Notorious

Chapter 6

NOTORIOUS

CHAPTER 6

And then my ears stopped working, I couldn't hear anything. My lungs stopped working, I couldn't seem to breathe. My mind stopped working, I couldn't move a limb. My eyes blurry with the tears that begun to pool in my eyes. The blood in my veins had ran dry. Everything around me and within me stopped. All my hopes shattered like a glass with one sentence.

"Aunt! Aunt Julian!!" 

I could faintly hear Susan's voice but I didn't seem to care. My feet were glued to the floor, my eyes staring blankly at the pale blue walls of the hospital, my body slouched. And then in a moment I came out of the trance and as the words were finally processed and understood by my brain, my hand flew to my mouth and a tear finally rolled down my cheek. My emotions and senses coming back to me. And I sled down against the door of the ICU. It was like as I was gradually sliding down, my whole world too came falling apart and down on me.

Susan strode away from Julian after she made her sit on the sofa because she had fainted. She took out her phone and dialed Ian's number. "Ian, where are you?" She asked but before Ian could reply, she added, "If you're with your celebrity then tell her manager to hold a press conference. Because is she messes up she'll end up in jail for killing someone." She said, calm and collected, her one hand on her waist while the other holding the phone.

Ian immediately hit the break, causing the tires to screech as he listened to what his wife just said. 

"What!? Killing someone. . .?" His eyes grew wide as he gasped, astounded. And his eyes went wider than before, it that was possible, as the realization struck him hard. "Or. . . or Laura?" He stuttered, staring at the empty road ahead him.

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I sat on a chair, my hands lying limp in my lap, in room full of darkness. The only light that brightened the room was the sunlight that came from the window of the hospital room. In the middle of the room was a bed. The bed where Laura laid peacefully. Her eyes closed, her hands on her stomach and a bandage on her head. I stared at the blue blanket that covered her body as I drowned in the well of memories.

You're so stubborn with taking medicine. If I'm here I can force you to take it. But if later I'm not here, who will force you to take it?

And I remembered how my whole body shook with fear when she said those words. The fear of losing her. The beam of light in my dark and lonely world. Little did I know that it would happen so soon. I took her cold hand in my warm ones as another tear rolled down my cheek and I thought about all the time I spent with her. And I remembered the last I met her. When I didn't want to leave her and I hugged her, the way she laughed at me. When I sat in the car, waving her goodbye and she gave me her best smile, waving back at me as I drove.

I stood up with all the energy I could muster and bent down to plant my lips on her forehead, some tears landing on her cheeks as I did so.