Dandelion

Chapter 20

                                                                                   "Intruder"

They were a mess of feelings, tangled souls suffering for love and affection. Both Tian and Ren seemed so in my eyes as I brought in my head the events that had gathered in my head.

Tian had left me alone after that conversation of ours and some minutes that I spend in his embrace, till I reassured him that I won't leave him. Words that were not fully mine to say but still I felt them at that instant. It was as if I was watching a movie and I was seeing a character falling apart and despite the fact that I was not the one to push him to his doom nor the one capable of saving him, I still wanted to grab his hand and pull him to a safer place, so I lied with those sweet words to reassure him. The love he seemed so much in need of was not leaving, I told him. How ironic was it that the person that he loved and needed the love from was dead and replaced by someone that they probably would have not had feelings for?

Life sure was playing some spectacular twists on these two but at least at this point, it was fair cause the biggest twist definitely belonged to my life.

 I laid in bed since he left, trying to do what I should have instead of swimming in thoughts and guilt over the feelings of two men I had not hurt. Seriously, why am I like this? It there a button to turn of my empathy cause I definitely think that I will be in need of it while living like this. 

The situation sure was difficult and it looked like Zein was not completely at fault for the creation of this triangle. It must have been difficult having your best friend admit he has romantic feelings for you while as Tian stated, she was in love with another. I suppose the first instinct would have been to reject him because if you truly love someone then there was no way you would consider anyone else, yet her feelings were evidently not as clean. 

There is a possibility that she had it rough hurting someone she held as her dear best friend and seeing how desperate Tian seemed, definitely he must have not made it easy for her to keep him in the friend zone only. She looked like she fell victim to a guilt trap which leads to even more guilt after they were to have done things that she should have not been doing with anyone else but her boyfriend whom they claim that she loves. She doomed herself alright. She opened the door of hell and entered with her own two hands just because she was not able to hurt him.

She sounds worse than me. She couldn't say no so she made herself the collision point of a tragedy cause this definitely was hard to be referred to as love. I feel sorry for her in all honesty. Her place was not easy to be in yet here I am in her shoes now. I guess it's time I pity me too then.

I definitely should be more careful, however. I can't let my emotions get involved in this. I may not like it but I am left to solve this mess and I should do so no matter how cruel I am to come off us or how pained they may look in my eyes. There is no other but me who can unravel this mess of emotions that they have created. I who am still neutral and as such have fewer chances to be emotionally phased by this shall be the one, to bring the truth to the surface and place them both in their respective positions in the life that I now own.

Only if I was as brave in action as I am in my thoughts though that would have been easier. For now, I will let that aside and try to fix the mess that currently is going on then I can use them to help me find a solution to the murderer and that stalker. After I am enlightened about what truly happened that night and secure that Zein's life is no more in danger, I will go ahead and fix these relationships they have with her too and so I will be ready to live a worry less rich and famous lifestyle.

A life I should have inherited at that state, to begin with, and not in this mess but I guess I should not complain. I at least came back to life.

I turned around trying to find a better position that could possibly have me been feeling a bit sleepy like I was when I arrived but it didn't seem to come back no matter what I tried. I stood up and closed the curtains shut, trying to wrap the room in the darkness that could potentially gift me rest but despite how dark the room had become as I laid in bed, I still ended up staring at the side of my pillow in silence.

Who would have occupied that seat more often from the two, I suddenly wondered, right before I heard the sound of the door opening, making me stand in a seating position immediately.

Had Tian come back? I questioned while waiting for whoever was that pushed the door to come in but no one entered. I stood there in silence staring at it intensely as there was no way that it opened on its own. I was sure I had closed it well when I entered and if my memory was not failing me then that meant that whoever was at the other side of it, had opened it on purpose and was waiting for me to go check on it.

I felt the atmosphere of the room growing cold and the air feeling icy as it entered my nostrils and went down my throat. My body got filled with goosebumps and chills started running down my spine. My fingers started to tremble slightly, as something within me told me to run. Escape of the familiar feeling of terror that this moment gifted me.

Was it him behind that door? Was it the man that took my life? My whole being seemed to scream to me to run at the possibility of his existence yet I was unable to move once again as well as unable to breathe, afraid that he would listen and he would want to take that from me once again.

Was my breathing so desired? Was my life so satisfying to take? No, I won't let this happen twice.

In a blink of an eye, I grabbed my phone and made a run for the bathroom where once inside I closed the door and locked it with trembling hands, my breaths short and my toes on edge as if I had him so close behind me, right before doing that.

Just as I let go of the knob of the door, I witnessed it getting twisted, the sight making me squill down and hide under the sink as I proceeded to call whoever was to get first in my contact list.

I waited impatiently on the line, observing the doorknob twisting and turning as someone seemed eager to get inside.

"Ren! Please save me! Someone is in my apartment, please come!" I spoke in agony as soon as he picked up the call and then to my surprise he hanged up on me.

Was he so mad at me to not care if I live or if I die? I thought as I heard a knock on the bathroom door, the knob no longer moving.

I stood there watching it while holding my breath and as minutes passed I dared to hope that he might have retrieved himself for today after hearing me call someone. Nontheless I did not dare to unlock the door and check so for myself. I just stood there observing like an owl till after a long while I heard some noise coming from inside the room.

"Who the heck are you?"His voice entered my ambient faint yet I could tell that he had spoken demandingly to what I assumed to have been the murdered that came to take my life.

After those words, I heard no more talking but some things crashing here and there sounds that had me leaning over the door in agony and fear of the possibility of him getting hurt. 

What do I do? I can't just let him get killed in my place? I panicked at the thought and looked towards my phone, soon dialing one more number.

"Yes, Police?"