4 Weeks Later
Diary Entry
Have you ever had a bad day? The kind that starts off with something daft like sleeping in then evolves into something worse. Well I had this but it was more like a bad day which then turned into a bad two days which in turn turned into a bad week. If only she'd stayed in bed last Wednesday then she'd still be happy, she sooooo wished she'd stayed in bed but she hadn't. Well, here's what happened.
Alice woke up and looked at her clock. It was 9:00. SHIT! She dived out of bed and saw she had 3 missed calls off Danny. She rang him. He picked up.
"Alice where are you?"
"Really sorry Danny Hun I'm running late I should be there in time for second period! I'll see you at school. Love ya." she said and disconnected as she heard the bell ring. She then turned the shower on and screamed. Fucking hell that had been cold. She tested it with her hand after 5 minutes.
"Oh great the shower is broke." she towelled her hair off and then noticed that her uniform was creased.
"This is fucking ridiculous!" she muttered and pulled a pair of shorts on and a t-shirt to go and get the iron. There goes another 15 minutes! Well she walked along to school. She was going to walk right into the middle of Mr Simmons lesson. Now that was going to be fun. This day really couldn't get any worse!
She knocked on the door and walked into the room. She saw that Danny had saved her a seat next to him. She looked at him and smiled.
"Sorry I'm late sir." she said and went to take her seat.
"I see your making a habit of coming late to my lessons." Mr Simmons said.
"Well I wouldn't call it a habit. It's only the second time. Plus I save the honour of being late especially for you coz ya special" she answered and grinned her special grin hoping to charm him into letting her off. Fat chance!
"I don't find this funny Alice." he replied.
"Do you see me laughing?" she retorted. And walked next to Danny.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"To sit down. I'm done disturbing your lesson!" she said.
"I want you to sit up here. Since you find it so amusing to disturb my lesson, that is." Mrs Simmons had pointed to one end of his desk.
"No." she said simply. "I don't see the need in you doing that."
"I'm doing it to teach you not to be late to my lessons." he told her.
"Yeah and it's completely pointless. I've been late 2 times and the first wasn't even my fault. So if you think I'm sitting up there you've got another thing coming!"
Danny was shaking his head but Alice ignored him. She'd decided that she wasn't backing down. She didn't realise that this was one fight she could never win.
"Am I going to have to inform your head of house of your refusal to follow a simple instruction?" he asked.
Alice sat down next to Danny.
"Your gonna tell her anyway so what have I got to lose? Can you please finish this lesson then. I'm so eager to see how this ends!" she said with false enthusiasm.
"Alice what are you doing?" Danny hissed.
"Making my bad day even worse!" she replied.
"Alice we're too close to exams I'm not going to let you ruin everyone's else's chances of a decent mark so I'm telling you her OUT of my classroom." he said clearly annoyed.
"I'm not stopping everyone getting a decent mark. I'm sat down waiting for the lesson to start. You're the one whose not teaching anyone!"
"That's it I'd had enough!" he said and grabbed her arm to remove her.
She pushed him away from her. "Your not allowed to put your hands on me!" she said angrily.
Mr Simmons stood in shock for a moment then stormed from the classroom. He re-entered followed by Mrs Gibson.
"Follow me now!" she said.
Alice crossed her arms showing she was staying put. Danny shook her head and said. "Alice just go." she decided to listen to Danny and followed Mrs Gibson into the office.
"You are in massive trouble young lady."
She picked up the telephone and spoke in low tones. 15 minutes later Mrs Craig walked into the room. Alice was sat in the office alone with Mrs Gibson as Mr Simmons had went back to his classroom.
"What's all this about?" Alice asked. "So I was defiant?"
"You assaulted a teacher Alice!" Mrs Craig said angrily.
"I did no such thing!" Alice retorted indignant.
The bell rang. "Yes Alice you did!" Mr Simmons said as he walked back into the office.
"No I pushed you away because you grabbed my arm!" she said.
"Your not allowed to put your hands on a teacher Alice!" Mrs Craig told her.
"And he's not allowed to put his hands on me either!" Alice replied heatedly.
"I placed my hand on her arm to escort her from the classroom." Mrs Simmons said.
"No you grabbed my arm and tried to drag me from the classroom." Alice said looking at him. "BIG DIFFERENCE!"
"I wrote out a serious incident form!" he said.
"Well I wanna make a complaint!" Alice said yelling. "I've got a classroom full of witnesses and the camera to prove that he grabbed me and I pushed him away from me.
