Eva's Sins.

XXVI

"Why are we running, Miss Davis?

Because the past is chasing us!"

  "Pack your things!" Emily ordered Eva, right after she entered the house, in such a hurry and so nervous, that Eva thought that something bad happened and she started to shudder.

  "Why? Did something happen to..." but Eva stopped halfway through the question. "Miss Davis doesn't know about Brian," thought Eva. "It means something else happens and this is something bad."

  She just exited her room, after 5 days of being closed there, and she wanted to go for a walk, but Miss Davis'command definitely preoccupied her, because it was something that Eva had never expected and definitely, she didn't know what to do.

  "Don't stay like a dumb, in the middle of the living room," yelled Emily at the girl and she started to climb the stairs. "Follow me and pack your things! We leave in an hour!"

  Eva practically ran up the stairs, following Miss Davis, but both stopped half away from the stairs and Emily looked at the girl. "Never run up or down the stairs! Did you hear me, Eva? This is dangerous and... try not to be alone until I'm not next to you. Did you listen to me?"

  The girl just nodded, but it was obvious she didn't understand what Emily was talking about, but she didn't dare to ask more about it. "Where is Anna?" Emily asked this time.

  "Miss Bircham sent her to buy something. She will be back in an hour or two, I think. We should..."

  "We have no time for this," answered Miss Davis, climbing the stairs again. "It's better that she's not home. She could make some problems for us if she was home. Just hurry up and take only the necessary," commanded Emily and she entered her room, slamming the door.

  Confused, Eva entered her room and took the bag from under the bed and she started to throw inside the bag part of her stuff.

  "What's wrong with Miss Davis today?" wondered the girl. "Did she and Miss Christine have an argument or something and because of this, we are leaving? But where are we going and... Gosh, she didn't have enough time to send a message to Brian. He will be preoccupied if he didn't find her here, but Eva was also wondering if he still remembers that she exists in this world.

  But it was enough that Eva remembers him and she is missing him so much. It had been a month and a half already since they didn't meet each other and three weeks since she saw Brian with Ms. Evans in the street, but Eva felt that it had passed years since they broke up.

  "I'll leave him a note," decided the girl and she sat at the table and taking a sheet of paper from the drawer, she started to write.

"Dear, Mister Beneath,

  I wondered a lot if I should write this letter to you or not, because of the pain I felt in my chest with your betrayal, but finally, I decided that it will be a shame..."

  Oh, Gosh! What is she writing about? Shame? The one who should feel ashamed is him because he preferred another woman instead of her, but ...

  "Are you ready?" Emily's voice was heard behind Eva and the girl suddenly hid the letter behind her.

  Emily entered the room and, approaching the drawer, she took a matchbox and ignited a match: "Burn that letter, Eva," she told the girl while keeping the lit match between her fingers. "You shouldn't leave anything that can be used against you behind especially if that something is related to a lover".