11 11. To Lose A Fight...

Chapter 11

Marly rushed over at the sight of Ryela and gave her a big hug. "I was worried sick about you!" She huffed finally letting go. Ryela opens up for just a split second and hugs her back; she was too depressed to say anything back or be excited she was okay. Marly laid her hand on Ryela's shoulder in stress and then she realized. Her view was snatched at the sight of the restraints. "I'm so sorry..." She begged, grabbing Ryela's hand.

"It fine." She breathed looking down. Ryela still being shook up about everything that happened, went and sat on her bed.

Marly and Natalie made their way to Ryela's bed and sat down next to her. "Want to talk about it?" insisted Marly.

A wall of silence hit the kids as they sat there quietly. Ryela glanced down at her wrist where the horrid restraints sit and gave a sigh. "What did Henry say to you?"

"Henry?" questioned Natalie. "Oh, we can't use our abilities until this week is over. If we get caught using them then we get restraints."

"Which makes no sense 'cause it's just like restraints. Just without the tacky medal." sighed Marly.

The kids again sat in silence, and Ryela's thoughts blew around in her head like a tornado. With so many assumptions popping in her mind she questioned. "Does Henry hate me?" sighed Ryela.

"No, he's always been that hateful since..." Marly gulped, "...since his wife died...Why do you ask?" She asked, staring off topic.

"He could have given me the same thing... but he gives me restraints."

"He probably doesn't trust you." reasoned Natalie.

"So I've heard," smirked Ryela.

"I'm sorry, Rye..." sympathized Marly.

"Don't be... at least now I can't hurt anyone anymore..." Ryela looked down at the restraints and a cold shiver swarmed her body. She closed her eyes hard and was about to open, but an unwelcome picture invaded her mind. She flared her eyebrows as she saw a shadowed man walk up to her. The man raised his mighty, terrorising hand to her directed and began to swing, but right before he hit her, Ryela threw open her eyes. Her whole body flinched and she shook the bed.

"Hey, are you okay, Rye?" Marly questioned as Natalie placed her hand on Ryela's shoulder.

She jerked in fear and stood up. She quickly wiped away tears and put up a front. "Y- yeah, I'm fine. I- I think I'm just going to head to the kitchen... dinner is supposed to be served soon.

The girls looked at her in worry as she opened the bedroom door and went out.

Ryela made her way to the Cafeteria and sat down at her team table. No one was there yet, so she sat there alone. Everything around her was quiet, but it was like a thunderstorm of painful emotions surging in her head. She gently placed her head on the table and locked her eyes. Voices came in left and right making her puzzle everything. 'You don't belong here... You are dangerous... You are a weaponry of destruction... You are nothing more than the hell hole you crawled out of!...' She achingly tried reeling those terrorizing voices out of her head, but they didn't want to go. So she began to consider: 'Maybe it's not such a bad thing I have these on. I can't hurt people now...' The voices in her head worked to oppose her thoughts. They went back and forth creating a severe migraine. She squeezed her eye shut more, for she couldn't handle the torture. 'She did this to herself, William...' She had enough of those voices and couldn't handle, so she jerked her head back up and forcefully strained her eyes to focus on her surroundings, and she finally came back to reality.

"Hey, prick!" bellowed a voice down the room.Ryela turned around in panic as hothead Jake stormed her way with his friend Mike following close behind. "So I heard you got a new accessory?" He smirked looking at her restraints.

"Nothing permanent..." She reassured, standing up and facing him.

"If you keep acting like a fool they will be."

Ryela rolled her eyes and began to walk off, and under her breath, she said, "Fine, I'll try not to act like you all week."

Being completely oblivious that Jake heard her, she kept on walking. Jake being swarmed in anger snatched his hand back and hurled it forward, coming with it, was a blazing flame that scorched the back of Ryela's shoulder.

Ryela yelled in agony as she collapsed to the ground and took hold of her wounded arm. It wasn't too bad but it left Ryela with a raw, bloody shoulder and Jake hovering over her.

No one was around at the time besides a few kids that neglected what was going on. "What did you say?" Jake threatened, getting closer to her.

"I said piss off, idiot." she coughed wiping off blood.

"Oh, you're getting bold now aren't you?" He smirked, grabbing the collar of her shirt and lifting her up. "You may want to realize who you're talking to." He activated his ability and his eye gleamed like an intense amber jewel.

