Bewitching

14|Working it Out

I jerk awake, startled. I'm laying on the ground I the deadheads, curled in a ball. My chest aches with my possible loss. I slowly uncurl and sit up. I was woken by the doors. I was here only all night? It seems like eternity. I slowly get up. I expect to be hungry, but I couldn't imagine eating. I actually feel kind of sick. I walk out of the deadheads as quick as I can and into the homestead. I grab some clothes and dash to the showers.
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I step out of the building, refreshed. Immediately and am called on. "Elizabeth!" The calling voice of Clint is carried across the glade to me.
I sigh. "Crap." I take two steps before a voice sounds behind me. "Wanna play hookie?" I spin around on the defensive to see Blair leaning casually against the tree. I squint at him. "What?" He stepped forward so he was inches from my face. "Wanna play hookie?" He whispered. "Um." I say stupidly. I look behind me and see Clint still searching for me. I should go see Newt.... But every bone in my body just screams PLAY HOOKIE GO WITH BLAIR!!!!! And come on, Newt won't miss me, will he?
I glance uncertainly back at Blair. "I don't think-!" He grabs my shoulders. "I only request one day Elizabeth, one day." I sigh. One day can't make that much of a difference, and anyway, if Newt was jumping off of walls he obviously didn't want me anymore.
I turn back to Blair and stand up straight. "Where to?" A smile spreads across his face. "Come on." He grabs my hand and pulls me back to a part of the deadheads I've never been to before. "Where are we going?" He shushes me. I huff. "Where are we going?" I whisper. He suddenly crouched us both down under a bush. "Blair?" I stare at him with scared eyes. He looks at me with a happiness that disappears as soon as he sees my face. "Elizabeth, what's wrong?!" I am shaking so hard I almost can't answer. I fiddle with my thumbs. "Well." I cough and clear my throat. "Well, um, you know that guy, uh, Min?" He looks shocked. "That guy in the slammer?!" "Uh, yeah." I run my hands through my hair, trying to calm myself down. Of course Blair doesn't have the same intentions, right? "He uh, um. He kind of tried to... you know." His face goes red. "No!" I nod. He hugs me. "Oh Elizabeth, I'm so sorry. I promise I do not have any interest in doing that, ever!" I nod against his chest. His hugs aren't, like, Newt hugs, but they'll do for now.
I pull away and wipe my eyes. "What are we doing?" He looks out the bush. "Look." I peak through and see a ramshackle old building on the other side. "What is it?" He shrugs. "It's a building. I want to explore it." I stand and hold out a hand to him. "I'm so in." He smile and takes it. I pull him up and lead the way to the door. He smiles and knocks softly. No answer. He puts his ear to the door.
I laugh softly and do the same. No sound from inside. I slowly creak open the door. A puff of dust blows out and I cough. Blair starts to walk and peeks around. "It's good." He says and smiles, satisfied. "I take a look around. It's just an empty one room building with a table and chairs. I unsuccessfully try to blow the dust off of everything. I take Blair's hand. "Thank you for taking me away from everything." He shakes his head. "I can't take you away. Only you can."
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"Ok, ok, that's too funny." We both laugh until our stomachs hurt. We've been sitting here for hours just talking. I lean comfortably against him. It's nice in this building. No action.
He slings an arm around my shoulder. "Isn't this nice?" I nod. Then I remember what I'd forgotten until now. Newt! I shoot up, shaking his arm off. "I need to go!" He stands up and brushes the dust off of his pants. "What's wrong?" He sounds panicked. I grab his arm.
"I need to go. I forgot Newt! What if he's died and I wasn't there or something! Come on!" I pull him out of the door. He yanks his arm from my grip. I huff and look back. "Hurry up!" He takes my hand. "You don't know the way out, let me."
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I sprint up the doors to the Med-Jack room, panicking all the way. I had left Blair outside, knowing he wouldn't help the situation.
I pause outside the door, straighten my shirt, pull myself together, and step in.
Clint whips around to face me, red as a tomato. "ELIZABETH!" He shouts into my face. "Where the shuck have you been!!???" I hold up a hand. "I'm sorry Clint, I needed some time. He puffs and runs his hands through his hair. "He's been waiting for you." He leaves. I gulp and turn. There, sitting on the bed laughing at me is Newt. He looks like klunk, but it's Newt. He shakes his head at me. "Always getting in trouble." Then there's an awkward pause where he just looks at me with the happiness fading from his eyes. "Elizabeth?" I throw my hands up in the air. How can he act like he didn't just jump off a wall? "What the shuck was that?" I yell at him. He looks shocked. "What's wrong?" "You jumped off the walls!" I cover my eyes. "Why would you do that? Do you know that's suicide? Of course you do. You were just gonna leave me here alone! Did you think about how that would make me feel? If you were depressed you should have just talked to me!" I scream. He looks angry. "You don't know what's it's like! I was in the first group that came up Elizabeth. I've been here for 2 SHUCKING YEARS! And I've hated every second of it. Every. Single. Second." He yells back. I start to cry. "You can't act like that never happened. Do you even love me? am I nothing to you? Obviously you don't feel the same way as I do."
A single tear runs down his cheek. "You love me?"

A/N~ Hey! It didn't take me as long as I thought to write this! That's only because I cut the chapter in half. *Laughs evilly* I like cliffhangers. Anyway, I've realized that I've been putting some pictures at the tops of my stories but they aren't showing up in the book. Are they showing up for you? Anyway, I've picked an actress for Elizabeth. Lindsey Lohan. Now I know she's not a teenager, I'm talking about how she looked in Mean Girls. I put a picture at the top of the page but sorry if it doesn't show up idk how to fix it. Goodbye for now shanks!
~KyLiE