Things We Lost To The FlΔmes (BΔSTILLE fanfic)

We Meet Δgain

I stood awkwardly in front of the counter at the ice cream shop. Ralph was ordering our ice creams, but the woman was looking at me. I looked to my shoes to attempt to avoid her stare. What was she looking at? Did I have something on my face? I quickly wiped my face with my sleeve just in case.

"Lily" Ralph called, snapping his fingers in front of my face, causing me to look up.

"Sorry what?" I looked at Ralph.

"Here you go" he laughed, handing me my bubblegum flavoured ice cream.

"Sorry, thanks" I smiled.

We walked out of the shop and into the park we were in earlier. We sat down on the same bench and continued to eat our ice creams. I looked up and saw a group of girls from my old school. It was Lydia, Erica, Molly and Ella. They were the "popular ones". I hated them with a passion. They used to bully me because I was an orphan. They were sat on the grass about two hundred yards away. I started to panic. If they saw me, they'd laugh at me and tease me.

I inspected them cautiously. Lydia had short brown hair which she had now dyed red, she was wearing denim hot pants, with thin black tights and a sleeveless blouse. I was completely shocked at her choice of outfit, as it was almost December.

Erica had blonde curly hair and dark brown eyes. She was wearing some ripped denim jeans with a band T-shirt on and a black hoodie over the top. Out of those four, she was the one I almost liked. We used to be good friends in primary school, but when we went to high school, she changed and got in with the wrong crowd. When she was on her own, she was alright, but when she was with the others she was horrible.

Molly had sandy brown straight hair and she had hazel eyes. She was wearing a pair of black leggings and a white blouse. It was very thin and you could see her bra, which was black, not a good choice.

Ella had fake blonde hair and bright blue eyes. she was wearing thick black leggings and a denim jacket, I couldn't see her top though. She looked the warmest out of all of them.

I didn't realise that Ralph was trying to talk to me until he snapped his fingers in front of my face again.

"Sorry" I muttered, looking at Ralph.

"Do you know them?" he asked, tilting his head towards the girls.

"Uh, they went to my old school" I mumbled, looking at the girls again.

"Were you friends?" he asked.

"No"

"Oh"

I finished my ice cream and needed to put my tissue in the bin. I sat for a few seconds debating whether or not to wait for Ralph, who was only half way through his ice cream. I looked at him and he looked at me. I smiled awkwardly and looked around for a bin. The only one was a few meters away from the girls. I began getting impatient with Ralph and myself. I needed to go to the bin, I didn't like holding this, it was sticky. I plucked up as much courage as I could and stood up.

"I'm just putting this in the bin" I smiled at Ralph.

"Okay" he smiled and went back to eating his ice cream.

I slowly made my way to the bin, tying not to get noticed. I realised that was a bad idea because if I was going slower, the longer they had to see me. I picked up my pace so I was almost running. I over heard their conversation as I neared the bin.

"Is that Ralph, from To Kill A King sitting on that bench?" Erica said.

I saw Erica turn and her eyes landed on me. I quickly threw the tissue into the bin and turned around. as I was making a hasty exit someone shouted.

"Oh look, its the little orphan"

I spun around and saw that it was Erica who shouted. I felt really angry and I felt like I was going to snap any minute now. I started to turn back around and walk to Ralph when I noticed that Erica was wearing TKAK T-shirt. I smirked and walked back to Ralph. I could feel their eyes on me as I walked away. I reached Ralph and took my original place on the bench next to him. He was just finishing his ice cream as I sat down. He turned to me and smiled.

"I'll be back in a second" he smiled, standing up and heading to the bin.

I looked over to the girls and saw Erica gawking at Ralph. Her eyes flicked to me and she smiled nastily. The look on her face said 'ha Ralph walked away from you'. I knew she thought that I was just a fan walking over to talk to Ralph and he walked away, this made me smirk. Her eyes moved back to Ralph and her eyes widened as he walked closer to them. He threw his tissue in the bin and began walking back over. Jealously flooded Erica's face and I looked at Ralph. He smiled and sat back down.

"So what do you want to do next?" he asked and I turned to face him.

"Um, I don't know" I looked at my shoes and played with the zip on my hoodie.

"Do you want to go to the arcade? There's one just up the road" Ralph asked and I looked up and he looked at me directly in the eyes. "Or we could go back to the flat?"

"Um, arcade?" I asked.

"Sure!" his face lit up and he got to his feet.

He held his hand out and I took it. He pulled me up and dropped my hand. We walked out of the park and I could feel four pairs of eyes on my back. We walked down the road and into a large arcade.

"Wow" I whispered, looking round the massive room.

"Cool isn't it?" Ralph laughed.

"Yeah" I laughed.

I suddenly realised that I didn't have any money.

"Ralph?"

Ralph turned to face me. "Yeah?"

"I don't have any money" I looked at my feet.

"Oh its okay, I have" he laughed.

"No, I can't let you pay again, you already bought me an ice cream" I said looking into his eyes.

"What? Lily, its fine, honestly, I don't mind" he smiled.

"But aren't arcades really expensive?" I asked.

"Naa its alright" he laughed.

