the fall of red

interlinked

the same thing had been haunting chloe for the past day. ever since yesterday when she looked at red in the same tint everyone around her did.

how was she supposed to be the perfect girl if she was friends with a villain...more than friends she had a crush on a villain.

chloe was sat on her bed after school looking up at the ceiling while red finished her school work. she just kept thinking if there was a way around her problem. how was she supposed to turn around to someone she held dear to her and say she couldn't be friends because red had an image that chloe couldn't be involved with. but then again her mom told her to get to know someone before putting a label on them.

yes chloe knew red but did she truly know her past the intimacy issues or the bad relationship with her mother. she never asked red what wonderland was like.

"red." chloe suddenly sat up looking over to the girl who hummed acknowledging she had been called yet not moving her eyes from the paper she was writing on.

"what was wonderland like? what did you do in your spare time? what is your mother like truly?" these questions shot red in the heart. she knew chloe would ask her eventually to tell her about wonderland but she didn't expect it to be 9pm on a tuesday while red was working through her bad fairy's homework.

"oh." red slowly placed down her pen and spun the chair around seeing chloes big eyes looking at her waiting for more than just an 'oh'.

"well wonderland is beautiful. if you know where to look. my mother has control of the whole place and truly i'm not sure if it ever ends but some places hidden and far away they aren't
ruled by her hearts and guards just the laws. that's where i find peace i guess when i can't see my mother in the trees or smell her in the air. when i was little id go to the rabbit hole in my free time it was far away from the castle but i knew my way to it through short cuts. it's shocking really that even out in the forest where no one goes the grass is still cut it still looks kept up you know? well anyway next to the rabbit hole is a tree where you can go inside. there was never in there but it's where i felt safe a place not even my mother could reach me and i hid there a lot when i was scared which was a lot. then i got older and couldn't fit in the tree so id sit outside of it in the open i think that's when i began to feel less like the scared little kid. i realised i was to old to hide away from the pain my mother caused. in my spare time id do what every kid in wonderland did id work and obey the laws. if you didn't there would be punishments given. i never played out because a lot of kids didnt want to be my friend or they weren't up to my mothers standards. people have always been afraid of me even though i didnt do anything to deserve that. my mother and i never had a relationship persay it was more like a worker and a boss you know? on the isle villains love their kids in a messed up way but they love their kids. my mother isn't one of those villains. she sees me as someone who will carry on her legacy when she leaves. i never wanted that. i used to write about it everynight id write about how i wished to be anyone else how i wished i was away from wonderland wherever that may be. then i stopped writing. i began testing the rules i would steal just to see if i could. i'd lie to people to see if they could tell id cheat even if i knew the right way to do it id still cheat just because i could. i pushed the rules and i pushed and i hoped to god the day i pushed them wouldn't be the day im caught. i'd sneak out in the night i would never do anything i was to scared but one night i had been seconds away from my head being taken by the hands of my mother and i was so angry
i didn't think she'd take it that far i never thought she'd break me but she did and i went out that night in disguise and i smashed everything i broke things i stole things i hurt flowers and i promised myself id leave wonderland because i needed to. i ended up painting my town red i caused fear and anger yet i didn't care because i wasn't caught. i needed to show my mother she isn't the only powerful person in the messed up crazy world i live in. i could see her fear when i came to court that day i could see her eyes darting around and if felt amazing. then...i was invited to auradon my promise i didn't break it." red had ended up grabbing her pen and twirling it around while she spoke. chloe had listened to every detail she had heard every crack in reds voice she had noticed every single time red would move in discomfort she noticed the small touch red made to her own wrist when she spoke about punishment she wasn't sure why she noticed but she did.

"red are you happy?" chloe abruptly asked moving off of her bed and towards red.

"i'm not sure blue...i don't think i ever have been not truly." red confessed placing the pen down once more trying to not find chloe's beautiful eyes in the dimly lit room.

"you will be one day i can promise you that red." chloe spoke softly walking over to red holding onto her hand. red looked up at chloe a look in her eye chloe had never seen.

"don't promise things you aren't sure of chloe. i understand my life i know it's not perfect i know im messed up i know i'll never be happy and im okay with feeling that way as long as i can wake up and not be in wonderland." red tightened the grip on chloes hand slightly.

"but i am sure red. you're a good person you're nothing like your mother i've told you it before and i'll scream it from rooftops until you believe me truly. red you will be happy." chloe had silently promised herself to make sure red becomes happy. she had silently promised the girl a life time of memories that will slowly erase the bad moments that haunt her dreams.

"maybe one day chlo but for now im okay with just being...okay." red confessed standing up.

chloe watched as the girls head went to look at thier hands still interlinked. 'interlinked' chloe thought looking as red moved down to gently kiss her hand. 'interlinked'.

"goodnight princess charming." red smiled as she let go of chloe's hand walking to her bed and laying down turning off her bedside lamp darkening the room more than before. the coldness that ran through chloe's body as red kissed her hand doubled when she let go. it took everything in the blue haired girl not to reach out for a second more of holding onto reds hand. she wasn't ready to let go. chloe thought about it and the feeling. 'interlinked that's what red and i are. interlinked.' she repeated in her mind as she walked over to her bed shutting the lamp off and climbing in.

it was 3am when red had woken up from a nightmare. sweat sticking red pieces of hair to her face she stood up not sure what to do. should she walk around should she sleep should she-

"red?" chloe had turned the lamp on rubbing her eyes seeing red standing next to the other bed looking scared and confused.

"chloe." red sighed her shoulders drooping her thoughts of the nightmare leaving her body for a split second.

"are you okay?" chloe asked sitting up in bed.

"yeah just a bad dream." red shrugged it off but chloe could see the pure fear shining through reds eyes.

"come here." chloe patted her bed but red shook her head.

"i don't want to talk about it blue." chloe nodded yet still patted her bed.

"that's okay but still come here you can sleep next to me." red raised an eyebrow but still she nodded walking to chloe's bed and sliding under the covers noticing the coldness of the bed compared to her own.

"thank you chloe." red turned the lamp off not wanting chloe to see her face for any longer she knew the sweat and scared expression would make her seem weak and she hated when people thought she wasn't helpless.

"anything for you red." chloe muttered laying back down and closing her eyes.

red slept that night better than she ever had before. whether it was the comfort she felt as chloe's arm fell over her waist or that she matched her friends slow and calm breathing maybe it was the smell of chloe's hair or maybe it was just the fact she had never slept next to someone before let alone someone who cared so deeply for her.

it felt like for that night red stopped thinking she finally had a moment of peace and she loved it she felt safe red felt still and she wasn't thinking about how truly she was moving with the earth. all she could think about is how she was still she wasn't moving she was in that moment with chloe and she was safe. she felt interlinked.

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hope you guys like this one! i love writing emotional parts either happy or sad i have to many emotions and
i let them out by writing but i love the dynamic red and chloe have in this book it'll build but the way red is so scared of everything and chloe is needing to step up and be someone for red even though she's got no clue what she needs and still helps is so pure.
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