The Woman of War

Five

Basket Case by Green Day

" Sometimes I give myself the creeps

Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up

I think I'm cracking up"

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*Ashton's POV*

"Bella! Bella! If you don't answer in the next ten seconds, I'm coming in there!" I screamed from outside the bathroom door as I slammed my hands against the wood.

"Ash, we need to go, like right now," Landon grabbed onto the sleeve of my shirt, anxiously as his eyes darted up and down the hallway.

"No, I'm going to help her," I demanded as I pushed my way into the girls bathroom.

As I stepped around the slight wall to see Bella. She was standing up, facing the bathroom mirror, as her brown hair was covering her eyes. She was making the slightest sound, as she began to lightly rock back and forth while moving side to side. The air in the room was stale and I felt like I was standing in the middle of a room made of balancing glass; One wrong move and everything will fall apart around us.

In that moment, Landon busted through the door in a full on sprint as he ran into me as he screamed "Ashton! What's going on?"

Shushing him instantaneously, Bella's murmuring grew louder as her body seemed to sway more as if she was asleep standing up. Landon and I have all our attention focused on her, as Landon whispers in my ear "What the fuck is she doing?"

"I don't know, but I'm going to find out," my confidence levels going higher than usual as I took slow steps towards her.

Landon whispered at me to stop, but I ignored him as I took another slow step towards her as I questioned softly "Bella?"

Her murmuring grew comprehensible as I heard her saying her latin saying. With four more slow steps, I was only inches away from her as I touched her shoulder as I whispered "Are you okay, princess?"

As if I had hit a reflex, her head snapped up as her eyes were wide open. She was staring at herself in the mirror as I noticed her gunmetal blue eyes turning black as she began to chant something the human ear could never understand.

Trying to touch her again her voice went deep, as if a demon had taken control of her body, as she screamed "lux in caelo in tenebris inferni" before I heard the shattering of glass along the floor.

My eyes were going everywhere as I watched Bella fall to the floor, as she looked like she had just passed out. Running to her side, her eyes slightly began to open as she murmured "What happened?"

"I don't know, princess. Whatever you did, it was freaking," I laughed slightly as I placed my hand on her back, while I helped her up.

As she sat up, I noticed her eyes grow wide as she scurried back against the stall while her lip began to quiver. With my hands on her knees, I tried to look at her in the eyes as she kept trying look behind me as I questioned "What's wrong, Bel? What is it?"