"I don't think your in any position to start making demands." Mrs Gibson told her.
"Bite me!" she said.
"ALICE! From now on you are refused entry to any of your science lessons. You can attend your other lessons while we investigate this."
"Well can I leave then?" Alice asked.
"No actually you can stay and apologise to Mr Simmons."
"I don't think so!" Alice told them. "He should apologise to me coz he put his hands on me first!" Alice said angrily.
"Alice will you just be quiet please."
"Ok then I can't apologise then can I?" she said and wiggled her eyebrows cockily.
Mrs Craig exhaled audibly. The bell rang for next lesson.
"Bye Bye." Alice said and waved at them smugly. She walked away to attend her next lesson.
While Alice was walking up to the PE block she was lost in thought. Her day had been unbelievably shit. You just wouldn't believe it. At least now she had PE, she knew she wouldn't mess up in football. Nothing like some physical exercise to make you forget your troubles. She arrived at the PE block and dressed quickly. She ran out on the field to join her team. Someone tossed her a yellow marker. She was on the same team every time she played and played upfront. She took her place on the pitch and the whistle blew.
25 minutes later. Alice was hot. Both teams were drawn. She and Danny had both scored one each. They were on opposing sides and he was jealous that she's scored first. Danny had the ball.
"C'mon get the ball off him!" she shouted down the pitch! She loved Danny but she also very competitive and didn't like to lose.
Tom tackled Danny and took the ball. He passed the ball to Sean who then proceeded to one-two the ball between them. They were moving swiftly up the field. She was moving slowly closer to the goal. Josh was marking her. She saw Tom running down the wing. So she started jogging. She already knew how she was gonna get away from him. She made sure she was onside and pointed to a patch of grass in front of her behind Josh's back. Tom crossed the ball into the space where she pointed and she ran a circle around Josh which completely confused him. Then sprinted away and collected the ball. She was running one on one with the goalie. He looked nervous she never missed. She grinned and looked at where she was gonna shoot. She placed her foot on the ground, planted securely. Then wound her right leg back. All of a sudden she felt her left leg get taken out. She heard a snap and then she went down on the floor. "Oh God Oh God Oh God My leg!" she groaned. Fucking hell it was on fire - her bone there wasn't a word for the pain she was feeling. Danny walked over and peered down at her. When he'd seen her leg he looked pale.
"Oh God Alice your leg!" he exclaimed.
She finally popped her head up just expecting to see a massive bruise or maybe even a cut. She felt sick when she did see her leg. Her foot was lying at a awkward angle and she saw oh my god was that? She covered her mouth with her hand. Her shin bone she could see it. Her shin bone was completely snapped and was protruding through her leg. Alice started taking small shallow breaths before she hyperventilated. She lay her head back on the grass. God the pain was immense.
"You ok?" he asked.
She nodded quickly. "Doesn't even hurt!" she lied.
Danny noticed Josh and ran over to him. He reached him and grabbed his jumper by the neck. "You bastard Josh! You went in studs showing! Do you realise what you've done to her?" Danny asked. He raised his fist but Mr Faircloth ran over and separated them. He then looked and saw Alice's leg. She was lain on the grass with her face in her hands. Danny walked back over and sat next to her holding her hand.
"Mr Garragan phone a ambulance please." Mr Faircloth said.
Mrs Craig saw the commotion on the football pitch and walked up to see what was going on. She saw Alice with one hand covering her face. She was on the grass one of her knees was bent and the other was lain on the floor. There was blood slowly tricking from a cut and was that. She saw that Alice was breathing slowly. Danny was sat next to her and they were talking softly. She walked over to Mr Faircloth. "What's going on?" she asked.
"Well Alice was one on one with the goalie. Just about to send yellow house to the top of the goals scored competition. She wouldn't of missed, it's scary coz she never does! Josh slid her - badly. It was a high footed challenge. He didn't take out her foot, he took her leg. The thing was the leg he took out was holding all her weight so when he took her out her weight went down and the bone had no where to go but out!"
Mrs Craig winced. "How is she?"
"She says she's not but she's in a lot of pain. The ambulance is on it's way. We let Daniel stay with her because she said that she was gonna crawl after him."
She nodded and walked towards the teenagers on the grass. She heard them talking.
"Tell me the truth is my leg really bad. I saw it for a second before but I'm, scared to look!" Alice told him.
"Well it's still attached!" he said and tried to smile. It didn't work.
"What happened I think I blacked out for a second."
"Josh took your leg out from behind." was all he would say.
"It doesn't look really bad, I've seen worse." he said trying to make her feel better.
