Take A Chance

Chapter 24

*Ember's Pov*

"Oh Char I am so sorry!" Phillip said after giving Charity a hug. She just smiled. I was in to much shock to speak. I felt a tear fall down my face.

This was to much.

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I woke up to see Phillip lying next to me. He was tossing and turning like no tomorrow.

I gently shook him getting more and more agitated that he wouldn't wake up. "Phillip!PHILLIP!" He shot up out of bed trembling and sweating.

"It was just a dream" I say as I go out of the room.

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When I got back to my room I picked out a comfy outfit and ran downstairs. Phillip had already left for the circus as there was a new oddity who had joined this morning

I called for a carriage and jumped in."Emb! Thank god your here!" Phillip said when he saw me. I ran up to him and gave him a kiss.

"What's wrong?"I ask extremely confused. Then a new person came up and spinned Phillip around facing her.

Then she looked at me with a judgy  look. "Who is that?" she says with sass.

I immediately look down at the ground. "Do you love Phillip?" she asked me randomly.

I slowly nodded without lifting my head up from the ground. Then she comes closer to me.

"Can I have a little 'girl chat' with you?" she asked me,the most innocent look on her face.

Without letting me answer she grabbed my elbow and pulled me out to the back. My head stayed down facing the ground.

"Look at me!" I hear her say,when we came to a stop out back. I slightly lifted my head. "Now let me ask you properly,do you love Phillip?" she says. I could hear the frustration in her voice.

I nod my head again,but this time more confidently. If Phillip loved this girl he wouldn't have come up and hugged me this morning. He wouldn't have let me sing my heart out in the air for him and wouldn't do that to me.

He loves me.

Now all I have to do is say that out loud. Suddenly my confidence shrunk again. What was I thinking? This girl is much more powerful than me. I kept my mouth shut.

"Do you really think Phillip could actually love you? Someone like you? Who acts like a monkey for fun? Who keeps her head down all the time because you are embarrassed about him?"

"I love him. He loves me and I am not embarrassed about him!." I said feeling myself shrinking more. Tears were pouring down my face but I was making no noise.

All of a sudden I feel a hand slap my face so hard she could have dented my face.

"HE DOESN'T LOVE YOU!" she shouts in my face. "That's not true!"I say in normal speech. She then kicks me in the stomach and punches my face. I feel blood run out my nose.

"YES IT IS!" she yells. "NO IT'S NOT!" I yell back at her. Then all of a sudden she smirked and lightly touched her lips. "That's not what he would've said when he kissed me this morning."

I'm taken aback. He wouldn't do this to me? He wouldn't kiss another girl? While I am thinking I feel fists and legs kick me everywhere all over my body but I can't stop thinking about that sentence.

Once she stopped beating me up my face was covered in bruises,blood and cuts. I was against a brick wall and I could feel the back of my neck was raw.

"What?" I ask almost in a whisper.
"Yep!" she said just smirking. Then my fist went straight into her face. She grabbed my neck and pushed me hard up against the wall.