Broken Wings ➳Gally{2}

Avoidance

"Where is she?"

Where am I? I've been bed rotting and bruised.
And that was the sound of Grahams voice coming from outside my bedroom door.
Luke had stayed right outside my room in the couch sitting as I lay quietly for hours.

He told Avery that I was okay but he's a horrible liar so I don't think she believed him for a moment. But luckily for me she got called to one of the other bases.

"She's in her room. But before you go in, she won't talk at all."

"What? Why?"
Graham instantly asks back ur I stay frozen hiding beneath the covers avoiding. The world. Focussing on how hard it was to breathe and how the paint of my ribs worsened.
"It's probably just a common cold."

"It's not. She just told me to tell WICKED that. Someone beat her black and blue."

"What!" The shock escapes through grahams words and I don't even attempt to sit up to watch his mouth drop already imagining it.

But I stay frozen in my bed hiding away.

"Who the hell-"
"She won't talk."

Wow, this is really giving my flashbacks to the glade. And this time, not in a good way.

"Does Avery know?"
"No, but when she finds out she's going to murder me. Her sisters just been assaulted and I didn't call her because she begged me not to!"

"Oh yeah she's going to throw that ring back in your face." Graham instantly shoots at him and I want to make the effort to laugh so hard but right now I feel nothing but shattered.

"Hi, you must be Bob and Steve?"
My eyes widen to hear another voice enter the room.
But I don't sit up continuing to listen as I hear the front door close my eyes remaining shut as I hear Teresas voice.

"It's Luke, actually. And this is Graham." Luke talks for the both of them. "And you don't need to wear a mask. She's not infected."

"It's precaution. Even if it's not a cold-"
"She wishes she had a cold right now." Graham literally takes the words out of my mouth wanting to make me grin so wide.

"Don't worry, you're safe. She sanitises every surface of this place especially after Graham touches her shit."
"Hey! Asshole!" I hear Graham wine to Luke's words and I honestly don't know how they're not blood related brothers at this moment's

"So what's the problem." Teresas voice becomes more clearer making em realise her mask had been taken off.

"I knew she wouldn't want someone who would tell her mother. Someone she might depend on. But she has terrible trust issues-"
"Yeah terrible." Graham cuts in Luke's words.
"-so I called you hoping you wouldn't say anything."

"About what?"
She sounds so confused and the silence received back by the two of them must make her so anxious.
But I hear her heels clicking against the hardware of my floor until she reaches my room.

"Blake." My face is turned away as I hide under the covers not wanting or being able to move.
"Are you okay?"

"She won't tell me what happened. I just found her bruised." Luke begins to tell her as he stands by the doorway of my room and I feel her hand slowly grasp into my shoulder.

"Blake, can you tell us what happened?"
I wanted to. I just found it better to stay mute. I don't even know why I did.

My lips stay sealed until I find myself most vulnerable and comfortable to spit out a sound from my mouth.
Throughout these hours there was just a cassette in my head of all the kicks he threw into my abdomen.