My Chibi BangTan Book 2 ✔

Lies And Footsteps

 "There's nothing to say about that. You already know what happened." He said to me as he stood from his fancy ass leather chair.

"You already know she was sick Ella.. there was no hope, no matter what the doctors did." He stepped around his desk, his words were not warm though- he wasn't speaking from sadness, he was cold. Granted he was always cold from what I could remember.

"That's what we've been told.. but I want to know the absolute truth." I said as sternly as I could to him, but his eyes were as cold as his words. "Look, I didn't want to come here but I want answers and You're the only one who has them when it comes to this. The doctors talked to you, not me or Jason." I breathed, I had to take a breath and steady myself. This man just made me tremble with fear when he looked at me like that.

"Because she was mine, and I was responsible for her. They told me what all the other doctors had said, that there was no cure for her. She was dying anyway, it didn't matter. All they could do was make her comfortable while she waited for her time to be up." His words cut into me.. he was walking about her like she was a burden to him... I felt myself getting angrier as he spoke.

"There's nothing more to tell than that. Your mother was sick, she couldn't be helped, end of story. I spent more money than I should have to have her cared for. In the end all I spent was wasted, she wanted to die at home with the two of you but I actually tried to provide care for her." He talked like he was her savior, like he truly wanted the best for her.

"Then why didn't you come see her? Why didn't you let her come home to us? Why couldn't we see her in her final days?" I asked angrily, almost shouting at him. He stalked over to me as I continued to just spill everything out. "You never loved her! You didn't care for any of us! She suffered and only wanted her family by her side and you denied her that! You're a fucking monster!"

*SLAP*

The sting on the side of my face, the way my head forcefully snapped to the side... I knew I'd gotten to him. I refused to cry though... I wouldn't give him that satisfaction.

"Don't you ever... EVER, speak to me like that!" He yelled in my face, looking down at me with those cold eyes of his. He grabbed my wrist and made me look at him. "You WILL look at me when I'm speaking to you!" He spat a little as he raised his voice, it was laced with the usual venom.

"Go home, live your fucking useless pathetic life and never... NEVER show your face here again or I swear.... I'll make you regret it!" He pushed me away with enough force to make me stumble back. I refused to let the tears fall, they were pooling up and I wasn't sure how much longer I could hold them back. I left the room, focusing on the elevator. I couldn't let the security cameras see me cry... I knew how much of a monster he was... the type he was, and he'd check to see if I cried on any of those fucking cameras. Once the elevator stopped I hurried out, making my movements look more like I was angry than about to cry... truth was the anger was there, but it was accompanied by the tears caused from the natural fear I held for that, that monster.

As I left the building the city was lit up in it's usual glow. I checked my phone to see what time it was.

"Two hours to go..." I sighed. In two hours I'd either be dead... or I'd be making progress in figuring all this shit out. As I walked to the docks I thought about everything so far that I was sure of or had a bad feeling about. My brother knew something was going on but I couldn't decipher exactly what he was digging into, but it was something that I was sure got him killed. You don't just leave a note hidden for someone and state that if they found it then it means your dead, I mean.. who the fuck does that? He was working on something for someone too though.. so maybe that sperm donor wasn't responsible for his death. Maybe it was whoever Jason was looking into. I'd need answers from the one who had him digging in order to narrow that down. But that doesn't mean our father was innocent- and not just for not being in our lives and leaving our mother to die, no.. I still had a strong feeling that he had something to do with it. She looked like she was getting better at one point, getting stronger but then she slipped and went right back into severe sickness. We also couldn't see her, we weren't allowed to- And that makes it seem like ten times more sketchy.

As I kept walking and got closer to the docks, I was sure there was someone following me. I kept hearing footsteps so if I was being followed- these assholes sure as shit didn't know how to be quiet. I would run, but that wouldn't solve anything. If I am being followed then running will just make them pursue harder- right now whoever it was thought they had the upper hand, they thought they were being sneaky.
So I just continued on like it was nothing, like I'd heard nothing. Except I kept thinking how bad this could be.. I'm being followed to the docks, it's dark, it's late, no one is around... whoever was following me can just kill me and dump my body off the docks... I was pretty much leading them to my gave and waving my hands up saying 'okay I'm here, kill me now so you can get away with it'.

Yeah... not the smartest of ideas. What the hell are we gonna do, Ella? I asked myself the same thing for the next few minutes.

As I neared the big storage building by the docks the footsteps suddenly stopped. I didn't look behind me though, it could be more dangerous to try and see why they stopped. Instead I headed down across the path by the water's edge. A huge ship was parked a little ways down, there was nothing but a bunch of shipping crates and storage containers in the area, causing a maze. I stayed near the water and stopped at a big blue storage container.

All I could do was lean against it and wait. I wondered if the footsteps would come back, but they hadn't and I wasn't sure if that worried me more. It probably should have, the silence wasn't what was bothering me so much- it was the stillness around here. I could only tell there was movement from the water gently slapping against the side of the docks. And all I could do here, was wait...... wait...

Just wait...