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Around seven o'clock that night, about an hour since Elvira started watching television while Ivy fussed with her makeup, both of their stomachs seemed to rumble in unison. The two glanced at one another. The blond of the two raised a brow at the brunette. "Want to go ahead and order some pizza?" Elvira asked the girl. "Do a half and half and split the rest of the money between ourselves?"
"Sure. But I want a pizza to myself. And bread sticks."
"So Pizza Hut. Got it." Elvira stood and paused. "Can you order it? I have to go get the money to pay for it..."
"Yeah. What do you want?"
"Large, cheese, hand tossed. I want my own bread sticks."
Ivy nodded, pulling out her phone and looking up the Pizza Hut number. Elvira left the room and went into her mother's bedroom, completely alone. She pulled open the sock drawer and searched for the money that her mother had left for the two of them. "Now, where did you leave the money, Mom...?" she murmured to herself, moving some socks out of her way as she did so. Just as she found the envelope holding the thirty dollars that her mother had left for her, a hand clasped over her mouth and a body shoved her against the dresser. She tried to struggle, her eyes wide with fear. Her still working arm tried to reach behind her to shove off whoever was on her.
"Go to sleep," whispered an all too familiar voice into her ear.
An all too familiar hand grabbed her wrist and pinned it behind her back, against a soft, cottony fabric that Elvira knew all to well belonged to a white hoodie. An all too familiar blade pressed itself against her throat.
All too familiar tears formed and rolled down her face.
"Hey, the total of the pizza is going to be over thirty dollars," called Ivy through the door, the sound of the knob being turned reaching both Elvira and her assailant. The door began to open and the assailant bolted, hiding on the far side of the bed in the room, leaving the blond to shakily support her weight on the dresser. Ivy's face was what greeted her. "So do you want me to take off the soda... Hey, what's wrong?"
Standing on her own two legs, Elvira swallowed. She then wiped away the tears on her face. "J-just take off my order of bread sticks... And if that isn't enough, make my pizza a medium..." she said shakily. She grabbed the money, shooting a nervous glance over at the far side of the bed. Her assailant came back, just like he said he would... There was no way that she could be alone now. She walked towards Ivy and handed her the money. "I-I need to sit down... I'll tell you after you get off the phone what happened..."
The brunette took the money hesitantly, frowning slightly. Normally, she was known to be the last person to care when a total loser started to cry, but Elvira's tears had not been of sadness. They had been of fear. She cast a look over to the far side of the bed, having seen the blond do so herself. What was there, she wasn't sure, but whatever it was, she had a feeling that it was the reason why the blond had looked so terrified. Ivy looked at her before nodding slowly. She closed the door behind them, shutting off the lights as she did so. She then guided the still-trembling Elvira back to the couch. She finished up quickly on the phone, the order altered just enough to make the price come out to twenty seven dollars and some change (the blond's order of bread sticks had been the only thing removed). Once being told that the pizza would be there in thirty minutes, she hung up the phone. Her dark green eyes then looked at Elvira seriously. "Now tell me what happened."
Elvira tensed up slightly before sighing, hanging her head slightly. "I... I was..." she started. She then stopped herself. She didn't know what to say. She wanted to say that Jeff was back and he was going to kill her the first moment that she was alone, but... at the same time... She didn't want to drag Ivy into the whole mess and risk getting her killed. Granted, there were days that she believed that the bitch deserved it, but it was the rare moments where she showed compassion (such as the moment they were in at the moment) that made her feel like maybe the girl could change given time. And a change of friends. Seriously. The blond took a deep breath. "I... I thought that I heard something. It reminded me of the night a few months ago where someone sneaked into my room and attacked me... So I started to have a panic attack..."
"Are you sure? That didn't really look like a panic attack to me..."
"Yes. I have to take medication for it, but I apparently missed my morning dose for it..."
Why did it feel so easy to lie now when months before it made the blond girl sick to her stomach?
"Do you want me to check your mom's room to make sure that there isn't anything in there?"
That sent a chill throughout Elvira's body. She did not want her to do that. "No. There isn't anything in there."
"You're acting awfully suspicious for there to be nothing in there..." Ivy informed her, narrowing her eyes at the girl. She stood, handing her the money back. "I'm going to check it out." She turned, beginning to heard towards the bedroom.
