After Midnight

Chapter VI

After a few hours, I got a call from my neighbor that lives next to the bookstore saying that Mr. William died last night! I cried, I really loved him, he was like my second father. When I first came to this bookstore, he hugged me and said: "don't worry, you won't work too hard, you will be my right hand, in one condition, you have to let me teach you about books and writers". And I said yes, and so all that I know now about this subject, this noble guy taught me about it.

When I got in, my co-worker Garry told me that apparently, Mr. William died from a sudden heart attack, and that his lawyer wanted to see me at 5 pm. I asked him to cover my shift and I went to see the lawyer. When I arrived, the family of Mr. William was there. Why was I with them too?

He had two children, twins, a girl and a boy, they were both 16. He had a sister too. We sat on the lawyer's desk as he welcomed us to the opening of Mr. William's will. I was shook! Was my name included in the will?!

The lawyer opened the envelope and started reading, he gave half of his money and a house to his sister, and he gave the other half of the money for the twins, along with two villas for each. And there we were, my turn to discover why is my name written in my boss' will.

"My beloved Noah Connor, in your childhood, I saw you working hard to try to help your family, at least a bit, I saw how you dropped out of school for your brother, I saw you crying sometimes in the corner of the bookstore alone, and when you would sense that someone is coming, you would dry off your tears quickly so that nobody could ever see them. I saw your pain, and I saw your grief for the Noah that you hoped you would become. I admire your strength, and especially because you were still young when you passed through those hard times. But even with all these difficulties, you wanted to learn, you showed me this insane passion, and I taught you everything I know. And so I want to give you something, consider a prize, I am going to give you the bookstore, and I want you to name it Noah's bookstore." Read the lawyer.

I didn't know what to say or what to think, I just fell into tears. Tears of grief and of joy! I hugged each and every one I saw in the office and ran out like a crazy person. I was shouting and screaming on the road! I went to my home first, to tell my parents about the wonderful news, and they were just as happy as me!

Then I went to your house Katheryn, as I arrived I saw your sister in a miserable state, and I couldn't say more about you too, your eyes we shutting down by themselves, so I kept my story to myself and told you to take a nap, and I am going to sit with Katelynn.

I sat down on the couch and started talking to Katelynn, she was hallucinating and sweating a lot, and she had a headache and wanted to use cocaine so bad. And then she started acting violently: she ran to the kitchen, took the knife and started dancing with it. I got up as fast as possible to try and get the knife out of her hand, but she started dancing faster and the knife started waving faster! In the end I got her, but she got me too, she stabbed me on the side of my lower abdomen, it wasn't deep. Katelynn lost consciousness, and I was bleeding. So I took a towel and pressed on my wound to stop the bleeding, and I helped Katelynn up to lay on the couch.

After a little while, my wound started bleeding more, so I called my friend Alex, he was a medic, and I told him what happened. He arrived and started stitching the wound. Meanwhile Katheryn woke up, and when you saw me, you panicked and rushed towards me asking what happened, I told you that I accidentally ran into a knife because I didn't want you to worry about anything, but you didn't believe me. After a while of arguing, I told you the truth, so you started apologizing and crying. I held you up, looked deep inside your eyes, and told you: "don't worry about it baby, it's not your fault." And I kissed your forehead with a lot of delicacy.

I had to thank my Alex and tell him good-bye, but before he left, he told me that he took care of Cole, and that he will not be bothering us again. And as usual, you heard and asked: what happened to Cole? I replied with a simple "don't worry about it darling, your sister is safe now". But you didn't want this answer, you wanted to know exactly what happened to him. So as soon as I walked away, you ran outside and got to Alex just before he was about to leave. You asked him and he told you the truth because he thought you already knew who I am.

After a few minutes, I lost you, looked for you inside the house and didn't find you. I saw a silhouette standing outside, so I looked and it was you, you looked terrified so I came to you. "What is it?" I asked. You screamed with your lungs and told me to stay away from you, and that you just wanted to get your sister and go away. I followed you inside and asked you to explain. You started to tell that you knew what I did to Cole, and your voice was trembling, you looked at me like I was a monster. I had sent orders to kill Cole.