but she was way too modest to admit it.
"How does it feel to be back?" Kelly asked softly her breath tickling Annabelle's ear. "Because from my point of view it feels amazing" she chuckled and she could feel the vibration that went through Annabelle's body.
"Yeah" she stuttered trying to compose herself. "It feels good, better than being stuck in that stupid hospital" she chuckled hiding the blush that had crept into her cheeks. No matter how used to their relationship she had become it still gave her shivers everytime Kelly spoke to her or touched her skin.
"That's a good enough answer for me" she smiled into the girls hair. But her face dropped slightly as she remembered just how close she had come to losing her. "I'm just so happy you're still here, I don't what I would have done if I had lost you" she whispered her voice filled with sincerity. She had never felt like this about anyone. Ever. No man or other girl had come so close to her heart.
"You would have coped" Annabelle said back rolling over carefully a slight wince coming to her face in the process. "You're Kelly Jones" she said now facing Kelly who was resting her head on her elbow now.
"I wouldn't have without you here" she said truthfully her eyes wide and filled with love for the girl lying next to her. "I know it sounds sad but" she began taking in a breath. "These days I am nothing without you here, nothing" she said brushing a strand of hair out of the girls face.
Annabelle couldn't stop the tear that welled up in her eyes at Kelly's words. She underestimated that girl. She had a heart bigger than anyone ever thought. And only she had access to it. "Damn who knew you could be so deep?" she chuckled lightly her hand brushing across Kelly's cheek. "Same goes for me though, I really do need you now" she said with a smile and leaned up and kissed her girlfriend.
"Good" Kelly uttered through kisses as it got hell of a lot more passionate.
The days were passing in a flurry as everyone went about their usual routines. Annabelle was slowly getting back to her old self and was moving around a lot easier than she had been though she was still getting wound up at Kelly's constant hovering and monitoring of her.
"Look Kell I'm fine on my own" Annabelle grumbled as she stalked out of the bedroom. Sure it was sweet but now it was starting to really grate on Annabelle's nerves.
"I know but what if you fall over or something?, you can't go aggravating your injuries Belle" she said following her disgruntled girlfriend down the stairs. She only wanted to look after her that was all.
"Kelly I'm not an invalid, sure I'm hurt but I'm basically healed now!" she exclaimed loudly in a temper. She couldn't put up with it anymore, yes she loved having her around but these were for the wrong reasons.
"Can't I worry about you, Belle you've still got a bad head injury and for all you know you could drop dead somewhere and no one would know where you are" Kelly said worriedly catching up with her.
Annabelle spun on her heel and looked at the shorter girl. "Yeah and you're doing my head in so much it's going to be you who makes me drop dead" she spat angrily making Kelly reel in shock.
"Woah" she said her hands up in the air. The shouting had began to draw a slight crowd. "What the hell has gotten into you?" she said wondering why she had suddenly gotten so angry.
"Your constant monitoring that's what" she yelled and now a lot more people were gathering at the bottom of the stairs. "Just leave me alone" she said her teeth gritted tightly together.
"Like hell I am" Kelly growled back angrily moving slightly closer to the girl.
Annabelle's hand tightened at her side. "Kelly just leave my sight and save yourself some trouble" Annabelle said again her voice laced with venom. With that she spun back around and disappeared around the corner and out of sight before Kelly could even find her.
"Where's the smoke?" Chelsea said innocently as she approached a bewildered Kelly.
"Fire Chelsea, where's the fire?" Lucy said from beside them. Chelsea just shrugged not caring that she had just made a fool of herself.
"Are you alright?" she said kindly to Kelly who was still staring at the spot where Annabelle had disappeared to.
"Just fine Chelsea, just fine" she said storming past the posh tottie steam basically spewing from her ears. They all just watched her go in wonder.
"Sheesh" Bianca said her voice booming through the room. "Way she's acting you think someone had gone and nicked her bling" she said carelessly looking at Chelsea who just shrugged her shoulders again.
"I think her feelings are worth a bit more than your cheap gold Bianca" Zoe laughed from the corner and the rude girl instantly whipped around and looked at the emo who was smirking.
"Oh yeah" she said intimidation lacing every pore. "One my gold ain't cheap" she said swaggering forward. "Two all of it is probably worth more than your life ini" she said the rest of the rude girls joining her. "And three" she said but stopped as she realised she didn't have a number three. Act cool, act cool she yelled inwardly as she tried not to show she had just messes up but she failed.
"And three you chavs don't have a clue do you" Zoe and the emo's chuckled but shut up when Bianca threw her hand out towards Jessica.
"Right go get my tongs" she said and hearing these words the emo's ran off into hiding as the rude girls ran after them. War had broken out. Again.
