Up To Hourglass To Decide

Chapter 13

"you're only told to do one easy task, why are you slacking off?, why are you having a hard time on doing that?, is it so hard to deliver a message?," I saw someone were angry, he's sitting on a chair and there's a woman's back facing me.
"I'm illiterate," the woman answered.
"but I don't marry illiterate" I saw a man shook his head.
And the woman smirked with evilness on her face and answered, "don't worry, even if you're not having Vincenzo, your uncle will still play the game"
"you're just smart as I know" the man shook his head and laughed.

I woke up in Cody's house, dreaming again, I'm lying down on the bed, I feel pain all over from head to toe, plus I'm still not back to my world, I don't belong to here, I have to remember that. There he's beside me sitting Vincenzo and he's reading a book, that's a thick novel but he's just flips it without reading.

"are you that bored?" I asked him and he's startled.

"can you make a sound if you're awake?" he rolled his eyes and walk towards me.

"no?" I'm teasing him, I can't believe I'm having fun with the person who punched me almost died on my first day arrived here.
I tried to get up, and Vincenzo seems to know that I needed his help, and he's holding my back to help me sit up.

"I called a doctor earlier, he said you were too tired, you shouldn't wander around after having a surgery, are you that stupid?" he still looking for loopholes to mock me.

"okay, I'm sorry, I shouldn't scream earlier," I keep my head down after apologize.

"you're the one who's on debt, aren't you?" he's starting again one more time.

"I told you already," right now I'm staring at him with my big eyes.

"told what?" he grabbed his chair earlier and sit on it, he laid back and folding his hands.

"I'm the one who's on the debt," Cody coming in while holding a tray in his hands.

"again? Isn't yours, right?" Vincenzo's surprised.

"why are you here? I thought we have become an enemy?" Cody calmly put down the tray on the table beside my bed.

"you guys were friends?" I asked out of curiosity

"that was a long story ago," Vincenzo answered.

"go back to your home, and don't ever show yourself in front of me anymore," Cody stood near the door while saying that, and his words confused me regarding their relationship.

"why should I," Vincenzo answered while sniffed angrily . From the way he acts, the way he thinks, the way he answer people's question, I could see that he was a rebel.

"and don't you think you owe her an apology?" I felt their gaze were on me.

"no, I don't," Vincenzo shook his head and narrowed his eyes, "what's your relationship with her?"

Both of us stay quiet, what should I say then? I'm from present, traveled to the past, by coincidence saved by someone named Cody? and what more surprised is I looked like his late wife, if I'm not mistaken to see last night's photo frame.

"what? No answer?" Vincenzo look at both of us.

"I drowned myself before, and Cody saved me," I answered while looking at Cody, and looked back to Vincenzo.

"are you stupid? You can't swim?" Vincenzo responded me, and Cody just stayed quiet.

"I can," my answer torments my own self, I started to think about things I shouldn't need to remember, for example the incident on competition.

"then why would you drown yourself then?" he asked me with an unhappy look.

I held my own hand tightly and looked down, I'm afraid that he does not like my existence. I answered, "why would I?" I chuckled, "I'm not sure too,"

I look at him slightly, his face showed an unbelievable look, he replied me with displeased words, "next time just kill yourself, just drown yourself in a deep lake,"

"Vincenzo," Cody called out him.

"what? You're on her side now?" Vincenzo stood up and faced Cody.

"stop it," he answered him with a sigh.
"what do you want now?" Vincenzo asked back.

"what do you mean?" Cody rolled his eyes, "I'm wanting no more than arguing with you now,"
Vincenzo chuckled, and said, "you only fulfill your own desire, am I right?"

"shut your mouth," Cody showed his scary side again.

"why? Just by looking at her, you can treat your longing for Martha," Vincenzo walked forward, but Cody grabbed his collar one more time.

"don't talk nonsense, if you don't know anything, no you don't know anything about me and Martha at all," Cody showed his furious, and eyes that will soon kill.

Vincenzo responded him with a knee kick, which made him fall in pain, they will end their life soon in both of their own hands, but I dare not to say anything.

"if, if she chooses me over me that time, if she chooses me," Vincenzo hit his chest and groan in pain.

"if she chooses me back then, her life now, she's still alive now," his voice cracks.

"and you nothing bad will happen to you," he sounds crying.

Cody didn't fight him back this time, he saw Vincenzo weakened this time, he's weeping in lost, he knelt down, he's too weak to stay stand this time, both him and Cody's crying for a few moments.

"and we can still sightseeing in Monday morning, talking about our life until we're old," Vincenzo wipe his tears and get up from his knelt position, he still couldn't hold back the tears that came out from his eyes, he had showed his weakness already, someone like him, someone who could be a cruel person on the street, was a human too after all.

"only if you let go of her that time," he took a glance on me one last time, "you've already know what will happen if you're with Martha, but you still holding on her, you're the cause of her death, note that until your last breath," and he walk out from Cody's house.