S.O.S

Chapter 11

Lauren looks unimpressed up, she was making her way out of school. As fast as she could, she didn't want to spent any minute longer than necessary in this hell hole.

But she finds her best friend standing in front of her with her earphones in her head. "Where do you think you're going girl." Dinah says shaking her head. "Home, like every normal person does after school."

"You're no fun," Dinah pouted, hooking her arms in Lauren and walking to the door, "you know we haven't had a lot of girl time lately."

"We went to the mall last week." It was an unpleasant memory in Lauren's mind. Some guy spilled his milkshake on her and she was sure he did it on purpose. She isn't sure where the bastard got the idea that spilling a drink on someone is a good pick up line.

"We should go again." Dinah shrieks, heey girl absolutely adored shopping. It was one of the many things Dinah loved and Lauren didn't. It's not that she hated it, but Dinah could always spent hours in the same shop when Lauren had seen everything in five minutes.

"I'm going to the drugstore." She announced, ready to go the opposite way of dinahs home. "Okay, fun." She definitely didn't give Lauren the chance to break apart. Instead she walked along with Lauren to the store.

"That wasn't an invitation." Lauren complained, but she couldn't help but smile a little at the end of her sentence.

"Look at me I don't need one." She gestured towards her body, even doing a little spin for Lauren. "And don't you think about cheating on this body."

"Cheat on you?" She questioned raising her eyebrows.

"Yeah you're right that's stupid." Lauren thought for a second hat Dinah agreed with her but it she realized her mistake when the Polynesian girl continued speaking.

"I mean look at me, you wouldn't find someone better." She bragged, flipping her hair back. Leave it to her best friend to be dramatic about everything, literally everything. Sometimes Lauren wondered how the two of them could ever be friends. 

Dinah was walking ahead of her already entering the store. And Lauren knows everybody in there knew Dinah entered too.

Even thought Lauren was completely on the other side of the store Dinah kept talking to her. Very loudly. She got a few pointed looks but Dinah never minded them, actually it satisfied her. She would always be extra nice to them, smiling brightly or starting a conversation.

"Damn girl, you just found out about the word hygiene?" Dinah questioned, peeping in her cart. Lauren scoffed, turning the cart away from Dinah's curious eyes.

"I just lost my toiletries."

"When?" Lauren didn't know how to answer, she didn't think her lie that much trough. Lucky enough Lauren had a hand of sarcastic comments she could always throw around.

"Well if I knew when and where I lost it, I would've got it back. Wouldn't I?"

After they payed for all the stuff Lauren walked Dinah home before going her own way. She can't believe how much she was dreading to get home.

All day during her classes she couldn't stop thinking about the brunette. She would check her phone every minute to make sure she didn't call, or text.

She almost wanted to call herself, to check if she was eating enough. If she said a few things, if she said something about her. But her pride and ego were in the way.

When she gets home, and knows how the girls day was, she wished she had called. And scolded Rose that she didn't.

When she got in Rose walked over to her in a fast pace. Dragging Lauren to the direction she came from. "You have to come with me."

Was she having a deja-vu, it all seemed familiar to her. 

Rose looked stressed, making Lauren's worry only grow. They stopped in front of the bathroom, joining a group of three girls.

"It's your girl, she has locked herself in the bathroom for a hour now." Lauren didn't have the time to ask any questions. She knew she had to get the brunette to open the door first.

Not that their story would match the brunette one. She knew she had to size up the situation with the girl. The situation would be totally different in their eyes than hers. And she needed hers to fix it.

"Can you give us a minute?" Lauren asked, making everybody nod and leave in silence.

It was just the two of them now. Lauren lifted her ear agains the doorway, hoping to hear a sound of the girl. She could a hear a quiet sob now and then.

"Hey," she called out, "its Lauren. Could you let me in?"

"Please?" She tried again. This time she hears some noise, but the door never opened. Instead Lauren was sure the girl was siting with her back agains the door.

She copied the girls actions, letting her head rest agains the wood. "I'm not leaving until I know you're okay."

Lauren kept her word and didn't leave for a second. Rose brought her diner for two. Only the second person still refused to open the door, so she ate it all alone.

Knocking, banging,talking, shouting. She tried it all. Still... no response. She was growing tired of it.

And you can take that literally too, there where a few occasions she dozed of. The uncomfortable position and that voice in the back of her mind caused her to not fall in a deep slumber. This time it wasn't her own voice that got her fully awake in a second, it was a voice form inside the bathroom. A scream from inside the bathroom. 

She quickly looked at her phone to see they already were in the wee small hours of the morning before asking the girl to open the door once again.

You could hear her scream once..twice...wait that was the third. Yes, three times she screamed.  Lauren kicked the door in frustration.

"If you don't open this now I'll storm in." Lauren warned. She didn't intend to wait around for another scream, that would've been the fourth. No the fifth, there was a fourth one that was a bit more faint in between. Lauren hit herself on the head to keep herself in focus.

What is this girl doing to me?

She was already stepping back to ram in the door until she could see shadows of feet under the doorway. Full of anticipation Lauren waited, she could hear a faint sound of a lock turning before the door shrieked open.

There was the girl, tears strained on her face. Lauren hurriedly skipped over, immediately taking her in her arms.

"It's okay." She whispered, stroking the girls hair. It was hard to keep her own eyes dry as the girl broke down in her arms. "He was here." The brunette sobbed, shivering in fear.

"No he wasn't."

"But I saw him, he-he talked to me." She stuttered

"What did he say?" It was the wrong question as the girl broke out in cries again. "He told me, he told me he killed y-you."

"No baby, I'm here okay. And I'm not leaving you. You are safe, I promise you." Lauren lifted her head on the girls scalp, holding her tight against her body.

Carefully she lifted the girl, carrying her bridal style to her room. They both were exhausted and needed some sleep to survive the next day. School was calling for her on 7:27 am already.