The Flu

Chapter 9

Nella work up to find herself alone in Epy's bedroom. She had just had a nightmare that someone had been trying to choke her. She stood all shaky  and walked around looking at every art piece in it to create a distraction . She held one photo frame of him and his son and felt such a loving urge towards them. She wanted this, even though she never wanted a relationship bound by secrets, she was ready for this one.

Just then the door flew open and in came Tommy calling his dad. He froze on the track on seeing Nella. A smiled pressed on his lips then he burst out a laugh and ran to hug her.

"Nella! Why didn't dad say you are here!" he asked her.

"May be he wanted me to rest more." she replied shyly noticing she was only in his dad's large shirt.

"Or this is my birthday present!" he started feeling giddy.

He had kept asking about Nella and his dad had always smiled and changed the topic so quickly. He had concluded they had broken up and he was never going to see her.

Nana came in looking for Tommy who according to her was running away from the after school bath.

" I will tell your dad when he comes home. You can't... Nella baby!" she exclaimed seeing her.

She suddenly felt at peace seeing her there. Epy had been so pressed over the whole issue with her. She just hoped deep down in her heart that it wasn't an affair any more.

" Seems he didn't tell you i have moved in here for several days." she told her over a cup of tea.

Nana placed her cup down and looked at her.

"I hope this is not an affair Nella. He loves you and could do anything even showing up at the morgue with you. What were you two up to?"

Whattt!! She knew! Well, having being well connected she couldn't definitely miss on his son's movements.

" Epy... Epy... "  she didn't want to lie.

" We found dead bodies at my place. They were haunting for something if not me but someone had spotted them and killed them all. I noticed my meds had been replaced with new ones at my place and i think someone is mostly out there to hurt me. I even have Epy's flue. I guess he told you about that? " she was in tears....

Nana held her hands with alot of assurance.

" Epy always does what is needed to ne done in the moment. What i do rather warn you is that don't share this with anyone else. It dies where you dropped the bodies. If you didn't want to involve the police then its serious and there is someone you are protecting. You are safe here. You can stay as long as you want. Just don't hide things from me. Either way, i will have a look at the guys who visited your place and the shorter. Then we can know what they are up to. "

Nella felt she could trust her and just nodded. When Epy came in the evening he found rather two bubbly ladies chatting with his son alrrady asleep on Nella's thighs. He absorbed the view and felt proud. It was here, everything he wanted was. At work he had discovered something new about Nella's new replaced meds and wanted to talk to her about it in private. He carried his son to his bedroom who didn't even feel he was been shifted.

"My women!" he bragged coming down from a shower.

The two women giggled. They shared a meal,  talked later on so many random things and Nana left them for sleep. She was happy to have company, female company at last!

Epy played around wuth Nella's hair and teased her about her wide earlobe that all her life people had teased her about it. Saying she heard everything at first hand and filtered information.

"Cherry, are you an addict?" Nella jolted up.

"Why?" she asked. Never had she thought of this.

"The meds had too much opium. Way beyond medication. Then your blood sample had a strange matter covering your protective cells. Did you take something?" he asked her.

She just stared back.

"Did they give you injections at the hospital?" he asked again.

"Everytime there was something in those tubes. You saw it." she replied.

Was he saying someone had injected her with poison or what.

He said the same. He stated that the flue she had was from the matter injected in her body. Someone had done that so recently. He just had no prove this was right as the flue had even began before she was hospitalized. Something was not adding up.

" I think this is an experiment of some sort Nella. Why do it on you though yet there are so many other people out there? Whats the connection..."

"I told Nana about the cemetery visit." she chipped in.

"I expected those guys to tell her. They usually do. I am not surprised. Atleast you didn't lie to her otherwise you wouldn't be here on my lap. She has a secret torture chamber so you just saved yourself. Anyway Cherry, this is above us. We dhould ask Nana to check in to the matter which am sure she is already doing so. That woman didn't go to sleep, i know her too well. "

He was right, Nana was in her work chamber  digging up information even though it was late. It had been a while since she had an opportunity to directly assess a crime. She felt young again and full of energy. It was going to be one short night for her.

The duo decided to rest for the night both in their own world. Nella just didn't understand why her. Were there other people like her in this huge world? She had to find out...

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