-And I had come to the realization, that it was my blood...
I look at my left arm. There is blood flowing all the way down my arm. Its a real bad cut. Looks about 4 inches, or more, so that's pretty bad, and its rather deep
"What the fuck man" I sigh "that's an unfair Fight, where'd you get that blade?" I ask
"My dads a bikey" he says, cleaning his blade, Cruella is smiling contently to herself
"Its a fair blade, it nice" I say, can't help but say I have a fancy for knives and sharp things ok
"Ok then" he says
"But why pull a knife if its a fist fight?" I ask
"Because, there is no such thing as a fair fight" he drawls
"This isn't the end of this" I say
"At school, Monday" he says
"I can't promise I'll be there" I say
"If your not, your a coward" he says
"I'll try" I say "now I've got to go" I say and grab my bag with my good arm and walk away from them
"You shoulda stabbed her or something" curella whines
"I couldn't, I could only get her arm"he says
And that's the last of their conversation I heard
If I went home, no one would care, if anything mum would say "that's nice honey" or "ok sweetie" and nikkia, shed just laugh. I have blood literally every were on my left side, and there's not much I can do about it. Itll hurt fair enough later though, right now, I can't feel a thing.
That's it, I'll go to river. He said if I ever need anything to go to him. Hell care. He won't say "that's good honey" hell ask if I was ok. And that's all I want right now. Him to ask if I'm ok and to hug me.
Blood loss make you a bit light headed, and that's how I'm starting to feel now. But rivers house is just up a street away now so its not like I'll pass out or anything. I look at my arm. Blood is dripping off my hand but honestly. I don't care.
Good thing there weren't many people on the streets right now, but the people who were, they just stared at me and watched me walk.
+++ three minutes later +++
I'm on the porch of rivers house. I walk up to the door, dump my shit and I knock.
"Who is it?" A voice says, which I know belongs to river
"River its Tashana" I say quickly "um, I need help" I say
He opens the door real quick and looks at me
"Oh my god... Holy crap!" He says "come here quick" he ushers me inside
"Mum!" he calls out
"Yes river" she says
"I really need your help right now" he says, and within seconds Heart is there
"Hello" she smiles, then her expression changes "my dear, What happened? Your face"
"Oh, I didn't know about my face but its actually my arm that's the problem" I sorta laugh and she looks at my arm, gasps and goes wide eyed
"Oh sweetheart come here" she says ushering me to the kitchen
"How did that happen?" She asks
"Its a bit of a story" I shrug
"Well, good thing I like story's then" she says "now, can I get you to wash your arm under the tap?"
"Sure" I say an wash my arm, I was right about the cut, its like 4 inches and its quite deep
"Ok good, this will probably sting quite a bit dear, are you ok with that?" She asks holding a clear bottle with something in it
"Yep" I say
"Hey, just squeeze my hand if it hurts" river says grabbing my hand, and smiling his sweet smile
"Thanks river" I say quietly
Fucking hell, whatever she used did sting a bit, but to be honest, it was the least of my worries, I squeeze rivers hand a little
"Sorry sweetheart" she says, dabbing my arm with a cloth "hold this on it while I got get something to bind it with" she smiles
"Ok sweet" I smile back "hey river" I say
"Yeah"
"I'm real sorry for just coming on on you guys like this, like a lot just happened at home, so I packed my stuff and left, I was going to stay at the park like i usually do when shit hoes down, but this happened and I just really wanted to talk to someone and I though, since your like my only friend, that I'd talk to you, I'm really sorry" I say
"Aww Tashana, I dont care, if you ever jut want to talk or you need to get away from home, I'll always be here, and I'll always let you in" he smiles
"Your an angel river I swear" I say
"that's a pretty nasty cut there isn't it" she says and gets me to take the cloth off. Its still bleeding darn it. She puts something in it, and gets a clean cloth and puts it on then wraps it up with a bandage
"There we go" she smiles "that should be good for a while"
"Wow, thank you so much Heart, your a legend" I cheer
"Your very welcome dear, now your face, you have a bruise on the right side of your face, but its not to bad, but i can't do anything about that" she sighs
"Ah, a bruise is nothing" I shake it off
"How'd did you end up like this?" River asks
"Well, I'll start from the start" I say "when I got home, after you left, my sister started asking all sorts of questions about you. She asked whether you were single or not and I asked her what happened to her boyfriend, since she has a new one like every second day, and then I told her how she shouldn't care about boyfriends as for she's only 11 or 12 and how she should embrace the singleness and freedom to which she had a massive go at me and started telling me how ugly I am, how I'm only saying that because I've never had a boyfriend, and I dont have people lining up to date me like her, and how no one has ever liked me or asked me out, to which I asked her way she would purposely try to hurt me like that, and then said that if I died, would you even care? And she said no, if anything shed be happy so I told her she won't be seeing me for a long time so I went to my room, packed all the stuff I would need to take to the cabin onset and went to the park cuz I was going to just sleep there, because ive done it before right. I sat down against a tree and then saw Cruella and bodhi, that mean girl and her boyfriend you met earlier river, and they were like doing stuff" i say and make quotation marks with my fingers "and I just say simply to get a room and they didn't see me, so they didn't know it was me, then bodhi asked who was there, so i said your worst nightmare and climbed the tree, they didn't bother looking into the tree so they didn't see me still, so I said it again when they went back to the stuff, and finally revealed where I was, they called me a" I whisper in case his brother or sisters were around "cunt and bitch of all sorts then Cruella said that he should beat my ass, to which I said go ahead, my sister wants me dead, and i don't blame her, cuz I want to be too so it would if anything be a good thing so he says ok then, then I ask Cruella if she would instead of getting other people to fight her battles for her, and she says no so I said, if your gonna do this, you throw the first punch, because last time he said he would he didn't , but this time he threw the punch, I blocked and punched back, we had a punch up and he pulled a blade, nice one too, quite fancy, but I didn't know that he cut me antil he stepped back, I guess it was because of adrenaline. I complemented how nice his blade was and said I had to go because by then I had already got blood everywhere. And if I went home my family probably wouldn't realy care, my sister, shed laugh at me, and I figured you all are such caring people maybe you could help, in which I was right an very thankful for" I explain
"Oh you poor girl, did you want to stay here the night, you can head off with river to the studio tomorrow" heart smiles
"If its not too much trouble, if you dont mind, well yeah" I say
"Wonderful, your a nice girl, our home, its also your home" heart says
"Mum, can she stay in my room?" River asks
"Well, I dont see why not river" she smiles
"Thanks mum" river says
"Um, do you guys have the time?" I ask and Heart looks at her watch
"Its 8 o'clock" she says
"Ok well, we might go down to my room, get some sleep for tomorrow" river says
"Ok, goodnight guys" heart says
"Love you mum, goodnight" river says and hugs her
"Goodnight heart" I say and we go down to rivers room