She wakes with a jolt.

Panting, sweaty and her throat feels dry.

My! She's been doing a lot of sweating lately!

Breathing in and out, trying to calm her nerves. Her breaths slowly become more even as she replays the worst dream she's ever had the displeasure of having. After her return home, Victor had left when he received an urgent phone call but promised to come back later, to discuss his supposed "proposal" so Scarlet somehow ended up falling asleep on the couch.

What. Was that?!

This time Scarlet is sure it was just a dream. In this dream, the girl, that girl with the sea coloured eyes, Scarlet remembers her face vividly from a dream she'd had weeks ago, they'd been in the same blue themed laboratory as the first time. But this time, the girl with the sea coloured eyes was beating the shit out of her. Scarlet had tried to fight back, but her limbs felt like four iron boulders on her small body. She'd tried to scream, but she couldn't find her voice. The girl had continued to punch Scarlet, everywhere, stomach, legs nose, face, screaming unspeakable profanities, and then when she'd grabbed Scarlet's neck, probably to break it, Scarlet had given up, if she was going to die, it was better to die in peace.

So, "I'm s- sorry," she croaked, apologising for...whatever, her voice barely a whisper.

Getting beaten to a pulp tends to do that to a girl.

She was even unsure whether the girl heard. But then, the scenery had changed.

And she was back in the same living room she was in earlier today---in her memory flash---and she had stood there, immobile, paralysed in place almost, uncontrollably sobbing and that boy, the boy she had killed, he kept shooting Scarlet everywhere, three bullets in her stomach, one in each leg, then finally, as he fired at the centre of her head, Scarlet realised that she deserved this, she deserved to die after what she'd done to him. So again, she whispered, "I'm sorry," and the scenery had changed just before the bullet could smash her skull.

This time she had found herself lying in the back seat of a posh car, it's windows had been tinted, so black that she could barely see anything from outside, there had been a very disturbing beeping in the car, like a countdown on a stopwatch. She had decided that her ears couldn't be any more terrorised but when she tried to get out, the doors wouldn't open. She tried again and again, but to no avail. Realising that she had been stuck, Scarlet had started sobbing, and screaming, screaming into nothingness, until she'd started feeling claustrophobic.
Then the whole car had blown up in flames.

                                               ....

As soon as she walks into the room, two things happen; one; her phone rings, and two; her jaw hits the floor.
Have you ever liked somebody so much you wanted to wrap your hands around their neck and strangle the living pretzels out of them?
No, probably not. When you really like someone you'd basically want to breathe some of your oxygen into them so they can live longer...not kill them!
Maybe this new need to kill a certain someone has nothing to do with her attraction to him, maybe it's got more to do with the fact that he fucking lied to her!

The damn phone continues ringing.
Her brain scrambles for what to do first...pick up the phone? Cause a tragic murder incident that'll go down in history?

The nerve of some men!

So, a certain grey eyed man abandoned her in the hospital, just so he could come and sleep in her room? On her bed? In her fucking house?!

Oh huhu! Some people really wish to see her go to jail! But she won't kill him... the devil is a liar!

But darling, her subconscious chirps. You ARE the devil...

Whatever. Wait...where did that come from? As far as she knows, Scarlet is as pure as Saint Mother Theresa...is that her name?

Really?! She fights the urge to glare at herself and starts pacing back and forth, watching the man that told her he had stuff to do and left her in the hospital where she had to wait for Victor for two fucking hours.
Well, guess stuff to do meant; "oh you see, I have to go get comfy in someone's bed, since the owner is currently unavailable." Her fucking phone also won't stop ringing, guess she has to answer it first after all. Killing someone will have to wait.

It'd better be Han! Scarlet thinks as she pulls it out of the back pocket of her denims. And it is, she huffs.

