15 14. The Call...

'So she laid there in a pool of tears... alone...'

Chapter 14

After a lot of time, Ryela gained the strength to stand and she made her way back to the facility. She walks around a bit keeping her head down and avoiding any kids coming her way. After some time to think, she decided to relax her in pain body in the Lounge. As she walked down a hall, a terrifying memory of what took place by the tree sparked in her head. She flinched in fear and grasped her head as she fell off track and stumbled against the wall. She began to shake her head and her breathing got heavy.

"I-it's- o-ok...o-okay," she mumbled to herself, regaining a standing a position.

She finally made her way to the entrance of the Lounge and stopped at the door. She lifted her head and stared at he closed door. Her view was soon snatched as she saw her reflection on the window of it. As she focused her eyes, she could see red stain marks on her face.

She sighed in frustration and let out a small groan, "Frick," She rubbed her eyes and then her cheeks. The marks wouldn't budge, so she quickly and swiftly hurried out with her head down and her hair falling by her face. Once she reached her room, she whipped into the bathroom and began to wet her face. At first, it still wouldn't come off so Ryela grabbed a bar of soap and a rag, and began to scrub her cheeks. She squinted her eyes as she scrubbed her face almost raw. After some time of relentless washing, the dried tears finally came off. She put a towel against her sore face and gently patted it. She released the towel from her grasp and looked up at the mirror. She took a deep breath and stared at her reflection; she then slowly moved her hand up, gently stroking her hair behind her ear showing the beauty of her face. A small smile stretched on her lips as her face lightened up. In the second of the fragile moment, she lifted out her arm and gently stroked the mirror were her reflection lied. Yet again, her joy was taken as she saw her dule restraints. Immediately, a harsh picture of her forgotten life flashed her mind, and she instantly remembered something from WWIDI.

'W-what t-the heck...' she thought as her surrounding slowly teared away into a ancient scenery. She stood off from afar and watched while her former and younger self was abused by a WWIDI guard while being defenseless by her restraints. She shook her head away from the mirror and the image blew away.

Ryela made her way to the door and walked out of the girl's bunk. Finally recalling her arrangement with MaryAnn, she began to head out of the facility. But was soon stopped by a hand gripping her shoulder. Lightning fast, she turned around in fear and threw up her fist in defense.

"Wo! Wo, at ease soldier!" Gilly proposed jerking back defensively. He took a frustrated sigh and tugged on the bottom of his guard uniform to readjust it.

"S-sorry," Ryela apologized avoiding eye contact with him.

"Yeah, sure," Gilly snapped, "Anyway, I came here because I had a call request from Marly t-"

-Buzz-

"Speak of the devil," he muffled, reaching for the vibrating phone, "Hello?"

--"Hi, this is Marly. I'm calling 'again' to see if Ryela is available?"--

"Yeah, I'm speaking with her right now. Do you need to talk to her?"

--"Oh, yes, please! I've been dying to talk to her all day! I re-"--

Gilly pulled the phone from his ears and rolled his eyes while Marly rambled on. He handed the phone to Ryela with a look of uncertainty, "Don't lose this or take it. It must be returned back at 'The Main Office', understood?"

Ryela with a smirk on her lips snatched the phone, "Yeah, sure". She put the phone up to her ear and shot a glare at Gilly, so he walked away as he glared back. "Scumbag," she mumbled under her breath and rolled her eyes again.

--"Excuse me?!"--

"S-sorry Mar, I wasnt referring to you." Ryela gulped.

--"Oh ok, good. I thought we were about to fight," joked Marly as she put the phone on speaker, "I wanted to face call but we arent allowed Anywho h-"--

--"Hey, Rye!" yelled Izon over Marly, "How you been?"--

--"Yeah, I feel like I haven't seen you in a while!"-- cheered Natalie over Izon.

"Same here, Nat," Ryela trailed off.

"Yeah, Ive missed you too. No ones here to stir up trouble," laughed Gabe with a soft tone.

Ryela gave a soft chuckle and slightly blushed, but that moment was disturbed by a familiar ear snatching sound.