"Take your own advice, Jake." A voice rose up.

Jake and his friend turned their view to where the voice came from, and there stood Gabe with his friends behind him. "You may want to realize who you're talking to."

Jake scoffed at the sound of Gabe's remark. "Ha, you mean the weakling? What is she going to do?" He smirked and let go of her collar. She collapsed to the ground in pain, but before she could hit her head Gabe sped over and tenderly slid his hand beneath her head.

"You okay?" He concerned, helping her up.

She tightened her grip on her sore arm and said, "Yeah, I'm fine."

Marly came over and sat Ryela down, and made sure she as ok.

"Hey, it's ok. Just ignore him," Marly muttered, trying to drop the fight. But Gabe gave a fierce glare that sent a shiver down her spine. "Look I don't like to drop down from a fight either... But we can't win this one." She whispered as she went back over to Ryela.

Gabe looked over at Ryela and back at Jake, and there he stood with pride on his back and a smirk on his face. Infuriated in anger, Gabe marches over to Jake. "If you even look at her a certain way, I swear-"

"What, champ? Your nothing without your ability," he smirked, "Hate to break it to you, King....but if you make me mad, then you and your friends will be target practice for me all week." He taunted shoving Gabe back.

In anger, Gabe clenched his fist, and he shot an intense glare that pierced all that saw it. With a huge sigh, he released his grasp.

"That's what I thought," scoffed Jake, "but I think I'm missing something." He taunted leaning in.

Gabe looked down and squeezed his lips shut. So Marly took a deep breath and spat out for him, "All right... you win."

"Ah, that's better." He mocked walking by his friend. "Let's go." He commanded and soon they were off on their way.

After that Izon gave a quick check up on Ryela. "All those lab days are finally pay off." joked Izon as he looked over her burn. "Nothing too bad. Probably should take her to the doc' though... maybe get an anesthetic shot," explained Izon.

Ryela's eyes widened in horror, but Izon continued to explain, "You know actually, he's been working on a new one. He has this new serum that can heal someone completely u- "

"U-uh... I-I don't... No..." She stammered in fear as she drew her arm away. "I don't do doctors... o-or needles..." she gulped.

"Are you sure? It would heal all of your wound significantly fast. Not even an hour probably." debated Natalie.

Gabe studied Ryela's troubled face and said, "It fine... maybe you can at least get a new shirt?" he chuckled softly.

"Sure," Ryela agreed standing up.

"I'll help you pick one." insisted Marly as walked off with her.

After Ryela got a new change of close the kids sat down at the table. They didn't speak a word for a few moments while they still sat in defeat. The intercom shattered their silence by announcing that dinner was served. While avoiding eye contact with the other kids, Group A2 went up and grabbed themselves some food. After a very short period of time, the kids finished up eating. They wanted to spend as little time as possible in the eyes of Jake and his friends.

"I hate this..." Ryela whispered into Marly's ear.

"Hm?" Marly questioned.

"I hate we have to do this... just sit here while he wins and live with this punishment... I loathe this..." Ryela whispered catching a strong grasp of her fork.

"It's fine. We just got to move on." Marly reasoned placing her trash and silverware on her plate. She got ready to get up but was interrupted.

"No..." Ryela snapped catching the groups attention, "We shouldn't have to live with this....We don't deserve punishment... but yet... It's served to us daily like it's our meal..." She choked in disgust as another harsh memory crawled in her mind. She squeezed the fork in her hand even tighter. She then looked away in hatred and says, "I think I'm done. I'm going to go to bed." Ryela stood up and placed the fork she had on her empty dish and walked over to the trash can. But what she didn't realize, is that the fork she was holding had scorched burn marks were her fingers were. She stoped at the trash can and in complete obliviousness, threw her plate away. Without saying goodnight Ryela walked away.

"Hey, wait." Gabe interrupted, "I'll walk you."

Ryela debated in her mind for just a split second whether or not to let him come. She wanted the company but put painful rejected his proposal.

"There's no need."

"You sure?"

"Yeah." She turned around and began to walk.

"Okay then. Goodnight, Rye."

She stopped and tightened her lips, but finally released, "Night..."

---AUTHORS NOTES---

I've been working forever on this!! And finally its done!!! I was going to publish it yesterday, Feb. 23, like promised... but it was 12:19 a.m. Feb 24... so yea oops lol...Not only this but like, this was originally around 4k words