The Trials of Loving Her

Happy Halloween Chapter 27

What nobody tells you when you’re in love, the months go so fast. It was the end of October. On Halloween morning, I awoke to find a mummy staring at me with no eyes in its skull and its jaw moving up and down. Old, torn, dirty cloths were wrapped around it. Its face showed really thin and dark with a few grains of red hair at the top. When it began laughing, I rolled out the bed as fast as I could, hitting my head upon the ground. I began crawling toward the door quickly. As I opened the door, Sera came out from the closet dressed in her uniform, holding onto a camera as she smiled.

   “Happy Halloween!” she said, laughing aloud.

   “You’re crazy,” I said, sitting upon the floor, gasping for breath. “I felt like my heart exploded.”

   “I got you good, baby,” she replied still laughing. “You were really scared.”

   “Why would you do that to me?” I asked while passing my hand upon the back of my head. I felt something warm and wet.

   “I just thought it’ll be funny,” she confessed, “and it was.” As I stared at my hands, I saw my fingers were all covered in blood. When Sera saw it she dropped the camera upon the bed and she ran toward me. “Jace, I’m so sorry.”

   “Is it bad?” I asked while she took a look.

   “It’s a small wound,” she told me. “Come on, lets go to the bathroom. There’s an emergency kit there we can use.” She helped me up while taking her shirt off, pressing it against my head. She held me as we walked out of the room and into the washroom. I sat down on the toilet seat while she wiped off the blood with a clean wet cloth. As she knelt before me; her eyes began tearing up while she gently pressed her hands upon my head. “I’m so stupid,” she whispered under her breath, but I heard her.

   “Hey,” I said staring into her eyes. “You’re not stupid. I’m fine. It’s not your fault. Accidents happen.” I leaned in and kissed her while she nodded her head with her tears running down her cheeks. “I love you.”

   “I’ll never do anything like that again,” she promised.

   “That’ll be a bummer,” I admitted while wiping away those tears of hers, “because that was really funny.”

  She began smiling and laughing when she heard my words. “You’re just saying that because you want me to feel better.”

   “Yeah,” I whispered. “I’m also saying it because it’s true. I’m such a coward, if that thing was real I would’ve ran and left you so fast.”

   “No you wouldn’t,” she said before kissing me. “You love me way too much.”

   “And I’ll never stop,” I swore as she cleaned my wound for the second time, adding Flavine to it before placing a plaster.

   “We’re all done,” she said getting up. “I need to change my uniform now or I’ll be late for work.”

   “I’m sorry I ruined your clothes,” I said to her.

   “I can get new clothes,” she responded. “I can’t get another you.”

  I got up from the toilet and I began kissing her as she wrapped her arms around me. My phone began ringing in my room. As I heard it, I left Sera standing there without a word. She followed me into the room; when I reached for the phone, she noticed the call was from someone named Alice. I paused for a moment as she stared at me, folding her arms. When the call stopped, I took the phone and placed it into my pocket.

   “Who was that?” she asked me with her voice calm and soft.

   “No one important,” I answered her while I sat on the bed.