The Love Box

Chapter 6

“What did you do?” I yelled as Nicki as I turned to her.

“I didn’t do anything,” Nicki said as she stared at my grandma. Her expression showed the truth. She didn’t know what had happened. There wasn’t an explanation.

My grandma had killed herself, and no one knew how.

“Let’s go,” Nicki said as she turned towards her guards. The guards approached my grandma and lifted her. One grabbed her legs and the other grabbed her shoulders. 

I watched as they carried my grandma’s lifeless body out of our room.

“We will remove her bed from your room as soon as we have the paperwork filled out,” Nicki told me. Then she left me alone in my room.

I sat on my grandma’s bed and cried.

My grandma was dead because of Nicki. She knew Nicki would kill her so she took her own life. I just didn’t understand why or how. There was no blood or hole in her neck. The only way we knew to die was through injections, but she hadn’t been injected.

There had to be an explanation. My grandma had to have found a way.

A way to release herself from Prudent; the society that lied and took her life from her.

I thought about all of it, and my grandma hadn’t died today.

My grandma died the day Prudent arrived. Being in Prudent wasn’t living, it was surviving; there’s a difference.

Kai’s words from earlier rang through my head, this isn’t living, we’re already dead.

He was right.

We couldn’t stay in Prudent.

Kai and I had to leave.

I stood up and wiped the tears off my face. Then I left my room and raced to the laundry room.

A lady sat clothes into her basket as I entered. I stared at a washing machine and pretended as if my clothes were in it until she left.

I looked at the other side. It was empty.

I had to get to Kai. That was my first priority. Kai would take me far away from Prudent. Our parents could go with us. We could leave in a matter of days.  

The vent came off with ease and I slid into it. Then I closed the vent and scooted until I found the opening to the box.

Kai sat in the box. He looked at me as I entered.

“We have to leave,” I told him as I entered the box.

“When?” Kai asked me. He smiled.

Kai was glad we were leaving.

“In three days,” I told him. “Promise me we’ll leave.”

“I promise,” Kai said. I crawled to him, but he met me in the center.

We sat face to face; inches away from one another. Kai wrapped his arms around my shoulders and leaned in and that time; I met him halfway closing the empty space between our lips.

He kissed me, and I liked it.

I pulled away and looked at him. “I need to bring my mom with me,” I told him.

“I need to take my dad,” He said to me. “And you can bring your grandma.” Then he kissed me again.

I couldn’t kiss him anymore. Then I pulled away.