Secret Keeper

Six

When I got into the drama theatre everyone was already there staring at me. There expressions were shocked. I'd tried to get most of the glitter from my uniform but i knew i'd be pulling glitter out of places i didn't even know it could get stuck.

"now that everyone's here start rehearsing, Ollie will you help out Riley." Mr Milne spoke while also looking shocked at me.

Ollie made his way towards me in his usual jolly walk. When he walked he kind of walked like a penguin it was weird. I went to put my bag on the bag rack and Ollie closely followed, I was still unsure why everyone was shocked.

"Come here." He said while grabbing my hand and leading me towards a chair in the corridor. My heart was beating fast. He had hold of my hand! "Wait here a sec." He quickly ran off towards the bathroom.

When he returned he had a wet paper towel in one hand and I'm not sure what was in the other.

"What's that?" I asked looking at what was in his hand.

"Ice." he replied moving the paper towel towards my face.

"What are you doing?" I said pulling away and leaning back.

"Stay still I'm wiping the blood of your face."

I leaned back forward and he brought the paper towel closer to my face. It was cold and I flinched and he laughed a little. We didn't speak it was silent and sort of awkward, until he spoke up.

"What happened?"

"I don't really wanna talk about it." I looked down to my shaky hands.

"Hey." He raised my chin with his hand so I was looking at him straight in the eyes and he clasped my hands in his, making me nervous. "It's gonna be okay."

I felt a tear slip from my left eye until it was wiped away by Ollies warm hand. I was confused he's never been like this before, he never seamed to be the caring type but my opinions have changed and I just liked him all the more.

"Don't think you'll need stitches, you might just wanna go to the nurse after lesson." He stood up and flicked some glitter of my sleeve and smiled.

After we returned to the classroom we continued to rehearse our script and added movement to it. It was coming along well, I was still so anxious about that one line in it. I held the ice on my bruised cheek while practicing. I did not want Liam to see it at all, it meant nothing because we were acting but I knew he would over exaggerate it, then go tell everyone at home.

The bell rang and everyone rushed to the bag rack to get there bags, I waited until the cluster had disappeared. I grabbed my bags and then looked towards the door to see Ollie walking out after shooting me a smile, I sent a smile back before exiting the classroom to get to PE.

I did think about going to the school nurse but i didn't want to miss netball and i'm not a wuss, so i carried on walking towards the changing locker to get me PE Kit.

I got in the changing rooms and saw Libby waiting for me. I hung my bags up and took my blazer off also hanging it up.

"Tell me what's up." Libby spoke while glaring at me.

"There's nothing up." I replied not looking up and continued to get changed into my PE kit.

"I'm not stupid Riley." I felt her eyes burning into my skull at this point. I didn't respond. "What did Jess say to you?" she reached for my hand prompting me to turn and face her.

"I don't wanna talk about it." I turned away again.

"Keeping it in isn't gonna help Riley, I get you don't wanna talk about it so I'm not going to force you. You know you can trust me right?"