THE HOUSE MAID

CHAPTER 5

The tension was so thick that it could be sliced with a knife.

"oh am sorry did I interrupt anything?" Mom says awkwardly.

"no not at all" I shout pushing Asher away.

"I just came to check up on you, you hadn't come outside for a long time" Mom smiled, gazing around the room

"I was just about to come outside" I said hurriedly leaving the room and walking down the flight of stairs and entering the guest toilet.

..

Lucia left, leaving Asher and her mother in the room. "

" You like her, don't you? " Her mother asks giving out a small smile.

" I can't even explain how much" Asher sighed, feeling all warm and fizzy.

Lucia's mother walks up to Asher and stops at his eye level, making eye contact with him"Promise me something" She starts, the question totally throwing Asher off guard.

"Yeah sure" Asher answered smiling at her, but quickly the smile left his face. The seriousness in her face couldn't make him smile.

"Promise me you'll take care of Lucia when I'm gone" She says. Asher was totally confused

"when you're gone? Are you leaving the city? " Asher asks.

"You won't understand now but you will very soon, but you have to promise me Asher, when I'm gone, matter how she declines, promise me you'll take care of her, keep her from all pain, danger or any trouble that u can keep her from" she says with a teary tone.

"Yeah, I promise I'll take care of her" Asher promised not really understanding what was going on, but if it was to stop her from crying, then he would say it.

" Thank you, you have my blessing on marrying her" she smiled, giving Asher a tight hug, before leaving him with his unanswered questions.

Never had he been so confused as this In his life before.

Five minutes after she left his room, Asher walked out of his room to get himself a bottle of chilled water. He opened the fridge, but later decided on a bottle of chilled beer.

The weather was giving him beer vibes instead of his normal water.

He hasn't seen Lucia since their almost kiss that had happened. If only her mother didn't badge on them.

She would have once again tasted her strawberry lips like he did when they were teenagers. Asher wonders what it will take to get them close again. He f****d up so much the last time.

Speaking of the devil, Asher looked up and Lucia was standing in front of me, " What are you doing? " I asked total

"we can never speak about what happened between us in the room" she whispered dragging a bar stool and sitting down close to me. "nothing happened?" I sighed slightly nodding my head. "Don't play games with me Asher, I'm serious, I'm not ready for any relationship or nothing" she fumbled with her nails as she said this. "I'll take another kiss for me to shut it" I smirked, wanting to tease her a little, " don't play no games on me" she glared at me "alright, alright I won't" I raised up my hands in defence before taking a big gulp of my beer. " So, what are you doing currently? " I asked as she aimlessly wandered in the living room. "Working "she says sacarsming dripping from all over her words. " Well it looks like you're less busy, wanna go for a date perhaps?" I smirked, trying to take one last shot at her." Gosh you're so frustrating" she groaned before exiting the room.

I sat down on the couch, lazily spreading up my legs. That's when Lucia and mom came rushing in. "Pick up your keys' ' Mom screamed as she and Lucia rushed to the front door. I immediately stood up, obviously alarmed at what was going on right now. "What happened?" I tried to find some answers from any of them. "Pick up your damn keys Asher '' Lucia cussed, she rarely cussed except if this was really serious. I quickly rushed to collect my car keys, stuffing it in my pockets. I opened up the car, Lucia and Mom jumped inside. "Where to?" I asked, " The Verneda hospital, Lucia's mother was involved in a car crash. "What????" I screamed, my head all jumbled up at the news that was thrown at me recently. " Just fuckin drive"Mom screamed, I turned on the car and drifted off, driving to the direction of the hospital.

We arrived at the hospital, Lucia was all teary eyed, Mom was trying to comfort her as we got some information from the doctor. " She's in a pretty bad condition, the effect of the hit made her go into coma, and her heart isn't responding at all, we've got a few faint heartbeat, but we're not sure if it's beating well enough to sustain her throughout the period she's in the coma" The doctor said in a low like voice. Hearing these words, Lucia fell down on her knees, absolutely broken, tears began flowing from her eyes, as she let out a huge cry. I quickly bent down to cuddle her, but she pushed me away. " Don't touch me"she screamed at me. "It's going to be ok, don't worry '' I say trying to calm her down, I rubbed my hands behind her hair, but that obviously did not work, cause she cried even harder. "You promise" she says as the tears keep rushing down, "yeah I do" lately I've been making a lot of promises that I hope I can keep to it. "Mr Asher can I speak to you for a minute?" A police officer called me, Mom quickly took over in comforting Lucia, I stood up and followed behind the man. " We suspect this might not be a normal accident, '' the police officer said, confusing me. He brought out a phone and opened a clip for me to watch. " If you can see here, this was the car Mrs Valdon was in '' he says pointing at a brownish car, which belonged to my father. In the clip I couldn't see Mrs Valdon properly but I could make out her from the clip. "But if you look closely you can see there was somebody in the car with her" that's when he zooms into the clip, it was a Man, his face was well covered but you can make out his masculine structure right from the clip. "And just before Mrs Valdon was hit by the train, you can see her slowly stopping before moving before her car suddenly went spiral out of control. He says " but in the next clip you can't see the man in the car. " He says pointing at the clip before Lucia's mother's car spirals out of control. "So what do you mean?" I was totally confused by the clips I saw. "We aren't sure yet but we may suspect it to be a forced death." He answered slowly, removing his cap. " What do you mean by a fo-" before I could complete my sentence, I heard a last screech, instantly I knew it was Lucia's, I quickly ran to the hospital room where her voice could be heard from. She cradled her mother with all might and wouldn't let the doctors touch her mother's lifeless body, instantly I knew that she was

dead. " Time of death, 12:23" A doctor says.