PARTNERS IN CRIME • Pip&Ravi •

• 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑰𝑽 •

Pip fell asleep again, and when she woke up she was lying on the couch covered with a blanket. This time she slept better than in the car. She stretched, happy to see that her head no longer hurt. However, this feeling quickly disappeared when she remembered what happened a few hours ago. Or a dozen. She lost track of time with all the napping.

And that made her start crying again.

She was fed up with this. That damn crying, the tears pouring out of her eyes, those salty drops. After a while, there were so many of them that they started flowing into her mouth one by one. The pain in my skull was recurring. And that was probably the only reason why Pip tried to control herself and put her all into it.

She got up from the couch, wrapping herself in a blanket. It was dark. All she could see were the glowing numbers on the electric clock in the kitchen. It was 4:26. Is this what her nights will be like now? Will she get up in the middle of sleep again? Will she go through the same thing when she left? Or what she was going through after Stanley's death...?

The blood on her hands returned.

She groaned, biting her lip so as not to scream throughout the house and wake up Cara and Naomi, who was probably home from work. She couldn't stay here, not alone.

She moved towards the stairs and then climbed them to the upper floor. She walked to the door to Cara's room and went inside without knocking. She found her, defenseless and innocent, sprawled in the middle of the bed. She threw the blanket on the armchair and climbed onto the bed to hug her friend.

She felt safer lying next to her. Almost like when she lay with Ravi in his room, in his bed, when she had nightmares. Or when she called him at night to say she couldn't sleep again. Then he talked to her all night, and in the morning he came to her and they fell asleep together, in each other's arms. She missed this.

At that moment, she closed her eyes tighter and tried not to think about anything, because she knew that otherwise she would cry and wake up Cara. This has to end. She was sure of it. And the easiest way to end it would be to leave Little Kilton. Forever

•••

"Sun, you have to finally get out of this bed." Cara had been muttering for several minutes into Pip's ear, who had been lying motionless on Cara's bed for the past three hours since she got up.

"I don't want to," she could barely be heard through the blanket over her mouth.

"Pip," she said firmly, getting up from the floor. "You have to pull yourself together. Yes, Ravi has another girlfriend. And yes, you are heartbroken now because you still love him. And yes, now you feel like lying in bed all day and doing nothing, but it will pass, honey, you'll see." she sighed.

Pip looked at her with watery eyes. And to think that at night she had so much motivation to fix it all, to get him out of her mind, to leave.

"You've never had your heart broken, Cara. You don't know what it's like." she said sharply.

"Maybe not, but I know that psychologically, it always goes away. You may now think that he was the love of your life, but... " she stopped, not believing what she was saying.

Because she knew that he was, is and will be the love of Pip's life.

"You see, you yourself noticed what nonsense you say" she closed her eyes again, and a single tear escaped from under them, falling into the fluffy duvet.