Red and Green

Chapter Thirteen- Does it Really need Saying? ( + epilogue )

Chapter Thirteen - Does it really need saying?

Violet shook Jake roughly. She was angry at him. Angry at him for leaving her.

“JAKE!” she screamed again, tears cascading down her face. 

She tore away the sleeve of his shirt. The emerald green fabric was stained red with his blood.

The bullet wound had entered his right bicep and left a gaping wound in it’s place.

Violet placed a trembling hand against his chest. His heart was beating softly. Maybe he was just injured. 

Violet gulped and shivered in the rain. Was he breathing?

She leant forward and listened for the rhythm of his breathing, for the warmth of his breath on her cheek. Violet began to fret again. She couldn’t feel anything. She didn’t know how to perform CPR! 

Another wave of tears began to stream down her cheeks. 

The young “Red” edged the side of her face slightly closer to Jake’s mouth.

She was so desperate to hear his breathing that her own was loud and rugged. 

Violet almost swore she could hear the softest breaths against her face but she was positive that was her mind playing cruel tricks on her. 

It wasn’t until she felt his soft lips press against her cheek that she turned to look at Jake once more. His eyes were closed but his breathing was clearer. Steadily he inhaled and breathed out the moist Spring air. 

“Violet?” He breathed, screwing his face up in pain.

Violet whimpered. She didn’t want to have to say good-bye.

“y-yes?” she blubbered.

There was a silence while Jake tried to gain enough strength to speak.

“Did you call 911?” he grunted.

“Oh!”

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Violet paced anxiously up and down the corridor. Occasionally she would stop and jump into the air to try and see through the window. But unfortunately, despite her efforts, the window was too high up.

The young woman was beginning to get strange looks from people. 

The paint had run a little under the rain but the stripes of red that covered Violet’s body were still clearly visible. Bitterly she collapsed in a chair beside the door and cried. This was all her fault. She should have called an ambulance straight away. Bronte died instantly but she still had time to save Jake.

Violet shivered in the damp material of her dress. Nurses and doctors persisted in trying to force her in to having her burns looked at. Some of them were ‘quite severe’ they told her. But Violet wasn’t having any of it.

The clock ticked twice as slowly as Violet sobbed quietly outside Jake’s room. 

She’d been waiting there for almost eight hours before a balding man with hazel eyes, finally emerged. 

Violet opened her mouth to ask how he was but the doctor beat her to it.

“He’s going to be alright.” he smiled. “The bullet only damaged skin and muscle tissue. Nothing vital was harmed. He was lucky.” 

The doctor smiled once more at Violet and turned to walk away.

“WAIT!” Violet shouted at him a little more aggressively than intended.

“uh.. yes?” The doctor replied slightly alarmed.

“C-can i.. see him?” 

The man didn’t try to mask his puzzled look when he looked back at Violet. She was painted like a red tiger, soaking wet and dotted with grazes and burns.

“Fine.” he smiled again. “Make sure he rests!” 

In an instant Violet was through the door and at Jake’s side.

He looked alert and a little nervous.

“I was worried about you!” he remarked.

“Your’e the one who got shot!” she laughed, despite the true horror underneath her retort.

“True” he sighed, too exhausted to argue.

Violet sat down awkwardly at the foot of the bed. 

“What did you say.... at the lake?” Jake muttered, smiling slyly as he watched a blush burning on Violet’s cheeks. 

“Oh...” Violet looked down. “ Well... i just said..”

Violet gulped trying to gather the courage to tell Jake. What if he didn’t feel the same way?

“Does it really need saying?” Violet mumbled shyly.

Jake knew what she meant. It was already obvious they had strong feelings for each other.

Jake nodded his head. 

“I.......................... love-you...” came the tiniest voice Jake had ever heard.

Jake Green grinned and pulled his girlfriend into a tight hug. It hurt his arm a little but he didn’t mind. 

“I Love you too” he said as cooly as he possibly could while still trying to hide a faint blush. 

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Epilogue-

As soon as the red banner touched Alison’s shoulders she stood.

As she had secretly planned, A man with a green flag entered to a room full of gasps.

Alison smiled at him.

“This is over.” she announced, addressing the ‘Reds’ in the room as their leader. “No longer will you have to live in fear. No longer will you have to harm others.”

Smiling at the wide eyes that stared at her, Alison continued proudly.

“We are not sheep in a flock.” she frowned a little. “We have our own minds and our own dreams.”

“There is no need to run because the words i speak you must follow.”

Alison gestured at the ‘Green’ leader to come forward.

“The same goes for the ‘Greens’.”

“They share our pain. Our frustration. We are alike. We live by the same rules and day by day we follow the same routines. But our routine is no longer to kill eachother”

“As my first and last act as leader of the ‘Red’ clan.... I grant you... freedom.”

The room was shocked into awed silence. But slowly, bit by bit, people stood. They clapped. And soon everyone in the room was cheering and hugging each other. It had just dawned on them that they could live the rest of their lives in peace. 

The doors opened and as planned, two more people entered. A man and a woman. Their hands grasped each other as they walked towards Alison. 

When they reached the front of the room, the chocolate haired woman turned to the platinum blonde man. 

“We’re home Jake.” she whispered under her breath.

Jake looked up at the manor. It had been rebuilt twice as large after the fire. He turned back to Violet.

“I know....” he grinned widely and then slowly added his new favourite words..; “Mrs Green”

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