Under pressure

45: Memories (Part 2)

Betty's POV

"Come on," mom says and lifts me o lie down on my bed.

"Mommy," I whine.

"No-o," she whines back. I giggle and she ducks me in.

Then she sits on the edge of my bed and starts stroking my hair with a sad smile as I close my eyes.

In only a few minutes, I'm asleep. She sighs and slides her hand over my hair for the last time and kisses my forehead. "Night baby," she whispers and gets up then.

Her phone rings and she quickly answers, "Yeah?" she asks quietly, sounding annoyed.

Somone tekls her something. Then she looks at me and rolls her eyes at the cealing. "Fine. But not at home.... I don't care where, you're not coming back."

"Yeah yeah, give me 15 minutes. Pops."

She kisses my hair again and goes out of the room.

The camera keeps playing.

"Should we skip some of it?" Cher asks carefully.

The others nod and Jason starts doing it. It only shows me sleeping for about half an hour I think. And then my eyes go open.

They scroll it back a little and then he hits play.

"Juggie," I whisper and unconciously snuggle closer to him. I look at him.

He's looking at me. "We can go somewhere else, if you-"

"No. Just say close to me," I whisper.

"Okay," he mumbles and kisses the top of my head holding me between his legs, his chin covering my head.

A loud bang. The thunder. My eyes shot open. Wide open. I look around the room in panic, sitting up.

Another bang. My nightlamp goes off. I start crying. Pretty loudly. Then my door opens. We can't see anything, but I start crying louder.

"Shh, Betty. It's just me," Collin says. He pulls the curtains away from my window. A light comes in a little. Our faces are seen now.

"Come here," he says and picks me up. He's 9, but I'm 5 and much shorter than him.

I wrap my legs and arms around him and he kisses my hair, soothing down my cries.

"Look at the moon. It's beautiful, right?" he asks, holding me in front of the window.

I nod, but keep crying. The moon and the stars are the only thing what's showing some light at us. And then there are steps. Collin quickly turns around with me.

"Stop stop stop," I say anxiously and Chic stops. I feel all the eyes on me.
I open my mouth to say something but nothing comes out.

"Come on," Jug says to me quietly and starts standing up with me.

"No," I say and he sighs, not getting what I want. "Just.. Give me a minute. Maybe we can see her face."

"Whose face?" Jelly asks.

We look at her. She knows everything anyways. I gulp, "Her."

"Betts, you okay now?" Chic asks.

"Uh.. Yeah, I guess," I mumble. He puts it back on.

"Collin," I cry. He looks at me for a second and then back at the door, looking scared.

"I'm scared," I sob.