"You're a terrible liar Danny!" and squeezed his hand as another wave of pain hit her. She saw Mrs Craig walking towards them.
She looked at her and said. "Always in trouble eh? Bet as soon as you saw the crowd you knew it was me!" she said and smiled a small smile.
"It'll be best if you focus on blocking out the pain." Mrs Craig said.
"God it's not like I'm dying! So I've got a sore leg!" she moved without thinking and groaned.
The ambulance had arrived, it had parked as close as it could. The paramedics were wheeling a stretcher up.
"Ooooo, is this where I get the happy gas?" Alice asked delirious from pain.
Daniel go up to the sports hall, Alice will be fine." Mrs Craig said.
"Ba Bye Danny." Alice said. Alice was lifted onto the stretcher and they gave her a injection of morphine.
"She has no known allergies. She's new here so her records are still fresh in my mind."
The morphine kicked in immediately. Alice relaxed back on the stretcher and dozed. She had suddenly felt incredibly sleepy. She was certain at times her mother was sat beside her.
"Mum?" she asked groggily.
The vision didn't answer. She just squeezed her hand. Alice's eyes fluttered closed again. She didn't awake till later.
(X)
Alice was sat awake in hospital alone. She was plotting her escape. She hated hospitals. Ever since they couldn't help her mum. She didn't blame them, they did everything they could. But still! Her foot was elevated above the bed. She had been operated on and she'd been awake for a while. They said she could go home if someone came and picked her up. The break wasn't as bad as they first thought. She still had a pin in her leg and a cast. Stuck on crutches for a least 6 weeks, now that was going to be fun!
The door opened and Danny and his mum walked in.
"O there is a God, please save me Danny. I'm begging you!" she pleaded.
Danny grinned. "Now that is the most enthusiastic welcome I have ever had. Have you really missed me that much?"
"No I'm so bored! I'll love you forever if you save me!" she told him.
He looked at his mum and grinned. "Whaddya think mum? Shall we leave her to suffer?"
"Aw Danny we'll take pity on the poor girl!"
Alice sighed in relief.
She gave Danny a dirty look, "At least somebody loves me!" she then added. "What happened Danny?" all she remembered was being one on one with the goalie and thinking YES I'm going to win! Then her leg gave out beneath her. Then searing throbbing excruciating pain.
"Well you were one on one with the goalkeeper and it was blatant you were going to score. Even the goalie knew it, his face was mad. Josh was the last defender and he slid you. He went in studs showing. He didn't take out your foot he took your leg and you sort of half fell onto it. All your weight was on your bone." he said in way of explanation. "So I take it your allowed to go home."
"yeah, they told me that the break wasn't as bad as they thought. I've still got to take antibiotics because of the fact I was lying on grass. Did I mention I hate taking tablets!"
Danny smiled. "Aw poor baby." he said and kissed her head.
She scowled and said "Goo Goo Gaa Gaa!"
The doctor walked in.
"Ah I see some family has arrived to collect you."
"Er yes this is my," she paused for a second. "My aunt and cousin." she said grinning.
Danny looked at her and arched a brow.
"Ok Mrs?"
"Trevanion." she said.
"Ok Mrs Trevanion I need you to sign some forms then Alice go home."
She signed the forms and told them that the nurse will be in soon with some crutches. The doctor left the room.
"So I'm your cousin." Danny asked.
"Aw Danny I had to I wasn't staying here. I've been alone all day. It's like 7oclock and you're the first person I've seen!"
Amanda tossed a bag to Danny.
"Oh yeah, we brought you some clothes."
"Aw thanks. I'll give you the money for them.
Amanda shook her head. "They're nowt special. Don't worry about it."
The nurse entered the room Alice looked at the nurse and then the stirrup in a silent plea. The nurse helped her remove her foot from the stirrup and sat her up.
"It's ok I can do fine by myself from here." she said the carrier bag holding her clothes dangled from her wrist and she hobbled into the bathroom. She sat on the toilet as she pulled the baggy shorts over her cast she was grateful they had brought them. She pulled her other trainer on. For whatever reason her foot was in cast too so she had this waterproof sandal thing to wear. Apparently they didn't want her moving her foot too much or putting to much weight on it in case the bone didn't heal properly. She walked back into the room with her crutches. They left the room and bought her some painkillers.
"C'mon we'll get you home." Amanda said.
They jumped into a taxi and dropped Alice off at home.
"Cam I spend an hour with Alice before come home?" Danny asked.
"Danny it's a school night."
