Blood

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Chapter 16

ELLIOT

"Ruby, you should be sleeping by now." I tease a little to the giggling girlfriend of mine.

"But I don't want to." She whines.

It was just the both of us in her hospital room. Everyone had left. Lynn didn't want to leave Ruby in the hospital. She had be to dragged out by Lauren.

"Look at what time it is?" I exclaim quietly. Her eyes shift to the clock which was at the right of the room. She begins to laugh and looks at our connecting hands.

"Point proven." She giggly says.

"Ha!"

But I was the one who was tired. The doctor said that it was okay for me to stay here until Ruby was okay. Of course, I would accept that. I was happy.

"C'mon, let me sleep." I drag out.

"Noo, Elliot!"

"Please." I yawn. She shakes her head.

"Wanna hear a joke?" She asks.

"Go for it."

"Okay, okay, knock knock." She starts.

"Who's there?" I say with a flat voice.

"Owl." She says laughing already.

"Who?" By answering she bursts out of laugher now. I look at her weirdly now while she continues to laugh. It was kinda cute on how she would laugh at her terrible jokes. I try to calm her down.

"What a horrible joke." I shake my head.

"I thought it was a good joke. Everyone laughs at my jokes." She stops laughing.

"Are you sure about that? Would Blood the infamous killer laugh at your jokes too?" I curiously ask.

"Well, Blood would laugh at my joke than kill me." She adds. I look at her with a gentle face and with a small smile.

"What happens if Blood was in love with you?" I change the topic for a serious one now. Ruby looks at me with a thinking face.

"I wouldn't be scared. Actually, I'm not afraid of him." She answer my question. "Blood would never fall in love with me. I'm so ugly, even if you've said it before." I lay back on the chair that was next to Ruby's bed. I frown once I realized that I made Ruby insecure when she never was. Even Max would tell me that she was conceited sometimes. But that was long gone, and it was all my fault. I cup her face with my two hands and stare into those brown eyes.

"I know what I said made you insecure. But believe me, you're fucking beautiful." I say with a serious face and with a honest tone in my voice.

She sighs and swats my two hands away slightly, "Elliot, it's not your fault."

"Then who's it?" I question her.

"Ah, it's no one really." She waves it off. I knew it was someone who was telling her these things. It couldn't be Caleb nor his girlfriend Scarlett. Right at the moment, her phone vibrates indicating she just had received a message. She closes her eyes almost if she was in pain.

"Is that them?" I ask her. She doesn't answer my questions-meaning it was that person who was making Ruby-Anne insecure. Unfortunately, they didn't know that Ruby's super hot boyfriend was Blood the infamous killer. I grab the phone and she looks at me with a frown. Her eyes were becoming watery now, her mouth trembling. Knowing her password already, I unlock it easily. I look at the notification from Twitter and find a tweet that a girl made and tagged Ruby-Anne.