Here's Chapter 4 (:
Mitchie's POV
"Okay, so, the Plenary, I want you all to turn to the back of your books, and write three facts you have learnt durin…" He was cut off by a loud knock at the door. "Come in!" Miss Greenfield called. The door swung open and everyone turned around to face the person standing there, it was a habit every class in this school had.
"Sorry to disturb your lesson Miss Greenfield, but I need to take Mitchie. She won't be coming back today." Came Alex's voice from the doorway. I heard her voice and knew she'd came for me, so I had already got all my stuff in my bag by the time she'd finished her sentence.
"Right, Mitchie, Make sure you do your homework for Wednesday." Miss Greenfield told me as I got up and walked over to Alex.
"Thank you." She called back to my teacher.
We walked along the corridor and out of the building, to the teacher's car park.
"Here, jump in the front; you can throw your bag in the back." She said, unlocking her car and sliding into the driver's seat. I did as she told me, and she drove out of the car park. "The head gets someone else to cover the last 20 minutes of my lesson, so I have 10 minutes to get to Keeli's school to pick her up." She said, once we'd stopped outside a new-looking building. It was white, and the windows were all bright blue, it looked really nice, and kind of like it had come from the future. There were a few adults in the playground, waiting to pick their kids up. We went and stood by the door and waited for Keeli to come out.
"Momma!" A little girl shouted from the crowd of kids coming out of the door. She looked just like her photograph, except her hair was tied back for school. She ran to Alex, who bent down and put her arms around the girls waist, who wrapped her arms around Alex's neck. "Who's she?" She whispered loudly into her moms ears.
"She's a girl from my school, she's going to come and stay with us for a while." She said.
"Mkay… Is she nasty?" She whispered again, just as loudly, I giggled quietly at how sweet the small child was.
"No, sweetie, and do you know what? I think if you ask her nicely, she might even play hide and seek with you later." She said, looking to me. I nodded and smiled again.
"Ms. Russo?" A woman, obviously a teacher, asked from behind me.
"Oh, hey Miss Starkey, what's up?" Alex asked kindly.
"Nothing really, Keeli said she wasn't feeling to well this morning, you had a poorly tummy didn't you darling?" She asked, looking down to Keeli. Alex had gotten back up to her normal height by now, and ruffled Keeli's hair.
"Aww, babe, well, we'll get you into bed early tonight, and you can have some hot chocolate before bed, okay?" Alex asked Keeli, who, come to think of it, did look very pale. "Why wasn't I called about this?" Alex asked, suddenly changing her voice to the concerned mother type.
"We tried to call, but your mobile went to answer-phone, sorry." She said quietly.
"It's fine, anyway, we'd best go, See you Monday morning." And we walked away, Keeli holding onto Alex's hand, and me carrying Keeli's bag (somehow I ended up with it, I'm not sure when.)
"Momma, where's Mitchie gonna sleep?" Keeli asked Alex from her car seat in the back, after about 5 minutes of silence. Alex stopped the car at the stop light, and then started again when the light changed to green.
"She's gonna sleep in the spare room, why?" She asked.
"What about all my toys?"
"No, that's the toy room, Mitchie's gonna sleep in the spare bedroom, silly." She said with a happy giggle. Keeli joined in with the giggle, and then the car went silent for the rest of the drive. The car stopped outside a big house, on Bartlett Avenue. I'd walked past there when I was going to Erin's, I'd never been there, it was where all the rich people lived. We got out of the car, and I grabbed my bag and Keeli's.
"So, what do you think?" Alex asked once we'd walked into the living room. I didn't know how to describe it in words. It was amazing, it was huge. The walls were white, and the floor was laminate, black.
"I think this is the most amazing house I've ever seen!" I told her honestly, then blushed at my outburst. She giggled, and walked over to Keeli, who was sitting on the couch with the TV remote in her hand.
"Keeli, just because Mitchie's here doesn't mean things are gonna change, you know the rule is homework before TV." She said, rummaging through Keeli's bag and pulling out the slightly-battered folder, and getting out two sheets of paper, which looked like they had sums on, and a little reading book, which was one of them little kids ones which only have like 10 pages in.
"But momma, it's a new epi'ode of Zack'an'ody" She said, I guessed that she meant Zack and Cody. Alex took the remote, and pressed a button on it.
"There, it's recording, so you can watch it when your done, go upstairs and do your maths homework, then you can come down and read to me, I need to talk to Mitchie, if you get stuck you can use your calculator." She said. I was right that it was maths homework, but my happiness at my right answer was short lived when she said she needed to talk to me. I knew what we'd be talking about and I wasn't looking forward to it. I hadn't realised that Keeli had already gone upstairs whilst I'd been thinking.
