Ava by L.G.Savage (HeartBreak)

Chapter 25

Screams. Blood. The crunching sounds.

Screams. Blood. The crunching sounds.

That sscene repeated over and over again until Ava jolted awake.

There was nothing but the pitch black around her and the shadows receding from her dreams. The sudden

movement made her groan and close her eyes as she lay back and curled into a fetal position. Breathing hurt,

but she had to take deep breaths to calm herself. As usual these days, her nightmares were accompanied by a

panic attack. With her body in so much pain, she felt frozen in place, all her muscles seizing up.

She couldn't move, she couldn't breathe...

This was really where she died. In this school, alone, with people who played with her like she was a piece of

meat.

She tried all her usual techniques-counting, focusing on drawing deep breaths, thinking of something else. It

wasn’t working. Her lungs started to burn as all the chaotic thoughts in her head told her she was dying. Her

heart's loud, erratic beating was the only sound in the dark room. She wanted to pull on her pyjamas-they felt

constricting even though she had worn her shorts and strappy vest top-but her muscles were too still to move.

Then there was a gentle touch on her back and the whispered word, “Breathe”

The voice washed over her and calmed her as if all she needed to draw deeper breaths was his command.

In and out. In and out. She concentrated on the deep breaths until her lungs stopped burning and her mind

calmed down.

Then she felt the mattress dip and the heat of his body behind her. His spicy cologne filled her nose as she

relaxed against him and closed her eyes. His warm breath blew against her necks he nestled closer and wrapped

his large arm gently around her.

She didn’t know when she had fallen asleep, but the sky was lightning outside her window when her eyes

opened, and she was very much alone.

Had she dreamt that? Had she missed him so much that she had taken to imagining he would cinto her

room in the middle of the night? If so, then she was more messed up than she thought.

Groaning, she kicked the covers off and then forced her stiff body to move. It was Saturday, but she was still

required to report for duties in the kitchen.

It took her a while but she eventually got off the bed and limped to the bathroom. The good thing about having

the room all to herself was she didn’t have to share, and no one would hurry her if she soaked her body for a

while. She ran the bath and then stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror before slowly feeling her pyjamas

off.

Her body was black and blue all over. Black eyes. Cut lips. Cut cheeks. There wasn’t any part of her that wasn’t

cut, bruised, sprained or swollen in sway. She'd thought she would be out of the matches after her first loss,

but the coach said she needed all the help she could get to bring her skills up to par. So in every training session,

she had been thrown around and beaten, almost as if it was a sport for them. The coach hadn't stopped any of

those matches until she had been unconscious

And this was just the warm-up week. Emily had told her that things got intense from the second week after the

new students were expected to have settled into their new routines.

How much more of this shit could she take? Did they mean to kill her? Would she really leave this place in a body

bag?

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Chapter 25

Maybe she was being punished for going to see the dean every single morning to request the sthing

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Maybe she was being punished for sometimes letting her mouth run away from her and ending up with weeks

worth of

detentions.

Either way, she was just one giant sore, and still, nobody wanted to listen to her to get her out.

After a soak that she had to cut off because of the time, she dried herself and took spainkillers from the first

aid kit that Zeke had given her. She didn’t know what had possessed him to do that, but if he wasn’t an asshole

like the dean, she could have kissed him in gratitude.

By the tshe had limped to the kitchen, she was half an hour late and had another detention in the bag. But

she was past caring now.

“Move quicker, human. The place is a mess, have spride!”

“I can’t move any quicker than this,” she protested.

“Do it, or | will report you!”

She rolled her eyes, and the kitchen supervisor pulled her tablet out. It was like they kept the page open on her

nso they

could mark it.

By the tshe finished everything,

she could only manage to pick up a

piece of fruit before siting@tihe first

table sel c@nteto in the dining hall.

She needed to rest before calling her

dad, and then she could walk back to

her dorm to sleep the day away. The

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There was already a queue when the followed the directions on her tablet to the phone room. A long one that

she didn’t think she could stand in for long.

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She couldn't stop the tears from

falling down her check as she turned

back. Though she was hurt that her

dad sent her to lise knowing

ee unlionsen she still wanted

to hear his voice. Still wanted him to

tell her everything would be okay; she

would get through this as she had

done everything else. Still wanted to

hear her brothers tease her and

Caleb to ask if she was keeping her

head down and following the rules.

She wiped her face as she started the long walk back. She would try again tomorrow.

A car drove up from behind her and stopped, and she couldn't stop the tears when she turned to look at the

driver.

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Jared wasn't grinning this tas he

looked at her face. He switched off

the car without a wdtdandthen got

oBt. Than he led her around to the

passenger side, where he helped her

into the sat and gently strapped her

in.

“This is so fucked up,” he said as he started the car. “You should be here, Red.”

She wanted to short and say, “Tellsomething | don’t know,” ut all that cout of her mouth were sobs.

Her heart had never hurt this much. She wanted to go home.

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