Effy shuffles her feet frantically, hair draped in front of her eyes.
"Who's that?" she yells out in a frightful tone. Katie emerges from the dark woods and walks toward her.
"It's all right, it's me," she says softly, surprisingly sweet for Katie, especially considering what had just happened. Effy's face is drenched in tears and mud. "Why are you crying?"
"I... I don't know" Effy replies, her head pulsing in and out of reality, her vision and Katie's voice distorting.
"Awww, look at you. You're like totally monged aren't you?" Katie chuckles gently. Effy says nothing as she fades further away from reality. Katie's tone changes as she comes closer to Effy "Fuck there's loads of, like, bugs in your hair!". Effy's face contorts with fear as she tangles her fingers through her hair, digging her nails into her scalp in an attempt to remove the bugs. The forest hustles with intense noise.
"Where? Get them out! Get them off me!".
"Effy! Effy! What are you doing?" Katie places her hand on Effy's shoulder, the forest becoming silent again. "There's nothing there". Effy laughs nervously, tears still running down her face. Katie awkwardly laughs with her, but soon her chuckles turn to sobs, and she lowers her head. "Please don't take him from me", Katie begs weakly. Effy's eyes widen with guilt as she puts her arms around Katie in a light embrace.
"Hey. Hey. Don't do that." After a few seconds, her vision distorts once more and the forest shrieks with noise.
"Get your fucking hands off me" Katie pulls away from her, wiping her tears. "As if you could take him from me! God, you're so up yourself!". Katie plunges forward, pushing Effy to the forest floor. "Your life's so shit, you want to crap all over mine! Don't invite fucking psychos to my party and don't push your flat little tits in my boyfriend's face, OK?" Katie says, pulling Effy's hair back as Effy pants. Katie torments and tackles her, slapping her and spitting on her face, demanding an answer. In an attempt to escape, Effy grabs a large rock from by her side and smacks it with all her might into Katie's temple.
The forest falls silent.
Effy pushes Katie off her and stumbles to her feet, panting and dropping the rock, which is covered in blood, to the ground. Effy too falls to the floor and closes her eyes for a moment, her face caked in dirt. After a few moments, she grins and stands up slowly, walking back toward the campsite, leaving Katie's limp, unconscious body behind. She walks toward Freddie's sleeping body in awe, smiling, as if she knew just what to do. She sits down next to Freddie and touches his face gently. Freddie sits up abruptly, panting and grabbing her wrist. They stare at each other for a second.
"Hit me," says Effy, still with a slight smirk on her face. It always seemed that it was at the most destructive moments that Effy was the happiest.
"What?" Freddie replies. Her eyes opened wider.
"Just once. I want to feel something. Hit me!" She pauses "I dare you." After a few moments, Freddie plunges forward and kisses her intensely.
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"You ladies like to wriggle, don't you?" JJ says to Naomi and Emily, both of whom bite their bottom lip and nod awkwardly. Ayla chuckles gently from the dying campfire next to them.
"Morning," says Freddie, as he walks back toward the campsite carrying his sleeping gear, Effy by his side with a smug look on her face. Ayla glares blankly at them both, not at all oblivious to what had happened between them last night.
"Has anyone seen Pandora or Thomas?" JJ asks
" And where's Katie?" adds Emily. "Thought she'd be with you, Fred."
"Yeah, me too Freddie," says Ayla snidely without looking at him.
"She's probably still asleep," Freddie replies almost defensively, going over to her tent, calling her name. He opens it to find no one is there. Effy's smug look is replaced with one of guilt. Freddie storms over to Panda's tent, which is covered in blue and pink shapes, and opens it to find Panda huddled with her knees up to her chest.
"Thomas has gone home. I got to go now, please," she says weakly. Freddie shuts the tent flap abruptly, not interested in talking to her. Nobody was considering what had happened between her, Thomas and Cook.
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Soon everyone is trudging through the bush yelling Katie's name, except Effy. Even though Ayla wasn't very fond of her sister, she was starting to become truly worried. After a little while of searching, Effy drifted away from Freddie and towards Ayla.
"What do you want?" Ayla says without looking at her. Effy felt like a pool of darkness beside her, she didn't even have to look to know she was there, she could feel it. It was silent for some time before Effy muttered.
"Please don't take Cook away". Ayla doesn't say anything to her and continues shouting Katie's name, her palms sweating. "I don't have anyone anymore". At this, Ayla stops dead in her tracks and turns to look at her.
"Freddie isn't enough? Everything you did to Katie and to me to get Freddie isn't enough?". Effy struggles to find something to say, her eyes swelling up again. Ayla scoffs, walking off, calling Katie's name louder.
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After spending the whole day searching for Katie, Effy drove everyone home. Unlike the journey up, there was now enough space for everyone to be comfortable, but nobody was.
"She probably just went home," Effy says, her bloodshot eyes glued to the road. It was the first thing anyone had said the whole trip.
"Katie wouldn't do that" replies Emily.
The group passes the poachers they saw on their way in, and the three men hold up their bounty with a smirk, waving their arms with pride, knowing they scared them to death with their guns. This makes Ayla chuckle lightly, but nobody else. As the sun sets, Effy makes a pit stop on the outskirts of Bristol to go to the toilet. After a ridiculously long time waiting for her in the car, and lots of 'hurry up' yelling from Naomi, Effy returns. The paranoid look on her face makes Ayla realise that whatever had happened between Effy and Katie in the woods was much worse than she thought. She had never seen Effy look guilty. As Effy plops her small body back down into the driver's seat, Ayla leans forward and whispers in her ear.
"Effy, what happened? What have you done?"
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Fanfiction"he's playing hard to get." says effy "never seen him do shit like this with anyone else".
