The Silent Girl

20.

'Ella'

The next day at school. Luke, Micky and Noah were more protective ever, cause of the situation yesterday. Luke and Noah walking right next to me, and Micky was walking just in front of us, looking out for the very people that I was trying to avoid.

When I saw them, standing by their lockers. The boys immediately, got closer to me, making me feel small and powerless.

"Aww, so first you get to go home and now they are basically your bodyguards" Amber taunts to me, turning to look.

"Keep walking and ignore" Luke leans down and whispers to me gently.

"I know" I say, wiping my stray tear and walking past them.

"She thinks she can ignore us" I hear Roxy say slyly.

"Ignore" Noah reminds me, as tears start steam down my cheeks.

"Aww, bless the cry baby is crying" Emma smirks, this makes me go into feel panic. I push my way from Micky, Luke and Noah and run. I don't stop running until I am in the school's peaceful garden. The sensory garden.

Tears stream down my cheek as I drop on the soft, green grass. I sit cross legged in front of the clear blue water, putting my hand in it to feel the cold temperature. My breathing returns to normal, as I return from a full on panic attack.

I shut my eyes and look up to the sky, breathing out.

"She's alone now" I hear Roxy laugh. I stand up and turn to see the three of them standing, Amber in the middle, Roxy and Emma either side but a step behind. Amber was definitely the ring leader of this group.

"J-just leave me alone" I yell at them, tears streaming down my cheeks.

"Aww cry baby" Emma coos at me, tilting her head towards me. I begin to walk past them but Amber sticks out her foot, making me fall faced down on my stomach.

Amber crouches down by my face. "Mummy is missing you by the way"

"W-what? How do you know my mum?" I stutter nervously, putting my hands on the ground beneath me.

"It's a secret" She grabs my collarbone and pulls me to standing. She looks at my face, holding mine close to hers. "Goodbye" She pushes me back and I stumble, falling into the small clear pond filled with the clear, blue water. My body splashes into the freezing cold water and my head hits the stepping stone in the middle of the pond. Then they walk off.

I grab hold of the side and pull myself out gently. My freezing cold, wet school uniform clung to my body and I already began to shiver.

The back of my head was throbbing, my hand slowly reaching the back to feel a wet substance. Blood.

My head was bleeding, I went into panic and began to run out of the gardens. I see Luke, Noah and Micky come running towards me.

"Ella" They all breath out, as I become dizzy, my clothes still sticking to me.

"My head is blee-" I manage to get out before collapsing.

Falling into a sea of darkness.

'Noah' 

The whole of lunch time, we had been looking for Ella for ages, she had run off. We had tried to keep up with her but we also thought she needed her space.

We were checking the paved areas again when we saw her come running towards us, she has already clocked us.

She was drenched through to her skin and her hand pressed to the back of her head.

We run towards her and she runs towards us.

"Ella" We all say at the exact same time, breathing heavy.

"My head is blee-" She says slowly, before her eyes roll back and she collapses onto the ground.

Luke, Micky and myself launched forward trying to catch her but we fail. I grab her and pull her into my lap, holding my hand tight to the back of her head.

"Get a teacher now" I hear Luke tell a random Year 7. I look around, in need of help. There was a massive crowd around us, watching Ella.

Soon a hear about three voices shouting, 'To tutors now!'. Making the crowd slowly disappear. The teachers fight their way through crowd and come running over.

"I have no idea what happened" Luke stresses, who was holding Ella's hand. "But I think she banged her head on something, and now she has fainted"

"We have an ambulance on the way" Mr Stone mumbles, kneeling down next to Ella and myself. He points to a teacher on the phone, before looking at Ella's face, her eyes closed. "The nurse is on her way." The nurse comes running over with a wheelchair, and a duffle bag full of medical equipment.

"Lay her on her side on this blanket" The nurse says to me before laying a thick blanket on the ground. I slowly move Ella onto the soft blanket. She gently puts a small white pillow under her head, instructing us to move her accordingly.

Soon enough, sirens were heard from a couple of streets away and an ambulance was pulling into the school paved areas. 

Paramedics went about doing their job, hooking Ella up to multiple machines, including oxygen.  While two were moving the still unconscious Ella onto a gurney, one was talking to us three as well as Mr Stone and Miss Bright standing there nervously.

"I'm afraid only one of you can ride in the ambulance, and that has to be an adult" The men tells us in a rush.

"You go with Ella and I'll drive these boys to the hospital." Miss Bright smiles softly.

"And we'll try and get ring her dad but I know he's working today" I tell all the adults.

'end of 20.'

not a very cheery chapter for my birthday today :(

Posted: 14.4.22