My Secrets and Horrors
Chapter 8
Questions and Disappearances
Previously
"Come on lets go see the girls" Musa spoke as she started to walk through the balcony doors
"Actually I just want to be alone for a while, without the girls fussing over me. If that's okay with you?" Layla asked as if waiting for permission.
"Of course Layla I will tell the girls to let ya be, hey keep your head up it will all be okay in the end, wait and see." Musa spoke softly before she left the room leaving Layla stood on the balcony.
"I have no idea how we are going to pull through all of this in one piece" Layla muttered to herself before allowing the tears once more to flow down her face.
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The room was silent, it had been for hours. The nurse had not been in to check on her for while which caused her suspicion to grow and grow, "this is not good!" Flora whispered to herself as her head hung low and she looked at her wrists.
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He stood in the shadows of the forest surrounding the walls of Alfea, staring at Flora led in the hospital bed chained up. He lowered the binoculars and smiled at the situation, "don't worry Flora, we will get you out of there and back home where you belong."
Silently he continued to watch to make sure the coast was clear he watched as the nurse came into check in on Flora and to makes sure she was okay as soon as she left he placed the binoculars away back into his bag and pulled out a crossbow.
As if he had done this a million times before the man got an arrow out of his bag and ties a rope to the end of the arrow, and the other end of the rope securely to the tree. He loaded the crossbow and took aim in through the infirmatory window, taking his time lining up his shoot and not to miss, he only has one chance and he can't afford to blow it.
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The girls was sat in the living room in a awkward silence, which was soon broken by Stella who was getting extremely agitated, she glanced over to Tecna to see her on her minicomputer transfixed by what she was reading. "Tecna have you found anything out on Flora yet?" this question alerted the rest of the girls to look at the pink haired fairy.
"I'm just reading over her record; Ms Faragonda thought it might help. It says here that Flora's family is unknown and was left on the porch of an orphanage at the age of three week with a letter claiming that the family could not support to keep her and that the best option was to give her up, for her to get a better life. The letter contained information such as her name, date of birth and her planet origin." Tecna paused to take a breath and Musa took the opportunity to speak.
"Flora is an orphan why did she never tell us? Hey what about Rose? She said she was her sister." Eyes turned to Tecna waiting for the answer.
"it says here that when Flora was fourteen Rose was left at the orphanage at the age of five, she only trusted Flora they grew close and called each other sisters as they was the closest family they each had." Tecna sighed heavily, "they more we find out about Flora the more she changes"
"We have to find out what she is hiding?" Layla spoke up,
"Well here is something, Flora had a odd social worker, it was a man in her late forties, he used to take her out every Saturday ever since she was ten. The orphanage started to get worried and complained, the social worker won the argument with the council and got legal custody of Flora, she left the orphanage at eleven years but returned each and every day to see the kids and to hang around with Rose. Whenever someone brought up the topic of her social worker she never says a word." Tecna turned her minicomputer off and stared at the girls.
"None of this makes any sense, Flora is not an evil person, she would never steal or kill anyone. So why do they think she has?" Bloom spoke close to exploding with anger.
"Maybe it has something to do with her social worker; did it say who they were Tecna?" Stella spoke as she stood and gently put a hand on Blooms shoulder in an attempt to calm her down.
"no it didn't that information was classified, but I think you are on to something Stella, whatever is going on with Flora I think it has something to do with her social worker. We better inform Ms Faragonda what we have found and hopefully see if we can contact the orphanage where Flora stays." Tecna replied, with a chorus of various agreements the girls stood and head e out of the dorm and towards the headmistress' office where she sat deep in thought of the situation.
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The headmistress sat with her head in her hands thinking about the situation involving her student, she had been through so many problems and found so many answers but this was the first case where she couldn't find anything that could help. She had been over all pieces of information she could get on Flora and still nothing. She even took the liberty of watching some security footage of Flora from the school CCTV to see if she could find anything but that came up blank. She found herself close to giving into defeat, there was only one thing stopping her, Flora.
