Chapter-18 Stay or Leave?
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I start to walk back home, I should have chased her, asked her for answers, why did she say it? Is she saying the truth? It’s like I have so many questions that just the thought of getting all the answers seems exhausting, and above all I just probably don’t wanna know. My heart has already blocked every possibility of knowing that he is a bad guy. I don’t know how I am going to face him.
I reach halfway to my house when I realized that I actually rode to the motel from my bike. But I am so mentally exhausted that I decided f**k it. I walk the rest of the way back.
When I open the gate, I see Hiram standing at the door, with his arms crossed across his chest.
“Why are you so late Luna? Your mom was worried to death.”
I ignore him and walk past him, I guess he forgot for a second about the kitchen incident.
I go to my mom’s room, talk with her, again nothing registers, I am still near that pond, sitting and probably imagining the bloody water and the floating bodies. In normal conditions it’s a disgusting thing to imagine but it makes me feel as if I am like them, dead. Above all the pains in life.
My mom tells me she is going to sleep and I walk out of the room. I don’t go to the kitchen; I am hungry but I go straight for my room. I know if I step into the kitchen, I will have to face him and I am not ready for that yet.
I flop down on my bed but oh well, no reprieve for me, because Hiram knocks on my bedroom door and when I look up, he is standing there with a plate full of what I assume is my dinner.
I am just so exhausted, that I nod and he comes in,
“Luna, I….I honestly don’t know what to say, because nothing is clear”
I look up, “With whom Hiram? Her or me?”
He contemplates my question for a while,
“Well both Luna, I can’t answer this question because I don’t know what we are. I don’t even know like where we are and whatever we are feeling”
I nod, he is right, we have not clearly even defined if we actually like each other, we have not yet cleared whether we are attracted to each other, it could just have been few impulses. We have not yet communicated.
“Well, Hiram. I would just want to know, what happened, I mean why are you not with her. Why is she staying in a cheap motel?”
He looks shocked for a minute,
“Did you meet her”, he asks in a rush.
“No, I didn’t”, I lie, I met her, talked even but something tells me that is not the right thing to say.
He takes a sigh of relief,
“Well Hiram, are you going to tell me or not?”
He nods and hands me over my dinner plate,
“Yeah, I will. So..what happened was…”
Suddenly, his phone rings and I see Savannah Jones flashing on it. He looks at me,
“Is it that tall brunette with your baby”, I pry.
“Yes”
“Then pick it up Hiram, what if she needs something”
Hiram picks it up and after a minute, he rushes out of the door.
“What happened Hiram?”, I yell.
“She was attacked, she is in ICU right now”
I take my coat and keys quickly and run after him. I give him my keys and he revs the engine, I sit behind him and within minutes we are in a hospital, sitting outside ICU, just like we were a few days back.
After what seemed like an hour the doctor comes out and says,
“She is okay, she’s stable”
“And the baby?”, I ask
“It is fine too”, doctor replies.
I sigh in relief and I see Hiram entering the ICU room. I wait outside and when Hiram leaves the room to complete some formalities, I go inside.
She looks shocked for a while, but when I sit beside her, she grabs my hand,
“Are you okay Savannah? Do you need anything?”
She nods,
“Well, tell me”
“Save me”, she says through a strain.
“What? From whom?”
She tries to clear a throat and then says again,
“Save me….save me from Hiram”
What the hell is she saying,
“No, Savannah, Hiram was with me, he did nothing to you.”
She looks at me like she wants to cry,
“Please, don’t leave me alone, otherwise he will kill me and my baby”
Suddenly she leaves my hands and I see Hiram entering the room.
“Is she okay? Are you okay Savannah?”
She doesn’t answer,
“She can’t talk Hiram”, I say.
Hiram looks at me and says, “Oh”
I don’t know if my brain is playing games or what but that Oh had more relief than pity in it.
“Okay Luna, you should go home, your mom is alone. I will stay with Savannah all night”
I look at Savannah and her eyes are begging me to stay.
What do I do? Stay to save her or leave and go to my mom?
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