HIS FANTASY

20 - THE INCIDENT

Benny's cushion hit Johnny's arm. Blood spurts out immediately, but Johnny fights to stop him.

"What the Fuck!" Johnny yelled

It's a good thing that Johnny saw her right away; otherwise, Anne would have been hit by that knife.

"Benny..?" Anne said.

Johnny fights to keep Anne out of harm's way.
Even though he was wounded, Johnny fought as hard as he could to stop Benny's arm with all his strength while Benny still had the knife in his hand.

As if Benny didn't hear them. It seemed that he was not satisfied yet, and he punched Johnny in the side with his knee.

"Stop it, Benny, please!" Anne shouted.
She doesn't know what to do.

"Anne, get out of here!" Johnny urged Anne. But Anne is still panicked; she cannot act immediately. She didn't want to leave Johnny, knowing that Benny was hurting him.

"Benny stop!" Anne cried.

"There will be no happy ending if you just turn your back on me. Then I'll help you. Whatever you need, I will share it with you. Times I gave you. You still can't love me. You chose the woman over me; I gave you life!" Benny said.

"Johnny, babe, are you OK?" Anne cried

"Get out of here, Anne; go to your friend Sheila; stay with her!" Johnny yelled

"But I can't." Anne said.

This time Anne decided to run, going to the living room where her suitcase was left behind, and then she called me.

Late at night, I didn't expect someone to call me.

"Babe, your phone is ringing." Pete said while his eyes were still closed, as if he were dreaming. We're both in the middle of a nice sleep.

"Hmm.. sorry.. I forgot to set it in silent mode." I said. I fumbled for my cellphone under the top of the desk near our bed. I checked the screen, and then I saw Anne calling me.

After what I heard, I jumped out of bed.

"What is it?" Pete asked. He opened his eyes in confusion.

"Anne is in danger; we have to go and get her!"

Pete and I immediately went to Anne's house for help. While Pete was driving, I called the police.

Back to the current situation at Anne's house: A set of glasses breaks, falling to the floor while Johnny and Benny are still fighting.

"Did you see this?" Benny raised his hand with a silver necklace hanging from his palm. The necklace is so bright in spiral titanium steel with a retro pendant.

Johnny looked at it,even though his left face was wounded.

"This is your gift; I carry it with me wherever I go. You mean so much to me. You made a promise! that we will stay together. But now, there will be no forever. Anne told me that you and her would get married! And you didn't tell me! "How could you?" Benny cried

"I'm sorry, man, I thought you were OK with that. I was supposed to tell you this with Anne as part of my surprise, because I want you to be my best man in our wedding. Promise, I want you to be there, me, Anne, and you." Johnny cried.

Anne hears all those words. Her heart broke down as if she were melting. She didn't expect such an event-that Benny was her rival for Johnny.

"Anne, are you there? "Please open the door!" I shouted from the outside.

We're knocking on the main door urgently. We stayed outside for a few minutes because the door was locked.

I peeked through the small window, but I could only see the light dimly.

"Anne, the door is locked; open it!" I shouted again.

This time, the neighbors had woken up.

"What happened here?' The man asked

"I'm sorry for disturbing you, sir; we just want to open the door; our friend's life is in danger; they are both inside the house." Pete explained. The man returned to his house and went back to us with a hammer.

With Pete, he wanted to help us open the door. One neighbor man was carrying a hammer and attempted to break the locked door. He was about to hit it, but suddenly it opened.

Anne's zombie face appeared in front of us, pale with fear.

"Please, Johnny needs help!"

Pete ran inside first, followed by the man with a hammer. Anne and I follow them.

It seems to be too late. Johnny's whole body was covered in blood, but he still tried to fight. When Pete got close, he quickly pulled Benny and punched him, throwing him to the side near the stairs.

The man with a hammer goes to Benny. He helps stop him on his next move.

"Don't move, man; I have you. You have to explain this to the police officer." The man said

"Fuck!" Benny yelled

Then the siren from the outside called, and three police officers got inside Anne's house and arrested Benny.

"He's still alive; please help!" Anne called for help. Two medic staff members came inside and carefully carried Johnny's body and placed him in the push bed, used for emergencies. An ambulance is waiting outside.

"Anne, I got your shoulder bag; Pete and I will follow you." I said this while Anne was still crying. I knew that she was still out of her mind as she walked and got inside the ambulance where Johnny was lying, fighting for his life.

When the ambulance left, Pete talked to the police. While I search for Anne's cellphone in the depths of her shoulder bag. Due to the emergency situation, I just sent a message to Johnny's sister that was saved on her phone.

After that, we follow Anne to the hospital. While we let the police officer perform their investigation at Anne's house for her case.

Inside the ambulance, Anne talked to Johnny as if nothing had happened.

"Johnny, you promised that we would get married and have two children. You have to fulfill that." Anne said, while her eyes were fully animated with tears. She could not accept that this would happen to Johnny.

"The church and the venue are ready; they are just waiting for us. The date of our wedding is the day of our ten-year anniversary as a couple. You suggested it, remember? please.... save the date in your heart." Anne requested that, as Johnny is currently unconscious, he be on dextrose, and oxygen be placed in his mouth to help him breathe properly. According to the initial findings of the medical staff, he suffered four stab wounds to his body. And one stab is near his heart.

When we got to the hospital, Pete and I found Anne crying on the side, behind the door of the emergency room, as if no one knew her, and she was like going crazy.

I came to her and let her lay on my shoulder, and she cried a lot.

"It's my fault. I shouldn't have agreed; I shouldn't have let them stay close to each other. Maybe this has never happened to him," Anne told me.

"Shhh, don't blame yourself. Johnny will recover; let's just trust that he will overcome this." I said.

An hour passed while I was helping Anne calm down. I fell asleep next to her, and so did Pete. He fell asleep in the chair.

Then I woke up to hear loud footsteps on the floor. I looked at Pete, and he looked at me the same way. We both noticed the noisy steps of heels that came to us.