Is it Safe to go Back?

Isabel//Chapter 11

I walked up to the building, it looked so dark and gloomy. I had never been here and I never wanted to come here but yet here I was, at the county jail. I stood there staring at the building for a few minutes before I finally walked in. The lobby was exactly how I imagined it, dark and everything was made out of either metal or stone, besides the computers. I gulped and stepped forward to the desk where a big man with dark skin and black hair stood. He reminded me of the guard named Julian, Derik's voice rang through my ears.

"Tell Cole I sent you." He had told me. I glanced at the guys name tag, Joe. Not Cole. The man was looking at me now.

"Can I help you?" he asked in a voice that was intimidating and impatient.

"Umm, I need to see Cole. Derik sent me..." The man said nothing and just looked me up and down. He walked away from his seat and walked towards the back. I stood there by myself in the lobby for at least 10 minutes. Right when I was about to leave because I thought the guy had either forgotten about me or just wasn't going to help me, a guy with blonde hair and black eyes walked out.

"Derik sent you?" he asked in a raspy voice.

"Yes."

"Anna.."

"Please don't say my real name, I just want to get this over with. Just call me Anna if you have to call me something."

"I'm sorry Anna. Follow me, she is this way." I followed Cole without saying a word. He led me to a room that had metal chairs and a metal table with Plexiglas separating her from me.

"I'm right outside the door if you need anything. Be careful." Cole said

"She would never hurt me." I said before he walked out. I sat down in the chair and looked at her, I said nothing I just took in the sight before me. Her brown hair framed her face perfectly even though she had been here for a month. Her brown eyes filled with sorrow and regret but also looked scared. I forgot how beautiful she really was I always had the memory of the blood covering her stuck in my mind whenever I pictured her. Not who she really was.

"I'm sorry." was all she said to me.

"How are you even alive right now?" I asked her avoiding her eyes.

"I never actually died."

"I saw your dead body."

"That was fake. Alexander came to visit me the night before I was pronounced dead and told me that if I wanted to live I had to go with him and work for him. He knew I was getting better he threatened to stab me right then and there."

"What if you said no?"

"He would have stabbed me or hurt you."

"You do know that almost kidnapped me that day right?"

"No, he never told me about that. I'm sorry I tried to stop them from kidnapping you and Dominic but they just tossed me to the side and said I needed to keep my nose out of it or they would kill you right in front of me. The first night they took you in I watched you in your cell, I was crying the whole time. I'm so sorry, but you didn't deserve to die because of my mistakes." I was crying now, she was there all along.

"Isabel, I've missed you so much."

"I've missed you too Annabelle." She said my real name....

"Derik said they are still trying to figure out if you're guilty or not?"

"My trial is tomorrow..." she told me.

"I'll come."

"No, Anna don't. Alexander and Elijah will be there if they see you and find out that you know I'm alive who knows what they'll do." She protested. She had a point but she was my sister, I had already missed the last 7 months of her life I didn't want to miss another day.