We Meet Again

Forty

The last chapter in book 1

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(Writer)

BB sped down the street in his 2020 Chevy Suburban with Vic and Dylan in toe, running through traffic lights and construction zones to get to the hospital. He didn't realize until they were walking through the emergency room doors, up the hall that led to the private rooms on the upper levels of the hospital where Terra was admitted, to look over his shoulder and NOT see Raven.

"Dude... where's Raven?" He asked Vic. He hunched his shoulders relaying that he didn't know, then BB started to feel nervous and ashamed. Before BB could express his frustrations, Dylan rushed through the ICU door.

They all gasped at the sight of a severely beaten Terra. She was hooked up to numerous life saving devices. IV tubes with normal saline for hydration and antibiotics for infection, heart monitors to check her core vitals, morphine drips for pain, and oxygen tubing to insure that her lungs got the proper amount of air saturation. She was a true mess! She was swollen from the repeated hits from Ivy, and the amount of cuts and bruises were just too many to count. She had several amounts of gauze wrapped... well everywhere!

But astonishingly she was awake!

Dylan rushed to her side and immediately started to cry. Vic stood in the corner and said nothing, while BB just... looked.

"Hey... you finally made it. Sorry that I don't have on my best face...hah." Terra tried to joke as BB just still... looked.

"What happened?" BB asked being the professional. He felt bad for Terra, but his heart was just...somewhere else.

"This girl said that she was Jillian's cousin and I believed it! She said she and her father wanted answers to his murder. Gar... she was waiting outside of Dylan's school! She ... she was... a... a monster! She was inside our home waiting for me, us, to kill me and Dylan! Why! I trusted her word! Wa... why... WHY!" She said as she raised on her elbows in pain. All the boys attention was diverted to the rising and annoying sounds of the heart monitor that bleared in alarm.

BB rushed to her side and started to stroke her hair, causing her to calm down. This is what Terra wanted... longed for. She quickly calmed her breathing and relaxed to his gentle touch.

"Shh, shh, just relax and tell me everything from start to finish. If it's too much, then just let me know, okay." Terra nodded knowing she'd tell him everything he needed to know.

"She came up to me while I was waiting for Dill and his friends to take them to soccer practice, then I saw this pretty girl coming up to my car. I got out and to see what she needed, thinking that she was a new parent to the school or something. Then she spined me this story about Jillian and I believed her." Terra said looking down at her bandaged hands. BB thought it was amazing that she could still speak clearly though her jaw looked like she was chewing on a football!

"How did she know to come to you? How did she know about you and Jillian in the first place?" BB asked.

"She's the one who killed him. She told me she did it." Gar and Vic's eyes grew huge at her statement. Terra had an encounter with the woman from the banquet.

"What did she look like?" Vic asked concerned, knowing that Terra's a direct witness to the woman that killed FBI agents. She was nervous at first, but when she looked at BB, his warm smile, and reassuring eyes, and started to open up.

"Well... she's really beautiful, around my height but very slim, very soft spoken, dark straight hair, small framed... and Asian. Yeah, definitely Asian. I found it a bit strange that she was his cousin, but people adopt children from different cultures all the time... so... I just took her word for it. She knew so much about Jillian, and she showed me a photo of Dylan. She said Jillian gave it to her father! Wow!! I'm so stupid! Terra started to tear up at her recollection.