Hell's War

Chapter Twelve

When I get back to my room, I see the others already in there looking frantic.

'What's the matter?' I ask them. They all turn to stare at me, looking relieved.

'WHERE ON EARTH DID YOU GO!?!?' Roshni yells at me, smiling.

'I just went to explore.' I say quickly, before anyone else can yell. I think she burst my eardrums.

'Where did you go?' Roshni asks in a calmer voice.

'I went and explored the dungeons.' I say, 'And why are you already back from training.' I quickly add, to stop them from questioning me. Lila throws me a suspicious look but answers.

'Apparently, we can't train without permission from Athena or Emmaline, which we don't have.' she says sulkily.

'We could go ask Athena.' I suggest.

'No, better not. We don't want to get on her bad side.'

'Well where's Emmaline then?' asks Cole.

'I dunno.' I answer.

'Then lets go find her.'

After two hours of wandering around asking if anyone knows where Emmaline is, we are ready to admit defeat. So of course we meet her just as we're walking back to our room.

'Hey Emmaline, can we go train in the training area?' Roshni blurts out.

'No. We are going to war tomorrow and that space is needed for real soldiers to train.' She turns and walks off after delivering this news. We walk slowly back to our room. Once we are all sitting down comfortably, Roshni says, 'Hey Tanya, you've heard my story, but how did you die?'

'Umm,' I shift uncomfortably, 'Icommitedsuicide.'

'You what! Why?' Roshni exclaims.

'Do I have to talk about it? It's not a subject I enjoy!' Lila comes over and sits next to me. 'Its ok Tanya. We're your friends.' She gives me a hug, then goes and sits back on her bunk.

'Ok. I'll tell you.' I start nervously, 'I never had many friends in highschool, so when some of the popular girls started bullying me, there weren't many people to stick up for me. Eventually all of my friends had ditched me, and to top it all off, my parents got divorced. I got severe depression. Mum sent me to a bunch of shrinks, but it didn't make much of a difference. So I killed myself.' I looked down, hoping that they wouldn't ditch me like my previous set of friends. I hear someone coming towards me and look up. It's Lila. Tears are streaming down her face as she sits next to me again. I hug her, looking to Roshni and Cole in confusion. They shrug.

'Lila what's wrong?' I ask gently.

'Im sorry Tanya, but you pretty much described my last year of high school.'