Annabelle threw the crumpled paper in her hand to one side her head and heart racing. She hadn't meant to take it all out on Kelly but she couldn't help it. She felt suffocated. With a sigh she walked over to the corner where the paper was and opened it again reading the words.
You've lived to see another day, Congratulations I wish I could say, But now you're in my head, and I want you dead, so are you ready to play?.
You were just the first of the lot, so now what have the school got, the next one to feel pain, is those that are vain, so I'm telling you to heed every tot.
But the plans could change, I'm telling you now, I won't say when nor will I say how, your friends will die and you shall see, that you cannot try to stop me.
So watch your back, because when I attack, the inner power you will lack, Miss Fritton I would just like to say, you all will die in coming days.
The letter was so cryptic her mind was still whirring and it struck a pang of fear into her heart. She had come across the letter when she had woken up in the early hours of the morning and found it on the window sill outside.
A shiver went down her spine as she realised just who the letter was off. He was going to strike again but this time he was going to get the others as well as herself. Now him coming after her she could handle….. to an extent. But going after the others she didn't think she could.
She could feel the hot tears stinging at her eyes but she blinked them away as she sucked in deep breaths. Why has it gone this far? she whispered inwardly rubbing her face carefully. She was snapped out of her moping by a familiar husky voice. "You alright Belle?" came Roxy's voice as she sat down beside her turning her head to look at the bruised brunette.
Belle just shrugged turning her head away from the blonde. She didn't really want company at the moment, she just wanted the alone time she just hadn't been getting recently. "Yeah I'm okay Rox!" she said keeping the hitch out of her voice.
"You clearly aren't Annabelle so it's pointless lying to me!" Roxy said strongly crossing her arms over her chest. She wasn't going to let the girl get away with bottling everything up. She knew where that got you and it wasn't a pretty place.
"Just leave it Roxy! It's none of your business!" Annabelle snapped back not wanting the intrusion that the short haired girl was posing.
"Well I'm going to make it my business!" Roxy said looking at the girl with eyes wide. She could tell that during the week Annabelle hadn't wanted to be mollycoddled as she had been so Roxy decided to take a different approach.
"For the last time just leave me alone Roxy!" she spat rather angrily as she got to her feet slowly trying not to put too much pressure on her aching body. She lost her footing slightly as she grimaced but was caught by Roxy who took a hold of her arm and helped her to stand to full height.
Once the two were standing to full height Roxy was staring at Annabelle intently and she didn't take her hand off of Annabelle's arm. The feel of the girls milk white skin under her own olive colour sent shivers down Roxy's spine that she wasn't familiar with. "Nope! You didn't want to be babied this week so I'm not babying you!" she said back and Annabelle just pulled her arm from Roxy's grip and the blonde headed girl missed the contact almost instantly. It was at that point she noticed the piece of paper in Belle's hand in a flash she had pulled it from her and flicked over the words.
"Give that back!" Annabelle demanded as she went to snatch it back off Roxy but she merely shrugged her off and read the words her eyes widening as she looked at it.
"Have you told anyone about this Belle? Cause I'm sorry but you can't hide this from them!" Roxy said and Annabelle finally snatched it out of her hand and pushed it deep into her pocket scowling at her friend.
"I don't want to worry them!" Belle said simply as she looked at the slightly shorter girl.
"So you'd rather them get attacked without being remotely prepared and have less of a chance?" Roxy questioned deciding to take the no nonsense approach with her friend who was obviously wallowing in some sort of guilt.
Annabelle hadn't thought of that. She'd been so consumed in her own fears that she completely overlooked the fact that they needed to be ready for whatever he had planned. There was no other answer to it. Annabelle shook her head and finally her gaze met Roxy's. "I hadn't thought of that!" she said honestly her shoulders slumping.
Roxy took a step forward and placed her hand on Annabelle's shoulder squeezing gently. "No one can blame you for that!" she said honestly and Annabelle put her hand on top of Roxy's squeezing back as a silent thanks. "Look we'll take this to Lucy and the others, try and decode a pattern or something, anything and then we'll go from there yeah!" she said and Annabelle nodded and pulled the blonde into a hug.
Roxy held her tightly and inhaled deeply as she pressed her nose into the girls hair. If only she knew how much I care for her Roxy thought inwardly as the two pulled apart and smiled. "Come on then let's get this done!" Annabelle said as the two headed back in doors.
Kelly had been stood to one side and her face was flushed an angry shade of red. She couldn't believe Roxy. If Annabelle couldn't see that she was blatantly hitting on her then she must have been mad. She huffed in anger as her blood boiled as she pictured the look on Roxy's face when the two hugged, the lingering touch which thankfully Annabelle shrugged off almost immediately. She better stay away from my girl or I swear to god she spat inwardly storming off towards where they went.
So another chapter down guys, again if you are enjoying feedback is much appreciated.