Love Restrained | Yellowjackets

chapter sixteen

XVI

The group spent the whole morning making the decorations for the doomcoming, lightening up the mood around the cabin. They were actually excited to dress fancy and drink alcohol while celebrating incoming death.

By the afternoon, Hayden went to the lake by herself to "shower". If she was going to die soon and that would be her last party, then at least she wanted to be clean and good looking.

After she was clean, it was time to get dressed. She remembered packing a dress that was dark blue because she thought it would be nice using one of colors of the school as they received the award for winning Nationals.

As she opened her bag, the first thing she saw was the ripped letter, perfectly positioned to seem like it was whole.

She didn't stop the small smile from forming on her lips, "That bitch." She actually thought it was nice of Natalie to put it back.

She found the dark blue dress she and immediately put it on. It was a little loose because of the weight loss, but her boobs still looked great on it. That was all that mattered. It felt great dressing fancy.

"Hey, can someone help zip my dress up?" She heard Shauna shouting from the attic as she struggled to zip her own dress.

"Coming!" Hayden shouted back, heading upstairs.

"I got you." She found Shauna staring at her own reflection at the mirror.

Hayden zipped her up and Shauna smiled in gratitude, "Thank you."

She noticed Shauna looking at her belly in the mirror, "So, how are you doing?" Hayden questioned.

"It's very scary when I stop to think about it, but I'm gonna be fine."

"You're gonna be an amazing mom." She assured the girl.

Their moment was interrupted by someone climbing the stairs.

"There you are. I was looking for you." Natalie said as she reached the attic.

"Me?" Hayden and Shauna said at the same time.

Natalie pointed at Hayden. "You."

"I'm gonna help the others with the decoration, ok?" Shauna told Hayden and then headed downstairs, giving the girls some privacy.

As the two girls were now alone in the attic, Hayden was confused on why Natalie would be looking for her. Nat, on the other hand, was too distracted checking the girl out in her blue dress that she forgot what she needed to do.

Hayden would be lying if she said she was not staring at Natalie and her leopard print dress and thinking she looked just fine. She quickly pushed that thought away, clearing her throat.

Her first instinct was to think of something mean to say. Buts Natalie's words stuck to her.

Just know that I want things to change between us.

Maybe this was their chance.

"So... do you need anything?"

"Yeah, right." Nat looked away. "Um, we need to change the bandage."

"So you're my particular nurse now?" Hayden smirked, causing Natalie to roll her eyes.

Natalie started carefully unwrapping the old bandage from the girl's arm. The wound was beginning to look better. Her hands were gentle as she cleaned the area and applied something Misty told her it would help. She wrapped a fresh bandage around Hayden's arm.

Hayden winced slightly at the pressure but remained silent, watching Natalie's focused expression.

"There you go, Atkins."