Killer Love

Chapter 6 "Heart broken"

Two days later Francis and I decided to go talk to my father about our trip in 3 days as we walk towards the library father came out and said “I’m glad you two our downstairs we’re having a family meeting, please go wait in the living room” Francis and I looked at each other and wondered if the meeting would be to finally revealed Gabriel’s death. Although no one in the house has asked for him witch Francis and I found really strange.  As we were entering we saw Rachel, mother and Adriane; Francis looked at me and squeezed my hand gently for my expression was being too obvious.  Father walked in last and as always made an entrance slowly. He then stood in the middle of all of us and greeted us.” As you all know Gabriel has been missing for quite some time, three days to be exact.” He said in an emotionless voice. “Gabriel had gone to live in Florida with some relatives of the family. His letter arrived this morning. If one of you want to talk to him please feel freely to tell me and I will write him for I am the only in this house who shall have the address. Understand?” I felt tears coming but I pushed him back, I don’t want father to suspect. I looked over at Adriane and she stood there emotionless like she was in a whole different world. Mother grabbed her by the arm and left the room with her “Adriane will be staying with us for a few days, she lives alone therefore we as Gabriel’s family member invited her to stay for a while to repay her from the pain Gabriel is causing her.” I looked at Francis and father finished the reunion and left immediately and so did Rachel, Emily and Dante without saying a word. They all looked pale and disturbed. Francis looked around to see if they were all gone and said “We need to find a way to talk to Adriane, this way we’ll be able to find out what really happened to Gabriel and what’s happening on this house.” I agreed and we went our separates ways. I spend the whole morning thinking about Gabriel and at times started to cry. How dare my father hide his death? What did he do with the body? “Oh Gabriel I’m so sorry” I said whispering at myself.  Someone knocked at my door and it was Francis “I talked to your father and he agreed with the trip” he said. “I need to go, your father asked me to accompany him to a meeting with his attorney because he wants to do some changes in his will” he said as he looked at me and grabbed my hand “Be careful while I’m gone Carol, stay in your room.” I looked at him and tears came out again, I was afraid he will not be in the house and I felt alone without him, unprotected… Now that Gabriel’s gone I don’t trust anybody but Francis. “You be careful, for God knows what my father is capable of” Francis looked around to see if anybody was around and kissed me gently on the lips. “I will my love but right now my only concern is you, be careful with Dante I saw him walking around the house and I’m afraid he was looking for you. Lock the door and do not open unless you know who it is.” I nodded in agreement and he gave me one last kiss before he left and I locked the door.

