Falling All Over Again

14.0 | ah, to no avail

Make sure to read chapter 13.0 first! I uploaded two today :)

"WHAT THE HELL are you doing here?" Em remarks rudely.

I stare, Alice picks at her nails and Sara watches on from the sidelines.

"Oh, um, well, Savvanah and I have Classics together and she invited me here to hang out with you guys tonight," she finishes with an almost questioning statement.

I turn at accusatory glare towards Sav. I'm with Em on this one. We already have Sara here which is bad enough, and we don't need someone like Stella Hawkins here to create even more drama.

"Why?" Em demands to Sav.

I raise an eyebrow, "Yeah, why?"

Caleb and Noah don similar expressions of an unimpressed look, while Arlo looks as though he's just seen an angel. Stupid horny boy.

"Well, the boys in the room were jeering, the girls were laughing and taking photos and I was just sick of seeing them doing that to her. For God's sake, this could have been any one of us in her position," she finishes, holding eye contact with each of us as she moves her eyes around the room, getting her point across.

It's true. Incriminating photos of any of us could have been let out, but no one would dare act towards us the way they're acting towards Stella.

"How did we not hear about this earlier then?" Noah asks her suspiciously.

"Y'all weren't at school? Remember? I was the only one who actually showed up on Friday?"

Oh yeah. Sav went to school.

"Whatever. We had a good reason," Em says angrily. She's really against letting other people in, and I can see why after Sara. Speak of the bitch, she's been standing over there quietly before she decides to speak up; "Come on guys, she's been through a lot."

Though I agree with the statement, Sara has no pull in this group. Who the fuck does she think she is, talking as if we're friends.

"Shut up."

"That was a bit rude," she turns her nose up at me.

I took a step forward and was about to fucking fight this bitch, but Noah instead spoke what we were all thinking.

"Sara, we aren't your friends. You may have our tattoo, but you're nowhere near becoming one of us. You joined like one week ago. You don't have a say, so just shut your mouth until someone directly talks to you. You're lucky to even be here."

Why the hell are we even putting up with her here. Clearly, she's unwanted by most, so why are we putting ourselves through this?

Sara looked ready to fight but now decided to wisely take Noah's advice and keep quiet.

"I'm tired of this," Alice sighs dramatically. "Let's just go to bed."

So we all get ready and go to bed. An early, surprisingly alcohol-free night for us.

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I wake up with a start, once again. I groan. I have got to sort out these problems, at least go to the doctor and get some sleeping pills so I can actually sleep the whole night.

I sit up, and feel my hand around for the cup next to my bed, before noticing something. Four of the nine beds are empty.

Is there a secret meeting I wasn't informed about?

Noah's still sound asleep, on the mattress next to mine, as well as Em on my other side. Arlo's lying asleep next to Noah, and Stella is also still her in the bed next to where Sara should be.