KILL THIS LOVE | JENLISA

Chapter 51

Jennie

Lighter undercurrents were replaced by much darker, more menacing ones. I felt my fingers being encaged by another set of callous fingers.

"You think they can help me?"

I glimpsed at Lisa's darkening eyes, and then at my hand, "What are you doing Li..."

"You think they do me any good?" her hold on my hand tightened with a heightened vigour.

"Lisa, stop! Ple..."

"The only thing they're good at, is reducing your mind to figures and diagnostics." Lisa spat heatedly, as she looked into my eyes with burning ferocity.

I glanced around fervently to call out for somebody to help, only to find the staff gone from their places, not back yet.

"Look at Old Willy." she motioned to a side.

My petrified gaze moved to a senile, but jolly looking man who was playing a happy game of chess with another old man. He reminded me of one of those merry grandparents I always saw on television.

"He just stabbed one of the new nurses here in the leg with a pen." Just then, the old man smiled warmly at the other man who groaned in defeat, "Checkmate."

Before I could even react to what I was being compelled to hear, Lisa pointed to the first table with the knitting lady. "That woman, Youn Yuh-jung, bashed the heads of her husband and her two year old with a vase forty years ago. Still believes they are going to come back to her."

I whimpered, "Lisa, you're hurting me. Please." At that moment, my eyes searched Lisa's, for any sign of humanity. But I found nothing.

"Let me tell you something, kitten." she leaned in closer. "No big words from the medical dictionary can come close to defining what's inside.." Her index finger tapped against the side of her temples twice, "..This..."

By this time, others had also started looking at our exchange with interest. "Stop!" I tried to pull back with all my strength, but she never budged, increasing the pressure in turn.

She smiled, with the intent of a murderer, "Tell me Ruby Jane, do these psychiatrists know how fucked up you are?" I stilled in my place, stopping my struggle at once.

Lisa's face grew more cruel, "That's right, they don't know about what went down with Mommy dearest, now do they?"

I gulped, an all familiar nuance taking over my body.Fear.

"Do they know why you flinch when they pass with syringes nearby you?"

All hue drained from my face, my knees quivering like jelly to match the trembling of my hands.

A lot of people had stopped with what we were doing, chiming in ardently to see what was going down.

"Let go." I chewed down on my lip, my voice breaking.