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Plea

Chris POV

"CHRISSSS! CHRIS PLEASE!" She pleaded from inside the room. My heart ached.

I could hear her screaming for me to come help her as I walked away with Candice, Aleah in her arms. I stopped in my tracks and looked down at my shoes.

How could she possibly know I was in there if she was unconscious? I thought to myself as I blushed.

I looked over at Candice and she looked back at me. I know she didn't trust Aréona with any bone in her, but she couldn't help how she was. She had been tortured her whole life. She didn't know wrong from right or.. Maybe she did, but she couldn't decifer which was which.

"I'll be down stairs in a few. I'll just go in there to calm her down." I told her. She looked at me skeptically and shooed me off of her before I could give her a kiss. "Baby, I-"

"Whatever Chris. Just hurry up. I gotta go to work in an hour." She said in defeat. I pulled her into my arms and hugged her close. Kissing her lips and then Aleah's forehead before I jogged back towards Aréona's hospital room where somebody opened the door for me like they were expecting me.

I left inside, but not before looking to see Candice pacing down the hall the opposite way and disappearing. I hoped she trusted me enough to know me and Aréona didn't have a bond like her and me ot that we never had one in general.

"She's freaking out. I think she wants you. Are you Chris?" The nurse asked me. I nodded. I wasn't paying attention to anything he was saying to me after that.

  Aréona was having a seizure now. Trying to pull free for the straps that bound her wrist. I swallowed my pride and walked up beside her bed, touching her cheek.

"I'm right here." I assured her, but my voice gave me away as it wavered. I didn't know what it was that attracted me to Aréona now verses before. I never looked at her in any sexual way. I never thought of doing anything dirty with her or nothing, but here I was worrying about if she was gonna be okay or not as they took off an arm strap and moved her to her side.

She whimpered silently away from me and soon it stopped all together. I rested my hand on the small of her back and looked over her shoulder to see that she had somehow fallen asleep again like before. I sighed heavily.

"Hey, I'm not tryna be nobodies night light." I joked to her as she finally opened her eyes for the first time this morning. Her face grew red and I chuckled. Removing my hand from her before she got any ideas. 

"What you mean?" She asked softly. Turning over to her back. I looked at her heart monitor and noticed the dramatic change in her heart rate had slowed down and it was almost back to normal. I sat down near her and took her hand to show her her freshly cut wrist that was bleeding badly now from her struggle. She looked at the other one cringing.

"I mean, you over here having nightmares right after I leave the room. Then I come back and you're okay. You know the consequences of falling for someone that's not yours right?" I asked her. She looked away from me and turned back over on her side. Then sighed heavily.

"I heard you talking to me while I was sleep." She said away from me. I clenched my jaw shut and nodded away from her as she looked back.

"Yeah.. but that was like when you were unconscious hours ago. I haven't been in here since then." I lied. She huffed. She must have known I was lying too.

"Then how did you get back in here so fast?" She shot back. I shrugged.

"Magic." I chuckled.

"Right. Did magic make Candice disappear too?" She asked me. Fuck. I scratched the back of my head. She knew Candice hated her now too? I thought.