Cotton Candy

Chapter Three:

        Candy's P.O.V

My head felt dizzy, my mind racing. Time seemed to have stopped as they stared at me. Slowly my gaze shifted to my lap away from the intense stares coming from eveyone else in the room. How long have I been gone? How long have they known? Whats going to happen now? What will they do? Questions keep popping up inside my head. "H-how long?" My voice shook. Sally looked up at me, still sitting on the bed with me. I felt glad, relieved even that she didn't leave my side. Still though, I could not look anyone in the eyes. Honeslty I don't even know why. I just felt so ashamed that I didn't tell them sooner, or myself. . 

"You were only gone for about four months." Four months!? Shocked I finally glanced up with wide eyes, L.J looked towards me with a mischevious grin and then disappeared in a puff of black smoke. My mouth opened up to speak, but no words came out from my jumpled up mind. 

Sally gave me a small smile to try and comfort me. After a second of tense silence Slendy appeared and 'looked' around the room. Most people in the room simply nodded and left. Leaving me alone with Sally, Flo-chan, Charlie, BEN, and Jeff. 

"Sally." Slendy's voice sounded deep, and demanding. She got up un-willingly and speed walked out the door. Once the door closed I looked up at Florence, Slendy followed after Sally, I swear he can be a ninja. I tall. Very tall ninja. Flo-chan's face broke out into a wide grin, I raised an eye-brow at her in confusion.

"What?" I asked her. She just smiled wider. Oh no. . . She is definitly up to something. What's about to happen?

"Ohhh nothingggg." After she basically sang that, then skipped, litteraly skipped, out of the room. I turned over to look at Jeff, but only to see him and Charlie glaring at each other. My eye-brow rose for the second time that day. Oh yeah. . The conversation. I sighed and finally spoke.

"I heard the conversation." Both Jeff's and Charlie's heads snapped in my direction, wide-eyed. Florence came back just in time before things got really awkward and tense. Holding some clothes in her hand, she froze, glancing around all of us, obviously confsed. 

"Uh, I um. . . Thought you might want your own clothes to wear. . . D-did they tell you?" Florenece's voice stuttered and crakced a little showing just how nervous she is. So she knew? I guess that what I get for getting kidnapped. . . Well fuck. 

I shook my head no. "They didn't tell me, I heard." Florence's mouth dropped open in surprise creating the perfect circle. A small 'oh' escaped her lips. Slowly I got up off the bed and hopped down. Shivers run down my spine when the cold tile floor made contact with my bare feet. The white gown going down to my mid-thigh, all of the wires and cords connected to my arms came un-done and fell, I reached out and took the clothes from Florence giving her a small thanks then walked into the small attached bathroom. 

Anger boiled my blood as I looked into the mirror, my hair now mostly black, barely purple at the top. Only my left eye remaining green, the other a bright yellow.  Bottling up my anger I slipped off the gown and ugly underwear and put on the black lace panties with the matching bra. At least Florence grabbed my favorite pair. Then happily put on the black skinny jeans and smiled brightly at the Black Veil Brides T-shirt, it clung to my skin perfectly. 

No one was in the room when I stepped out, just Liz relaxing on the very un-comfortable, now made bed. Scooping her up I left and started going to my room. Nearly dropping Liz in surprise. Sitting on my bed is a bunch of presents. Some colorful, but mainly dark colors. Typical. "Should be happy." L.J stepped out from the shadows in my room. "We don't usually celebrate Christmas, but we figured to get you gifts. So you knew how much we care and worry about you. You mean a lot to us Candy. Your family now." Setting Liz down I ran to L.J and engulfed him in a big hug, my arms around his neck and clingly tightly. It caught him off guard but he was still able to make sure not to let us fall over.