Young Battles

Chapter 4

Rose Point of View

I felt nails dig into my collarbone. Dirt and gravel dug into my sides and stomach, hot sticky liquid ran down my legs. Rough hair rubbed my back side as a foreign voice grunted above me, the face to the voice unseen, unknown.

I screamed, my voice shrill and hair rising. I sat up straight and pushed my fists into my eye sockets. My chest heaved with more screams. The door to my new room opened with a loud bang. I felt hands grip my shoulders, my screams building. Tears flowing down my cheeks like a flooded river. I heard a women's voice and the hands released me. I swallowed air hard, and choked down my screams. I gasped hard and fell over to my side, the night nurse knelt beside my bedside.

"How often do you have night terrors?"

"I have nightmares every night." I whispered softly, then sniffled.

"I'll give you a sleeping pill tomorrow that will block your nightmares. I can't give you one tonight because the evening will be over quite soon."

I nodded and rolled over, I grabbed my koala and waited for breakfast.

Bella Point of View

The next morning everyone came out of there rooms and sat in the lobby room for roll call. After that we could either eat breakfast, which was cereal, or take showers. I wanted a shower before I ate so I went toward the showers with Alice, Emmett, Josh, and Rose. There were separate showers for males, and females. Alice didn't have any other clothes with her so the nurse brought her some to change into after she was done.

There was already shampoo and soaps in the showers, so the nurses only handed us towels, washrags, and some of us, clothes. I undressed quickly and put my dirty clothes in the basket set out for us.

Alice was really tiny, her rips were seen easily, it was a wonder that no one noticed her disorder quicker. Rose was strikingly beautiful, I had never in my live ever seen a women that I would look at there body, and I couldn't seem to take my eyes off of her. All three of us were pale, Alice being the palest, Rose the darkest.

The hot water felt good as it rolled down my back and chest. I quickly shampooed my hair and passed it to Rose, I was careful not to brush her finger tips. Alice had soaped up first and handed me the bar. We passed the bottle of shampoo around and bar of soap once more before we turned our taps and grabbed out towels.

After we wrapped our towels around ourselves, we started walking across the showering room. Alice slid in a small puddle of soapy water and fell backwards. I reached out quickly trying to catch her. I didn't catch her but ended up going down with her, somehow making Rose fall also.

I felt my cheeks warm up, then small little Alice let out a small giggle. Her tiny giggle turned into laughter as Rose started in too. The three of us helped each other stand up while laughing and walked to where we had sat out clothes down.

I pulled a pale purple shirt over my head, pulled on a pair of red sweat pants, then I pulled on fluffy black socks that had purple zebra strips. I tossed my used towel and wash cloth in the basket with our discarded clothes and walked back out into the hall we had came from. I was walking down the hall quickly, my stomach now feeling hallow. I was looking at the ground, and wasn't that surprised when I ran into someones chest. I was falling backwards when hands grasped my upper arms.

The hands were strong, the feeling clear in the grip, but also gentle, not hurting one bit. I looked up and my eyes met the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen in a person. I inhaled deeply as Jasper lifted me up and sat me back on my feet.

"I didn't see you-" He started.

"Sorry, I was looking-" I started. We paused. "I-I was looking at the g-ground." I stuttered out quickly, and nervously.

"I was too." He smiled. "Why would you look at the ground, something so beautiful shouldn't be hidden." He whispered softly.

I blushed, and smiled, "I'm Bella, um, it's nice to officially met you." I said off the top of me head, instantly thinking it was something really stupid to say.

He chuckled, "Glad to met you too. I'll see you later, I must go wash!" He said excitedly, then looked at me. He smirked in a jokingly matter, and walked off. I stood there dumb founded. Was he flirting with me? Or was he not all there in the head, in a different sense that we all already are?

I let these thought turn over in my head as I walked the rest of the way to our small cafe, I selected Lucky Charms as my morning meal and sat down at an empty table. It wasn't very long before Rose and Alice came down too. Rose walked over to the table I was at, "Can I sit with you?" She asked quietly.

"Of course, you didn't have to ask." I said quickly, letting her know she was welcome. She smiled and sat her bowl down before sitting. I looked up to find Alice and saw that she was standing on the edge of the room twirling her spoon around in her bowl. "I'll be right back." I said quickly and stood up. I walked over to her quickly because I was nervous. I tapped her on her left shoulder softly, then grasped them in front of me. "Will you sit with Rose, and I?"

She looked shocked that someone had asked her to sit with them and nodded. We walked over to the table, sat down, and began eating in silence.

"Alice I really like your hair style." Rose said as she dipped her spoon in her bowl.

Alice looked at Rose and smiled, "Thank you, I cut it myself. I didn't really know if anyone liked it, I don't talk to many people."

"People make me nervous." I said quietly.

"There are people out there that are bad, but there's good people too." A voice behind us said. Jasper along side Emmett who had interjected sat down with us.

"I agree with that statement." Rose said to Emmett, then turned toward Alice once more. "I looks really great on you, makes your attention go to your eyes, which are bright and refreshing. Even more so after having shitty thoughts for the past some odd months."

"I just want to feel better." Emmett said, "There's no use in having a gift from the Lord if your going to throw it away. We're here for a reason, we lived for a reason. We were meant to have happy lives, that's why we have a second chance. Now I'm not a cat, but I'm a Christian, and God apparently gave me two lives. I messed up the first one, now we start anew.

I raised my juice box up in salute to his words, as Edward sat down. "To new beginnings?"

Everyone around the table raised there juice boxes, "To new beginnings."

We had formed a friendship.

Alice Point of View

After we ate our food, I ate half a small bowl of cereal I felt successful, we sat in the lobby room waiting for the others to be done with showers and breakfast then we would be going to the gym. The six of us played apples to apples together, I ended up winning. I was glad that I had made friends, and that it had happened to quickly. I knew that our friendships would help us get through this whole experience, we didn't know how long we'd be here. We didn't know what was going to happen while we were here either. But with each other by our sides, it would make our choices easier, and we would always have someone to fall back on.

I felt like this was my first real family. Like Emmett had said this was our second chance and we wouldn't get anymore. I had to live.

I would get better.

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