Time has passed and Francis hasn’t returned from his trip with my father and I’m rather hungry. I was debating whether I wait for him to come back or race down to the kitchen and fetch a snack. I remembered what he told about Dante and I decided to stay in the room.  As I sat in my room doing nothing I remembered that Adriane was staying here and I think she’s staying at Gabriel’s room. Oh how I missed my cousin and his cheerful smile but he was long gone and in a better place than here. I decided to go see if she was there and see if I could talk to her. Gently I opened my door and peeked outside to see if the coast was clear.  I tip toed to Gabriel’s door and tried to open the door but it was locked. Something must be there, either is Gabriel’s body or Adriane… or even worse both of them. I walked silently to my room and fetch a hair pin and unlocked Gabriel’s door. Ironically Gabriel was the one who taught me how to unlocked doors with hair pins because when we where little Agatha used to ground us and locked us in a room, especially Gabriel and every time she did that I unlocked the door and free Gabriel from Agatha’s wrath!  I giggled remembering those days but then remembered my mission and opened the door. There was Adriane sitting in chair that was placed in front of a wall… she was nude and tied on the chair. I hurried inside and locked the door and kneeled before her. “Adriane” I whispered as I saw her exposed breast and lady parts. They were all red and her lips where bleeding and I imagined the worse but decided not to think about that because that will distract me from my true task. Finding out what’s going on. “Gabriel” she whispered. “What happened to Gabriel and you Adriane?” she looked down at me and started to cry. “It was my fault, it was my fault”  she said as she started hitting herself with her knees and I could see her tied arms bleeding from because of the barbed wire that was tied in her arms on the back of the sit. I shrieked in horror with the deep wound she had on her wrist.  I looked around on the room to see how could I cut that wire and saw some pair of scissors with a lot of effort and a lot of pain grunts that where coming from Adriane I finally released her. “Who is doing this to you?”  I asked her grabbing her desperate for an answer. “Run Coral, run away” she said with a trembling voice looking blankly at the wall. I grabbed a robe that was hanging from the bathroom and wrapped it around her. “Tell me Adriane from what or who should I ran way from?” I asked and she remained silence. “Adriane please answer me, please!” I begged her as I fell to my knees and cried. She was in another world there was no way she would answer me. I stood up and took the robe away from her and slowly and gently place the wire again in her wrist making sure not to hurt her anymore. I needed to do it because if not so we would be discovered and God knows what will happen to me or Francis. I locked the door behind me and went back to my room. It pained me to leave Adriane… it pained me not to safe Gabriel’s love but if I was going to make someone pay for his death I needed to do it.  I glanced at the clock and it was 6:00pm I that’s when I started to get worried, Francis and father left around 3:00 and to change a will shouldn’t take that long. I tried to distract myself from all that was happening but all I could think of was how drastically my life changed. How my image of my father and mother had changed. It hit me hard when I realized they were murderers.  There was something not quite right, I needed answers. The walls of this old house held a big dark secret that we need to discover. I sat in my desk playing in my mind all my childhood memories with Gabriel. How he use to protect me when Agatha was going to punish me, how he made fun of me when I got scared and I remembered and realized I won’t even see Gabriel again… I won’t hear his laugh…  I won’t see him make my father mad on purpose… I won’t get any pranks from him… Gabriel was gone and the last memorable moment I had with him was when I found him having fun with his fiancé. I remembered that playful smile he had on… how he was smiling with her. She made him truly happy and he made her happy and now it was all gone. In a brief of a moment Gabriel was dead… I started to cry and I couldn’t help it… I felt like I was losing air … my eyes were swollen and I couldn’t stop crying.  Gabriel was gone and Adriane was in danger. We needed to safe her… I need to talk to Francis… she needs to get out of here.  I felt asleep and when I woke up it was 9:30 pm.  I haven’t heard from Francis and I was so worried I decided to go downstairs… Maybe he came but didn’t want to bother me. As I got out of my room and ran downstairs I hear some voices… it was Emily and Dante. “We need to talk to dad and let him know what we saw Dante… she knows.” Said Emily with a low voice.  “Emily, we don’t know if she knows or was just passing by to check her. The door was locked she immediately returned to her room.” Emily interrupted him and said “But then we saw her again near the door, it’s just not a coincidence.” Emily and Dante knew I discovered there secret but there not quite sure so I better pretend I was just searching for Adriane. When I went downstairs they both starred at me. “Have you guys seen Adriane? I’ve been looking for her to see if she needed anything.” I said as I walked towards them. “N… No we haven’t I think she left earlier” said Emily obviously lying.  “Oh, well that’s okay then she probably went out with a friend. I tried searching for her in Gabriel’s room but I doubt she’d stay there with all Gabriel’s stuff there to remember her more about him and his sudden decision to leave.” They both looked relieved. “Stop being so snoopy that makes you more unwanted” said Dante as always. Although he was insulting me I felt relieved that I tricked them in to believing I didn’t know anything. The door opened and finally my father and Francis arrived. Francis gave me a weak smile and greeted me, behind him was Rachel. My heart stopped as I saw hold his hand and kiss his cheek and my father wasn’t saying anything about it. “We’re having a wedding” screamed cheerfully Rachel and Francis kept starring at me with an apologetic look and Rachel grabbed his face to kiss him. My heart sunk, my stomach felt like a giant hole was sucking everything in it. I went numb and my body started to tremble, tears came out. “Are you alright Coral?” my father said approaching me with an eyebrow raised. His wrinkled pale faced seemed serious. “Ye… Yes” I said weakly “I’m just happy that Rachel finally decided to settle down.” I said as I walked to the stairs. “May I be excuse father? I’m not feeling quite well and I better get ready for dinner for it should be a big dinner to celebrate!” I smiled weakly and left when my father excused me. I ran in to my room and shut the door behind me. I felt to the floor and held knees and cried. Francis lied to me… he went with Rachel and father to get married.  A sudden knock interrupted me from my pain. I cleaned my face and opened the door and it was Agatha “Lady I came to tell you that your father received a call and had to leave with your mother and Rachel. I think it was news from your sick aunt” Aunt Roberta has been sick for quite some time and my father has been taking care of her. She was the only living thing that we knew was related by blood to him apart from us. Agatha told me I will be having dinner alone for Emily and Dante decided to go out and what a coincidence they left me alone with Francis. I thanked Agatha for the message and gave her a good pay for the ointment she brought me when I had my little episode. I closed the door and began to cry again. My heart was wrecked in pieces… and when I was about to go take a bath someone knocked at my door. I thought it was Agatha ready to ask for more money and for my ugly surprise it was Francis… I tried to shut the door but he pushed it open and locked it when he was inside. “What do you want?” I said as I turned my back to him. “I want to talk to you.” He said with a very low voice. “Well I do not and I wish for you to leave my room or I’ll have to scream for somebody to take you out. Besides…” I said turning around to face him and he was starring at the floor. “It won’t be to your advantage for my father and your fiancée to discover that you where in my room with the door locked.” I said as my heart sting with the word fiancée. He looked up and his eyes were red from the tears that where coming out. “I’m sorry Coral… I had no choice.” He said. “NO CHOICE? Francis get out of my damn room.” I screamed. He looked at me surprised  and  walked towards me but I backed out “Don’t come near me, don’t touch me, don’t talk to me… just leave god dammit!” I said as I felt the tears come out, he tried to reach for me again but I slapped him for the third time. “Don’t touch me. I will leave… I will leave tomorrow. I will tell my father that I want to go study and he will be glad for he wanted me to do that for a long time and this way I won’t be in your way… or in the way of your future wife Rachel.” He looked up and grabbed me very tightly… he pressed me against his chest and fell with me to the floor as cried. “I’m sorry Coral… I love you” he said and I pushed him and started punching him on the chest “If you love me you wouldn’t me marrying Rachel. I hate you!” he grabbed me with a strong grasped “I did it for you… your father suspected there was something going on between the two of us and I had to lie… Rachel saw me last night when I left your room… He threatened to punish you if what Rachel was saying was true and to keep her shut I had to do it.” I looked at him but I just couldn’t believe him. Like any typical men he was lying to me, “Get out you filthy liar, get out!” I pushed him until he was out of the door and he remained there knocking the door and begging me to let him in… to let him explain but I couldn’t for I showed him too much of my weak side and this was not to happen again. I was heartbroken for the first time. My life was falling apart and I realized I was alone… And I really needed to leave.

