Flawed Feelings

Chapter 5 - Reality Hits, Hard

My alarm sounded. Awakening both me and Emma, we groaned and stretched as we looked at the time. 6:05. It's so early, just five more minutes. I went to settle back down and close my eyes when all of a sudden I was pushed off the bed. I landed on the floor with a loud thump, whilst Emma sat on my bed laughing at me. "I have a feeling you're not a morning person Miss Crompton." She said in between my glares. "Oh really, whatever gave you that idea Miss Evans?" Slowly climbing to my feet, I walked out of the room and down to the bathroom to brush my teeth. 

Splashing my face with cold water made my eyes awaken from their interrupted slumber. Tuesday. What lessons have I got today? Double English, Maths, Geography and Food Technology. Can't wait, should be so much fun.

Whilst walking back to my room, I stopped. It was creepily quiet in the house and I couldn't fathom why. Then it dawned on me. My mum wasn't downstairs humming or singing like she usually does, infact I will never again hear her sing again. With the events of last night running through my mind, a single, heartfelt tear strolled down my face. My mind was overwhelmed when processing the thought causing everything to go dark, I felt myself lose control and start to fall.

"Whitney. Whitney! Can you hear me? Whitney." I was slowly awakened by faint screams as Emma was shouting my name. I grumbled as I started to sit up. Opening my eyes, I  stared into Emma's.

"What happened?" My speech was slow and mumbled like it usually was when I first wake up. Emma started to speak really fast as she explained how I fainted and how she had thought that she'd lost me.

"Don't ever do that again! Do you hear me! I thought... I don't know what I thought but it was horrible." Her freaking out was quite amusing as I started to giggle to myself.

"Whoa Emma, chill out a little. I fainted. You shouldn't be that worried, I only fainted." She was still holding me in her arms, I was looking right into those memorising, crystal blue eyes. I could just lose myself by looking into them as they captivate my mind and thoughts.

"I can't help worrying about the person I love, can I?" Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. What!

"What?!" I felt my eyes widen to the sounds of her words. They rippled throughout my body as Emma tightened her grip on me. Pain started pulsating through me but I didn't want her to let go of me, I could stay here forever, no matter how much it hurts me.

Bringing myself back to the matter at hand, I was still a little dumbfounded as I couldn't quite believe what I had just heard. Did she really just say that? I've been wanting her to say that to me since that first Geography class in Year 7. But she actually just said it to me. Am I tripping? If there is one thing I have known about Miss Evans is that whatever she says, she means every single carefully placed letter. But surely this cannot be the case.

Emma looked shocked at my shocked reaction. "I thought you knew, isn't it obvious? I thought it was." She really does love me.

"But?" I honestly didn't know what to say, I'm not too sure of whether that was because of the fact that I had just fainted, or the fact that she has such an effect on how my brain functions. Luckily, she interrupted my thoughts by saying that she wouldn't risk her job, her life for just anyone. I believed her. Still shocked at the thought of Emma actually loving me, I had totally forgot about school. "Emma, I..." Mentally kicking myself for not saying the words back to her, I picked myself up off the floor and walked towards the stairs. "We've got to get ready."  

Looking back, Emma still hadn't moved, she was where I left her. As if she were still waiting for my sentence to finish. She moved onto her left hand as her head dropped down. "Emma? C'mon we've got to get to school. Otherwise you'll lose your job and I'll be late to my all so important education, and you wouldn't want that now would you?." Still watching her unmoving body, I walked back to her.