✔ Us Against The World ✔ (Protecting Ellie Sequel)

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven 

*A few weeks later* 

School had been quite uneventful for the last few weeks, I guess it's every one getting back in to the groove of school and work after the summer holidays. Me and Ray have been pretty inseparable since I stayed at her house that night and I told her my secrets. 

It was nice, we hadn’t spoken about it since then, but just knowing if I needed to talk to someone, I had her. I spent my nights at her house and the nights I didn’t, She was at mine. I had all but ignored Mike too, I think he really got the message now, that I want him to leave me the f**k alone. Even in the lesson, he doesn’t call on me. It's like I’m not even there, and that’s exactly what I want. 

I had my head down and I was just cracking on with my work until Raven nudged me. I ignored her at first, but when she kept doing it I looked over at her. 

‘What?’ I whispered quietly, not wanting to draw attention to myself. 

‘Mr Lupus is staring’. My eyes instantly shot up and as they did, they locked with his. Neither of us looked away, it was like we were mesmerised with each other. Ray nudged me again and my gaze instantly dropped. 

‘What now?’ I asked her without looking and just focusing back on my work. 

‘He’s so hot, he totally had that whole smouldering look going on with you then’. I just laughed it off. I cant having her put two and two together. 

‘Oh yeah totally’. I tried to make myself sound as sarcastic as possible. She just rolled her eyes playfully and went back to her work. I stole another look at Mike, he wasn’t looking at me anymore. 

Good. He shouldn’t. It's too obvious.  

That was the last some-what interaction I had with Mike, I skipped the afternoon home room, but some how, I think it would go unreported. 

At lunch time though, I got a text off my mum saying that my therapist has moved up my appointment this week and I had to go right after school. Which... Was weird, but if it kept them all off my back, I’d do it. 

I know Mike had said some thing to my parents about my episode at school, they have both just been acting really weird since then, so, it was kinda obvious. I had managed to down play it though, so, I’m hoping I could do the same at my session. 

‘Hey, where you going?’ Anna and the other girls asked, coming over to me. I was sat at the bis stoop, which isn’t out of the ordinary, but I hadn’t got on my usual one, which obviously meant I wasn’t going straight home. 

‘Oh, I just have an appointment’. I told them, being vague. I looked at Raven and as soon as I did, she realised it must be my therapy and quickily made an excuse to leave, taking the girls with her. I smiled to myself, once again appreciating the fact that I no longer had to keep this s**t to myself. 

I’ll have to remember to text her later and thank her. 

Soon enough though, the bus turned up and I got on. It wasn’t actually that fair to my therapist’ office, so I put my head phones in, sat back and just chilled out. 

I was only about 5 minutes in to the journey when I suddenly had a weird feeling… A feeling of being watched. I looked out the window and looked around, but I couldn’t see any thing. Trying not to be too obvious, I looked at the people on the bus too, but they were all doing their own thing. It was still creepy. 

Trying my best to shrug it off, I put my attention back on choosing a new song to listen to and soon enough, I forgot all about it.. 

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I was sat in the waiting room, waiting to be called in for my appointment. I was the one person here, apart from the receptionist. It had the typical water cooler in the corner and the usual tabloid magazines in the table in front of me. It was.. Cold and quiet… Just the typical office waiting room I guess. 

I heard the door open and looked up. My therapist Dr Hammond, called me. I liked Dr Hammond to be fair, He was a nice guy, I never felt awkward talking to him about my problems.. Or at least the problems Im willing to talk about. 

Walking in to the room, I sat down in my usual seat, and he took his. 

‘So, Ellie, How have you been?’ It was only a few days since I saw him last so I just shrugged. 

‘I’m good, nothing has really changed since I last saw you’. He nodded. 

‘Good, I’m glad you’re good. So, You’re parents rang me and asked me if we could move up this appointment, do you know why that is?’ I shrugged again. 

‘No, Not really’. 

‘Well, A few weeks ago there was an incident that you haven’t talked to me about. Do you want to talk about it now?’ I sighed loudly and over dramatically. 

‘No, If I did, I’d have mentioned it’. I was getting defensive and he knew it, so he kept pushing and eventually, I just shut down. My mental wall wnt up and I closed myself off...

After about 15 minutes it became obvious that we weren’t going to get anywhere today because simply, I wasn’t ready to open about certain things, so, Dr Hammond made me another appointment for next week, as usual, and I left.