"You better be ready to talk to me Hansel or I swear to God!" She growls. Apparently, Han is away on a vacation with his boyfriend Collin, but for the last three hours, since Scarlet had woken up, she's been begging him to tell her everything he knows about her past life, anything. But the idiot just laughed it off and refused, saying he knows nothing of importance, that he was just her gym trainer and best friend, the best friend she supposedly told nothing.
Ha! As if Scarlet was fool enough to believe those awfully wrapped up lies. when she insisted, he started ignoring her calls altogether. Some best friend.

Han chuckles, again. What the fuck is he laughing at?

"Babe," he says.

"Do not babe me!" Scarlet snaps.

"Scar yo-"

"Don't even Scar me!"

He chuckles, "so what should I call you now?"

"Don't call me!  Just tell me what I need to know!" Scarlet groans, her voice laced with frustration.

"Why?" Han asks, this time seriously. "Why are you in a such a hurry to find out about your past all of a sudden? A few days ago you didn't even care! Why now babe? Did something happen?"

Scarlet tugs at her hair, not knowing what to do, she can't just tell Han what happened. What would she say? That she's having nightmares where she's being killed multiple times? That she had a memory flashback of her killing someone? She shudders, how will she explain to him that she was unconscious but not unconscious? That it wasn't a dream even if she was asleep?
Han will either think she's crazy and ask her to start seeing a shrink or will believe her and never look at her the same. God! She can't, she just can't tell him. But she needs to know something. Anything.

Wait...Did something happen?

Why exactly would something happen?

This is driving her crazy. Han does know something.

"You're asking too many questions Hansel!" Scarlet sighs, trying to evade his curiosity.

"And you're trying to evade answering them," Han deadpans.

Smartass! He knows her too well. Can't he take the hint then? Can't he just give her what she wants no questions asked? But of course being Han, that's too much to ask.

"Ugh! You're so frustrating! How did we even become friends?"

Han laughs at that. "It's simple," he says. "I'm smart, you're a dumb ass. Makes a perfect combination if you ask me." She can practically see the wide grin on his face right now.

"Very funny,"

"But really babe, unless you want me to tell you about how we always wore matching clothes to the movies, how I used to give you piggyback rides--"

"We did not!" Scarlet all but shrieks, making Han burst out laughing.

"'Course we did!" His voice is full of laughter when he says this. But he stops all of a sudden. "That's honestly all I know, I swear it," he concludes. Scarlet realises that no matter what she says, Han will not break.

"Okay!" she breathes, despondency feeling her voice.

"What?" Han asks.

"You really speak fluent bullshit if you expect me to believe that,"

"Babe--"

"No Han!" She interrupts him. "You win, I'm done asking. Just know that whatever it is you're not telling me, I'll be finding out, one way or another." With that she switches her phone off, and glares at her bed. Ready to take out all her frustration on the man laying on it. She's sure Han knows something, and she's very sure he's hiding it. Maybe to protect her from something? But she doesn't need his fucking protection! And that only spikes up her curiosity.

"That fucking lying son of a b..akery store in Manhattan!" Gah! Celine almost catches her saying the b word.

"Hey mama!" she chirps, skipping into Scarlet's room.

"Hi Princess," Scarlet says with relief.

"I have a bad news and a bad news which one do you want to hear first?"

"Um...honey," Not now! Please?

"Mom!" Celine warns.

"But sweetheart we have a whole date evening set aside exclusively for you, can't it wait?" Scarlet says, trying her best to sound apologetic. She's honestly in no mood to listen to her daughter's "problems" right now. But Celine is having none of it.

Celine sniffles. "Oh the horror!" she cries.

Um..."what?!" Scarlet can't help the amusement that washes over her that instant. She really has the world's most dramatic child. Maybe what she needs is Celine's drama, to get her mind off... everything.

"I don't know what's more bad,---" it's; worse, Scarlet thinks. Not now, her subconscious reminds her.
"---my boyfriend trying to kill me or my mother wanting to hear nothing of it!" Celine continues as tears stream down her cheeks. Oh God!

"No baby don't cry!" Scarlet plops down on the bed, beside Theo.

