Who: Riley Matthews and Emily Fornell What: Confession? Revelation? After School Special Style? When: Monday afternoon Where: The High School Warnings: TBD Status: Closed/On-going
Riley wasn’t someone who cried a lot. When she’d lost her parents to this place or when other bad stuff had happened, but when she was at school around her friends she tended to keep a brave face and a cheery smile regardless. She made the decision to be happy, fake it until she made it, and she hadn’t had to do that in a very long time.
She really felt like she had to now.
A sudden wave of nausea had hit her toward the end of class and she’d raced out of the room as soon as the bell rang, to the bathroom to lose her lunch and then some. For a minute she considered texting her uncle, telling him she had the flu or something, but she didn’t actually feel sick otherwise. And sitting curled up on the bathroom floor, she realized that it made perfect sense why. Riley had taken health class. And she realized that the missed period she’d attributed to time travelling was probably that for a totally different reason.
Overcome with fear, panic, she leaned her head against the stall door, pulled her knees to her chest, and just cried.