"Are you sure?" I asked. I really didn't want him to pay, I felt so mean.

"Yeah! It's fine honestly Lily" he laughed

"Okay, thanks Ralph" I smiled.

"No problem, now come on, lets get out arcade on!" he laughed and ran to the little ticket office in the middle of the large room.

I ran over to him and he thanked the lady behind the till as she handed him a bag full of little blue tokens. I followed him over to the grabbing machines. He put a token in each one and instructed me to go on one of the machines. We laughed as we attempted to win the large stuffed animal by picking them up with the giant claws. These were a fix, there was no chance of winning. The odds of winning were about one in a million. I managed to pick up a giant Winnie The Pooh and I began squealing. Ralph turned to me and began shouting.

"Come on Lily! Keep that claw closed! Don't let it slip!" he shouted.

When the teddy dropped though the hole we both jumped around, squealing like we'd won the lottery or something.

"I won it!" I screamed.

"Get it out, get it out" Ralph laughed.

"Oh yeah" I laughed.

I kneeled on the floor and pushed on the flap that said "collect here". It opened and I pulled out the extremely large teddy. I stood back up and started laughing hysterically.

"Lil, you okay?" Ralph laughed.

"Dan is going to kill us if we bring this back" I laughed.

Ralph gasped and a large grin appeared on his face. I raised my eyebrows questioningly and his grin got wider.

"We should put it in his bed and when he gets back" Ralph stopped as he laughed. "It'll be so funny, please Lily can we do it?"

"Why are you asking me? You're the adult" I laughed. "Lets do it"

We stood laughing for a few minutes until I spotted Lydia, Erica, Molly and Ella. My face dropped as I noticed that they were with Alex, Ben and Ryan. Three more of the bullies. Ralph followed my gaze and he turned back to me, confused.

"Lily? Are you okay?" Ralph asked.

"Uh, yeah, I, uh, yes, I'm fine" I stuttered.

"Who are they?" he asked nodding to the seven new arrivals.

"Just some other people from my old school" I lied.

They were more than just other people. They were bullies, also the reason why I have a scar on my hip that no one but them knows about. Goosebumps appeared on my skin as the memory flooded in.

I walked cautiously down the corridor. It was the end of the day and my class had been let out early as our teacher was on bus duty. I headed the opposite way to the rest of my class to avoid the bullies. I turned the corner and headed towards the stairs.

My heart almost jumped out of my chest as I saw Alex and Ben walk up the stairs. I turned around and began to walk away when Molly and Lydia blocked my path. Erica and Ella walked up behind them. I spun around and saw Ryan with Alex and Ben.

Alex took a step to the side, as if he was letting me past. I held my breath as I saw Ben and Ryan do the same, creating an opening so I could pass. I took the advantage and speedily walked past them and onto the stairs. I heard laughs and footsteps coming from behind me. I avoided looking back and looked at the stairs in front of me.

Suddenly I felt someone shove my shoulder and I lost my balance. I tumbled down the hard stairs and the air was whipped out of my lungs as I hit the bottom step.

"Oh shit" I heard Alex say.

"Alex!" someone screamed.

"She wasn't supposed to fall!" he shouted.

"Go see if she's okay!" someone instructed. It sounded like Ella.

I heard someone running down the stairs and a tall figure towered over me. I tried to focus on who it was but my vision was blurred. I began to cry as I realised that I'd fallen down two flights of stairs.

"Lily? Shit, Lily are you okay?" they asked. I think it was Alex.

I felt a sharp pain on my hip. I managed to focus enough to see blood pouring out from my hip.

"Shit guys she's bleeding" Alex said. "Oh my god Lily, I'm so sorry" he said looking into my eyes.

"I'll get a teacher, I'll say she fell down the stairs" someone called.

I managed to sit up, with the help of Alex. He kept muttering apologies to me and it was really irritating.

"Shut up" I croaked.

"Sorry" he said.

"Just shut up and go away" I said firmly.

He opened his mouth to speak when Mr White burst through the doors and knelt down by my side. He shooed Alex and the others away and called an ambulance.

"Lily" Ralph stood in front of me and looked at me with sad eyes. "Are you okay? Oh! Don't cry!"

He brought me into a hug and I cried into his shoulder as the memories of all the things they'd done to me flooded back.

"What happened? Who are those people?" Ralph asked again.

"They used to bully me at school" I wiped the tears from my cheeks and looked down at my shoes.

"What? Why? You're amazing! Why would they bully you?" he asked.

"Because I was an orphan" I said quietly.

"Oh, Lily I'm so sorry" Ralph said.

"It's fine, it was a long time ago" I lied. It was only a month before Martin died, making it five months ago.

"Okay, come on, lets go on the slot machines" Ralph laughed.

We walked over to the slot machines and Ralph pulled out a handful of 2p coins and gave them to me. I smiled a thank you as he pulled another handful out and we began inserting them into the machine.


Hellooooo oh my gosh I still can't get over he fact that my story has 1.1K reads!!! Woop two updates in the same day yay! I'm not sure whether to make the characters of Molly, Lydia, Ella, Erica, Alex, Ryan and Ben bigger or just be in a few chapters here and there, comment what you think :):) thanks for reading :D