Broken (The Siren Series #1) (10 page)

“
Dont
laugh, and don’t you dare tell Lilly.”

“
Damn
right I’m going to tell her.” I said through laughter.

We both
walked down the stairs and saw Lilly waiting for us at the bottom,
waving. I gave her a wave back and a smile. I tried to catch up
with Lilly at the bottom while trying to avoid the other
students.

“
Don’t you dare,
don’t listen to a word she tell you Lilly.” Becky called out on the
stairs.

“
What? whats going
on?” Lilly sounded
interested.

“
Mr Thomas heard us
talking about Googling answers and shamed Becky about it. She went
bright red as well.” I laughed.

Lilly started to
laugh along with me. “It’s not that funny, girls.” Becky called.
“Oi stop making fun of me, that’s all you’ve done
today.”

“
Who would do that
anyway?” Lilly said through laughter.

“
Becky would.” We
both said and burst into even more laughter.

I turned my head to
look at Becky who had her hands on her hips. Closer I looked and
could tell she was fighting the urge to burst into laughter with
us. My head turned back to Lilly and I could feel my smile fading.
Down the darkened hall, Beth was approaching. Her dark mischievous
eyes locked onto mine. Lilly must have noticed her because the
laugh died down and she stepped in front of me. I could feel the
anger and hate dripping off Beth as she got closer.

“
Oh I’m so sorry to
here about your aunt Ellie.” Beth said with such
sarcasm.

“
What do you want Beth.” Becky said who
was now next to me.

“
Just to say how sorry I am, that’s
all.” A sick smile formed on Beth’s lips. “It should have been you
Ellie.”

“
Bitch!” Becky shouted. Beth turned to
Becky and blew her a kiss.

I just stood there with my head down. Hoping
she would stop.

Becky readied her fist for Beth but Lilly
grabbed her before she could strike. Beth laughed at the failed
attempt.

“
I’ve heard that it was your fault that
she died, is it true?” Beth added. “Well since she was your family
I don’t really care if it was both of you. One down two to
go.”

“
You vile Bitch!” yelled
Lilly.

I just stood there while Beth spat her
poison. Lilly and Becky exchanged heated words between the three of
them. I was rooted to the spot while this
thing
spoke of me
,
I couldn’t do anything, and I wanted her to go away. Lilly
moved forward and pulled back her fist ready to hit Beth. Without
thinking I grabbed onto Lilly’s hand and a surge of anger rushed
through me. It fueled me and made my blood boil. I could feel
Lilly’s anger flowing through me, but how? I could also hear
Lilly’s deep thoughts; she wanted to hurt Beth badly. It scared me
a little until I saw Beth sickening smile again. What felt like
minutes was only mere seconds.

I let go of Lilly’s hand and quickly punched
Beth straight across the face, and my hand began to throb with
pain. Beth fell backwards losing her footing and fell to the floor.
She wiped her nose and saw blood. She stared at the red substance
on her hand and a huge grin formed on her face. Quickly she got up
from the floor and rushed straight at me. She reminded me of a
charging mad bull. Beth tackled me from the waist and sent me
straight to the floor, knocking the air from my lungs.

My old wounds screamed in pain along with new
ones. I fell onto my back, causing pain to shoot up and down my
body. Beth was on top of me ready to hit me for a second time.
Without thinking I latched onto her writs to stop her oncoming
blow. Like all the others I saw her face change in a flash. Beth
had a lustful look in her eyes, I could feel all her anger towards
me and deep down she wanted to kill me, this bitch was crazy. I
seized the opportunity and punched her straight in the face again
with my free hand, she rolled off of me and I quickly scrambled to
my feet.

While Beth was recovering from my punch I
noticed, around us we had a created a crowd of people cheering and
shouting. Lilly and Becky were also cheering me on. I quickly had
to ignore them because Beth had recovered and her face was thick
with blood, it did not bother her in the slightest. She ran at me
again screaming like a mad woman, I tried to prepare myself for
another one of her punches, but she caught me off guard. She pulled
me forward and brought her knee straight into my stomach and the
pain brought me to my down to my knees. I coughed and heaved
through the intense pain. Beth stood over me with her hands balled
into tight fists. There was nothing I could do. I was lying on the
floor doubled up in pain, and then from afar I heard a familiar
voice.

