The birds sang a glorious melody that woke me up from my slumber. I
opened my eyes slowly to see him still in the couch. A smile carved on my face
as I remembered the way he kissed my hand the night before. My heart rate tripled
its pace as I saw him lay asleep there with the sunlight that was coming from
the window next to him. He shone like an angel. Perfectly still. The sound of
the bed spring woke him up as I was about to get up to put a blanket over him.
“Good morning, my Lady,” he said while rubbing his eyes.
“Good morning to you too,” I was trying to get off the bed
and stand but it seemed like I hadn’t heal fully from the drop.
“Do you need help? Should I call the nurse?”, his face
showed only signs of worries.
I shook my head and said, “Never mind, it’s okay. I can do
this.”
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My phone rang, it was Kate again. She panicked when she knew
that I was admitted to the hospital. She was around the area and decided to
visit me since no relative of mine were around. She was like family to me. We
grew up together in a small town a few kilometres from where I live now. I had
nobody else now…
Arthur stood up as soon as I hung up the call.
“Where are you going?” it came out more like a shout.
“I should be going now since your friend will come over
soon.”
“I think it would be good for me to pay for your deeds, how
about dinner?”
“Dinner? Miss Vasiliev, don’t worry on paying my deeds since
I did what I thought was wise.”
Disappointments washed over me when words pierced my heart
like a thousand needles. It must have shown on my face, he must’ve had noticed.
“Saturday, around 7pm. I’ll pick you up, my lady” he handed
over his card to me.
Weird as it was, the card had the same symbol as his tattoo.
What does this symbol represent?
I’d seen it before. I was sure of it.
……………………………………………………………..
Kate entered the room minutes after Alex went away. Kate was
holding something in her hand, a box. I recognize that box straightaway, it was
decorated with pictures of flowers, red and pink roses. It was back when we
were a child that Kate’s mother brought us to go to the town for grocery
shopping. Kate and I were strolling around the decoration aisle when we found
this beautiful box. Kate’s mother was reluctant to buy it for us at first, she
changed her mind after a few minutes of annoyance from both her friend’s daughter and hers. We used it to store ‘precious’
items; mostly junks that we found from strolling in the woods.
Kate sat down near my bed and opened the box. This was part
of my childhood that I will always cherish, although my past was still blurry
to me, I could still recall good memories that came by. I lost my parents when
I was 5. Kate’s mother was a good friend of my mother so she took me in and
treated me as her own. She started acting weird when I was 15. She mentioned
that I was a curse and that I should’ve died along with my parents. She was
then put into a mental institute for delusional disorder when I was 16. I could
still recall what she said when she was dragged away by two men dressed in
white, “The darkness is after you Luna, they came for me and they will come for
you!” Kate and I had to move in with her uncle, not long after I turned 18,
Kate’s mother killed herself in her room by hanging herself. That was the day
that both Kate and I had to toughen ourselves up and be strong independent
young women.
Remembering all those bad memories, I didn’t want to see
what was inside the box. That was until…..
