06. Punishment
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"Nooooo! please...nooo! Don't do this to me! HELP!" Candice's screams failed to reach outside the walls no matter how much she cried for help. Her last hope to get out of this abandoned place shattered down as someone injected a syringe in one of her arms and pushed in some unknown liquid.
"Noooo!" She tried her best to move her hand to prevent it from happening but it was too tightly tapped to the chair, "Who are you? Why are you doing this to us? Please stop..." She helplessly pleaded sobbing to the unknown man whose face was hidden behind a black gas mask. Her devastated eyes flickered looking at her other two friends who were lying in the corner unconscious. She felt like she was slowly losing her senses as well.
"Why? Why us?" Candice tried asking again for one last time.
"Candice, do you remember what you did today?" A sinister voice replied to her from the darkest corner of the room.
She recalled what happened earlier that day, someone started banging the bathroom's door when she and her friends locked Bella in the bathroom. So they fled from the bathroom's window and went to a club to celebrate. Because their planning was a success But someone probably spiked their drinks and she lost consciousness. She couldn't remember anything after that. When she woke up she found herself like this. She tried to free herself again.
"WHO ARE YOU?" She screamed.
"Your father taught you a few dialects...I wonder if you still remember them..." What he said shocked her to the core.
Candice lost her father in an accident when she was young. She was very close to him. They are originally from Greece where her father used to be a language teacher in a school. Candice learnt a few dialects from her father when he was still alive. But how can a stranger know this part of her life which she never shared with anyone!
"Do I know..you?" She muttered. It was getting hard for her to talk.
She saw a shadow-like figure was gradually coming towards her. But her visions were getting blurry. She wanted but couldn't see his face properly.
"Who are...you?" Candice gagged as if something was covering her mouth.
"Θα της κάψω τα πάντα" He whispered coming close to her ears.
"I'll burn...everything...for her?," She mumbled interpreting.
"Yes. Only for her..." He replied appallingly yet it sounded euphonious.
"For Isabella?" She asked quaveringly.
She felt like she saw a demonic grin on the shadow's face before losing her consciousness completely.
Bella's POV
"He came here last night?" Becky almost screamed but I covered her mouth with my hand.
"Shush! Don't let anyone know!" I warned her.
"Oh my god, Bella! This crazy hot psycho is definitely in love with you!" She said giggling looking at the small note that came with the flowers.
"Ok I don't know about crazy hot but he's definitely a psycho! Imagine barging into a girl's room at night," I pouted.
"Are you more worried about your privacy or your composure while sleeping when he saw you?" Becky said suppressing her laugh.
"I'm gonna pick up this flower vase and drop it on your head!" I yelled smiling.
"NOOO! Don't kill your best friend for your mysterious man now!" She said covering her head with a pillow.
"Becky! Are you stealing my dialogues?"
"No! Bella!"
We both started laughing.
"Seems like we are in a good mood today!" Mom said coming inside with a nurse.
"Mom, is it time?" I am supposed to be discharged today from the hospital. Becky, mom, dad all of them came to take me home.
"Yes dear, it's time!" Mom said giving a pat on my head, "Thank you Becky for coming. You always cheer her up more than anyone can."
"It's my duty, Mrs Swan. Bella is like my sister! Now I hope she gets better soon." Becky said smiling at me, holding my hand. I smiled back. I feel the same about her. I don't have any siblings. She is a sister to me, a person I can trust with my eyes closed.
Before I was about to leave I asked the nurse in charge who took care of me,
"Hello I wanted to ask something, did anyone come into my room last night? Did you see anything?"
"Last night?" She seemed confused.
"Yeah, yesterday night...." I was expecting I won't be getting any answer.
"Someone took the saline syringe off her hand while she was sleeping!" Becky tried to explain more hoping she will remember something.
"Oh, that! Yeah, it was me who took it out of your hand," She replied looking back at me.
"YOU?" I and Becky exclaimed together being disappointed.
"Yeah, your mom said it will be troublesome for you to sleep like that because you were complaining about it. So she requested me to take it off if it's not that necessary."
"Oh so it was mom," I felt a bit embarrassed. Why did I even think he will visit me in the middle of the night like this!
"But I think someone sent you a bouquet..." The nurse said still trying to remember, "I don't remember the person but it was written on a paper to send it to you and left on the information desk."
"Bella, I think she has a short term memory loss problem!" Becky whispered in my ears.
I cleared my throat warning Becky not to be loud.
"Oh, it's fine. Anyways thanks!" I grabbed Becky's hand and went outside near our car.
"Thank God the nurse didn't hear you, Becky. She would have complained otherwise," I said pinching Becky.
"Oww, who cares about her. What we should focus on is the man of your dreams who is hunting you down to make you his!" Becky said dramatically.
"Yeah, I'll hand you over to him instead Miss drama queen!" I said poking her.
"Well, miss drama queen has a surprise for you?" Becky said taking out two tickets from her bag.
"Woah what are these?" I exclaimed.
"Haunted house visiting ticket, girly! We going there tonight!" She winked.
"OH WOW! Halloween is near, isn't it? But our graduation party? We still have lots of work to do," I suddenly remembered it.
"Don't worry we'll still have time to prepare for it," Becky said patting my back.
I became super excited, "Mom can I go? PLEASE!" I requested mom hoping she'll let me go.
Mom seemed a bit hesitant about it,
"Dear, you just came from the hospital. You should rest Bella."
"Mom, please. I'm perfectly fine can I go? I promise I'll be safe and take care of myself."
"Oh boy. Ok but come back home before it's too late!" Mom said warning me about the time.
"Absolutely! YAY!" I and Becky both burst out in happiness.
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