The Last Novel

CHAPTER 3

I turned my head towards the door when I heard a knock. A small kid, holding a glass of water came in.

"H-here's the water Miss Arabella." the stuttering kid hands me the water.

My slightly shaking hands took it and drink it, after drinking, I placed in on the table beside the bed.

"What happened? Why did I fractured my ankle and got my head-injured?" I asked while looking at Blaine.

"I-I'm so sorry. You-you were looking for me in the woods. Because the-it's rainy and the ground is slippery, you slipped down and hit your head on the rock." his tears are beginning to form again. "I want to call for a doctor, but... I don't have money. So I-I treated you-"

"Okay," I said. The kid who's looking on the ground and crying earlier looked at me with shock and sadness.

"It wasn't your fault." I added that made him suddenly cried loudly. I got shocked and look at him. I was about to touch his shoulders when he suddenly talks.

"I-I'll leave this house immediately Mi-miss. I-I won't bother you again."

"He-hey kid? what are you talking about?"

"You're nice to me now because you'll soon kick me out and-"

"Hey! listen to me, I won't kick you out okay? I said it's fine and you don't have to cry anymore, I'll be able to walk in a few days anyway." After saying that, he stopped crying and looks at me with his cute, big dark blue eyes.

"Anyway, have you eaten already? How long was I asleep?"

After asking that, I heard his stomach grumbled. Blaine's face turned red because of embarrassment.

"You-you were asleep fo-for two days."

I frowned when I heard that.

"You haven't eaten anything in two days???" I ask worriedly.

"I-I have already eaten yet" he said while looking away.

"What did you eat?"

"I uhh-I ate mushrooms!"

Squinting my eyes while looking at him, made him flinch and turn his eyes towards the floor. That's his mannerism. Whenever he lies, he'll look down like that. That's one of the characteristics I gave him in the novel.

The memories of this body are still intact, I can remember every detail of what happened in the past years. The incident of me slipping and hitting my head was the start of Arabella, abusing Blaine, physically. If I'm not inside her body right now, she'll probably throw anything she got her hands on and throw it to Blaine. I can still clearly remember the lines I wrote back then.

"You bastard! This is all your fault! I cursed you! This wouldn't have happened if you didn't wander in the woods!"

After that commotion, Arabella started hitting Blaine as if he's a stone without feelings. For the last two years, she only screamed and ignores Blaine, but after her accident, she started abusing him physically.

That was what I read in the novel I wrote, that my sister published without my permission. I was able to know it before I got hospitalized. I got diagnosed with leukemia, which shattered my freedom, the world where I thought I could finally be free. I'm a hopeless case. I became like a prisoner in the hospital, waking up every morning, just to count the days before I die.

The last thing I was holding before I closed my eyes was my novel. I only have hatred in my heart, all of it. The sister whom I thought will love me, as much as I love her betrayed me. I gave up on using her, even if she lied and took my work. My novel got her successfully became a professional romance writer. Nothing will happen even if I tried letting everyone know that I'm the real writer, I'm about to die anyway.

That book contains the story of Blaine the hero and Arabella Maguire, the minor character villain. A gentle kind lady who got drove into insanity and became a villain to abuse the male lead. She died in the end when she tried looking for Blaine who became the only successor of the Vresea Duke Estate.

The original Arabella asked for money and position in the estate of the duke, which Blaine gave without a second thought. Blaine still thought that the mother he used to know will come back. But, it never happened. Arabella tried to kill Blaine when she got offered by the king to be Empress if she killed her adoptive son. The evil Arabella tried to kill Blaine because she doesn't want to get looked down on anymore, she wanted all of them to look up to her.

Blaine thrust his sword in her chest with a heavy heart. When Arabella gazed at her adoptive son from the ground, there, she saw him crying while holding his bloody sword. That's when Arabella realized all of her evil deeds. Her last line before she died was what made me cry in my past life, I created that character on a whim, I never thought I'll cry while writing her last line.

"I- I'm sorry for everything Blaine, being a mother doesn't suit me at all...but I'm glad you grew up fine. Even if you don't want to hear this, I'll say it for the last time......You're the only son I'll ever love..the only one.."

My mind went back to reality again, after remembering the original story of the novel. My eyes landed again towards Blaine who's still looking on the ground.

"Help me up, kid."

Blaine quickly went towards me and stop me from moving.

"N-no." when he realized that he just said no to my request, he turned pale.

"I'll cook our food. I can manage walking, I just need you to support me."

My eyes tried to search for any bruises on Blaine's body. I sigh when I saw nothing. I'm glad I came inside this body before the physical abuse happened.

"B-but-"

The growls of his stomach stopped Blaine from talking.

"Hear that? Now help me."

"Ye-yes Miss Arabella."

When I heard him call me like that, I decided to talk to him about that later. I need to eat first and let the situation sink in, I also need to plan for the future

Turning my head towards the portrait of the original Arabella, I've decided. This time, I won't let you die, Arabella. I'll live your life to the fullest.