nothing lasts forever{wlw, teacherxstudent}

𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯

I follow Floyd up to his house as he unlocks the door, he steps inside, holding it open for me and I walk inside.

A dark skinned woman immediately steps out of the room to the right, I straighten up as I spot her, she's tall, dark curly hair...her eyes are what catch my attention, they're an emerald kind of green. Very beautiful, she's beautiful but there's something about her, she seems so confident and I really understand why she would be...It's not a mean kind of confident like Miss Snow, it's more of a warm confident, she has a warm energy. Her presence eases my nerves. I know immediately that I'm safe in her house.

"Diana, this is my wife, Arabella." Floyd says and I smile widely at her despite how rough my night has been.

"Hi, it's nice to meet you, Arabella. Thank you so much for letting me stay here, I'll be out of here in no time, I promise." I hold out my hand and she smiles softly and shakes my hand, her hand is warm like mine.

"It's alright, stay as long as you need. Please call me Bella, I can show you to the guest bedroom, I changed the sheets for you already." She motions towards the stairs.

"Thank you." I say before following her up the stairs and down the hall to the last door.

"The bathroom is just across the hall, our little boy, Theo, is in that bedroom. Me and Floyd are in the bedroom down there, if you need absolutely anything, don't be afraid to ask. Whatever you need." She smiles, opening the door to a gray and white bedroom with a double bed, a nightstand at each side of the bed. There's also two dressers in here. There's some pretty plants on the windowsill and little framed paintings on the wall.

"I'll let you be, call me if you need anything." She walks towards the door and I nod at her. My phone begins buzzing so I take it out of my pocket only to see Jane is who's calling me. I turn off my phone, throwing it onto the bed.

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I wake up to see a tablet and a glass of water on the nightstand. I'm guessing that's to help with the headache that I definitely have. I feel like I'm being punched into the head repeatedly right now.

I lean up onto my elbow, picking up the tablet, popping it into my mouth before taking a sip of the water to help me swallow it. I used to be afraid of swallowing tablets when I was a kid, my Dad would have to hold my hand if I was taking one. He looks so much older now, gray hair and he kept his beard. Mom used to always tell him to shave it, that it made him look like an old man. It's something we used to laugh about, something so small that we all found funny. Me and my Mom would call him old man if we saw his beard growing out.

I shower and get changed into an oversized, navy hoodie and baggy jeans which Arabella left out for me. I walk downstairs and Floyd, Bella and their son who looks about eight or nine sit at the table.

"I made you pancakes, I'm not sure what you like on them. There's Nutella, honey and strawberries." Bella smiles at me and I fiddle with the sleeve of my hoodie, she had to make me food. I should leave. I'm annoying them with this, this is too much.

"Thank you, I'm not hungry. Thank you for letting me stay but I'm just going to head home." I smile turning around and walking out, I walk up the stairs thinking of where I could go. I'm not going home but I miss Sadie already. I walk into the bedroom that I stayed in last night, making the bed.

I can't call Charlie...I'm mad at him and I don't know why, he wasn't involved with what happened last night but I'm still angry. I'm angry at Jane, my stupid Dad who I'm guess she's seeing? My life couldn't get worse, I mean maybe if my Mom showed up. It really wouldn't surprise me if she did.

"Diana." I hear Bella knocking gently on the door before peaking her head inside at me.

"Yeah? I'm just getting my phone and stuff, I'll be out in a flash." I laugh nervously, picking up my clothes from last night which I threw on the floor after my shower because I'm upset—of course I'm upset and I don't care about anything right now—I don't want to at least, I'm trying not to. But, I can't help but care too much, I always do.

"Hey, calm down." She puts her hand on my upper arm and I close my eyes dropping my head as I take a deep breath.

"Diana, you don't have to leave. You're more than welcome to stay for as long as you need to. I mean it." She smiles and I sit down on the bed, she sits down beside me.

"You don't have to let me stay because you feel bad or something, really—"

"You are welcome here, I don't know what you're going through but I know you wouldn't have asked to stay here if it wasn't serious. I won't force you to stay here but you really are welcome, we were thinking of making Halloween cookies later. You should join us, it'll be fun. You can leave tonight if you're still so set on doing so. But, if you stay for now, you can have some really good cookies with us." She bumps my shoulder with a smile and I smile back, just a little.

"Okay, thank you, I'll see how I feel after the cookies." I respond and she nods, smiling.

"Be prepared, Floyd and Theo make a mess in the kitchen, it's no surprise because men are filthy animals, I'm always left to clean but maybe you'll help out." She winks and I laugh, nodding my head.

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Later that night, we make some Halloween cookies and start decorating them. Theo, Bella and Floyd's son, loves Halloween just like me. He's dressing up as the joker this year, he also told me he wants to be an astronaut when he's older. He showed me his solar system that he made in school, it's really cool actually.

"So, Floyd tells me that you're a senior in high school, how are you finding it?" Bella asks as Theo sits on the counter and Floyd puts some frosting on Theo's face.

"It's fine so far, it's only been a few weeks but we've had a few tests." I shrug.

"What's your favourite subject?"

"I'm not sure, maybe English it's probably the subject I'm best at." I laugh and she does too. My phone starts buzzing so I put down the cookie that I was decorating, I take my phone out, an unknown caller calling so I answer it.

"Hello?" I say.

"Diana, Jane is worried. Come back and I promise, I'll explain everything-" I hear my Dads voice and take the phone away from my ear hanging up. I pick back up the cookie, taking a quick deep breath so I don't panic.

"Everything okay?" Floyd asks and I nod.

"Just a spam call." I smile and Floyd puts some frosting on my face and Theo starts giggling. I laugh, wiping the frosting off and get some more, putting it on Floyd's face. Theo puts some on my face and we all start laughing.

"You guys are going to make a mess—" Bella says just as Floyd flicks some frosting at her. Everyone stops and looks at her. She looks at Floyd, raising her eyebrow and Theo snorts loudly making me giggle.

"I'm going to absolutely murder you." She shakes her head, getting some frosting and putting it onto Floyd's face. We all start laughing again until our stomachs are hurting.

A/n

Finally, Arabella is in the story again (I love Arabella and Floyd so so much.)

I also have to say this because my girlfriend found herself so funny today...She saw a video about the states in America and when she saw Indiana, she said "I bet that's Natalie's favourite state". She laughed so much and I thought maybe one of you guys who read this will find it funny too if you even get it. 😭

Anyway, I hope everyone's weekend is going amazing and if it's not, I hope it gets better for you!! :)