My Secrets and Horrors

Chapter 11

Oh brother

Previously

"Flora, I see you as my sister, if or when your friends come for you they will understand when they hear the truth. We will get through this together all of us, but for now we will get through your training together."

"Jack I don't know what to do, I done what is forbidden. I fell in love; it hurt so much when I saw the look in his eyes when I broke up with him. I..." Flora started to cry heavier.

"I know Flora; he will understand I know he will. You had to break up with him or his safely you had no choice. Come on keep your head high and we will all walk out of here free." Jack pulled the crying Flora into his embrace stroking her hair as she cried into his chest, in pain and fear.

"It will be okay Flora, trust me, everything will turn out okay"

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The water ran down her back as Flora stood underneath the shower, hoping the water would wake her up and relax her muscles, knowing she had a long hard day ahead of her. She closed her eyes and slowly but surely an image started to appear in her mind, starting off as just a gray mass quickly grew into a boy she knew too well, Helia. In shock, she opened her eyes and slapped herself semi hard on the cheek. "Snap out of it Flora, he's gone. He will never take you back" A knock at the door brought Flora back to her senses. "Who is it?" Flora shouted hoping that they could hear her from the bathroom.

"It's me Riller," a voice shouted back

"Come on in, I'm in the shower at the minute. I will be out shortly," Flora shouted back.

"Okay that's fine; I will just raid your fridge."

Flora laughed lightly knowing exactly what Riller was going for. "No matter how long I go away for everyone stays the same, except me." She muttered silently to herself as she turned the water off and wrapped a towel around her body.

Five minutes later Flora walked into the living area of her room to find Riller sat on the sofa with a can of soda in her hand and a big bar of chocolate watching television. "What are you waiting for Flora; I heard this morning that you don't start training till one o'clock so I came here to give a few pointers to get you ready. I have everything ready, the soda, the chocolate and the movies." Flora let out a laugh as Riller tuned to face her holding up copy of her favourite martial art film. "Just like old times." Flora laughed once again as she took a seat next to her friend and took a soda off the table.

"And how is this preparing me for later?"

"Hey maybe you will remember some of the techniques after watching them on the film.." Riller suggested.

"Good point" Flora laughed

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The girls were all sat around Ms Faragonda's desk, each as worried as the next waiting for the headmistress to return. It was silent as no-one knew what to say to lighten the mood, their best friend was gone. The door opened and Ms Faragonda silently made her way to her desk before sitting down.

"We have searched the entire school, and all the cctv footage we have. We did not see her on any of them; she seems to have just vanished..." the girls knew that this looked bad on Flora, she fled which could mean she was guilty.

"we have to find her Ms Faragonda, we know she's innocent..."

"I know Stella, but the way the police see it is that she ran because she was guilty."

"Please Ms Faragonda, let us go look for her, Please!" Layla begged as she wiped a tear from her eye.

Ms Faragonda was silent as she thought the situation over in her head, she too knew that Flora was innocent she would never kill. However, she would steal for someone if she had no choice.

"Okay, I'm giving you permission to find Flora, but you have to keep me in the know. I want to know how you are doing, where you are going, and anything in-between, Got it?" She got a chorus of nods in return. "Good now I suggest you get started and get the specialists to help, I will contact Professor Saladin while you contact them directly."

"Yes Ms Faragonda, we will come up with a plan and come back to you." Tecna spoke as she stood up.

"Okay girls I will see you later." The girls stood up and left the office heading back to their dorm.

"So Tecna any ideas on how to find Flora?, I mean she could be anywhere by now." Stella asked as she sat on the sofa and watched as Tecna loaded up her laptop.

"I have a few ideas on how to find her but I don't know if any of them will work. I'm going to try and see if I can trace her through her magic, but I need something that she has touched with her magic and it only works if she has used her powers within the last five hours, which could be unlikely."

"Any other ideas?" Bloom asked joining in on the situation.

"If that don't work I'm going to see if I can find her on any databases anywhere, I'm going to find her if it's the last thing I do." Tecna spoke as her fingers flew across the keyboard, typing furiously into the computer.

Moments later the door swung open and the boys rushed in, "where did she go?" Helia asked in a slight panicked tone.

"We don't know Helia, but we are going to find her." Layla responded

"I know I never should have left, I knew she was hiding something, I knew it..."

"Helia, for god's sakes calm down." Stella screamed at the boy, shocking everyone into silence. "None of us knew what Flora was up to but we have to stay strong for her, think about it, why do you think she ran? She ran because none of us truly supported or believed her, she proberly thought we would call her in." It was silent as the girls knew that Stella as right, they all had their doubts about Flora and her involvement within the situation.

Helia sat down in one of the empty seats and placed his head into his hands, "I'm sorry; I just wish I knew her well enough to see she is who she really is, not the person wearing this mask. Is she really the same Flora?" The question hung in the air,

"Helia, things look a little sketchy at the moment but we will find out the truth and I bet that we will find that Flora is just an innocent bystander..." Sky tried to reason with him

"But then why did she run?"

"She may not have, she may have been captured" Musa spoke up thinking it through, "there is no hard evidence to say she ran, we don't know what has happened to her but we have to keep our heads held high, we have to stay strong.

Helia sighed and turned to look out the window, "oh brother, oh Flora why? Just why?"