Testify

Chapter 9

After the vacations;after one month of accident

Today was a big day,I will be rejoining my college and Em had also gained consciousness few days ago so I will also be visiting her at the hospital today.
Mathew was still falling in and out of consciousness for the past one month and his dad had prohibited me from visiting him,not that I wanted to see him but out of humanity I went there once.

"Stay away from him! Haven't you and your friend done enough?" His father had accused me.

And just like that I never set foot in his room.

I got ready,wearing the least noticeable yet pretty top and some baggy jeans that looked classy.
I packed my lunch as yet another news of a girl being vanished in thin air broadcasted on the morning news.

"She was a nice girl... had she not went alone in forest she would have been here.. my child...."a woman in her mod 50s cried.

It's odd how in the past two months girls were disappearing in the same pattern and of same age around me.
First was Lara but she was killed,that I saw myself.

But after that six more girls went missing,police thought it was a serial killer despite not finding a body.
I never paid heed as this wasn't my concern.
I had made my eyes blind,my heart stone. I knew there was no one to come after me if I vanished while fighting for Lara,no parents as they died long ago l,no siblings to cry with and relatives were waste,only wanting to feed on whatever property was left in my name.

I put the last book in my bag and went for my bike.

I had not stepped out of the house for past one month, ordered takeouts, paid bills from my phone and didn't even went to see Ema more than two times.

"You are not needed here right now..it's better that you are not seen here"Mrs Ticker had said the last time I visited her 15 days ago.

It was because of that doubt the police officer had created in their mind. Which was obviously a hoax and he apologized for it coz they couldn't get anything on me.

But Em's Mom took it seriously.She thought I was jealous of her daughter's popularity.That I was envious coz a  rich boys was interested in her and not me.
She had said that on my last meeting with her and i was so hurt.
I heard from Mrs Bells that they were even seeing Mathew's Dad at dinners too.

World and it's wicked ways.

I peddled all the way to the campus ,passing through that forest, enjoying the scene as "Love story" by tailor swift played in my pods.

As I closed in to the last turn, I saw that path where Lara was found.My bike stopped on its own and after a long month I decided to face my fear.
It shouldn't be like this, I had to face it and so I did.
Without even realizing I was turning my bike towards that path I had come to fear so much.
As I stopped just where she was found with a thud,my sweats start to pour in.
I parked my bike and looked here and there.

What I had thought as I peddled here was a gruesome scene of barricades and blood and burnt marks but.... There were none.
It looked normal,birds chirped,the leaves and trees that covered our College gate had begin to regrow while the sun looked so beautiful as it shined from behind the dense trees.
.....
"It looks normal.." I said to myself surprised.

"What did you expect?" Came a voice suddenly that startled me that I almost fell on my back.

I turned to see who it was and there stood Mathew. He was thin that before, no muscles that Em had drooled over not any style hair. He had bandages in his forehead and a cast on his right hand.

In short he looked messed up.

"You?" I was shocked, the last thing I heard was him being near dead.

"Surprised?"he smiled sarcastically.
"No?" I went to get my bike,there was no need for me to talk to him. He very much was fed with lies of me being their enemy.