Chapter four

I rushed away from Mr Healys office, heading straight for Alex. I got loads of looks as I sped by, yes I'm back is what I felt like screaming.

"Chapman" Red shouted me as I walked past the tv room. "You're back" she stated.

"Yes I am" I smiled, still trying to walk away.

"Good"

"Look, I really Gotta go and find Alex" I said.

Red nodded at me. "Well you won't find her in the bunks, she's in the library" she told me. I furrowed my eyebrows together. "She's in a bad way, they've closed the library so she can be alone in there" Red said.

I smiled and headed off to the library, when I got there it was locked, of course it was locked, I don't expect she wanted visitors. I knocked on the door lightly as I didn't want to scare her, I waited a couple seconds but nobody came so I knocked a bit louder this time, still nothing. I rested my head against the door. "Come on, Alex" I whispered to myself.

"Can I help you Miss?" I turned around to see yet another new guard.

"No, I don't think you can" I told him.

"You need to go back to your bunk, the library is off limits to inmates today" he said.

"I'm actually aloud in here, Mr Healy as assigned me to Alex Vause' carer" I told him. He looked at me questionably for a few seconds.

" you don't believe me do you?" I asked him, feeling annoyed.

"Forgive me but your in here for a reason" he said sarcastically, before using his radio to contact Mr Healy. He put his radio back in place. "You've got until lights out" he said in his cocky tone before leaving.

"You've got until lights out" I repeated in my very own sarcastic voice followed by me pulling a face. I turned back around to face the library to see Alex not too far away laughing at me. I smiled softly at her. She came to the door and unlocked it. She opened the door and we just stood still, I studied her damaged face. She had a cut under one eye and the other eye was badly bruised, she had tried to cover it with her hair. Her neck and arms had bruises and markings all over them, just under her chin was quite badly bruised too. All I could think about was some disgusting person on top of her, hurting her. "I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry, Alex" I told her softly.

"It's not your fault" she told me. Her voice was broken and her posture was so fragile, a far cry from the Alex I knew and loved. It was hard to see her like this because she was such a strong and defensive person, and they'd took that away from her.

"Can I come in?" I watched closely as she thought about what I'd asked of her.

"I want you to, I do, but I can't, I'm sorry..." She said, her voice broke at the end, she slammed the door shut and locked it back up. I'm sure I had a shocked expression on my face as she turned away from me.

"Alex please! Let me look after you!" I begged her through the glass window.

She disappeared behind one of the book shelves and she didn't come back. I sighed and walked away, I made my way back to the bunks and collapsed on my bed. I hadn't been laid down more than a minute and Red was angrily sitting next to me. I lifted myself up into the sitting position.

"What do you think you are doing?" She snapped at me.

"Well I was trying to sleep" I told her.

"Why aren't you with Alex?" She asked.

"Because red..." I began as my eyes filled up with tears. "She doesn't want to see me" I told her.

"I don't understand this" she said, staring into the distance.

"Yeah that makes two of us, can I sleep now?" I asked her, rolling over.

"No!" She said slapping my leg.

I sighed in frustration.

"I see the problem, Alex is a strong girl and she loves you... She doesn't want you to see her break down" Red told me.

I thought about it and she actually made sense. "So what do I do?" I asked her.

Red put one finger on her lips while she thought about it. "Dinner time, she'll be in the canteen.. You need to convince her your gonna be there for her"

"Okay" I nodded.

"And go shower you look awful" Red added.

I laughed at her bluntness.

"And also, where did that bruise and cut come from?" She said pointing to my eye.

"The guards in shu aren't always in a good mood" I said rolling my eyes.

Red patted my leg, "looks like you both could do with being with each other right now" she said before leaving.

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