thantophobia ; enoch

XII

hayley's point of view /

The note didn't give us much to work with. All she said was she had to go away for a while, but Emma told us that, that was not like her at all. She also said she was going to be going back for a while, and she will be far away. That was it. Nothing else. We all looked at each other, out facial expressions speaking for themselves. Jake then looked into the main living room, and motioned his head in that direction.

We all looked over, all the children sitting, chatting amongst themselves. We knew they were probably scared, and us being older, we knew we had to do something. We walked in the small room, Horace already sitting in his chair. Enoch told his to attach his eye piece, and so he did. Emma turned out the lights, and Jake, Olive and I make our way to our seats. I sat next to Fiona, a seat left on the end, I hoped Enoch would sit there. He made his way over to the seat I wished he would take, and a smile crept upon my face.

I looked across the room, Olive did give a dirty look. It did bother me, but not that much, as I did win this small battle. A projection soon appeared, as we all watched Horace's dream.

Almost on command, Miss Peregrine appeared, her face full of fear. She was quickly writing on a small piece of paper, and sticking it under the placemat ; that was the note. She then disappeared.

A new set of people took up the screen. It showed two teens, both girls. The first was Olive, no questions asked, but the other was not so recognizable. Both Emma and I had blonde hair. But as the perspective changed, it was clear it was me.

We then started talking, which turned into fighting, a full on fight. Then that went off the screen. It was Enoch, and someone else. The perspective changed again, to show my body wrapped in his arms. My eyes were bloodshot and a towel accompanied my arms. It look like I had been crying, and then all of a sudden, he leaned in, kissing me.

I don't know why, but that made both Enoch and I shift uncomfortably in our seats. I then looked up at Olive, her expression sad. She looked as if she were fighting back tears. In that moment, out of this whole time of me hating her, I felt something I didn't think I would ever feel towards her. I felt sad. I thought to myself as another part of Horace's dream played, it was his " clothes " portion.

My eyes were glued on Olive, her fingers wiped away some tears that fell. I felt bad. I knew what she was feeling. I knew what it was like to see a new girl take away the " love of your life. "

I took into consideration something I didn't before. I did take away something from Olive. I took away the attention Enoch gave her. My attention then switched from Olive to my fingertips.

I felt bad, I really did. Enoch noticed, as he leaned over to whisper in my ear, " Want to talk? "

I just shook my head. " No. "

He then returned to the projection. I did get up however. The feeling of guilt overtook my body.

Soon, Horace's dream projections ended, and Emma started to look for me. I just went to my room, which was the first place she looked.

" You okay " she said, opening the door a smidge.

I said yeah, getting up to go back downstairs. " Need a hug? "

I just nodded my head. She took my body into hers. I don't know why, but tears started rolling down my face. I felt so bad, so bad for Olive. I got in between her and Enoch, so much that she hated me. I deserved everything she did to me. She loved him, and I took him away from her.

I did love Enoch, but I knew how badly I messed up, and I knew what I had to do.

Emma and I then made our way downstairs. We met up with the rest of the children, Jake telling the children what was going to happen.

" Okay, so you guys are going to be under the care of Hayley, Enoch, and Olive. All of you except for Horace, the Twins, and Hugh. You guys will come with Emma and I, we are going to try our best to look for Miss Peregrine. "

Everyone seemed to then become out of control.

" If we leave our loop, we could age! "

" Who will be here to kill the Hollowgast! "

" How will we survive! "

" Who will be here to do reset! "

All the questions were shot across the room, almost at a rapid fire pace. Jake started to rub his temples.

" Enough! "

All the children became quiet, a science filling up the room. " We are going to go into contact with a new ymbrine,  for the time being, you might have a new caretaker. She will be the one to do reset. Today, I will try and kill the Hollowgast, and I will teach Enoch how to kill it, and when to do it. And yes, we will age, but as each day passes, it will be only a little bit. We will be back in five days, and we will take new people. Sounds like a plan? "

Everyone was unsure, we didn't know if this plan was going to work out as easily as he was telling it.

We all just nodded, all uneasy, but Jake was set on his plan, and so we went into motion, carrying out with his plan, one step at a time.

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a/n : okay this update is really shitty, i understand. i am going to start a new chapter when i get home in school. also, yes, i did update this chapter in school because #rebel am i right?? 

also, i will edit it when i get home, just wanted to get something up because i'm so close to 4k reads, which is so amazing. like, when it hits 5k reads i will cry :)

xoxo 

katie