"Pwease mommy?" She pouts through the tears.

My God! Scarlet thinks. No one prepared me for dealing with my five year old's relationship problems!

"But Celine," she says. "you're not playing fair! You can't just pull out the baby card whenever it suits you! Not fair!"

Celine rubs off her tears, smiling widely at her mom's submission before frowning again. "I brokeout with him, he broke my heart!"

"Um...."

honey I don't even know which him we're talking about here, Arnold? Eric? Alex? Who else?

"...don't worry baby," she pulls her onto her lap. "I promise he wasn't worthy of you, you're going to find your Prince Charming one day." If you didn't find him and exhaust all of his charm already.

"You don't understand!"

"I don't?"

"No!"

"Make me then?"

"Will you listen then?"

Help!

"Of course I'll listen, anything for you baby." Scarlet smiles, smoothing down her daughter's hair. "But Theo's here," she whispers, unsure whether Theo is awake or not. "This is supposed to be between us!" Perfect! This might stop her... Yay!

"It's okay,"

...Or not

"I don't mind Teddy being here, he actually makes your bed look better!" She giggles, swinging her legs back and forth.

Oh "oh?"

"Ahuh, look at him, he looks like Mr King in my bed." She pauses. "Well, Teddy doesn't meow, does he?" She giggles uncontrollably again, Theo's eyelids flutter. Minus Celine's knowledge, Theo is most definitely awake.

"Okay," Scarlet sighs in agreement. He does make her bed look heavenly.

Wait, where did that come from?

"Yeap! Anyway, you will not believe what that silly boy did mama! He tried to poison me!" Celine screams. Theo's chest starts vibrating with barely restrained laughter. Scarlet almost laughs with him but it dies on her lips when she sees the pained expression on her daughter's face.

Not the best idea. Besides, you're mad at Theo remember?

She feigns a gasp, "he what?!"

"Tried to kill me!" the little gurl emphasises the words and nods vigorously, her curly hair bobbing along with her head. "He gave me lemon juice when I clearly told him every day; bitter things are poison can you believe it?"

Scarlet vigorously shakes her head, her eyebrows connecting in a frown when all she really wants right now is to curl up in a ball and just die of laughter. She bites down on her lip.

"Oh mama!" she continues. "thank you to Mrs Reeves From The dispensary, I'm still alive! I don't know what would happened!" Scarlet restrains the urge to correct every wrong in that sentence knowing Celine will not appreciate it.

Correcting her mistakes when she's telling her story about how she'd been on the verge of dying?

Total blasphemy!

What kind of mother would that even make Scarlet?!

So listen patiently she does...

"What did Mrs Reeves From The dispensary give you?" she asks.

"Well, she gave me this,...she called it...lik...likid---"

"Liquid?"

"Yes! That one!" She grins. "It tasted strangely like water," she looks thoughtful for a second. "but when I asked she said it's a special likid for washing out poison from the body."

"Oh."

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you deal with the drama queen that is Celine Greene.

Props to Mrs. Reeves. She gave her water and told her it's medicine.

"Yes! And that's how I survived! Ugh! Boys are so stupid!"

Scarlet hugs her tightly. "I'm so grateful to Mrs Reeves From The dispensary! I don't know what I would have done if you died!"

"I know right?" She gets up from her mother's lap. "Okay mama, the other bad news; I'm leaving you."

"You are?"

"Ahuh, I'm going with Karen and Mrs. Jake, I will also ask Mrs Jake for some chocolate ice cream. Karen says it works on getting over a bad breakout!"

"Oh okay" perfect excuse for wanting excess ice cream. Scarlet doesn't protest though. She nods and Celine gives her a quick peck on the lips.

"Love you Scar."

"Love you Cee."

As soon as Celine bounds out of the room. Scarlet pokes Theo's chest with her index finger. He doesn't open his eyes.  She pokes him again, and again...

Theo groans, opening his eyelids and regarding her with a hooded grey eyed gaze.

