Soft Spot

Chapter 12

I haven't left my room much in the last 2 days, my food was brought to my room and I mostly slept. Headaches plagued me and the antibiotics weren't doing much for the pain. Jerome volunteered to bring me my food at every meal time and would spend a lot of time with me in my room to make sure I wasn't going even more insane being isolated. I also of course had regular visits from Tabitha and Barbara and we would have our girly chats as well which was nice. Myself hasn't been around much which was weird she'd only ever turn up right before I fall asleep but I think the injury just translated to her also so I guess that would be the reason. Today was a new day and I woke up feeling a lot better my headache wasn't hurting that much and was more of a mild ache which was a good sign. I decided to get up and go to breakfast today as I need to prove to Theo I can actually get out of bed if I wanted to go on this mission today. Jerome has been telling me all about it they were told to pick between a senior citizen bus or a school bus and was gonna set it on fire with everyone inside. I voted for the school bus as everyone at Gotham high school can burn and if it's the cheerleaders then that would be an added bonus. I got out of bed and looked at myself in the mirror I looked a mess my hair was greasy and tangled, I looked a pale and had some bags under my eyes so I decided to take a shower.

Once out of the shower I started to brush my hair gently I stared for a minute at myself. "You should cut your hair." I looked behind me in the mirror to see myself standing there, I pondered on her idea for a moment. I mean yes it would be nice to get this length off but how short should I go. "What length do you think?" She pursed her lips in thought, "how about just above shoulder length? This way you can still put it up and it won't be too long where if you kept it down it would be in your face." I smiled, I had always wanted shorter hair so I searched my cupboards until I finally found a pair of scissors. I had been cutting my hair for years now so it wasn't going to be too difficult to do so I sectioned myself hair off then started cutting. After about 5 minutes I had got it to my desired length and was just finishing up by adding some layers, yes I was that good at my hair at this point, and stood back looking in the mirror at my new self. "You look great!" Myself clapped behind me and I had to agree with her I looked hot! Now that my hair was cut I cleaned up the bathroom and looked at the time it was almost 9 so I decided to head down to the dining room.

I felt confident as I stride into the room where everyone was, everyone turned to look at me. They all seemed shocked at the change but they seemed to like it by there expressions, Theo had a little proud smirk, Tabitha nodded her head approvingly, Barbara smiling wide and the others just sat there wide eyed. Jerome however, was eating not really noticing until he looked up from his plate seeing everyone staring behind him so he turned. His eyes went wide at first before he smirk mischievously and looked me up and down, "Not bad Jess." He said with a wink before turning back to his food. I smiled at everyone then waltz to my seat to sit down and eat my food, I couldn't be more happy with my look. Once we had all finished eating Theo sent the boys to go get changed while taking me and Tabitha to the side to talk to us, "Okay while they are getting ready I just want to check on a few things." He looked between us making sure we are both listening, "Jess how are you feeling first of all do you think you will be okay on the mission?" I nodded, "Okay great, just to inform you Jess so you don't get confused me and Tabitha were talking and because of how dangerous this mission is and how likely it is someone or multiple people would get caught that if someone was Tabitha will kill them." I stood and stared bewildered for a moment, what the hell we were supposed to be a team I thought we don't just leave people behind or kill them. "Why does she need to kill them?" Theo looked at me as if it was obvious, "Well if someone was to get caught it wouldn't be Jerome let me just start off by saying, he's way to smart for that." He said with a chuckle looking at me which I found strange but this did relax me a bit, "For the others however we can't be too safe as if they get caught they may blow this whole opportunity for everyone in order to save their own asses." He rounded off his reasoning and if I was being honest that sounds very smart, the others are a bunch of wild cards they are only in this because they get to kill easily whereas Jerome, Barbara and I have a plan for the future and have the bigger picture in mind. To be honest I would happily let Tabitha kill the rest as it meant no liabilities were left but I understand they can be useful for right now. "No I get it, it's a very smart thing to do considering their all wild cards." I shrugged he nodded before telling me to go get help Tabitha load the car.