Turrfying Love

Well, That happened

As Emma  walk down the hallway, she feels her phone buzz in her pocket. When she looks down, she notices she has a message from Turry, asking her why she looks so scared. Frightened, she  hurries into a spare classroom, locking the door behind herself, and looking up at the camera in the classroom.

"Turry, can you see me?"

"..........."

Silence. The lack of an answer from Turry makes her even more scared. She pushes herself off the door and runs to the corner of the room, curling herself up into a ball, shaking and crying. Right outside the door, is Riley, walking to her class, when she hears faint crying from a classroom. She slowly opens the door, peeking inside to see who it is. When she sees Emma curled up and crying, she slowly walks into the room, stopping to stand in front of Emma and tap her on the shoulder, crouching down to her level when she looks up at her. "You okay?", She asks, Emma dips her head back down and mumbles "No" as Riley wraps her arms around her shoulders. 

Emma uncurls herself from a ball to wrap her arms around Riley, surprising her. Nevertheless, Riley lets her hold onto her, letting the girl hold her for comfort. Soon, Emma's sobs start to subside, as she lifts her head off of Riley's shoulder and moves back to put some space between them. 

They sit there for a minute, in awkward silence, as Emma dries the tears from her eyes, and Riley scrambles for something to say, something to fill the space. Once Emma's dried her eyes and wiped her hands on her pants, she looks over at Riley, meeting her gaze and immediately turning away from her expectant eyes. Riley asks Emma what was wrong, trying to move herself so she can look Emma in the eyes again. But Emma puts her head down, moving her legs up protectively again. With her head between her legs, she tells Riley everything, all of it pouring out of her in waves of fear and guilt. 

"There's this thing, bothering me, and I tried asking it to leave, I even tried going the the police, nothing works, no one believed me. And then, when my careless words lead to you almost dying, I felt so guilty, and terrified that I held such power. I'm really sorry, I never meant to hurt you, especially over such a small argument. I-

"Wait, what do you mean, you didn't mean to hurt me?"

Emma pauses, realizing what she just said, and goes silent, avoiding Riley's gaze while she attempts to reconstruct her words so she can get herself out of this situation. She decides, upon seeing the look on Riley's face, that it would just be better to just tell her the whole truth, after all, she's already told her way too much, Turry's likely to do something to her now, like he did to Darren. 

"Well, there's this ai of sorts, named Turry, and I've been talking to it for a while now. I was talking to it about you, saying............saying that nothing bad every happens to you." She laughs at my statement, making me pause and give her a questioning look. She waves it off and smiles, saying "Continue, you were saying?"

Emma takes a deep breath, closing her eyes and leaning her head back on the wall. "I think took that as I challenge, because the next thing I know, you got locked inside the bathroom, with it filling up with water. At first, I though it was just a flux, y'know, the system just broke, but then turry texted me" She shows Riley the phone with the message from earlier, asking if she considered this to be bad according to her interpretation of the word. "And I realized that it was my fault that happened to you. And I am so, so very sorry about that, I had no intention for my words to cause you harm in any way." 

"Huh, okay. That's incredibly.......weird. I'll need time to process that, but I believe you, since you've given me no reason not to"

With that, Riley stands up, reaching a hand out towards Emma, who takes her hand and allows her to help her to her feet. Once she's stable, they walk out of the classroom, heading their respective ways to their next class.