Forbidden Love [COMPLETED]

Chapter 27

Mind shoulders herself in the crowd of people in front of the hospital, trying to get to the policeman talking on the radio.

“Excuse me, what is going on?”

“There’s a shooter in the hospital Miss. But don’t worry, our team is already in and we’re securing the floors and getting out civilians.”

Mind gasps in shock. “W-what? How did a shooter get in there? What about the doctors and nurses? Is anyone hurt?!”

“I’m sorry Miss, I can’t share that information.”

“I work here! Tell me!” She yells aggressively.

The man hesitates but then sighs and gets closer. “For now we have four dead, three wounded.”

“W-who? Who are they?” She asks worried.

“I don’t know Miss, just that they are doctors and some nurses.”

Mind suddenly feels like she can’t breathe properly anymore; everything is on pause. Maybe this is just a bad dream and she will wake up soon. Maybe she will see Billy and her friends walk out of the doors just now.

She regrets running away that morning and leave Billy like that. She feels stupid and guilty for fighting with him.

It takes everything in her power to keep herself from breaking down. There’s nothing she can do, so she stays by the police radio, waiting for any update with bated breath.

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“Irin, he’s gone. He’s gone. We have to take Freen now, she needs surgery.” Noey says.

“Okay. Um,” Irin suddenly feels like everything is too much, but she has to keep it together if Becky won’t. “Becky, let’s go get Freen. Come on.”

It’s like Becky is shaken off a trance she was in; hearing Freen's name is what takes for her to get up from the floor and run out in the hall even before Noey and Irin.

As she leans over Freen, she’s relieved to see that she’s still awake, even if she’s only breathing at times.

“Freen, stay with me, okay? Stay awake, please.” She pleads her.

Freen can’t talk or even nod, but Becky just knows she will try to do so. “You can’t die, okay? I need you. I love you. You can’t die.” She cries.

Irin and Noey arrive right behind her with a bed taken from the side of the hallway. They raise Freen gently and lay her on the bed, then they rush her to the nearest O.R.

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Friend and Lux are sitting in the room, waiting for someone to come for them. Luckily, they found Billy in time and he is stable for now and Lux keeps checking on him, even though it seems more like an excuse not to make eye contact with Friend, who hasn’t stopped staring at her. She knows, despite the fact that they’re in a dark room. She can feel it.

“Do you think that I’m a bad person because I slept with my best friend’s wife?”

Lux finally looks at her, keeping quiet for a while before giving her an answer. “You’re a bad person if you know your actions are going to hurt other people, yet you still do it.”

“What if I tell you it was out of love?”

Lux stares at her, asking herself if she should believe her words; if she could tell by her look that she really was a good person despite what she did.

But looking at Friend now, she shows no sign of bad or evil intentions.

“I guess even good people does bad things out of love.” She whispers; her gaze focuses on Billy again.