Lonely

Chapter 3

I wake up very late the next day, and I still struggle to get out of bed because of the lack of sleep I got the other night. At about 3:00pm I get ready and go out to look for Stella. I ask everyone if they have seen a red-head 60-year-old woman but nope no sign. I figure it was getting late I took the shorter way to get home through the alleyway.

"AHHHHHHHH!" I hear a very loud scream coming from the corner of a grey, dull building. I walk towards it regretting every step I take. When I get close, I hear whispers very faint, but it sounds like two people are there.

I turn the corner and there she is Stella, but a man is holding a sharp knife on her throat.

"STOP!" I scream and they both turn to face me. The man seems like he's 40 or something he has a lot of wrinkles covering up his face and he hardly has any hair. Stella however does not look like how I imagined her, she has red hair but only on the tips and the top of her hair is white completely white. When I concentrate on her face, I realise that her skin is definitely not clean she has all the wrinkles in the world I guess she's been worrying too much the past couple of years.

"WHAT?" The man says impatiently. "I umm you know I don't umm how can I phrase this err don't kill her because she umm is sort of needed in my life now...?" I look at the man with pleading eyes and his one's water he covers them trying to act like a fearless man, "Fine you can have her, but next time I see you Stella it won't end good." His voice breaks and he run off covering his eyes the whole way.

"Hello then dear, why on earth do you need me?" She questions me, her voice is very sweet and soothing, but she looks at me like she will do anything to get a knife and chop me in half right now. "Umm well you must know Lilith right well I'm sort of her granddaughter and I need your help." She looks at me her eyes beaming with guilt and frustration. "Ok well, let's just get you in your house first." She says giving me a playful shove. Her hands are soft like cotton. As we head down the hill towards my house, I look at her wondering if she remembers my Grandma I wonder about that questions in my mind.

When we arrive at my house, I look at her, her ripped red dress and she make up which is dripping halfway her face right now. We enter the house, and she looks around, "No parents, eh?" She looks at me I guess she likes the way I'm alone, "Oh umm not just me." I let out a very questioning chuckle. "Right then, well what do you want me for don't you have Lilith, why do you need me?" She asks I'm assuming they had a fight cos she doesn't look interested in the topic much. "Well, I need you because you see Lilith, my grandma died a couple of years back and my parents weren't that great to me, so I came to Croydon, and then I remembered you because she talked about you a lot." She really didn't seem to care much until I said that my grandma talked about her. "What did she say?" She looked up really happy and excited, "Well um she talked about how you liked her flowers and that you were so much older than her, yet you looked like you were 20 years old." The happiness in her eyes started to fade and she looked at me, "Well part of that isn't true anymore." We both stay quiet until I break the silence, "So I guess you had a nice past with my grandma...?" She looks at me I think that isn't true either, "Do you want some tea?" She asks suddenly looking at the kettle, "I make the best hot chocolate dear." I agree and go to my room I lie down on my bed looking up at my ceiling. I wonder what happened in Stella and my Grandma's past, I still haven't explained to her that I need her to do something for me.

"Hot chocolate is ready!" She says in a sing song voice. "I'm coming wait!" I shout back when I go into the room, she has east enders on, I always cringe when I see that show it's just weird. "Hot choc darling?" I look at it it's filled with whipped cream and marshmallows.

"I have a question?" I look at her and then at my hot chocolate. "Sure, what is it?" She says, I guess she knows I'm going to bring up my grandma. "So, what happened between you and her...?" I say going to sit down on the sofa next to her, "Well err it is a very difficult past, me and your nanny were best friends in secondary but then she betrayed me, and she touched a very sensitive side of me..." I grab the remote and turn on Nickelodeon, "Do you want to tell me or is it personal?" I say staring at the tv not understanding anything Cat is saying you know I like cat. Even though she is very dumb, and her brother is probably isn't even healthy for her, but I like her because I have the same surname as her. "Alright then umm what's your name?" I laugh because I have invited her to my house and she has even made me a drink, but she doesn't know my name, "It's Chloe, Chloe Valentine." I shake her hand and she laugh too, "Ok then," she looks at her wrist, her watch is covered with diamonds and it has been carefully made with black leather, "Off to bed with you."