Different

Chapter 20

Max

"Avar, tell me what you are hiding, I'm losing my patience," I say angrily I'm currently standing too close to where she's sitting on a couch, and waiting for her to say something. I feel disappointed when I realize that she doesn't really want to tell me.

"You gotta say something," I tell, "You said Your father didn't die in a simple accident," I said air quoting my hands. "I swear I don't know the whole story, but" she finally speaks. I can see her words and voice are matching, so I believe her. I know that she's going to tell me the truth. I can't explain how, but I do. "It was 7 years ago when I was a waitress. It was a Friday night, your 18th birthday. Your father came in..."

I cut her mid-sentence, I'm tired of waiting. "How do you know it was my birthday?" I asked not hiding my frustrations. "I put the clues together," she answered. "Oh," was the only thing that I said before I sit on the chair.

She sighs again before telling me everything including unnecessary details. I'm so shocked and surprise to hear these things. She's my guardian angel! I can't show her that I forgive her, so I just look at her with no expression in my face.

My father knew about my real parents, he only wanted to protect me! When he tell my biological parents that he cannot mess with my life, they decide to kill him! How messed up. I lean on the chair and close my eyes. I feel tears coming out, and I just don't know how to respond. She was right it was too much. Then I start thinking about my mom, did she died from the disease that she had? Was she ill in the first place?

"Hey, hey don't cry," Avar said coming closer to me. She wipes my eyes. I keep my eyes closed hoping all of this is just a nightmare. "You are not..." Her gentle voice is cut by the phone ringing. She takes a deep breath before she goes to answer the phone.

"Hello," I hear, her voice getting serious. "What? No, no this, I.. I will be there," she says before she hangs up the phone.

"I'm going out, you'll be ok. I'll be back,"

"When?" I ask with still close eyes. "I'll be back ok, I don't know when," she said before I hear the door open and close. I know for a fact she's gone. I open my eyes and shove some snacks in my mouth before getting up. I don't know what to tell her when she comes back.

Avar

I get out of the house after the phone call. It was from the hospital telling me that Sara is there. Something happened to Sara. I jumped in my car before I start the car.

"What happened?" I said running to the halls of the hospital. There are some police here too. Thankfully Matt is one of them.

"She was found in the back of a white van. She was unconscious. We were in the street checking the speed cars when the van came. The van was driving fast. So fast. Someone put her in that van. They seem like want to kill her," he tells me.

I get in. She's in bed. IV in her hand, but she's up.

"What happened," I asked her with a shaky voice. "I don't know," she said. Her voice flat. "Tell me what you remember," I said holding her hand tenderly. "I just finished college, and I decided to walk home," she stops start to cry. "I am sorry, you told me it would be dangerous when some people know that we're together. You told me that I need to drive to college and drive home," she said stopping again. "There was a van, three masked people came out of it and get me inside. They hurt me like a doll. Then they speed the van. I wanted to go for a run, but I couldn't. They hold me tight put some tape on my mouth. They inject something in me that I don't know what was it, but it made me sleep," she said taking a shaky breath. "I can't keep it up," she said looking at me, and I know what is going next.