BARGAINING WITH THE BAD BOY

The monster

Chapter eight.

Subtitle: the monster

* Freda *

My entire head spun and I felt as if the roof would tear open and collapse on me in an instant.

My hands began to tremble.

What does she mean by Abbey is in the hospital.

“ what.. why auntie? Did anything happen to Abbey? What happened to me?”

I asked in fear, dreading whatever reply aunt Hilda will give me.

She sighed and rubbed my forehead, shutting me a loving gaze.

“ going to the dance was a bad idea, I should’ve trusted your opinion and let you sit out. Maybe then nothing would’ve happened to you. Oh forgive me child..”

Aunt Hilda said, her expression looked sour and she moaned in a sad way.

“ what happened aunty?”

I asked, my voice firm.

“ something terrible happened at the dance two nights ago. We shouldn’t have allowed you kids to go to the dance without proper supervision. Our little town is so little and close knotted that nothing really goes on here we didn’t expect anything bad to happen. Someone found both you and Abbey unconscious at the backyard of your school. No one knew what happened to you two but I suspect that you were both attacked.”

Aunt Honda explained.

“ wait… what?”

I was confused.

“ can’t you remember anything?”

She asked. I shook my head in confusion, hoping she would explain better.

“Someone most have attacked the two of you. You were both unconscious and laying under a tree In the dead of the night. You were both found in the early hours of the morning and rushed to the hospital but the doctor said you are okay and had only fallen into a really deep sleep and would wake up at any moment so we brought you home. However, same cannot be said for Abbey. She must have gotten hit in the head real bad which caused a tear and bleeding in her brain. She’s In a comma and still at the hospital.” Aunt Hilda explained with a sad sigh.

“ your brother is devastated. He wouldn’t leave her bed and stayed there for hours. I sent his twin over to try and get him to come home for some food and a change of clothes.”

Ain’t Hilda added. I could feel my eyes tremble, tears weld in my eyes and I felt like I would burst any moment.

So all that happened wasn’t a dream? What is going on?

She’s alive… Abbey is alive….

This changes things…. Only it doesn’t. I might have evaded murder but I’m still a killer, I almost killed someone.

“ the police asked me to call them as soon as you wake up. The camera at the school yard have not been functioning so they have zero lead and can’t find the perpetrator without your help. Right now you are the only one that can help bring that monster who did this to the two of you to justice… do you remember anything? Anything at all?”

Aunt Hilda asked.

“I..i..” stammered, failing to find the right words to piece together. Everything was still too confusing.

Aunt Hilda got up from the bed.

“ let me place a call to the police right away..”

She said, but then I grabbed her hand in fright.

She looked back at me and I shook my head, my eyes widened in fear.

She can’t call th police.. they will arrest me and I will be doomed.

I needed time, time to either leave this town completely or come clean. If I come clean everyone will hate me, especially my cousin who had been nothing but good to me.

“Why.. what’s wrong baby?”

Aunt Hilda asked after seeing the frightened look on my face. She sat back on the bed and caressed my face gently.

“ I.. I don’t remember anything, I was going to leave the hall but then I jammed my head against the wall.. no, someone hit me from behind and I passed out.”

I lied, I knew my lie was terrible and I might get caught but right now I cannot risk it.

I can’t tell anyone the truth, especially not my aunty.

I need time to figure out what has happened, how did I end up in the same place I dumped Abbeys unconscious body?

How did I end up there when I was the one that had hurt Abbey and dragged her body there so no one will pin the case on Cindy or me.

I remember fainting right in the middle of the road on my way back home in the dark, not inside the school vicinity so what happened.

“ you’re confused, child. You need rest. I’m sorry for bombing you with a lot of questions. You are probably too traumatized to remember anything. Just rest your head, I’ll get you a glass of water to drink.”

Aunt Hilda said with a caring smile.

She made me lie back down and left with the bowl and the wet towel she had brought in.

I lay there, my face facing the ceiling as I fell into deep thoughts.

What happened? I tried to piece everything together.

If I ended up there when I in fact fainted in the middle of the road one thing is clear, someone saw what happened, someone saw me hit Abbey, someone saw me drag her body to the backyard and someone saw me run away. Oh God!

But why hasn’t this person reported me yet? Why? My head was flooded with millions of questions and soon it was beginning to ache. I sat there, embroiled in my thoughts untill aunt Hilda returned with a glass of cold water and made me drink the entire thing. She left afterwards, urging me to get some sleep and call for her when I need some food, water or anything at all.

But I couldn’t sleep. I was hugged by the thoughts of what I had done and who might have seen me commit the monstrous act. My mind went to what happened before I hit Abbey with the car. Tyrone.. if what happened with Abbey was real then what happened with Tyron must have been real as well. That means Clement.. oh goodness! It is a good thing that Abbey is alive although I stand right in the middle of a dangerous ocean because the moment Abbey wakes up or the moment the witness decides to speak up it’s game over for me. But Clement is Gone, dead, bitten, his blood sucked by that two faced monster Tyrone.

I felt as it the world was ending at that moment. I couldn’t sleep, I could only think and think and think until my door opened again and Trisha’s face appeared, she leaned against the door and stared me for a while before coming in. “ mom has gone to the hospital to try and get Jeremy to come home and bath or eat something. She asked me to feed you if you are hungry and to look after you.”

She said, as if she doesn’t want to be in my room and I was causing her trouble.

I looked at her then opened my mouth to say something but then I held myself back and took my eyes back to the ceiling, it’s pointless talking to Trisha, she probably felt burdened because of the responsibility her mom left on her. We never really had any sibling relationship so I’m not sure she cares.

“ how are you feeling? Are you severely hurt?”

She asked after standing by the door and observing me for a while. I could feel the shift in her tone, her voice sounded softer and she seemed more solemn. Almost as if she cared. “ I am fine now, thank you.”

I replied her.

She didn’t say anything and just stood by the door, suspiciously staring at me, it felt uncomfortable. “ is everything okay?” I asked as soon as I noticed how much she was staring at me.

“ there’s someone outside waiting to see you, he has been here since I came back and wouldn’t leave untill he sees you.”

Trisha said.

I finally looked back at her, confused. Who would possibly want to see me? A he?

Fear gripped me. What if it’s the witness? What if it’s the person that saw me hurt Abbey? Is he here to rub it in my face before he exposes me?

I wanted to say no, that I didn’t want to see this person at all but before I could say it Trisha moved away from the door, allowing Tyrone’s sturdy figure to squeeze its way into my small room.

I stared at him with a blank expression as his handsome yet terrifying figure walked into my bedroom.

I felt stuffy in an instant and all I wanted to do was dissappear.

The ghastly look on his face was gone, the pale skin under the bright moonlight, the sharp long canines, the bloody eyes and bloody mouth was all gone. He didn’t look like a monster at this moment, he just looked like a handsome hunk. I couldn’t bring myself to look at him the normal way. All I kept seeing was that terrifying face as if kept flashing in my memory even though he looked completely transformed and normal. I dragged my feet towards my chest as my heart thumped against it.

“ I’ll be downstairs.” Trisha said and left the room even before I could say a word.

Leaving me to face the devil and monster that could end me in an instant.