"Stop!" cried Elvira, her azure eyes wide. She grabbed the preppy girl's wrist and pulled her back to the couch. "Um... Stop... Don't go... I don't want to be alone after that panic attack..." The expression on her face was pleading. But for the wrong reason than she was talking about. She was pleading that Ivy didn't go in there at the risk of Jeff still being in there, laying in wait. "Please? Plus... The pizza will be here soon..."
Ivy looked her up and down slowly before giving her a small nod. She sat back down on the couch beside the blond. Grabbing the remote, she turned it to little kid shows, hoping that watching them would calm the girl. Of course, Elvira took the remote and changed it to something else. Mythbusters, as it were. "Leave it to a science nerd to put on a show all about science," the brunette snorted.
"Oh, hush. It's funny. Plus, watching old reruns of Courage the Cowardly Dog is not going to help calm my butt down."
The two fell quiet, watching the show. There would be noises in the house that would make Elvira tense up and look around nervously. And at one point, the girl thought that she had heard a noise behind her, like the window had been opened... But that was impossible. There was no space for anything to get through, she was sure. The noise was probably nothing more than her overactive imagination! Or so the blond wanted to desperately believe.
The sound of a car pulling into the driveway was heard by both of the girls. Ivy gave a small smile at Elvira. "Think you can handle being alone for a minute while I go out there to get the food?" she asked her softly.
The blond paused before nodding slowly. She figured that Jeff could have left already due to boredom from the lack of being able to attack her. She handed the brunette the money. "Tell the driver to keep the change... Since it's kind of late at night and all that..."
Ivy nodded, taking the money as she stood. "I'll be right back," she assured the girl. She stepped outside of the front door after unlocking it, going to the pizza car that was there. The moment that she was gone, a hand latched itself once more over Elvira's mouth. The blond struggled, but before she knew what was going on, she was pinned to the couch, a familiar boy sitting on her, like he had three months ago. His smile seemed to grow at the sight of fear in the girl's azure eyes.
"We were interrupted last time," he informed her. "But this time, I will kill you, and I will kill you quickly." He grabbed her free hand and pinned it above her head, lifting his knife. He then brought it down, striking her dead in the chest. He rather enjoyed the scream that came from the girl beneath him, but he knew that he didn't have the time to savor it. Instead, he pulled his knife from her chest, watching as her blood quickly pooled around her wound. He brought his knife down once more, stabbing her right where he thought the heart was. Withdrawing his blade, he made her watch as he licked her blood from his blade. He then cut her cheeks, beginning to carve a never ending smile into her own cheeks.
"Get off of her, you creep!" screamed a voice behind him.
Jeff cursed, hopping over the couch as the sound of boxes hitting the floor hit his ears. He dove out the window and ran like Hell out of there. He wouldn't admit to it, but it saddened him a little bit that he wouldn't be able to end Elvira's life, or at least watch her die right before his own eyes. After all, just knowing that she died wouldn't be enough to satisfy him. He had to see her die for himself. It was the purpose of the thing!
Meanwhile, Ivy scrambled for her cell phone, quickly calling the police and calling for an ambulance. She peeled off her own shirt, applying pressure to the blond girl's wounds. "Come on, you loser! Don't you die on me!" she told the girl, tears stinging her eyes. Every harsh word she had ever said to her, especially in the past three months, raced to the forefront of her mind. Slut. Bitch. Cunt. Whore. Those were only some of the words that she called the girl. And they weren't even the harshest words that she had said. "Hang in there!" The brunette kept trying to talk to the girl, making her respond in small, subtle ways to make sure that she hadn't died on her or anything. It felt like an eternity before they both heard the sounds of sirens, both of police cars and of ambulances.
Within minutes, the police were in the house, searching for whoever had attacked Elvira, and the paramedics were loading the girl up on a gurney. Everything happened in a blur, and by the time the ambulance carrying her reached the hospital, she already had two IVs in her and a breathing mask over her mouth. Ivy had gone with her in the ambulance, telling her that everything was going to be okay. They were seperated by force when they got to the hospital, though, Elvira having needed to be wheeled away to surgery.
"You'll be okay..." whispered Ivy as she watched the poor girl be wheeled away, unconcious and unaware of what was going on anymore.
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~Elvira