Groom

Chapter 4: Certain

Samantha's mom calls the kids upstairs for dinner. However, only Andrew comes.

"Oh hey, Andrew, where is Samantha?"

"She's still upstairs."

"Oh okay, she might be doing something important. Take a seat and you can eat now."

"Okay, thank you ma'am."

10 minutes has passed, however, Samantha is still not going downstairs to eat so her mom, Sarah, goes upstairs to knock on the door while Andrew is conveniently eating his dinner.

"Samantha? Sam? It's time to eat..."

No one responds. That made her anxious and worried, especially that there is a stranger downstairs that just came from upstairs recently.

"Sam??? Samantha???"

She tries to open the door but it is locked.

Subsequently, she goes and looks for the key of Samantha's bedroom in her room.

She finds the key above the drawer and she takes it immediately.

Desperately, she unlocks Samantha's bedroom door and is utterly thunderstrucked by what she is now seeing.

She finds Samantha lying down on the floor, unconcious and has blood leaking on her head.

While about to tear up, Sarah tries to wake her up to see whether she is still conscious.

"Sam...Sam! Wake up!"

Samantha did not respond, so she puts her head on her chest to see whether she is still breathing.

Fortunately, she is still breathing, but completely unconcious.

At the exact moment, Andrew suddenly comes before the door, to see what has been happening around there.

In abrupt shock, he likewise finds Samantha lying down on the floor, in which Sarah is frantic about.

Sarah heard Andrew's footsteps so she slowly looks behind and sees Andrew looking at them.

She then yells at him furiously and in a resentful manner, owing to her blind assumption that Andrew did something atrocious.

"What have you done to my daughter you bitch!"

He becomes agitated as he knows that he did not do anything wrong, regarding the sudden miserable situation.

"I... didn't do anything!"

She does not let herself be convinced by his words and she keeps her rage towards him.

With the constant yelling and pushing, Sarah and Andrew reaches the stairs.

He then forcefully tries to convince her again that he did nothing wrong.

"I didn't do anything! I didn't do that to her. I'm being honest and genuine! It might be an accident!"

Sarah, who is undoubtedly adamant, kicks his stomach immensely that he falls down the stairs and hits his head severely.

Oblivious to what really happened, she then shows her pointless heroism.

"This is for my daughter."

Notwithstanding the severity of the impact, luckily, he is still conscious but unable to stand up as his limbs are injured.

Samantha's father, Owen, who just came home from work, suddenly enters the house and completely does not know what is going on. He then asks.

"Hon, what's all of this? What's going on? Who is this guy on the floor?"