She was brought out of her thoughts by a series of knocks at the door, "Come on in" her eyes was greeted with the frowns of several girls, "hello girls, what can I help you with? Have you found any information on Flora?"
"Well Ms F, we found the information on Flora's past family, that she was an orphan and left the orphanage with the social worker. Why didn't you tell us, we know you know." Musa spoke as she sat down in front of the headmistress.
Ms Faragonda sighed heavily, "your right girls i should have told you the truth, i think it may be a good place for you to start. I have tried to get more information from the counsil but they refuse. Girls you are Flora's last hope, she needs you."
"We will help her, we swear, where is the orphanage she grew up in?" Stella asked as she pulled Musa back up to her feet.
"Thank you girls, it's called Lonely buds orphanage, Linphea, Greenforest. You will know it when you see it" Ms Faragonda stood to her feet, "now listen girls, I know it seems like she is hiding secrets but she needs you, I wish I could be of more help.
"Its okay Ms Faragonda we will bring her back." Tecna spoke as she typed in the orphanage's address into her mini computer.
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Flora sat in the bed, waiting for something to happen. "Huh I am so bored" the fairy spoke under her breath.
"well let me take that boredom away then" a voice spoke, just as the voice faded away an arrow struck the wall just beside Flora's head, she turned to face the arrow and saw the very familiar coloured tip, black and orange.
"Why hello Zircon, nice of you to visit. What is the occasion?" Flora spoke smoothly as she looked back to the window to see a man dressed in black jeans and a black t-shirt.
"Hello Jade, I have got to get you out of here, what was you thinking letting yourself get caught, I thought you were taught better than that!" Zircon practically shouted in a hushed voice.
Flora sighed and tugged lightly at the handcuffs securing her to the bed "did you think I done it on purpose!" Flora fought back and watched as Zircon jumped into the room and started over to her side.
"From my point of view, yes it did. You have a job to do Jade, what happened to you?" he asked shock and sympathy in his voice.
"I changed, I found my emotions Zir" Flora replied as Zircon got out a little pen and pressed the lid of the pen and a small laser appeared out the other end. Carefully he run the laser over the handcuffs keeping Flora to the bed.
"You better not let The Master hear you say that, or you will be in trouble."
Flora climbed off of the bed and fell down to her hands and knees, luckily her nightgown was knee length and revealed nothing of interest. She grabbed out a carrier bag and shoved it on the bed, then grimaced at the pain in her arm.
"Look at yourself Jade, I will ask the master when we get back, we need to get you some help, get you back to your normal self!" Zircon spoke softly as he gently placed his hand on Flora's waist and helped her to her feet.
Flora sighed deeply as she pulled out her skirt, top and bra out off the bag, Zircon looked at Flora, before she smirked and twirled her finger around. Zircon smiled back and turned around showing his back to her. "But Zir what if I don't want to change back, I have friends, I have..." Zircon noticed Floras pause "I had a boyfriend." She replied as she changed into her clothes.
"Do you think your friends, will still be friends with you when they find out your past, who you are and what you have done. Trust me, it's best if you come back Jade, we are your true friends, people look up to you. You have a future with us, just come home." Zircon finished just as Flora finished getting dressed.
"Maybe your right, you can turn around now" Zircon turned around to see Flora sat on the bed putting her shoes on, "they would forget me when they learn who I am, what I am, but still they are such a big part of my life I don't know if I can just leave them." Flora's voice was beginning to break.
"Jade, listen to me. I am like your brother and you are practically my sister, you have to let them go and be who you are. Come on we better get out of here, The Master would like to talk to you, and then we can get you some support and get you through this situation." Zircon took hold of Flora's wrist and pulled her off the bed, and headed towards the window.
Without a look back, Flora and Zircon jumped down the window and escaped off into the forest, leaving only her folded up hospital clothes and a note saying two words.
I'm sorry
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Well that is chapter 8; well what's up with Flora and what is she hiding. I'm leaving it up to you to decide which of the girls finds Flora missing, Bloom, Stella, Musa, Layla or Tecna. Closes on the 10th Feb, most votes win
See ya next chapter where more tears will fall, and more pieces of the puzzle come together