The Girl with Scarlet Wrists [Rewriting]

The Girl with Scarlet Wrists Chapter 18

Chapter18:

1 month until departure.

Layla's POV:

As I strolled up to the entrance of the place that I used to dread, I took a deep breath and opened the door.

The assistant at the front desk greeted me and pointed in the direction of the south wing.

"Good morning Layla, Welcome back. Jane is in her office." 

I nodded towards her taking off my sunglasses.

click click click

It's going to take me a while to get used to wearing this crazy monkey suit.

I turned into Jane's doorway. the office I'd seen too many times.

Flashback:

"Well Larissa you have quite a record. Uhbevc corporations? Quite impressive if I might say so my self."

"Yeah not so impressive when your parents have been murdered, and your not suppose to be alive is it?" I yanked against my restraints.

She flipped the page of my file. "You know if you showed some constraint you wouldn't have to wear those anymore." She added without looking at me.

I laughed. "Would you like to be chained to a chair against your will? You can't tell me that you wouldn't try to escape." I turned my head to the size analyzing her.

She smirked. "Yes but wouldn't you figure it'd be smarter to pretend like you had restraint for a little while so that you could get out of those? You see Larissa I was like you once. Not a cutter at first, a druggie, alcoholic, if you will.

I went through a lot tougher system.

They would lock you in this box, a sauna almost. For agonizing hours as the steam cleaned you from the inside out. When your throat hurt so much you scratched at it, wanting to rip it off your body. You feel like your head is about to explode and your nose won't stop running.

So yes I know what your going through and believe me I've lived it but you don't have to."

She didn't even look at me before exiting the room.

I screamed and pulled. I threatened and cursed at who? My self, my parents, Jane, anyone I could think of.

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I stepped into her office, and smoothed out my jacket before sitting in one of her deep lavender lounge chairs. Crossing my legs, a dark pump dangling from my left foot.

"I've been expecting you Larissa." Jane looked up at me and smiled. She stood handing a bottle of water to me.

"Thank you. I can finally say it's a pleasure to see you."

"Well Elizabeth has told me quite impeccable things abut you, and I believe a congratulations is in order." She smiled, returning to her desk and rummaging through the drawer.

"Well things have been taking a good turn so far."

"As I can see! Of course your outfit choice is one I would definitely approve of." She gestured towards my jacket and pants business suit and pumps. Elizabeth has given me a.... more of a book of etiquette and dress for a higher substantial place in the world.

"Well Elizabeth has set some pretty high standards and I plan on meeting them above par."

Jane's hand emerged with a little blue box, with a gold ribbon attached to it.

She placed it in my hand and I looked confused at it. "What is this...?"

"A present that I had to fish out of the past, but consider it your reward. Now go on, open it."

I delicately opened the blue box and inside was a solid gold pin about twice the size of a quarter. It had a interesting design on it. It was the letters UC with a hawk lying on top of the letters.

"Is this..?"

"The original pin to Uhbevc corporations. The new ones are quite ugly in my opinion."

She pinned it on to my jacket.

"Thank you Jane, for everything."

"ваш очень кстати. Береги себя." (Your quite welcome, take care.)

"I will."

********************************************** This is also new sorry about that again this is the last one :) ~Jaynet Stewart