Celia woke with a start. Her heart was racing and her breathing was heavy as she gulped at the air. She looked around and found herself in the infirmary, but was unsure of how she got there. She remembered the last time she was there was the first time she had seen Alfea. It still smell of antiseptic and bleach like the last time, but unlike last time, she was alone. Standing by the desk at the other end of the room with a look of relief on her face was Miss Faragonda. When she saw that Celia was fully awake and aware of what was happening, she walked over to her.
"Celia, dear are you all right? The headmistress asked her.
"Yes, I'm fine. How did I get here?" Celia question.
"Ms. Griselda brought you in. You fainted during your training, clearly exhausted. Have you been sleeping alright dear?" Faragonda looked worried about her but Celia assured her that she was okay, that she just had a bad dream the night before and had a hard time falling back to sleep. She didn't tell Faragonda about the dream, keeping it to herself just like everything else. She knew that it would be better if she did, but things still weren't making much sense and she didn't want to bother Miss Faragonda if it was only going to turn out to be irrelevant.
"Well, if you're sure you're all right, then I'll take you back to your room so that you can rest." Faragonda offered. Celia nodded her head and pulled the blankets off of herself, standing from the bed. She and Miss Faragonda left the infirmary and went upstairs to her room and as soon as she opened her apartment doors, the girls can bolting at her all at once all speaking over one another, asking her how she was doing.
"Celia, you okay?"
"What happened to you?"
"Did you get a concussion?" These were only some of the questions that were thrown at her. Already she was feeling overwhelmed and a little claustrophobic too.
"Girls, settle down. Let's give Celia some space. Now Celia, you go and get some rest and as for the rest of you girls, you may have gotten a pass for the rest of your classes for today, but that doesn't mean you don't have to do the work, so I suggest that you get to studying." Miss Faragonda told them. Celia went off to her room and over to her bed. She didn't feel tired anymore. If anything she felt scared. She wanted to talk to someone, but she knew the girls would only bombard her with a ton of questions, but she did know someone who she could talk to her. She took her from off her nightstand where it was charging and went straight to Hayden's number that had been programed in for her when she got it.
From: Celia
To: Hayden
Hey, you think you could meet me at our place? Right now?
From: Hayden
To: Celia
We have a place?;)
From: Celia
To: Hayden
Yeah, the pond. Isn't that our place?
From: Hayden
To: Celia
It sure is. I'll be there.
Celia slipped her phone into her purse and popped her head out the door to find the common area completely vacant. She snuck out and made her way to the park to meet up with Hayden. She knew she wasn't allowed off grounds without permission on school days, but right now she didn't care.
When she reached the park, she made her way to the pond. The surroundings already made her feel better. The familiarity of the gravel crunching beneath her feet brought back the sensation she felt when she came there with Hayden. It was definitely a comfort that she didn't realize she had missed until now. She could a frog croak and that meant she was close. Very soon the she was at the pond and Hayden was already there, waiting for her.
"Hey." Celia greeted, coming up behind him and placing a hand on his broad shoulder.
"Hey Celia. It's been a while." He said with a smile, pulling her into a quick hug as he turned around to face her.
"Yeah, five whole days." She said. She kept her smile on her face, even though she could feel it slipping away, wanting to be replaced with a frown. Hayden could tell she was forcing the smile, especially since she wasn't really good at hiding it.
"Celia, what's wrong?" He asked her. She opened her mouth, trying to speak the words that were in her head, but they didn't seem to come out.
"Cel, you know you can tell me anything. You can trust me. Whatever you say, will stay between the two of us. I promise." He told her. Celia nodded her head, slowly and took a deep breath.
"I know I can trust you, Hayden. What I have to say, it's a long story and probably a confusing one and I can't tell Miss Faragonda about it, at least not yet and there's no way I could tell the girls, not without them asking me a million questions that I probably wouldn't even be able to answer. But I need to tell someone Hayden, because I can't keep it to myself anymore." Celia said, trying hard to hold the tears that threatened to escape, back.
Hayden could tell that she wasn't just scared, but terrified and seeing her life this ate him up inside.
"Celia, what's wrong?" Hayden asked. Celia recalled the entire story to him, waking up in the forest, the flashes of memory and even the nightmare and how it made it hard for her to sleep. Celia didn't realize that while she telling all of this to Hayden, she had started to cry. When she finished, Hayden held her in his arms.
"I'm scared Hayden. I'm so scared. I thought that the more I remembered the better I would be, but it's the complete opposite. I don't want to remember anymore." She cried. She buried her head into Hayden's uniform clad chest and cried.
"It's alright Celia. Everything is going to be alright. I won't tell anyone. I promise. It's going to be alright." He repeated those words in her ear as he held her, but all Celia could do was continue to cry.
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