“
Break it up, break it up!” Mr. Thomas
shouted.

Beth didn’t care; she was ready to kick me
while I was down, until Lilly and Becky grabbed both her arms and
threw her to the wall.

Mr. Thomas was now around us and could see
Beth’s face covered with blood and me on the floor gasping in pain.
Soon the crowd began to disperse. Beth stared at me with eyes full
of hate, if Becky or Lilly didn’t stop her I would’ve be in real
danger.

Mr. Thomas held out his hand. “Are you ok
Ellie?”

I ignored it and steadily got to my feet. “I
think I need to go see the nurse.” I said.

He nodded and the turned to Beth. “What the
hell happened?”’ He demanded.

Before Beth could speak Lilly and Becky spoke
first. “She said disgusting things to Ellie, and then she went to
punch us.” They both lied.

“
What? It was the freak here wh..” Beth
was cut off.

“
What did you just say?” Mr. Thomas
asked.

“
I called her a..” again she was cut
off by Mr. Thomas. He slammed his hand hard against the wall next
to Beth. It made us all jump, even Beth. Seeing Mr. Thomas like
this was scary, maybe everyone does have a scary side to them. I
wonder if I have one?

“
Since coming to this school Beth, you
are nothing but trouble, come with me.” He said. “Girls can you
take Ellie to the nurse, and then take her to the Headmasters room
I’ll tell him what’s happened here.”

“
Yes sir.” They both said. Mr. Thomas
and Beth walked down the hallway before disappearing around a
corner.

“
You didn’t have to lie for me.” I said
clutching my sides.

“
Well the Bitch had it coming,” said
Becky. “Plus you had a few good shots in there. Did you see her
face, it was covered in blood.”

“
Oh and Lilly, I’m sorry about you know
what.” Remembering that I grabbed her hand.

“
It’s ok. It felt weird, not a good
weird or a bad weird, just weird.” said Lilly.

I dragged myself to the nurse office with
Becky and Lilly, lucky enough it wasn’t that far. Becky held open
the door and I shuffled my way into the nurse’s room. The nurse was
sitting in her chair looking at some papers before she noticed us,
the nurse was a plump little woman with short blonde hair with a
pudgy, but kind face, she was wearing a white skirt with a peach
colored top, and covering her top she wore a long white sleeved
cardigan. (What’s with all the cardigans lately)? Her room was
filled with medical posters of the human body in and out. In the
corner she had a human skeleton. It sent a shiver down my spine.
It’s weird to think we all look like that on the inside.

“
Nurse, we have a patient.” said
Lilly.

I wobbled my way to the nurse, carful of my
balance. The little woman shot up from her desk and hurried towards
me.

“
What’s happened?” She
asked.

“
Well this girl attacked our friend.”
said Lilly.

“
Bitch.” blurted Becky.

“
Language young lady.” the nurse told
Becky.

“
Sorry.” replied Becky.

“
Anyway, Ellie had a car accident a few
days ago and she’s still quite fragile.” Lilly said.

Lilly’s words made me wince. I did not want
someone to think of me as fragile.

“
Well pop yourself up here and let me
look at you.” The plump woman said.

I climbed up onto the table-chair’ thingy and
waited for her to examine me.

“
Right then.” She began. “Do you feel
sick, dizzy, what about blurred vision.” She asked.

“
No.” I replied.

“
Well that’s good, let me just.” The
nurse was about to touch my arm when from the end of the room Becky
and Lilly started shouting.

“
Don’t touch her.” They both
screeched.

The nurse stopped, she held her hands up as
if she was surrendering. “She uh doesn’t like to be touched.” Lilly
said quickly.

“
Okay then, so are you feeling any pain
at all then.” The nurse said.

