My turn to fight

Chapter 7

Coming into reality I felt like I was at home again, with mum yelling at me to get up for school and my alarm beeping in the background, but turns out the yelling was coming from outside my door, and the beeping was my heart, on the machine. At least that means I'm alive, I thought, sitting up. I grabbed a book from the table beside me and started reading, ignoring the continuous yelling. I had gotten used to that happening in this hospital.

"We need to get her out of here. They will find her. I can guarantee it!" I heard a man yell.

"She is as safe as she is going to get staying here!" A women screamed. I recognised the voice as my mothers'. Just as I was about to yell out for them to stop shouting, the door slammed open, and in steeped my Mum and a man that I didn't recognise.

"Melinda, what are you doing up?" Mum asked, coming over and kissing my forehead, before sitting on the chair next to my bed and gesturing for the man to do the same.

"Why are guys always yelling? This is a hospital you know. People need sleep and rest, which is pretty much impossible with everyone always yelling at each other," I asked, crossing my arms. Did no one care about anyone else here. Why can't they do their yelling elsewhere.

"We are sorry darling, but we have important things to discuss and we cannot leave you alone in here without someone either in here or just outside the door," Mum explained, looking sympathetic, but it didn't make me feel any better. I wanted to know what was going on.

"Why? Why am I no longer on my own. I've always been free to go where I wanted by myself, and now all of a sudden there are people I don't know here with you, and you are always yelling and screaming at one another. I want to know what is going on, and I want to know now!" I demanded. I was sick of this secrecy. All this talking about me, as if I didn't, or I was little fragile child that could break at any moment.

"I'm afraid that I can't tell you, but I promise that I will tell you. All I can say is that you are in grave danger, and we need to take every precaution to make sure you stay safe. There are people who want you dead," Mum muttered, looking on the verge of tears.

"So if I'm in such grave danger don't you think I deserve to know why?! Your my own mother and you can't even tell me what is happening. Do you have any idea how this feels. A few months ago I lived a normal life with no problems, and now all of a sudden, Jake came back, Jack got kidnapped, we nearly all died, and now you guys are telling me that there are people after me to kill me. What in the world could I have done to make these people hate me? What could be worse then almost dying 5 times, after being shot. I was literally sitting on the edge of death, where anything could have made me fall into the deep hole of death, but instead here I am, alive. And instead of being happy, you seem sadder then you were when I almost died. When can I go home. When does my life go back to the way it was?" I asked. I hadn't told her about Alex, but I had a feeling they were both connected.

"Never." Mum whispered.

"What?" I asked, confused as to what part of my speech she was talking about.

"YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!! OK?! Never... Never again." Mum cried, sounded exhausted. That was when I finally took in her image. She had dark circles under her eyes, looking as if she hadn't slept in days, and her hair and clothes were all messy, as if she couldn't care less about what she looked like anymore. I felt broken, exhausted, and confused, but I knew that Mum would do anything she could do to help me.

Her words struck me. My life would never be the same. What did that mean. What would happen to me, and why does the universe hate me so much, as to do this to me.

"Ok Mum. You don't have to tell me anything now, but I would really like to know what is happening soon, and what is going to happen to me." I said defeatedly. I had lost this battle, but only to help Mum. "How are Melody and Jack going?"