"Please 45 minutes then?" he asked.
She relented. "Ok then."
"Thanks mum." he said and jumped from the taxi.
Danny escorted Alice to the house and opened the door for her. Josh was sat at the table with Sarah. She pushed something under her magazine when she saw Danny and Alice. Josh got up and walked over to Alice.
"I'm so sorry Alice I sort of went to tackle you then realised what I was doing, I knew I would hurt you if I took you out from behind. So I bottled the tackle if I hadn't of pulled out I would have hurt you but I wouldn't have broke your leg!"
Alice shrugged. "Don't worry about it. The pink will go lovely with my tan in the summer."
Sarah rolled her eyes and snorted at the kitchen table. Why were boys putty in Alice's hands. God you'd think she was a super model or something!
"C'mon Danny - I wanna torture you with some Colbie Caillat." she said laughing.
"Nooooooo!" he said dramatically and followed her. They reached the stairs. She looked at them then him.
"You wanna hand?" he asked.
"I can do it!" she said. "But save me if I fall yeah!" she giggled.
She manoeuvred the crutches up the stairs with great difficulty. She was panting by the time she reached the top. They were both laughing.
"Well that was the most fun I've had in a while." she said.
They walked into her room and out her CD player on.
"I truly think this song was wrote for us."
"Pass the sick bucket!" he said and then grinned at her.
"You gonna autograph my cast?" she asked.
"Of course!" he then walked and got some highlighters and markers from her drawer.
He drew a big heart and coloured it in red. Inside he wrote Danny 4 Alice 4eva n always. Each letter had a different colour. He looked at his artwork approvingly. "There!" he said and nodded.
Alice suddenly realised something. "Have I ever showed you a picture of my mother?" she asked.
"No." Danny replied.
She plunged her hand under her pillow and felt around for a bit. She frowned.
"That's weird." she said. " I most have moved it when I changed my bedding the other day."
Instead of showing Danny her favourite picture as she intended she pulled out the album Mrs Carr had given her and flicked through it.
"There!" she said and pointed. It was a older picture. Her mother was stood at a barbeque with Mr and Mrs Carr. She was pointing and laughing at something out of the camera's frame. She then turned it over and he saw a young girl screaming her head off. He then saw a blue eyed angel with a worm chasing her. The blue eyed girl was laughing and had a mischievous glint in her eye.
"Let me guess, that." he pointed the worm carrying child. "is you."
She grinned. "How can you tell?" she said laughing.
She turned the picture back to her mother. "Mrs Carr told me, that's her." she said pointing. "that Shauna and I had been making mud pies in our bathers. I of course found a worm, I showed it to Shauna who of course in typical girl fashion screamed her head off and acted like the world was coming to an end. I got up and started chasing her, she looked back at me when she was running and when she looked forward again she ran into the side of the pool." Alice giggled. "She did a back flip into the pool. It's actually a good thing her uncle was in the pool to catch her. I remember that day actually. It was good." she said quietly.
"You look like your mum." he said.
She nodded. "yeah, Mrs Carr told me. They'd been friends since they were kids." she then showed him the picture of her and Shauna and her mother and Mrs Carr.
"Wow! I must tell you this though. Even though your mother was pretty at 16 she can't hold a candle to you. Your stunning. Absolutely breath taking!"
Alice smiled at him. "Get over here for a kiss!" she told him.
"If you say so!" he said and pounced on her.
Meanwhile Downstairs.
I don't like this Sarah! I knew I should never have took you in there!" Josh said.
"Just shut up yeah!" Sarah said and looked at the picture.
Alice was also on crutches now - even better! Josh went to grab the picture but she pulled it from his grasp.
"Sarah - if you do this she'll kill you. I'm not joking she will!" Josh hissed.
"Look all I need from you is to take her crutches off her!"
"No Sarah I'm not having anything else to do with this!" he said.
"Fine Josh - your dumped!" she said and walked out of the house. He'd served his purpose anyway. She knew the person she wanted and it wasn't Josh. As she was walking along she looked at the picture of Alice's mum. Tomorrow is gonna be good! She picked up her phone and phoned the twins Ashley and Tammy.
"Hey Ash I need your help!" she said.
A/N ok this is actually half of a chapter but i don't know if i would have had it finished tonight and i've got revision for eng lit to do so i thought i'd get this bit up. sarahs a bitch isn't she! lol
i am going to try and write the end of face of deception i'm just struggling abit with it! the end will come just dunno wen :/ thanks 4 sticking with it anyway. :) please review thanx x
