The wedding night

Episode 41- Remember

"If we dwell too much on the past then we might never see the future."

Music played: maybe by lewis Capaldi
Love Someone by Lukas Graham
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Giovanni POV

"She survives but she hasn't shown sign of waking up yet, " the doctor's words keep resounding in my head over and over again as I drove out of the hospital.

"What's going to happen to her?" Lorena had asked the doctor.

"The poison had been successfully flushed out of her sister but due to how poisonous it was, it affected one of her vital organs."

Lorena burst into the tears at the doctor's announcement. "Please save her," she begged the doctor.

I couldn't say anything as I watched Lorena cry over her friend. All I could do was walk away like a coward. Dennis offered to drive me home but I rejected his offer and collected the keys from him. "I need you to stay with Melody and watch over her, the attacker might strike again," I instructed and walked out of the hospital.

I drove around the hospital streets for two hours while remembering the words of the doctor. "I don't know when she'll wake up." I hit the steering wheel over and over again as the word resounded in my head. I didn't know if I should cry or just pretend everything was fine. Just when I found out that I have a family, they strike again. Someone didn't want me to be happy. They wanted me to be lonely for the rest of my life. It has happened before but I wasn't going to let it happen again. I turned the car around and drove straight to the one person I suspected. Someone I believed would be happy once I lose everything.

Lorenzo.

Once I got to his penthouse where he resides, I walked to the receptionist's stand. The receptionist wasn't around and there were no security guards in sight. There were a few people in the lobby and the receptionist could be one of them but I didn't bother asking anyone and just took the elevator up. "In case you want to come to visit, my apartment is on the 32ndloor," I remembered Lorenzo telling me about the apartment in case I come visiting.

When I got there, I found his apartment on the left. I knocked for a while and didn't get a response. After knocking for a while, I tried his lock which required an access code. I input his favorite number which was '5235' but it didn't work. I tried using his birth date but it didn't work. After thinking for a while, I input the four numbers I never imagined could work but they did.

"Remember Giovanni, 4123 means I love you." It was the number formed by little Lorenzo. He was six years old at that time and I was ten. He formed the number after I found his best toy that he had lost.

I opened the door leading into his apartment and entered. It was the first time I had ever stepped foot into his apartment. The whole building was owned by him but he chooses to rent everything out except for the one he chooses to stay in. I switched on the lights as I entered the apartment. His living room seems empty as the only thing that could be found there were two leather red couches and a flat TV screen. There was nothing in the apartment. No family portraits or portraits of himself. I had always pictured Lorenzo as a happy man. His living room screams loneliness as there was no life in it. Everything seems ordinary. I saw a room open and entered. It was his bedroom and it was the same as the living room. Boring and lonely.

His bedroom was darker than the devil's soul. Everything in the room was dark including the bedsheets he used for his king-size bed and the curtains on his window. I left his bedroom and opposite it was another door but it was locked. I tried to force the door but it didn't budge.