Whispers
643 Words
Ringing slowly
Click, picked, stuttering, silence.
"Mom.. "
"Claire.. What are you still doing awake and in the middle of the night? Isabella ask sounding sleepy.
"He have found her". Claire whispers as if not wanting anybody to hear but it is either both because she doesn't give a f**k.
"Who? Isabella ask now sounding fully awake and alerted.
"Phillip"
"Oh Claire.. Please don't do any thing to him." Isabelle pleas sounding a little breathless.
"Relax mom, I'm no longer eighteen and I won't do anything stupid."
"Please Claire.. Do you want me to come over?". Isabelle ask not believing her daughter.
"No Leila might come back tonight." Claire said more like whisper.
"You know she love you" Isabelle said
"Yeah" Claire reply
"Tell her the truth"
"If I do that mom, she won't love me anymore. "
"Claire.. You're her first love and her love now, whatever her mom did to her won't change anything. The love she and Phillip shared shouldn't have existed. It wasn't meant to be. Why are you still doubting her love for you? The young girl practically sings it everyday and it's obvious that she love you just merely looking at her".
"I'm not so sure about that"
"Just think maybe you're the one pushing her away.."
Silence
Claire, you're not giving her enough."
Silence
"Claire.." Isabelle call her daughter again through the phone when she didn't respond to all her calls but she still didn't answer.
For a while
"I really wish that I'm twenty years again sitting on the chair that me and her made together at Istanbul. Her mom and dad standing beside me and dad in front of me telling me no. He saw the gun but they didn't. To him shooting them will make me a fugitive and his dream for me to becoming an FBI will be ruined. "But they are bad people". I whisper, wanting so badly to scream it but his eyes where warning me, telling me no.
"Dad, they want to take my Le away" I whisper to him and he replied me by saying.
"Claire honey she thirteen and you're distracting her from her studies besides if you kill her parents what makes you think she won't hate you for that?"
"She wish them dead dad and they are bad people, they always hurt her". I said to him trying to convince him but he wouldn't listen. He said she might hate her parents or say really mean things to them but she didn't mean them and that she didn't really want them dead.
And i said "Dad Le hate studying" and he asked me "Is that good?
I said "dad I can't let them take her away" and he said when she turns twenty, you two will get married."
I wanted to say six years without my Le is death but I heard marriage. Dad who tried to convince me that I am straight, that me saying that i love Leila is some kind of sickness is promising me this and besides I can always sneak out to go see her.
I thought that was it and I had agreed. I watched Le crying, refusing to go with them. I saw her looked at me, I know she saw me, she saw me calmed. She thought I was letting her go. I was OK with that because I had booked my flight to Serbia for the next day but her witch of a mother had already done it. They washed her brain away mom. They washed her brain away that same day and now I have to deal with him and her dad.
Do you know he is alive?
"Claire" Isabella call softly not not knowing how to console her daughter.
Silence
For a while
"Her dad is alive mom and he could tell her everything."
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