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CHAPTER 25

Christine's pov :
The washroom looked like it hasn't been used for years. It was clean but the utensils were old. It looked like someone used to live here but doesn't anymore clearly. I washed my face and hands. I came out and saw David making tea while I lingered around the dining room.
The dining room was antique. It is comprised of old furniture, paintings, antique pots, and a flower vase which looked musty and old but seems it some passed-on treasure. There were several photos attached to the walls of the dining room. Some photos looked like David with his parents.

" David! " I shouted

" Yes?" He came with a cup in his hand.

" Where are your parents?"

" They died"

" How? "

" Accident "

" I'm so sorry for your loss. Who took care of you ?"

  " My grandmother.  She died last year "

Christine went to David and patted his back with consolations while he kept the cups on the table. 

" They are in a better place now. Don't worry"

"Have your tea! it's getting cold"

"Yeah! it's raining pretty heavily," said Christine looking out of the window.

"I hate rain," said David, "Would you mind if I pull in the curtains?" he added looking at her with his hand on the curtain edge. 

"Oh yeah okay" 

He did pull the curtains and came and sat beside her on the couch. 

"May I ask why you don't like the rain?" asked Christine looking at him while he was sipping his tea.

As soon as he heard that being asked of him, he got lost in his thoughts and felt like he was getting flashbacks of some incidents or something which he wanted to suppress forever.

Christine's pov:

Did he even hear me!!

"Nothing, just the smell after the rain kinda pisses me off," he said and looked at her, smiling.

He got up and excused himself to the washroom. Christine got up to go to the guest room when she saw the door to David's bedroom door open. She was wandering and went inside his bedroom.  On entering she saw awards hung on the wall of various achievements he got on computers and all. 

She shouldn't enter anybody's privacy but as she was wandering she ended up there which clearly wasn't intentional I think. Everything seemed normal but when She went past the washroom of the room she came back to face the washroom door which was open to find a bottle of XENOPHEL on the top of the cabinet shelf. 

Christine's pov:

Is that? (she rushed into the bathroom) XENOPHEL!. WTF is this doing here? Are there any more of these?...

She searched other places in the washroom she opened the cabinet door to find a dozen of them in the cabinet. She was shocked and couldn't believe her eyes. 

Christine's pov:

Is this even real or Am I dreaming? Why does he have this in his washroom and why didn't he tell us? But maybe he kept these for research purposes because he was the first person to tell us about this medicine and its composition. But so many? Oh right, he was experimenting with such stuff yeah I get it now. He contacted the supplier to get it I remember it now. I'm just overthinking pfft... what's wrong with you Christine!

She came out of the washroom and went into the guest room she wandered around the room went through the drawers and reached the last drawer to find a file of papers and a diary that seemed like a journal. She thought of not opening it but after seeing so many bottles of XENOPHEL she couldn't resist. She picked those up with her. She kept the journal on her lap.

It looks like a diary not well kept. Half of the pages were torn and it also looked quite rusty. 
I cleaned the dust with my hand and opened the diary. The first page had a picture. I picked up the picture and it looked like David and a girl. Who is she? I was lost in my thoughts when David came into the room and snatched the diary from me as if I held his whole heart in it.

"What are you doing here ?" Asked David with a furious expression.

" I'm sorry I just-"

David took a deep breath,  thinking that this might take the situation too far. He simply looked outside and asked

" The rain had stopped. We should get going " said David
With a calm expression now that he realized he overreacted in the situation.

" Yes, we should ".
All my way to the car till central park, my head was paining due to all that was going since 3 days. The car finally stopped near Central Park. This is where we were supposed to meet Christian and Alex.
David was about to get out when I said
"You stay in the car. Someone gotta shield the entrance "

David nodded, not quite satisfied with my answer.  I wonder what has gotten into him. Or is he feeling guilty that he behaved with me like that? I just shifted my thoughts in my subconscious and got out of the car.

I saw Christian and Alex already waiting standing beside their car. Christian came running towards me when he saw me.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah"
I asked, " Are you alright?"
He nodded his head and gave me a quick hug. His heart was beating really fast. I could feel how it slowed down after he hugged me.

"We can't waste any more time. Let's go " said Alex.

We both nodded and went inside the garage. We started looking everywhere at a particular entrance but we were clearly failing at it. I moved across the pillars and looked behind the cars and discovered a small room.
" This must be it " I muttered under my breath.
I shouted for Christian and Alex when they both came running.

Christine's pov:

We searched every hole in the room but couldn't find any. Too tired to continue, I rested my head against a strong wall that was guiding the entire room from the sunlight coming through the window when suddenly a loud thud came and the wall split into two giving way to a basement. It was so dark that it was difficult to see. We looked at each other surprisingly. 
We started going down the stairs. It was really dark. We switched our phone's flashlights on and saw a long passageway with doors. It looked like a passageway of a mansion.  The only difference was that it didn't look like a place where normal people would willingly live. We walked for a while and heard noises.
I couldn't keep myself anymore and shouted Amyra.
I kept on shouting with tears in my eyes. There was this big gate. On opening it, it looked like a central room. I turned around and suddenly someone just pushed me with their leg which made me stumble upon the ground.  It did hurt a lot. I grounded myself and punched him with full force and he splashed on the ground with blood on his face.  Christian and Alex came running and fought two other men who came to attack from behind. I started moving forward when I came across a body. It was lying down.  It looked like a girl. God, please tell me it's her. I turned her around and it was Amy.  I picked her up shaking.  I couldn't contain myself so I decided to sit on the floor with her head on my lap.  She's breathing. She's not dead.  She's badly injured.  Her face had blood everywhere.  It looked like they had been torturing her for days now.  Alex came running and held her, tears rolling down his face. She had bruises all over her face, cuts, and marks that left her skin blue-black, Amy wasn't conscious. Christine was on the verge of crying but chose not to practicality given the situation. 

"We need to take her to the hospital immediately," said Christine.