Four: Selfish
1997 Words
A WEEK AFTER.
Author (O. View)
" Long time no see, dude! " Kristen greeted Erika the second she went inside the unit. She immediately slouches on a marle grey mayson three-seater sofa "It's like what? A week? Are you like trying to die so soon? Tif, told me you were a complete monster the whole week, your therapist almost quit the job! " she added sarcastically.
" You missed me that much? " Erika smirked. She leaned on the wall and crossed her arms, revealing her perfectly toned biceps.
" Something happened the week before last week, right? Let me guess, you went to that same university, "
" I had my summer classes, "
" We both knew that it's not about your summer classes, "
" Yes, it is, "
Kristen chuckled.
" Whatever, "
Someone went inside a minute later. It was Dakota.
" Yo, " the latter and Erika both hailed in unison. Kristen got little vengeance going on in her eyes, she prefers not to hail.
" You look good, " Dakota told Erika.
" I'll take that as a compliment, " Erika responded with a smile on her face.
" Finally! " Kristen told Dakota sarcastically. Grabbing her attention.
" What?" replied the latter.
" I've been texting you for an hour! Where have you been?"
Dakota glanced at Erika soulfully.
" At Lea's, " she replied.
An awkward silence covered the whole scene but not until Cara showed up.
" Yo, " she hailed.
They all glanced at her, no one hailed back.
" What happened? Did someone die? " she asked with a deep english accent.
" I was at Lea's, " admitted Dakota as if it could justify the still awkwardness.
" You were?" Cara asked and glanced at Erika.
" No big deal, " responded the latter nonchalantly and partly shrugged her shoulders.
Kristen chuckled to Erika's response but halted as soon as Dakota sent dagger looks her way.
" I went here in peace, you all," Cara said and approached the wine cellar.
" In fact, she's coming over, " Dakota spilled the beans.
Cara choked " Who is? I may ask," she asked hoping she didn't hear it right.
Dakota didn't respond but looked at her in the eyes.
" You told her to come here without you telling us? " Kristen complained " Do you know how bad timing is that don't you?" she muttered to Dakota while making faces of the opposition. Dakota set her eyes firmly at Erika.
One knock on the front door left them all for a heart-stopping moment.
" Yo, " hailed a drank Hayley after opening the door.
It left everyone at mere ease. They all hailed back like a squad thing.
" Rough night?" Cara asked with a smirk on her face.
" Obviously," Hayley smirked.
" You should've-- knuckles buckles !" the English model blurted upon seeing someone behind Hayley. It was Lea.
" You're here! " Dakota approached Lea.
" Yo, " Kristen hailed her awkwardly while looking at Erika.
Cara looked at Kristen who is being awkward and drank her full glass straight up. She,then, bravely approached Lea and did the squad official fist bump.
" You all, I'll just go upstairs and nappy naps, " Hailey said and walked the stairs like a drunken zombie.
" I think I'm swimmin', " Cara declared, too, like she's got the best idea of walking out that scene and left with a wine glass few seconds later.
" I hope she doesn't drown. She's drunk already, " Kristen said sarcastically " Dakota and I should look after her, " she added and pulled Dakota out of there. The latter is expressing opposition.
Lea closed the front door. She's composing the right words to say.
" How's she? " Erika asked while staring at her wine glass.
Lea was astounded to hear something from Erika.
" She's...she's good. She's doing fine, "
she answered back.
There was a long silence after that.
Erika nodded.
Lea ran her fingers through her hair.
" She still has no clue, does she?" Erika asked.
A long silence crawled between.
" I'm proposing an engagement, " Lea said bravely.
Erika chuckled in misfit and cursed hard " And you leave her and die!? You selfish f**k!" she shouted in anger, like a wildfire in a mishap.
She approached Lea and punched her right in the face.
Hayley was awakened by feeling nausea. She felt her stomach growling and without further ado, she throws up to an uncertain elevated area. She felt like she was on an iconic Titanic bow scene but 'Rose'less and barfing.
Dakota, Kristen, and Cara saw how drastic the scene was, they could almost throw up, unduly.
This was in fact the whole scene all about...
Hayley was on the top, apparently on the succeeding floor, barfing her guts out. Everything she throws up falls onto Erika standing below her, particularly, on the ground floor.
" Hayley! What the f**k! " Kristen shouted. Hayley who's feeling so up high somewhere in the clouds is nowhere near valid.
" She looks high to me, " Cara muttered.
Dakota was attending Lea. She was sitting on the ground, seemed discarded.
Kristen phoned someone. In just a few minutes, some housekeepers went inside and fixed everything respectively.
" What the hell happened? We were at the swimming pool just a minute ago and then the whole thing instantly became havoc, " Cara exclaimed. She is still in awe.
Dakota and Kristen looked at her.
They're seated at a Baughman curved sofa at a different executive suite. They evacuated right after the commotion at hand.
" It's been a year. We've been too busy, " Kristen said " All I remember is that every single time they crossed paths, progress seems to be so damn far away. I can't help but speculate that this is way more, " she added referring to Erika and Lea.