"Mitchie, you can sit down you know, just treat this like your house." She said, sitting on the couch with her feet on the coffee table.
"Erm… okay, thanks." I said, sitting down awkwardly and facing the TV, which was off.
"Mitchie, I need to ask you some stuff, okay, it's important that I do." She told me, I nodded, knowing that I wasn't gonna get out of it. "How long has your father been making you sleep with him for?" She asked.
"Not too long, the first time was last weekend." I told her, she nodded, and carried on.
"Does he hit you as well? Does your mom do anything?" She asked, and I nodded this time.
"Yeah, they both hit me."
"And that only started last week as well, right?" She asked. I shook my head.
"They've been doing it for around 6 months. We used to be really close."
"Why? They must have some kind of reason for suddenly starting to hit you and… stuff." She said.
"Yeah, they had a reason, I wouldn't class it a good reason, but they seem to think so." I said, hoping she wouldn't want to know what, but of course, I'm not that lucky, I should know that by now.
"What was the reason? I know you might not wanna tell me, but I need to know, and I promise I'm not gonna judge you." She said. She seemed genuine, so I swallowed hard, and opened my mouth to tell her, but no words came out. I tried again, and this time the words came out, but they came out as a whisper.
"They found out that I'm a lesbian."
"Oh, okay. How did they find out?"
"They found me and Chloe in my bedroom, mid lip-lock. As you can imagine, it's not the best position for my homophobic parents to find me in." I told her, she smiled at me sympathetically, and I offered a forced one back.
"You mean Chloe as in…" She trailed off.
"Yeah, Chloe as in bitch of the century, as in the Chloe that made everyone hate me after my parents threw her out that day, of course, they don't know why we suddenly went from 'best friends' to hating each other." I told her, using air quotations around 'best friends', She nodded,
"Oh, Mitchie, I'm so sorry, no-one deserves all the shit you get, especially someone your age." She said, as she leant across the couch and rested her hand on top of mine. Her touch sent tingles up my arm and down my back.
"'S okay, not like it's your fault or anything." I said, not wanting her to feel bad for what my parents did.
"Mitchie, you know you're gonna have to tell all this to the police on Monday, right?" She asked. I nodded.
"What's gonna happen?" I asked quietly, sinking down into the couch.
"On Monday morning we'll take Keeli to school, then instead of going to school ourselves, I'll come down to the police station with you, and we'll talk to them. Then you can stay with me for as long as you need to, okay?" She asked. I nodded, then yawned. I didn't realise how tired I was.
"Alex, I'm kinda tired, can I go to sleep somewhere?" I asked, remembering that Alex hadn't actually told me where to sleep yet.
"It's 6.00, are you sure you wanna go to sleep?" She asked, and I nodded. "Okay, well, do you wanna sleep for a few hours, then I can order Chinese food, 'cause it's Friday, we always have Chinese late on a Friday." She said. I nodded. "Okay, well, Ill show you where your room is, and then I'll get you some of my Pyjama's." She said, getting up from the couch. I grabbed my school bag and followed Alex up the stairs and into an empty room with a large bed, TV, built in wardrobe, and pictures on the walls. It was white with one red wall. The blankets were white with red pillows, and the pictures on the walls were of roses.
"You can sleep in here, just stick your stuff in the wardrobe, and I'll buy you some new clothes tomorrow. I'll go and get you some spare pyjama's." She said, turning around to exit the room. I put my school bag in the wardrobe and sat down on the bed, I immediately noticed that it was so much more comfy than any bed I'd ever been on before. I kicked my shoes off, and the landed by the door.
"Yeah?" I called, when someone knocked the door. Alex walked in with a black T-shirt and a pair of white shorts.
"Here you go… erm… awkward question… do you happen to have any spare underwear that you can wear? Or do you need to borrow some?" She added quickly, I blushed when I realised I would need to borrow some of Alex's, I needed to borrow some of my fucking teachers underwear. Great.
"I, uh, kinda, sorta need to borrow some." I said, scratching the back of my neck. She chuckled quietly, and left the room again, returning a couple of minutes later.
"I, uhm, only have these, all my underwear's like this." She said, holding up a pair of red and black laced thongs. I blushed even darker than before and took then from her.
"Okay, erm, thanks, I'm gonna go to sleep for a bit now, you can just wake me up whenever you wanna order the food." I said, quickly changing the subject, she nodded and left the room.
"Sleep tight, Mitchie." She called from outside the door. I quickly pulled my t-shirt and jeans off, and my underwear, then changed into the extremely uncomfortable thongs Alex had given me. Then I pulled the t-shirt and shorts on, I had to tie the string on the shorts because they were a little too big for me.
I climbed into the bed, and fell straight asleep.
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