chapter forty-one; through the blinds "I did and if I am not down in 10 minutes you will have to kick him out again."
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Lucy Reese Collins
"LUCE, HE IS HERE AGAIN!" I walk to the door and open the door. I am exhausted. "Two times a day, do I have to be concerned now?" "I am begging you, Luce. Please let me in. I can't do this anymore?" "What? You can't find the time to come over every day? And that after how many days?" "14 but that's not it, I will keep doing this till you let me in. I can't lose you." I bite my lip a bit while deciding what to do. "Get in." "Okay, I will- wait did you say get in?" "Yes and start talking, you have 5 minutes." I step aside to let him in and he directly opens his mouth. "Not here. Come." Without thinking twice I grab his hand and we walk to the living room. Mary and Jo are sitting on the couch, both looking up as we walk in. "You let him in," Jo says with a small smile and I roll my eyes. "I did and if I am not down in 10 minutes you will have to kick him out again." "We will, darling," Mary says as trying not to laugh. "Great, walk with me than, Garfield."
I wake up while laying on his chest. It's been a month since the first time I let him in. We talked and I came to the conclusion that I can't ignore him any longer. Now he's here every night, we always watch films or we just talk. But we haven't kissed or anything, not once. "Good morning, Luce." His deep voice says making me smile. "Morning, Charles," I say as I get off his chest. He quickly changes my position again so it doesn't look like I changed at all. "What are you doing?" "I am just hungry and I figured you had to go back to your family." "Unfortunately I do." I sigh and we both get up. "You might hurry up then." "Yeah, but I will be back. Same time as always." "Of course," He smiles as he presses a kiss against my cheek.
"Mary, I need to talk to you," I whisper to the woman in front of me. Guilt flows over me and I can't stop it. "Of course darling, what's wrong?" "I don't know how to tell you this, but I know you got a letter from the Ministery because they have someone in custody who killed your husband and Keith...-" She looks up with a concerned expression on her face. "I already knew that you would get that letter because I got one before you... During this school year where they told me they had my dad in custody as a person of interest against You-know-who and...-" I start to cry not knowing what else to do. "I am so sorry," I cry and she directly hugs me. "Don't worry, darling. You didn't know." "He killed them... He killed your husband, Keith, he killed the Murphy family...-" She tightens her grip and holds my head trying to keep me still. "Ssst, it will be fine. I am not mad at you." We stay there for a moment. "Luce, I know I can't ask you this, but you can't tell Jo." Silence, I don't know what to say. "Both of their death was hard, I don't know how she will respond to this...-" "Okay, I promise I won't tell," I mumble while starting with dinner.
"I got to go. I will see you tonight." "Good." I smile. He runs his hand through his hair and smiles after he disappears. There is no one for a minute and after a boy appears. "Nate!" I smile and I hug him tight. "Am I too late?" "No why?" "Because you are already outside." For a moment I don't know what to say. "I just came back from a walk," I say quickly as we get inside. I don't know why I am lying to him. Maybe because I know how he feels about Charles. And even though nothing happened, I am scared for his reaction. The reaction he will give when he finds out that every time he visited me, Charles just left.
