I stand up, I tear off a piece of my scarf to twist it on my crooked feet I think that will help me continue my way.
I pick up my phone off the ground it's horrible the whole screen is broken, luckily I have this flashlight otherwise I'd be stuck in the dark here, and the big bird who attacked me a few minutes ago is disappeared now, and the body of the little rabbit is gone, I think the bird took it after scaring me,
so now I can tell that I'll be fine that he's gone but I have to get out of this dark tunnel quick before he comes back, I won't be able to face him again, my body still trembles until now.
I light the way in front of me and start to walk again, with each step my foot hurts me more than before, that's why I try to ease the pain by not leaning too much on it, it helps a little bit.
I reach the exit of this path,
The place here is like another neighborhood, except that it is a little smaller than the one on the other side
Small houses, each house has its yard and each yard is decorated by various sorts of flowers and the fence of each house is painted with open colors, like the colors of the houses too, the street is clean, the trees along the street are greenish, the houses are small, beautiful and lit...But what I cannot understand is that the weather here is clear and beautiful, the sky is clear and the stars seem to be twinkling in the sky, but in the other neighborhood, it was dark because of the black clouds
Is the weather can change from one neighborhood to another?
I can't believe that this dark short road is like a crossing point from that horrible neighborhood to this upscale neighborhood, it's like the transition from death to heaven
As I get a little closer, I can see house number 401, then 402, and so on...
And house number 404 is located near a church there, which I can say that it makes this neighborhood more beautiful
While I am passing over the street, I see a man walking his dog, he looks at me and says "Hi" with a pure smile
I reply to him" Hi Sir "
Another woman says hello while she is watering her yard,
I don't think that these activities are suitable for the night but anyway...
I'm in front of house 404,
finally,
I can get rid of this pizza,
On the door of this house, the name of the owner is written, I read it "Mrs. Carroll Harrison"
Wait... !
I have heard this name before, I feel like I know something about this lady...
Oh yeah...,
I remember, that a lady with the same name and address already had ordered a pizza from our pizzeria last week,
Marc the boss of the pizzeria sent Matt the youngest guy in the pizzeria, but after he went to deliver the pizza, he didn't come back that night, Marc called him several times, but his phone wasn't working
The other morning, Matt sent Marc a message, he said that he had some problems concerning his parents and he had to leave the town with his mother, then he apologized for not saying that earlier, this was the last thing we heard from him, then he disappeared.
I also remember that Gina told me that she knows Mrs. Carroll Harrison, Gina said that this woman was in love with a man who became her husband after dating him for five years, then they married but the man didn't love that woman, he married her just for her money, she was rich, she made him a successful businessman, but things changed after she discovered that he was cheating on her, she wanted to revenge, she decided to kill him and kill herself, that's why she prepared dinner, she put some poison on the wine and some into the steak of both of them, after they ate their dinner, they go to bed together, then they fall asleep.
The cleaning lady came to clean the table, but she found that their dog was unconscious on the ground she called the lady, but no one answered her, so she decided to go upstairs
And the shock was that she found both of them on the bed with foam coming out of their mouths she quickly called the ambulance, and because their house was too far from the hospital, the ambulance took some time to reach the house, in the way to the hospital, the man died but the woman survived and as a result of the trauma she forgot what she did and she lived the rest of her life waiting for her husband to back home from work like nothing has happened.
She spent seven months in the mental hospital after the accident until her condition stabilized then they let her out, but her condition deteriorated again, because no one was there to take cre of her to remind her remind her of her medication appointment.
Ms. Carroll backs to her first condition, she doesn't remember what happened that night, and she still thinks that her husband will be back from his work, but she does remember that he cheated on her.
That's what Gina told me
Gina knew this story from her mother because they were neighbors of that woman, her mother was present when the ambulance came to the woman's house, and Gina's mother knew that man was cheating on Mrs. Carroll because she saw him several times bringing a strange woman to the house whenever Mrs. Carroll left home for a business trip.
Poor Mrs. Carroll, she was a victim of her husband's infidelity
The moment I heard the tragic story of Mrs. Carroll, I became a believer that love is blind, love can push people to sacrifice themselves for their lovers, and in the case of Mrs. Carroll, she decided to end her husband's life as a punishment, as a woman, she couldn't accept that the man who she loved and who she gave all that she had, she gave him love, warmth, job, money, she gave him her body her soul, but at the end, he cheated on her, he changed her with another woman,
But despite everything he did to her she didn't want to let him died alone, she decided to go with him to the afterlife, she tried to end her life too but she failed, and as a result, she's now living a miserable life, her brain still live in a past it rejects to remember what happened, and it rejects to live the reality, Mrs. Carroll remains to hold the memories.Now, I'm delivering this pizza to this woman, to Mrs. Carroll, I couldn't imagine that I'll be able to meet her, I didn't forget her story since Gina said it to me, I feel pity toward her, she didn't do anything wrong at all, she loved a man and she fought for him until she married him, she thought that marrying him would make him reciprocate the same feelings with her.
She didn't deserve what happened to her.
I can say that she is an example of a pure love
If someone had talked to me about true love before I knew Mrs. Carroll's story and tried hard to convince me of its existence, I would not have believed it.
Because I did not believe in such a thing.
I never believed in the existence of true love and that there would come a person who could sacrifice his life for me.
I would have thought that it was just dramas in movies.
But now I have become a believer in its existence, after hearing the story of Mrs. Carroll and after meeting with Steven, I made sure that I could live this feeling.“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” Alysha Speer
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IS IT A DREAM OR REALITY?
Short StoryWhen reality mixes with fiction, things that you didn't believe in have become a reality. What are you going to do? Rachel is a twenty-four-year-old girl who struggles to make money by working in a pizzeria when her life changes after an order.