“
Well it hurts when I breathe in and
out. I think I may have been winded, plus my burses hurt like a..”
She stopped me mid sentence.

“
Language.” The nurse said to me. She
continued “Well you need to slowly breathe in and out, in through
the nose out through the mouth, okay?”

I started slowly breathing with her
instructions. After a while I did feel a bit better.

“
Also my hand hurts.” I lifted my
bruised knuckles for the nurse to see. She carefully stayed her
distance but she looked over my hand.

“
Mm, it doesn’t look broken. Can you
move your fingers freely?” The nurse asked.

I did as she asked and freely moved my
fingers without much pain.

“
So who did this to you?” The nurse
asked.

“
It was that Bit..” the Nurse gave
Becky a stern look. “It was this girl called Beth, she’s a nasty
piece of work.”

“
I know of this girl and I agree. She’s
put a few people in here, disgusting girl.” said the
Nurse.

“
I think I’m feeling a bit better now.”
The nurse turned around after facing Becky and Lilly.

“
I’m glad.” She smiled. I carefully
jumped down the examination table. “You take care of yourself, and
if the pain doesn’t go away, you should book an
appointment with your doctor. And girls, look after each
other, no swearing. Ok.” The Nurse said.

While the Nurse was talking I noticed she had
the softest brown eye’s I’d ever seen. Her face had some deep
wrinkles but her eyes were youthful.

“
You too.” I said with a
smile.

I followed the girls out of the room.

“
You feeling any better?” Lilly
asked.

“
A little bit.” I replied. Again I
hated that question.

As Mr. Thomas demanded, we headed off to the
Headmasters room. God knows what’s waiting for me in there. In this
school, no matter what you did, you would try and avoid the
headmaster at all costs. That rule never applied to Bitch Beth.

I met the head when I first came to the
school. He introduced me around while I was with my Dad. He would
sometimes make speeches in the main hall to start off the school
day, and even then he scared me.

Walking down the corridor felt weird, like I
was walking to my doom. The halls were empty, devoid of students.
It was kinda’ scary, walking through the uneven lit hallways. The
three of us crept down to the Headmaster’s room like innocent young
teens solving a mystery. The three of us stood outside of the door.
No one dared knock.

“
Have you ever been in the Head’s
office?” I asked.

“
Well I have once.” Becky
said.

“
When?” replied Lilly.

“
He caught me and this boy kissing out
of class,” Becky said. “He ran off and left me to deal with him.”
Becky said pointing to the door.

“
What do you mean
this boy
? Didn’t you know his name?” asked
Lilly.

“
Um, no.” said Becky shyly. “I cannot
help it, plus he didn’t tell me his name.” She said vainly flipping
her silky hair.

“
Bloody hell Becky.” said
Lilly.

“
Anyway what was he like?” I wanted to
know the details.

“
He kept on trying to stick his tongue
in my mouth and licking my lips at the same time, it was horrible,
gross, he didn’t have a clue what he was doing.” Becky
replied.

“
No, not the boy,” I laughed. “The
Headmaster.” I started giggling.

All three of us were giggling too much to
notice that the Headmaster was standing by his door. He towered
over us with his mighty height.

“
Ellie Laveau.” he called.

Oh crap. We all shuffled into his office
avoiding his stern gaze. The Headmaster’s office was decorated with
cream walls. Wooden shelves were nailed to the walls with large
tome books sitting side by side. Frame documents littered one side
of the room to show his many achievements. Everything in the office
was neat and tidy, even the pencils were aligned neatly. Inside
there was a man sitting in one of the leather chairs with his back
to us. The mysterious man turned around. It was my Dad.

“
Dad?” I said surprised.

He didn’t answer back, he replied instead
with a disappointed look. This was the last thing he needed right
now. I was making life much more difficult for him. The three of us
sat in the chairs that were supplied for us. In front, stretched
out a mahogany coloured desk that dominated the room. The
Headmaster took his seat behind his masculine desk.