Isabella

17| Dead girl walking

Dedicated to chiomachris

ISABELLA

Being in the hospital was much preferable compared to prison. For some reason, I just felt like killing myself. Daniel and Sandra hadn't visited me yet and no one seemed to mention anything about Stephanie's death. Surely, my case would be worse now she was dead and I would be going back to jail pretty soon.

Katerina walked through the door smiling like she had won a lottery. "hey... Sis" he greeted. She seemed to be taking the whole sibling situation calmly when I barely thought about it. "what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just need to get used to the whole... sister thing" I sincerely said.

"I want to find our mom" she said out of the blue. It took me a few seconds to actually understand what she meant. She had been referring to our biological mother.

"This isn't some kind of Filipino movie," I chuckled a bit realizing how much my life looked like a soap opera "I mean, why would you want to find someone who abandoned you at an orphanage. Clearly, she doesn't want anything to do with us"

"She's still our mom" Katerina said with pleasing eyes. "I need to go and get something to eat, I'm starving " she hurried out the door leaving me alone in the room. The other bed in the room was empty. The room was big enough for two patients.

The door creaked open and I assumed it was Katerina, but it wasn't. It was Stephanie, the same one that was supposed to be dead. "Surprised to see me? "

"I don't understand, Joshua told me you're dead"

"I know. That's one of the reasons I'm here" she said before sitting at the edge of the bed "you know you're in danger right? "

I was a bit confused but I assumed she was talking about the recent attempt to kill me in jail. There was no day I didn't ask myself who Mr. Stevens was. The surname sounded familiar but I couldn't remember where I'd heard it before. "I know. I never got to apologize for what I'd put you through. I'm sorry" I said with all sincerity.

"Don't apologize. I'm the one that should be apologizing, I deserved to die, " I was slightly taken aback with Stephanie's sudden remorse and change of heart but something told me there was more to the story "I know why you left Lagos two years ago"

No one knew why I left Lagos so suddenly, not even my mom and until now, no one knows. Stephanie telling me that she knew why I decided to flee Lagos State was unreasonable. "What do you mean? "

"I was there, the night you were abused. It was my dad that raped you that night and I watched it happen" To say I was flabbergasted would be the biggest understatement on earth. A part of me wanted to break down in tears and the other part couldn't find enough tears. "I'm sorry "

"So your dad tried to kill me in prison?" my voice came out more calmly than I'd expected.

"When he found out that the girl that almost killed his daughter was the same girl he rapped two two years ago he panicked, I guess, probably thinking you'd recognise him and report... "

"I never saw the face, the man who raped me" I said sternly trying to withhold the tears trying to escape my eyes.

"Here," she said while giving me a flash drive. "this is proof. It's the footage from the hotel room where he... "

"thank you " was all I could say before I noticed that I was already crying.

"you don't have to watch it but at least now you can get out of prison 'cause I'm dropping any charges whatsoever "

"Why? " I heard myself ask

"Because, it's the least I can do. I could have stopped him. I saw him but I didn't do anything" she said with teary eyes.

Finally, I could get back at the monster that abused me years ago.

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