He looks so damn sexy like...Wait what?!

Theo smirks.

"Ahem," Scarlet clears her throat to hide her perverted thoughts.  "Excuse me sir, this hospital would like to discharge you now. Seeing as you don't seem to realise that you've overstayed your welcome," she smiles sweetly at him.

He ignores that, "sexy huh?" he says instead.

"Huh?" Scarlet responds, her face becoming a shade redder by the second.

Theo just smirks again, his hands fly above his head as he yawns and stretches his limbs, then before she can blink, one of Theo's arms wraps itself around Scarlet's waist, tugs and then she's lying flat on her back, with Theo straddling her, and his hands holding hers on both sides of her head. Scarlet feels a sudden thirst for water. She tries to swallow in vain. Her throat is drier than the Sahara.

"I thought I made your bed look...heavenly?" He raises his eyebrows.

Scarlet is too dumbstruck the only response she can of is, "oh, that." She hadn't even realised she'd said it out loud. To think she had said it to her daughter.

Bless your soul Greene. You're definitely the mother of the year.

Again, Theo puts both his hands on both of Scarlet's sides, making a shudder ripple through her whole body. Lifting her with little to no effort, he places her head up on the pillows then rests his hands on either side of her head against the headboard. Scarlet briefly closes her eyes, praying to all that's sacred for Theo not to notice her abnormally thudding heart.

"I want take you out sometime," he says, his eyes looking deep into her soul.

Scarlet's heart lurches painfully. "H-huh?" she chokes out. He really needs to not do this to her. God! She's so pathetic! Can't even push him off.

"I want to thank you, for everything."

Oh, okay

Theo's voice is suddenly hoarse. He clears his throat. But at least he's still in his right mind, unlike yours truly, whose heart is on the verge of bursting out of her chest. She doesn't say anything, she just can't seem to understand anything at the moment, but just continues to stare into Theo's beautiful eyes, hypnotising herself even more.

Theo stares right back, as if they both have been caught in an entrancing spell. "You have the most beautiful ey--" Theo begins before catching himself, not finishing the sentence, his eyebrows scrunch up and a look of confusion settles on his beautiful facial features, as if he doesn't know what exactly he was doing.

Of course he doesn't, he has a girlfriend remember?

He sits up and it is all Scarlet can do not to sigh in relief, never again is she letting him get that close to her! Then again, she didn't exactly let him. It was... almost as if her brain had completely shut down.

Her subconscious scoffs, as if? More like definitely.

Theo all but jumps off the bed, frantically picks up his jacket but manages to compose himself.

A small smirk forms on his lips, his eyes roaming around Scarlet's posture and scarlet facial skin.  "What's wrong Scarlet? " he asks, amused apparently. "Are you feeling...flustered?

Scarlet groans and buries her head beneath the heap of pillows. Muttering to herself about a thousand ways to kill the jerk, she flips him the bird. To which Theo responds with a throaty chuckle.

"Fifteen times Scarlet," he says. "Be ready tomorrow at five." Then he leaves.

What?

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A/N: So, I have to admit, after writing this chapter I realised it's more of a filler than anything.Is it just me or nothing much is really happening? Sorry not sorry? XD

I Just wrote it because...well, because I wanted to write it...oops?

Oh God! My notes make me cringe so much! Anyway, I've realised that I've never really asked but I want to know what you guys think of my story so far.

Who is your favourite character? Mine is Cee Cee all the waay...wooohoo!

How is the story progressing so far?

I know there's not much romantic stuff going on but what's your ship?

What do you think I should improve on?

Do you usually encounter typos in here?

Your feedback is as much appreciated as the time you took to read this. And I love you so much for this! Thank you from the bottom of my boobie. (That's another way to say Thank you from my heart!) Haha..I'm so funny...Not. ok bye...next chapter is up...in a few minutes? Seconds? Days? Wee...well, whenever I feel like it's ready. Ok bye now...seriously

Did I tell you that I love you? Yes I did...ok byee :)*