Awake, My Sleeping Beauty

Chapter 34

Heaven was in shock. She stared down at Sebastian's bloody stomach and let her eyes slowly move to his face.

"Sebastian?" Heaven suddenly sobbed when she saw his eyes close. Frances, Arthur, and Christine rushed to her. Dennis was already calling an ambulance. "Sebastian, open your eyes ... Sebastian! Please!"

"My baby," Frances cried as she sat down on the steps beside Heaven. "Please, hold on, Sebastian, don't die on us, baby, don't die ..."

"Th-they're on their way," Dennis stuttered. He shuddered the moment he saw Sebastian lying there over Heaven's body.

"I ... I didn't know Esther would go this far," Christine said with utter disbelief, "I knew she was malicious but I never thought ..."

"She needs to be stopped," Arthur said darkly.

* * *

Esther drove away as fast as she could. She stopped the car in the woods by the side of the road and turned off the engine. She sat in the silence thinking about what she'd done.

"Sebastian's dead," she said, "It was supposed to be Heaven but he got in the way ... either way, one down."

Esther started to snicker and a few seconds later, she was laughing with a mixture of glee and hysteria. She wanted to jump out of her car and scream with joy from how excited she felt. She didn't think she had ever experienced such pleasure as the one she felt after watching Sebastian fall back with his stomach shot up. She thought about the bullet missing Heaven and couldn't help but feel relieved. She thought this odd, but she immediately came to the conclusion that it was because she wanted to see her suffer first.

"My cousin isn't lucky. As a matter a fact this all happened exactly how I originally wanted. She's going to mourn her true love's death; she's going to suffer from all the pain."

Suddenly Esther heard the sirens of an approaching ambulance and sure enough, moments later an ambulance rushed passed through the empty road heading towards the direction Esther had just come from.

"This doesn't end here," Esther clenched and unclenched her jaw as she stared at the empty road from the forest. "If I go to jail I'm going to go with the pleasure of knowing that I put a stop to the both of their lives."

Around ten minutes later, Esther saw the ambulance rush pass the same road again; this time, two cars rushed after it. Esther smirked and turned on her car. She waited a moment before she shifted the car into drive and drove out of the woods to follow them to the hospital.

* * *

Heaven rubbed the temples of her head, not able to keep her eyes off from the two paramedics that were helping Sebastian. She sat next to Frances who hadn't stopped praying since they'd gotten into the ambulance. It seemed like an eternity before they finally reached the hospital. Heaven and Frances stepped out from the back of the ambulance and let the paramedics bring Sebastian out on the gurney. Immediately the paramedics rushed him inside through the emergency entrance.

"He's losing a lot of blood, Heaven," Frances sobbed, watching the paramedics disappear into the hospital with her son.

"We have to have faith," Heaven said nervously, realizing she'd been holding her breath all this time, "I know he's going to be alright – you'll see."

"I hope you're right."

Christine, Arthur, and Dennis appeared moments later and they all went to the waiting area, hoping and praying that this nightmare would be over soon.