I sat that night without being able to get some sleep and decided to write a letter to Francis saying my goodbyes and releasing everything that I was feeling. I will give it to him when I was to leave for college hopefully it would me soon.

To: Francis Millington

Sometimes we expect so much from a person that when we don't get what we expect it seems like that person is a complete stranger. We get used to the idea of the ideal person without thinking that maybe that person just doesn't exist. We just expect we actually don't know and when that person at the end of the day fails you and gives or shows you a whole different story you feel like everything is falling apart. You feel a giant whole in your stomach as if someone just took everything from in there, you feel a deep sting in your chest, in your heart and there's no simple way to explain it. The blood rushes to your face and warm tears are rolling down your cheeks.. That is the true definition of a broken heart. But in time you feel like is all getting better when is not, you feel even more empty and destroyed than before so you try to fix it.. And you keep on trying without realizing that the only way on fixing the problem is being the problem's problem.  When that problem has a good taste of its own medicine soon the solution will be visualize. Is like finding the value of x, you try and try but none of your solutions are correct and when you finally got it after failing a lot of times you finally replace every little x with that solution and finally it all falls back in place.. Someday, somehow it will all work out just like it did for the "x". Soon you’ll have a taste of your own medicine.

Love Coral

I closed the envelope and pored some wax and sealed it, old style like me.  I never imagined myself being heartbroken for I never given a man such power but sometimes things happen for a reason. To make you stronger or to make you miserable.