A RAY OF LIFE

7.

Took a deep long breath of relief once I shoved the strange guests of mine outside and shut the door close tightly. This was not going to be as normal as I thought, in fact, how could I even think of it being normal when nothing about it was. Anyways, I made sure there was no thing or person unwanted to me in the room anymore. Their eyes....those hatred dripping pissed off eyes were still giving me churns inside my heart and abdomen. Shoving the fear and chills bravely out of my window, I rested my body on the bed and it was about seconds when I was already doozing off in deep long slumber. No wonder the sleep was already in the eyes for it was such a long day for me and the little one inside me.

My morning happened with loud thuds on the door. I woke up haphazardly and there was a slight hope in my heart that all that happened was just my dream and I'm back to normal now. I opened the gate and found fuming Mrs.Webber waiting for me with her eyebrows all stunted and crookedly fold while her hands on the door.

"Mrs...Webbaaouuu..?" I said yawningly.

"How many times....how many many times have I told you woman I DON'T WANT ANY DISTURBANCE IN MY SLEEP. Which part of THAT you are not willing to understand...?"

"But Mrs.Webber it was you who woke me up not me...and I'm sorry for last night. Come on..." I said while trying to scratch off the dried drool around my lips. My eyes were still not ready to get all active and listen to this grumpy old potato chips bag woman. I was yawning when suddenly she bellowed again making me jump out of blue.

"I'm talking about now, I was sleeping when two friends of yours came banging the door and woke me up....why can't you open doors for yourself"
My friends??? Oh my god...are they the same ghosts from last night??
I got proactive immediately and held Mrs.Webber's arms.

"Mrs. Webber are you alright..? Did they...did they do anything to you..? They are not my friends...they are....they are harmful people Mrs.Webber...but don't you worry, I'll save us..." She was puzzled with my reaction which I expected of course. So this was not a dream! Sadly!

"I don't think we can do any harm to you or Mrs.Webber with PAPERS, can we Stevens?" My eyes travelled to the source of voice and got stuck there. Unbelievably idiot I'm.

"And I genuinely thought we were friends Iris...never knew you would feel such for us"

Can't explain how badly truly highly respectedly embarrassed I was. Too much. It was Mr.Woods and Cristina standing on the staircase watching me with their pathetic eyes holding papers in their hand. I'm dead meat!

"Um..Cris.. Cristina...Mr.Dash..I mean Mr.Woods...what a....what a hehe pleasant surprise.." Mrs.Webber was surely planning to call 911 and send me to psyche ward consult.

"Yeah pleasant for us too...to know some unknown facts. By the way, Mrs.Webber we don't know why Stevens considers us harmful but let me assure you safety from our side. We do no harm, never done any to her as well" he said and I could only dig holes on the floor with my stares.

"I'll go crazy with all of you people....just till the delivery woman..mark my words.." Mrs.Webber stepped down to her room by warning me her usual threat. I nervously looked at both of them and waved them to come in.

They both entered my room, I immediately straightened the bed and picked my clothes from the sofa for them to sit. I could see disgust in Cristina's eyes as she was observing my apartment. Some reasons I'm isolated most of the times.

"So..we came up with some help to you" she said finally looking at Dashing....oh need to stop calling him that..Derek Derek Derek.

He looked at the papers and forwarded me them. I took them and saw, it was a manuscript of a book. I looked with puzzled eyes to them.