As an even longer cliffhanger, I've put a chapter up based about 10 months before graduation about when Emma left. Quite an amusing chapter with what Rikki does! :)
Thanks for the song ideas! I've written them down to download! :) Also, thanks for the good guesses over who it is!
Enjoy! CheddarFetta
PS - I uploaded the 'actual' chapter of 'My Entire Fault, 'cause chap 5 was accidently something from 'Taken Away'! Sorry!
Chapter 10 – Locked Inside my Heart (By Rebecca Lavelle)
Emma's POV
10 MONTHS AGO …
I wiped a wet tear off my pale cheek after a 'family meeting', in which it was revealed my parents had made the major decision of travelling the world together as a family, without mine or my younger brother Elliot's input and view.
Elliot was excited about the idea of travelling and having adventures with the family, but I on the other hand was the opposite. Sure it would be fun to travel and see things and experience other cultures and countries but that would mean I would have to leave the things I love, the places I love, and worst of all the people I love.
Although it was a 5:30 on a Wednesday afternoon, I plodded upstairs to my room and lied down on my double bed, curled up in a ball and fell asleep; with all my emotions bottled up inside of me.
One day you think, it all comes right
One day, believe fate will be kind
But if you wait one day too long
You'll lose what matters most,
it will be gone
The next day I slept through my alarm so mum had to wake me up and take me to school because there wasn't enough time to walk with Cleo, Rikki & Lewis, who arrived at school together 5 minutes after mum dropped me off.
They walked up to me all smiling, and greeted me with "Hey Em, How come you didn't walk today?" I pushed out a fake smile, knowing if I didn't the questions would come, before I part-lied saying to them "I forgot to put my alarm on last night so I was running late this morning". Satisfied with my answer we all began walking together to our first class.
As we reached the Science building we saw Zane, his friends and a few others waiting out the front of our classroom. When he saw us, he ended his conversation with Nate quickly and came walking over to us.
"Good Morning" he said to us all while he walked with us to the classroom, standing next to Rikki.
Rikki glared at him and said "There is nothing good about morning Zane" before the rest of us "Good Morning-ed" him back.
The others -except me- began small talk waiting for the bell to go while I stood there thinking about the night before, and the awful words that came out of my smiling parents' mouths.
My 'pleasant' thoughts were interrupted by Cleo saying "Em? Em? The bells gone, let's go" then I realized I was so caught up in my thoughts that I had missed the school bell.
I snapped back to reality and said "Oh right, sorry. Let's go!" as I started walking off, a few steps ahead of the others.
When they caught up Lewis said "Em, you alright?" As we walked through the classroom doors I brushed it off by saying "Yeah, fine! I was just daydreaming" then forcing another smile.
Oh, some are brave, but I'm not one of them
Oh, some speak up, but I have no voice
I'm locked away…inside my heart
We all took our seats on the tables with the 5 of us sharing one of the 6 people table clusters.
I got my books out of my bag first -as always- before Lewis and Cleo did and then finally followed by Zane.
As our science teacher walked in and got ready for teaching the class, Zane tried to prompt Rikki to get her books out to save the usual morning cycle but she refused, which was followed by the daily routine.
"Rikki, where are your books?"
"I don't need them. I have a perfectly good memory and I intend to use it."
"We're doing written work."
"I pinky promise I'll do it when I get home, and you can't break a pinky promise!"
"Do you actually have your books here?"
Every day Rikki and then she makes some sort of excuse up about why she hasn't got her book, generally she uses her mythical, brother, sister or pets as an excuse. Today she used her 'brother' Pablo. She has 3 other 'brothers'. I think they're Dave, Marco & Mashibalech
"My brother Pablo has laryngitis and I left my books in the hospital when I visited him." Zane tried to muffle his sniggering & laughing.
"Make sure it doesn't happen again"
"I promise!" Rikki said finishing the daily fight.
Our topic right now is heat energy and Rikki was sitting there telling us about her version of heat energy while the rest of us are all doing our work.
"All you have to do is ball your hand into a fist and think about hot stuff… now if only I could write that!" she says, while I am starting the third question.
I suppose Rikki's rundown on her version of heat energy is better than her usual comment of "It just happens or because it just does".
For example a few weeks ago in our test on colours, light, reflection & refraction, her answer for the question 'Why is water blue?' was "Um, because it is… Maybe water has a thing for the colour blue… Well some types of water anyway, because other water is green… I suppose that type of water must have a thing for the colour green… I mean don't you think water should decide for itself what colour it is… I personally prefer blue water over green though. There's something suspicious about green water…" Surprisingly Rikki failed that test.
The rest of the lesson sped by and before I knew it, it was time for home group. Cleo, Lewis, Zane and I packed up our stuff, putting it in our bags while Rikki just stood up from her seat, waiting impatiently for us to hurry up.
For the rest of the day I struggled with wearing my mask and pretending I was happy and that life was good.
I knew that I should tell someone, but who would I tell?
I can't tell Cleo, Rikki & Ash because their reactions would make me feel worse. I can't talk to my parents about it because they are actually excited about travelling. Then there's Zane, but why on earth would I tell him?
I knew that keeping the sadness bottled up wasn't a good idea, but who could I tell?
Oh, some are brave, but I'm not one of them
Oh, some speak up, but I have no voice
I want to dance, I want to sing for you
But I'm locked away…inside my heart
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Thanks, CheddarFetta