Don't Fall for the Rival

Chapter 10

I drove up in the driveway as I grabbed my phone and keys and walked up to the stairs to the porch. I gripped the railing as I bowed my head and let the tears fall. Heki family wanting me to come back when in reality, I was the one who hid a secret from them. I hear someone clear their throat as I spun around and narrowed my eyes. "Carl..." I growled as I walked through him as he became like particles and separated like dust would. "Maria, please just wait and let's talk about this," he starts out but ignored him.

I made my way to the backyard as I walked down the steps to the grassy area and continued to walk to the fence as I hear Carl yell out my name and appeared in front of me. I stopped and furrowed my brow. "Maria...." The old man spoke as I looked away and looked down at the ground. "You have to bring those boys back. They are gone because you wanted to protect those boys from what consequences that were going to be there. But these are worse conditions of what you had sent them to. You have left them in a place that is isolated from a world that can just see the real world in a spiritual state. Remember when you had yourself in another life? That little girl," He then has his palm up as a ghostly image of a teenager with blonde hair and wore a blue jacket and a fall hat with different color clothing. She smiled with her bright blue eyes before disappearing when a small rain droplet fell. It was like watching chalk disappearing like when rain hits the pavement and erasing the colors. I looked away from the girl who made me smile in that other life.

"She was in the same place as those boys are. They are in between, but their not dead. Maria, you have to bring them back home" Carl repeats as I looked up at him and frowned with tears already welling up in my eyes. I blinked away the tears as I no longer see Carl there, but the back door that lead into the warmth house. The rain continued to fall as I let the chilliness of the rain that poured upon me. I knew he was right, but I didn't want to let them back into the real world. Not there home. Not yet. I wasn't ready for the harsh reality that they would be bringing in. I killed someone because of them. I was the one who killed Jacobson because he saw too much. I knew he was not going to shut his mouth up and I didn't know anything to have him keep quiet except for death.  

I slowly felt the tears roll down my cheeks as I started to cry about the guys who killed in order to cause terror and traumatic order to everyone. I was the only one who was deep affected because they didn't know that I kept a secret from everyone. That the boys were very alive, that I only used bodies from the morgue and paid the people who take care of the bodies to say it was there bodies. I couldn't let anyone else know. But here I am crying over them, especially Duncan.

I sniffed when I heard running footsteps and a big jacket wrapped around my small form and walked me under the back porch as they started to pull me inside and up the stairs. My head was still bowed as I kept walking up the steps and followed behind him. I knew it was Rodrick. My mother and father were out once again. Probably took Aiden with them, because if they were here, Carl wouldn't been pestering about the boys. Rodrick pushed me down onto the bed and walked out of my room and went to go raid the closet outside as he grabbed white dry towels and brought them back in as he took one of the dry fluffed up towels and puts it on top of my head and rubs my head so that the droplets can just fall and absorb within the towel itself. I sneezed quietly as Rodrick stopped and looked at me while I still had sad eyes. "Maria? What were you doing out there in the rain?" He asks as I blinked at him finally noticing he was there.

"What?" I asked as he sighs. "What were you doing out there?" he asks as I shrugged my shoulders. "I was just thinking. I probably got lost again, like usually do." I forced a fake smile as he sighs and shook his head. "Of what?" he looks at me with narrowed eyes. "Just a new song. I get lost in my music" I answered before sneezing again. "Bless you" he says before getting up and going through my drawers as he found long sweat pants and a long grey sweater as he pulls me up and pulls down my shorts. "Hey!" I protested but he continues not being phased at the half naked lower regions he was at. He then put my sweats and pulled them up as he stood straight up and looked down at me. "I'm going to take off your shirt now" He says before doing the deed leaving me in my bra as he threw the wet shirt onto the floor and slipped on my long sleeved sweater and smiled when he saw I was now warm. "See? Not doing anything to you, your sick and I want you to be better if I ever wanted to get with you" he smirked and kissed my forehead before