" What is worst than fightin' over a girl?" Cara asked.
" What do you mean? " Dakota asked Kristen in a low voice.
" I don't know. I don't have a clue, " Kristen replied and ran her fingers through her hair.
" Yeah. I thought she moved on from Megan. She and Samantha even got engaged! " Cara exclaimed.
Lea walked right in front of them. She came out of the door on the left.
" What the hell dude! " Kristen exclaimed. She didn't see Lea coming out that door.
" She's here. Have you forgotten?" Cara whispered to Kristen.
" I need to go. Megan is waiting outside, " Lea said.
" She is? " Cara exclaimed " You should invite her here, " she added.
"... is not necessary, " Kristen responded.
Cara glanced at Kristen. The latter is on her iconic b***h-resting face.
" I hate your b***h-resting face. Don't give me that, " Cara said.
" Whatever beast brows, " Kristen said.
" Vampire princess, "
" Fake Russian, "
" Dia--"
" Shut it you two! " Dakota exclaimed in irritation.
" I should go, " Lea said suppressing her smile.
" I'm coming with you, " Dakota said. Everyone immediately looked at her as if she said somethig wrong " I mean Elle just texted. I should go, too, " she added.
" Whatever, " Kristen said.
Megan, on the other hand, was walking down an alley. It is eight o'clock in the evening.
She's few blocks near Louisiana building when she felt a tight grip on her left arm and something sharp in her neck.
" Hi there, missy, " said a deep british accent. It is of a man. He pulled her near a remote area.
" What do you want?" Megan asked trying to shove off the fear building up her system.
" You, " the man whispered in her ears and caressed her arms and shoulders. She felt disgusted and tried resistance in his hold. She halted when she felt a sting of pain. The bastard is slowly thrusting the knife on her neck, caused in bleeding.
Megan cursed in pain.
" You shouldn't do that while I'm on watch, " said a deep voice in an imperceptible pace, out of nowhere.
The man's hold on Megan loosened, she grabs that chance to kick him hard down 'there'. The knife fell off his hands while he shrieked in pain.
Megan pulled herself away from the man while trying to put pressure on her bleeding throat. She cursed repeatedly as soon as she saw blood in her hands.
" Megan, " said the deep voice, it looks like she's taming her.
" Griffin, " she said in a hoarse voice. She can see Griffin standing near her.
" Yes, it's Griffin and please stop talking or it'll cause more bleeding, "
" You did this?" she said in a low enraging yet terrifying voice. She's shaking uncontrollably.
She glanced at another man looking up at Griffin, the man is lying down the cold alley. She's too terrified to make sense of everything.
Griffin, on the other hand, was taken aback. She felt a million spears strike through her chest upon hearing her say those words.
" Y-you did this!!!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. The bleeding on her throat shrieked, she lost consciousness, forthwith.
" This is too much to happen in a day, " Cara said.
She ran her fingers through her hair.
Cara was indeed talking to Hayley who is still in shock, her eyes are glued on the white wall in front of 'em.
" C'mon Hayley frickin' Kiyoko, " Cara exclaimed, grabbing her attention.
" Did I really did it?" Hayley asked in a hoarse voice.
" What?"
" The barfing,"
" You prick! Is that what you've been thinking all this time?"
" This is all so messed up. The squad is a grenade inside a fog waiting to blast! I can't put up with all of it at once! " Hayley suddenly exclaimed.
Cara blinked twice. She didn't see that coming from her.
" That's deep you got there, " she said and nodded.
A long silence visited.
" I'm serious, " Hayley muttered and looked into Cara's eyes.
Cara furrowed her iconic brows " Is there anything more serious than this?"
Hayley's stared at her, creeping her out.
" Stop that. What is wrong with you?"
Hayley glanced at the other side and sighed in defeat.
" I need to tell you something, "
" You need to tell me-- "
" Lea's dying, "
" What?"
" She's literally dying. She has metastatic, " Hayley said and scrolled her phone for evidence, records, and doctor's prescriptions and showed them to Cara.
Again, there was a long silence after that. Hayley is letting Cara take everything in.
" So she's dying?" Cara asked like she can't believe something like that comes out of her mouth.
" Who's dying?" said Dakota.
She notices them being terrified as they glanced at her.
Hayley was shaking as she hid the phone.
" What's that? " Dakota snapped. She didn't miss that remark.
" Nothing, " Cara said nonchalantly. Dakota glanced at her.
When Hayley stood up, it carved further suspicion to Dakota.
"Give it to me, " the latter commanded.
Newcomer Kristen was walking down the hospital corridors. This is the first time she'll meet Megan, Lea's girlfriend.
She thought she's on the right floor when she saw Dakota standing in front of Hayley and there was Cara looking terrified while looking at the two girls. With those uncloaked, she felt something off right there but approached them nonetheless.
She was a few steps away when she felt something crumpled upon the floor. It was a phone. She picked it up and accidentally saw Lea's inscription in it.
To fulfill her curiosity, she read the whole content.
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