wipeoutqueen posted in blueridgeschool:

Emma felt relieved at Sunny pulling her into her arms, and she wrapped her arms around the other girl stiffly, wincing a little. She pulled back after a few seconds. "Don't wanna get blood on your blanket," she mumbled, sniffing again as if to emphasize her point. She shuffled over to where Brutus the cat was and pulled him into her lap after sitting down on the bed. Sitting wasn't as painful as she though it might be, it was really only her rib cage and abdomen that hurt the most, and her eye that was slowly swelling shut. It could have been worse she reasoned in her head, and it was kind of her fault anyway.

"I didn't know where else to go," she explained after a few moments. "Nurse Kia is starting to get suspicious and Ruby...I don't want Ruby to know at all." She could feel tears building up in her eyes and immediately swallowed them down. She cried about a lot of things, this was one that she didn't want to however. She really didn't want to look like the victim here, she should have never lied to Sawyer, or talked back to her. "This is my fault anyway," she said quietly, scratching absent minded at Brutus's head.