-DING! DONG! DING! DONG!-

The sound of a bell echoed from where Marly was at, to her phone, and then to Ryela's ear. Soon the bells moved their way through her head and she zoned out.

-DING!..... DONG!... DING!... DONG...-

--"Rye?... Are you all right, boo?"-- Marly questioned as she shushed her friends talking behind her.

Ryela finally snapped out of her unusually comforting flashback and stammered, "Y-yeah... I'm fine."

--"I feel bad for leaving you alone, you know. I mean there is other kids and stuff you can hang with but-"--

--"What Marly is trying but sadly failing to say..."-- Izon interrupted, receiving a glare from Marly, --"No one can have more fun than us, we are the bestest friends you can possibly have,"-- Izon bragged popping his collar.

--"Ewe, no. Don't do that with your shirt,"-- Marly corrected. She leaned in close and started putting his popped collar back in place.

--"No, I like it like this,"-- Izon chuckled, grabbing her hands from his collar which made them both blush. But the cute moment was shaken as he put his collar back out, causing them to get in a playful argument. Ryela slightly laughed at their humor as they went back in forth on the phone.

--"All right, let me take this,"-- Gabe snatched the phone away from Marly causing her and Izon to stop. --"So, did you do anything fun? I'm quite bored of these guys, to be honest,"-- Gabe laughed looking at his friends, and in return, he got a few smart-back comments and a punch in the arm.

Ryela could feel his warm smile through the phone, but then she realized the question and her demeanor changed, "Yeah I did in fact, I did a lot of fun stuff today...watched the kids train, walked a trail, explored..." She lied as she looked down. "I'm actually supposed to help Ms. MaryAnn in the garden today."

--"Yay, that's great, bud!"-- Marly began but was again cut off by a mixture of voices from the group.

--"Nice, what did you find?"--

--"That's cool! How was your walk?"--

--"I'm so happy for you!"--

--"Miss MaryAnn is so sweet."--

--"Guys, guys! Chill let her breath for a moment, jeez...Seems like you're having a good time without us helping,"-- she smiled proudly of Ryela, --"But if not, we can leave right now,"-- she snapped.

"No, it's fine. Lifes... well, its as good as it can be..." Ryela reasoned, but then she put a lot of thought, "W-when are y-you coming back?" She stuttered looking around.

--"I dont know we have a list of things to see and do -we are almost done, we may go shopp-"--

--"Again? Ugh...-"-- the kids groaned in harmony at the sound of shopping.

--"-Ha, ha. Get over it, I still need to get Rye something. But yeah why do you ask? Is something wrong?"-- Marly concerned.

"No, no, it fine just curious..."

--"Your acting weird, Rye what's up?"--

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With a long, aching pause Ryela finally spoke.

"I got to go..." Ryela muttered with anger stirred in every word; she gripped the phone harder, making the exterior begin to slightly crack. Her hand slowly drifted back down and fell to her side, leaving Marly in a panic with no response.

--"What?" voices began to echo out of the phone.--

--"Hello?"--

--"Ryela are you okay? What's up?"--

-Crack!-

-beep-beep-beep-... The call has ended-

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TO BE CONTINUED!!!

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I'm only making the story "Completed" so that i can enter into the newest writing prompt.

Once the comp is over I'll begin to publish the next few chpt I have written.

AUTHORS NOTES

Hey guys!!! I had this one chpt ready before I had pc problems. Now I finally published it, yayaya!!! But sad to say... I can't publish any more chpts until I find my notebook I wrote the rest in... I'm so sorry. I will continue the search. Until then... Hope you enjoy my latest chpt and stay tuned!!!

-Juliet Smith

P.S It keeps messing up my writing when i try to fix something so just bare with me plz, thxs faaaammmm. Stay tuned!

P.P.S When I type '--' (the doubled lines) before a comment like --"Blah, blah, blah"-- it means it's supposed to be italicized or in this chpt it means voices coming from he from ad when I type '' (Greater sign and less sign) it prob means a flash back is happening. NOW, its only like this for this chpt, other chpts are different. If you want to read things easier read, my story in WATTPAD It's a lot better, cuz I can italicize and make things bold. And things go across better. But yeah gtg, stay tuned!